Food maybe, but music and dance no. African American music from Blues, Jazz, Funk, Rock & Roll, R&B, Soul, Hip-Hop, etc has roots in Africa.
Why are AA's the only group in the diaspora who are told get in tune with their culture?
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Pit Bull
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You trolling right? If not then you don't know shyt about African Americans.
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I am actually serious. The connection between African and AA culture disappeared a long time ago. AA culture is more similar to Western European culture now
Our food is no exception.
There’s tons of info out there on the subject, some good books like “The Cooking Gene” by Michael Twitty, “High on the Hog” by Jessica Harris, and “Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America” by Frederick Douglass Opie, just to name a few.
Besides without even knowing the facts, I always ask people what sense does it make to claim that our ancestors lost so much that somehow they forgot how to cook? Plus the “scraps of the pig” argument doesn’t hold weight when you look at all the different dishes that Soul Food comprises of.
Here you go again with the passive aggressive racism
"Culture: Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies. Culture is considered a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies"
Due to our history of oppression we have always expressed ourselves thru music and food. This started during slavery becuz we had no choice. Our culture starts from having to cope with our situation. Frederick Douglas embodied that. He learned to read, escaped, and became a historical figure as a result. Everything he achieved as a free man was the result of him coping with his situation as a black man in America. At the same time we only been free for 150 years and we are still trying to figure out who we are.
Confucius, Aristotle, and Plato? Those societies had been around 100s of years before these dudes surfaced. Gives us time
Exacty!and you can't even count that full 150 years under the circumstances,it would't be fair.
Also Malcolm X,Muhammad Ali, Ice Cube,Jay-Z,2pac,the bible>>>Confucious and Aristotle
But I have to say that I don't like the turn this thread has taken,seems like alot of attacking going on. We AA's shouldn't be attacking others of African heritiage,and nobody should be attacking us.
As AA's we have to place the FULL blame of what the OP is talking about on ourselves. Its us who have been romanticizing Egypt,The Moors,the continent of Africa. We must face the facts many AA's are very very insecure about what we have build here. Soley because we don't have that concept of time like you have talked about,we beat ourselves up to much and don't acknowledge how far we have actually come in a short time. Even though we could do much more,much better,and do it faster.
We have been trying to grasp onto africa,and romanticizing and dikkriding Egypt for so long. How could anybody blame other groups for downplaying our culture,when we don't seem secure in it ourselves
I don't fault us for trying to reclaim what was stolen and lost from our history as AA's. But maybe we are at the point where we have to take more pride in all that we have accomplished in such a short time. I think AA's may be at that point now where we finally respect our own history.
People always get upset and say "Our history doesn't start with slavery
" which is true. But from slavery to present day it may be the goat beginning to a peoples story
Stop romanticizing and acting insecure towards mother Africa and its rich history. And stop blaming africans etc for noticing you've been doing so,and indulging you.
Same reason only African Americans experience racism 
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You're not the only group of black people to hear that message. It is going to happen more in white dominated countries (USA and Europe) because there is an understanding of how integration and years of shytting on everything black for generations influenced our culture.
. You're not the only group of black people to hear that message. It is going to happen more in white dominated countries (USA and Europe) because there is an understanding of how integration and years of shytting on everything black for generations influenced our culture.
There's much more to African culture than what's promoted on social media. African parties aren't even the same from country to country. That's how diverse it is.
There's no way yall would know all of this without being in African circles.
Pit Bull
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nikka we are an African circle.
Pit Bull
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fukk nikkas really think African Americans would go to Ireland and Germany and fit in better with them than we would in an African country.
You African nikkas must really think we ain't worth fukkin shyt
You African nikkas must really think we ain't worth fukkin shyt
Pit Bull
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African America nikkaReally, what country are you?
Pit Bull
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Now if we was in here trying to distance ourselves from Africa you dusty bytch nikkas would be in here crying and tellin us how you can't tell us apart from y'all and all that silly shyt. Africans is culture vulture status as far as I'm concerned.
IllmaticDelta
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Not true actually...outside of brazil and cuba and haiti on a lesser level, everyone else has a level of creolization where one can debate the africaness. What's obvious and a point I mentioned before, if all these other "blacks" in the new world were more/had a deeper african well to draw from than aframs, how come the majority of these islands didn't create/produce the same level of folklore, tales, music etc as Aframs? To me it seems they were the ones lacking in africaness to pull from. Remember, even Jamaica wasn't even producing musically on global scale before they soaked up alot of Afram based culture
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- Saint Martin (French part)
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- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
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IllmaticDelta
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exactly
