50 Cent another one too. Some kids comin up got more of a accent too. Could be the music they're listening to influencing them also. Certain words or sayings that came from the South you'll hear in the Northeast every now and then.
The Grapevine: Africans, AA's and Caribbeans
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50 Cent another one too. Some kids comin up got more of a accent too. Could be the music they're listening to influencing them also. Certain words or sayings that came from the South you'll hear in the Northeast every now and then.
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north eastern aframs are usually from the upper south where the accents aren't as heavy on the drawl as aframs from the deep south/gulf coast who migrated to places likes california
I think the shift of the AA identity from rural to urban complicated things even further.
Urban Blackness has kind of had a monopoly on the culture for at least the last 50 years.
K.O.N.Y
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you'll hear it in alot of older afram new yorkers aswell
Yup forgot about 50. I thought it was dope as hell when he went to spend time with his fam in South Carolina when he had that reality show.
Yeah music is bound to influence. Plus I think in some pockets(typically middle class enclaves) this reverse migration thats been going on may shift accents around a lil too.
na...aframs do know what makes an "ethnic afram" but the problem is that alot of foreign blacks also identify under a dual identify of "african-american" plus their own ethnic background.
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Since aframs are a race first people before nationality, we don't really check foreign blacks on it and unless we're triggered to do so.
Which is why me and @K.O.N.Y BEEN saying that AAs need to identify as an ethnicity FIRST.
Hmmm I can see that. I've always wondered how that ended up happening. Especially considering most folks in the deep south have some kind of further back ancestry in the upper south. (I have a hunch but not positive)
shyt we keep talking about Cali when Midwest nikka's take the crown on this.
@Stacker Pentecost one of the underrated coli GOATs.
Real shyt. I thought I was the only person to experience that. Lurking those sites and interacting with them, was definitely an eye opener.I didn't think deeply about ethnicity before I joined this forum
Every thread had an African or island nikka saying a slick comments unchecked which made methat folks weren't getting in their ass...2012 posters
Then I found out about nairaland and somalinet and realized this was a bigger cultural issue and we needed to mobilize
K.O.N.Y
Superstar
leaving to many doors open when they should have had locks on them
K.O.N.Y
Superstar
to add on
Even caribbean based cats like Kool herc has a slight southern twang to his accent in old age
IllmaticDelta
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Hmmm I can see that. I've always wondered how that ended up happening. Especially considering most folks in the deep south have some kind of further back ancestry in the upper south. (I have a hunch but not positive)
shyt we keep talking about Cali when Midwest nikka's take the crown on this.
many aframs from the upper south have more like twangs than drawls
IllmaticDelta
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The divisiveness tends to occur on the slick. Claiming our shyt while simultaneously talking shyt about us.
Like that Karl nikka on the video.
Like that corny ass VibeHi nikka on twitter.
Like some shyt Min. Farrakhan has said in the past.
I could go on...
I'd rather a nikka just not fukk with us at all instead of pulling some shyt like that.
And maybe I should of been more clear, but I believe alot of different Hotep ideologies tend to attract rejects(btw dont take that term the wrong way)...alot of foreign Black's fall into that category so they're definitely in the mix.
The reason I stress rejects is the fact that in my opinion alot of "Hotepness" is an escape from our rural southern roots. It's not a coincidence most of these movements corresponded with the beginning of the great migration. It's not a coincidence that these movements took off in the North.
It's the reason why these nikka's go so hard on the church while using the same tactics to fleece they're own followers.
Why these nikka's go so hard on Soul Food which is why I brought up my personal experience.
Why these nikka's talk that, "we have no culture" shyt, because they were ashamed of the one our ancestors developed...ashamed they were slaves...just ashamed period. I could give examples for hours.
I've peeped this shyt since I was 7...8 years old, but it didn't really hit me till I was in my early 20's.
Curtis Sc00n was on Twitter wondering why someone like Farrakhan gets a pass when he says some stuff regarding AAs when he's not AA. He thought Farrakhan was puttin up a front. I think a lot of people don't really know he's not of AA origin but he's no doubt assimilated. I think all his kids and grandkids are AA. The people that took him in were AA.
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AAGang
Issa trick!
The current urban black culture is largely the old traditional rural/southern black culture
I don't fukk with Sowell too much outside of this book but there's some good information here
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