Smh. I just read the rest of this thread.
East Africans are black. Just because we have some ancient Eurasion ancestry from a few thousand years ago(cacs probably looked more like nikkas during those times) doesn't change the fact that we have black skin and nappy hair and genetically we are predominantly East African. To the world we are just nikkas. You somali Brehs gotto accept that fact. We are just one part of Africas diversity. No we are not the same as west Africans, but we are still black.
Can't stand some of these East Africans nikkas who wanna have their own race.
Being black is a gift and you nikkas gotto start seeing that, instead of turning on your West African Brehs for some cac points. Degrading west Africans ain't gonna make you whiter. To the George zimmermans of the world , were all just nikkas with a cac nose.
Here's the thing. They MIGHT be the prototypical "African" phenotype and mixed with NOTHING. Aquiline nose and curly hair are Black features too. We're just taught to ASSUME that a Black person with a looser curl pattern and narrow feature is NOT 100% Black. There are so many phenoTYPES of 100% Black. There are Hausa who have natural loose curl pattern and Igbo that are lighter skinned (compared to Yoruba?) that are 100% pure blood Africans. We've been brainwashed to believe that there's only one way to be 100% Black. In Nigeria I look like a Hausa, to an Ethiopian, I look Ethiopian, in Jamaica Queens I look like a Trini, in Washington Heights, I look Dominican. In Flushing Queens, I look "Asian Indian." On the Rez I look like a tribal member.
We've become so color/hair focused that it's a distraction.
I'm the opposite. If I see a man that looks like J. Cole, I'm assuming he's Black. SOME type of Black. Where I come from no one cares what KIND of Black person you are.
My ex's homeboys in Seattle are Somali and THEY GOT THEIR NUH WAKEUP CALL.
They realized after interacting with cacs on a day to day basis THEY ARE BLACK.
My experience (being around mostly Turkish people) was mad cool. I felt like I was with family. I'm NOT a Muslim and they knew it and treated me like family.
INTELLIGENT PEOPLE aren't color struck or racist. Period.
They understand the complexity of navigation through life.
These ignorant people who try to clan up WILL NEVER LEARN.
I understand and respect people keeping to themselves to protect their culture and traditions, but I also see how it will continually keep them at the bottom and isolated when they come HERE to my country and try to look down on me.