"You Were African Before You Were Anything Else"

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First of all, I'm not a STEM major. I'm interested in it and tryna break in the field. Second of all, you exactly providing a counter yourself. Just ad hominems.


Because black immigrants aren't who can provide reparations nor are they stopping it :gucci: and of course I'm a real life pan africanist :blessed:



Gotta disagree with the bolded :patrice: For one, data can be manipulated. Two, other data can be used to silence your point-- we've seen that for a looooong time with black on black crime and they just as quickly assert that it can't be disputed. Three, white people BEEN known the data. It helped immensely with redlining communities and gentrification, prisons being built on third graders academic status, etc. Finally, just cuz you have the data doesn't mean whites will care... for all the afformentioned reasons.


I'm not saying data is useless and shouldn't be utilized, I'm just saying you can't rely on it to be the decisive blow. It's a tool to inform strategy. The bigger issue here is pointless diaspora wars and gossip though.

No, the bigger issue is not diaspora wars, that's just the piece that you and others like you focus on.

The only issue is, and will always be, ADOS getting what is owed to us for the free, forced labor of our ancestors, that played a vital roll in this becoming the "land of opportunity" for everyone but us, and every single policy that was created after slavery to keep us as the bottom caste in this nation.

You are allowing yourself to be played and encouraged to fight against people who are not your enemy.

There is no diaspora war.

What happened is, a group of "black" people decided to self identify themselves for the purpose of correcting a wrong done specifically to them, focused on a very specific target, and because ALL "black" people weren't included in this self identification and justice claim, SOME "black" people felt a way, labeled the movement xenophobic, and decided to align themselves with the colonizers, instead of just shuttin the fukk up and letting their supposed kinfolk get their just dues.
 
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According to my dna testing, I'm Nigerian, Ghanaian, Congolese, Senegambian, Broadly East African and Ugandan. They sold my people like a muthafukka.
 
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you're NOT "n!ggas"

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No the bigger issue is not diaspora wars, that's just the piece that you and others like you focus on.

The only issue is, and will always be, ADOS getting what is owed to us for the free, forced labor of our ancestors, that played a vital roll in this becoming the "land of opportunity" for everyone but us, and every single policy that was created after slavery to keep us as the bottom caste in this nation.

You are allowing yourself to be played and encouraged to fight against people who are not your enemy.

There is no diaspora war.

What happened is, a group of "black" people decided to self identify themselves for the purpose of correcting a wrong done specifically to them, focused on a very specific target, and because ALL "black" people weren't included in this self identification and justice claim, SOME "black" people felt a way, labeled the movement xenophobic, and decided to align themselves with the colonizers, instead of just shuttin the fukk up and letting their supposed kinfolk get their just dues.

Is that why we're talking about this... In a thread about a woman saying we're African... at the BET Awards? :usure:


Is that the reason brehs are worked up by something that objectively has nothing to do with our group receiving reparations??? :patrice:


Somewhere down the line... reparations opponents are gonna cite that moment, right? :dead: It's clear to myself and others that #ADOS agenda isn't JUST about a justice claim. Where you are is where you stand but it's likewise for me. I'm not finna fake the funk :manny:
 

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I bet not see none of y'all nikkas when black panther 2 comes out :russ:

And Ados nikkas better not be going to visit africa either :mjpls:

Don't conveniently rep Africa or African shyt if y'all don't feel like a part of Africa

Can't have it both ways
 

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Is that why we're talking about this... In a thread about a woman saying we're African... at the BET Awards? :usure:


Is that the reason brehs are worked up by something that objectively has nothing to do with our group receiving reparations??? :patrice:


Somewhere down the line... reparations opponents are gonna cite that moment, right? :dead: It's clear to myself and others that #ADOS agenda isn't JUST about a justice claim. Where you are is where you stand but it's likewise for me. I'm not finna fake the funk :manny:

Yes, that's the reason why folks is pushing this "diaspora wars" bullshyt when it's very clear what we're focused on.

Its all about the money with some folks...

I hate to say it, but it feels like a lot of folks in the "diaspora" is on some, "if I ain't gettin a check, nobody is." and that's really sad.

You enjoy the rest of your evening though.
 

