Look, all bickering aside, black folk in America look A LOT different to us straight from Africa. It's obvious there's something else in the bloodline. If you travelled to West Africa, you'd know what I mean. A guy like Greg Jones is the only one I can look at and say "if I didn't know this dude, he could be Adewale Kanu from Lagos"
I think people are bringing it up because they're trying to be more interesting. It's like white people giving you every percentage of their ancestry.
We are different, we're American. Damn near native American in a sense.
I have almond like eyes, people ask me if I'm Asian, and I look dang near Chinese when I'd be high.
My mom says my dad is mixed with native American, so I just run with that. I'm also part white as well, and my grandmother (who's white) saying my great grandfather might've been Mexican.
Its a big mystery, especially being BLACK in America. You know how it has been and is with having dysfunctional families. That ish runs in a straight line, every male generation hardly knowing their father.
And you have other races knowing where their family comes from, from the beginning of time until now. How do you think that makes us feel as people? To have your entire history a mystery, and not by your choice? Of course we're all humans but to know your history is empowering in a sense.
Not every black person is like this in the US, but many if us are, existing without a history, and it can be a lonely feeling. It has nothing to do with not being black, its that being black is such a vague term. What does black belong to? Africa? Even Africans don't call themselves black, they refer to themselves by their states.
I tried to correct the brother, but he doesn't want to acknowledge the truth. I just let him speak on it without being objective
