Trying to understand...FBA clan- Are yall saying you've been here so long that the African ties are no longer relevant..or ya'll never were African?

[SolesKing305]

I'm FBA/ADOS/Soulaan whatever you want to call it, and im proud of that. I can trace back to before at least 1850 on both sides of my family. So its cool to have some people prideful and representing, but some of the characters are making the whole thing look bad.

To my understanding we are all from Alkebulan (Africa) originally. I'm from Miami so in my childhood crew we have people from Jamaica, Bahamas, Haiti, Trinidad, Nigeria and the list goes on. You can't make me go against my brothers and sisters from other countries. We all have an understanding and no one is better than the other. They recognize the sacrifices our ancestors made in America for them to even be over here, and i recognize their contributions and differences also.

Don't let them divide the movement when its getting powerful like they did with Hip Hop.... IJS

 

[Uachet]

My people have been here since early 1700s. So early in fact that they were here before the US was a nation, still a colony of England. If every other diasporan can claim their nationality and ethnicity, why does it concern everyone else when Black Americans do it? Why must we be all kumbaya with everyone else, when everyone else are so very intent on making sure they are not mistaken for us?

So I do not have a problem with delineation, because pretty much every other Black ethnic group has made it clear they were delineated from us from the beginning. My people want to focus on our own issues instead of being mules for everyone else's, well I am fine with that.

You get back what you give out, and many Black ethnicities gave us their ass, and so many of my own people are now giving theirs back. Matching energy as some would say.