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I bet not see none of y'all nikkas when black panther 2 comes out :russ:

And Ados nikkas better not be going to visit africa either :mjpls:

Don't conveniently rep Africa or African shyt if y'all don't feel like a part of Africa

Can't have it both ways

black panther through and through is an american creation though. a white one at that.
 
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Yes, that's the reason why folks is pushing this "diaspora wars" bullshyt when it's very clear what we're focused on.

It could also have to do with the things Yvette and Tariq constantly say and tweet, they always so foul shyt about foreigners. But you already acknowledge that they be on bullshyt sometimes.
 

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take pride? wakanda isnt real, and if it was, they sure as hell wouldnt be africa first. whats there to take pride in? its fictional media
:francis: Why are you being so literal? You know what I'm getting at breh.

Yes, Black panther is an america creation and yes, wakanda isn't real

But it is in no shadow of doubt a depiction of a "fictional" African country with "fictional" African people and every nikka on this forum was :gladbron: At some African inspired shyt
None of that we aren't african or fukk Africa shyt was going on when that movie dropped.

All I'm saying is these same nikkas better not be tryna hop on the African band wagon when it becomes cool again

Also I like how you cherry picked my black panther example like I didn't name other examples and shyt lol

You nikkas odd
 

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:francis: Why are you being so literal? You know what I'm getting at breh.

Yes, Black panther is an america creation and yes, wakanda isn't real

But it is in no shadow of doubt a depiction of a "fictional" African country with "fictional" African people and every nikka on this forum was :gladbron: At some African inspired shyt
None of that we aren't african or fukk Africa shyt was going on when that movie dropped.

All I'm saying is these same nikkas better not be tryna hop on the African band wagon when it becomes cool again

Also I like how you cherry picked my black panther example like I didn't name other examples and shyt lol

You nikkas odd

a lot of people were being posers about black panther, lets be real. it didnt instill some level of pan africanism in people. it was like you said, a bandwagon, and nothing more. it was actually pretty damn embarrassing the way people were acting and exposing themselves. as for your other points, why would I? what are the numbers of ados' going to africa? what african things do we rep here? the only thing african related was ours long before the movie came out
 

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:mjlol: shut up. During slavery you literally had different tribes warring with each other not to mention.

Family members who didn’t want the next son, brother, cousin to become chiefs,king sold off or exiled.

I just watched a video of Burna boy saying the same thing his mother said and he literally meant.

Before there was an african American identity they were Africans in America a foreign land.

Some people’s origin as African American ADOS started in 1600’s other started in 1840’s.

:scust: What’s so hard to understand about that? In order for you to be an An african American there had to be some african who did not speak English, did not call himself American, was not born a slave and was taken to a foreign land where he did not want to be.


It’s that simple.

This post and this thread is pitiful.

It's shameful how far we have regressed in information and history to the point a ugly ass lesbian who sits on a racist white nationalist board can come among us create means to split and divide and we be so clueless to our own history we follow like sheep.

I'm ashamed of this group now to be honest smh


:martin:

why y’all in your feelings


Listen, i ain’t got nothing against Africa or my African peoples
BUT
i’ll be damned if imma let one throw that fukk shyt talking point in my face




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everything we accomplished, was done on OUR OWN blood, sweat & tears
so miss me with that
before we accomplish shyt.........
 

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what are the numbers of ados' going to africa? what african things do we rep here?

No african inspired braids :ehh:

No dashikis or kinte cloths :ehh:

No African black soap :ehh:

African shyt in general but this is only for the unreasonable nikkas who can't seem to understand you can be more than 1 thing lol
 

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:martin:

why y’all in your feelings


Listen, i ain’t got nothing against Africa or my African peoples
BUT
i’ll be damned if imma let one throw that fukk shyt talking point in my face




:camby:
everything we accomplished, was done on OUR OWN blood, sweat & tears
so miss me with that
before we accomplish shyt.........
lol You personally haven't accomplished anything for the betterment of AA's and neither has any one on the coli or twitter

You nikkas taking credit for shyt great people did and projecting your prejudice for africans on them

You act like some of our greatest black leaders and thinkers didn't spend time in africa or didn't move there

Shout out Du Bois
 

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No african inspired braids :ehh:

No dashikis or kinte cloths :ehh:

No African black soap :ehh:

African shyt in general but this is only for the unreasonable nikkas who can't seem to understand you can be more than 1 thing lol

if thats the case then im pretty sure you wont have to worry about much
 
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