While I should care, and educate .....I generally just let people like this rot in their own ignorance/opinions.
To be clear I don't deem them as ignorant because they don't agree with me
I deem them ignorant because people who say stuff like that are typically people who know the least about Africa anyway. My favorite thing is to take them down basic high school history time line
Do you know about [insert period here] and what happened around that point?
1. ice age
2. Mesopotamia
3. greece
4. rome
5. dark ages
6. crusades
8. Renaissance
7. "age of discovery"
9. colonial period
(I skip the kinda stuff below cause most people don't remember it ...I.E. they don't make many movies, tv shows, games, and other cultural references about them)
bronce age collapse / Reconquista / enlightenment / etc.
Then I ask a simple question...
What were African people doing at each of the times we just discussed?
If they can't answer each question off the dome
...I disregard almost anything they have to say about Africa.
My position:
When I say...
"American" - I'm referring to anyone who is a citizen of the United States of America
If you meet certain requirements, you may become a U.S. citizen either at birth or after birth.
To become a citizen at birth, you must:
- Have been born in the United States or certain territories or outlying possessions of the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; OR
- had a parent or parents who were citizens at the time of your birth (if you were born abroad) and meet other requirements
To become a citizen after birth, you must:
For more information, see USCIS Policy Manual Citizenship and Naturalization Guidance.
When I say...
"Black people" - I'm referring to(phenotype) "tropically adapted" humans(homo sapiens) irrespective of where they come from
I.E. longer limbs to expel heat, melinated skin to absorb sun light, curly to wavy hair, etc. etc.
When I say...
"African people"("Africans") - I'm referring specifically to humans(at any point in time) that derive from those who inhabited(or who would eventually go on to inhabit) the sahale-Saharan-greatLakes area during it's last aqualithic /green phase ...and generally to all humans who derive from those on the continent of Africa(or who would eventually go on to inhabit Africa) during it's last aqualithic /green phase.
Prior to ejection from the sahale-Sahara:
The occupation of the Sahara was one that shared certain material culture commonalities throughout such as barbed harpoons for fishing and wavy lined pottery for storage.
These are the people who scattered across the continent in various waves when the desert dried up
(North, south, east, and west)
These are the ones who absorbed / intermarried other cultures on the continent and comprise everyone who left the continent during the trans Atlantic slave trade.
I.E. "Africans" is an umbrella term that denote people of a particular lineage (biological and historical). Under that lineage are ethnic groups such as the...
1.
Wolof ....who are citizens of
Senegal
2.
Baka ....who are citizens of
Cameroon
3.
Kikuyu ....who are citizens of
Kenya
4.
Fur ....who are citizens of
Sudan
5.
"Afro Jamaicans" ....who are citizens of
Jamaica
6.
Xhosa ....who are citizens of
South Africa
7.
"Afro Brazilians" ....who are citizens of
Brazil
8.
Kabye ....who are citizens of
Togo
9.
"African Americans" ....who are citizens of the
United States of America
Black or African American – A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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That said I don't get mad at them because I know U.S. public schools deliberately don't teach this stuff and their parents more than likely went to the same public schools, so they probably don't know either.
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