Do You Only Consider Black People Born In The States Black?
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The Tethers vs. Black Americans is not about culture. When will we recognize that culture don't mean shit.
Y'all need to read more books about Africa, slavery, Reconstruction and the racial wealth gap to understand why there is a divison.
Instead of falling back to Pan-Africanism.
Y'all need to read more books about Africa, slavery, Reconstruction and the racial wealth gap to understand why there is a divison.
Instead of falling back to Pan-Africanism.
The problem doesn't come when pointing out things specific to Black Americans. The problem comes when assuming Black Americans are the only Black people to have those unique experiences in the context of their own countries and cultures. And thats a problem with Americans in general thinking that this country is the end all be all of everything culturally.
ajackson17
Active Member
This
But when someone says black people, i do automatically think of BP in the states......
That is how most think
ajackson17
Active Member
Don't use the spectrum to attack people with serious flawed ideologies back pseudoscience race theory
Loch121
OG
If it’s unique in their culture it’s not the same and that’s fine.
It may share similarities but it’s not the same.
The question was posed from a black American perspective .
But it’s definitely not a question of “are they black” ?.Of course they are.
I mean to be honest with you, America doesn’t really care about what goes on in other like that but other countries do care about what goes on here.
A large majority of ppl barely leave their block,city,or small town.
It’s not even an ego thing we’re just taught and brainwashed from birth that we are the center of the world.
But to back that up ppl do follow what we do a lot.
People that like to define themselves according to race and culture in contrast to another group will always be confused.
Which is why we got people confused about what it means to be Black and thus can't wrap their heads around people that may be of African descent, but not Black.
Blackness isn't something to be desired and it doesn't relate to culture, ethnicity or race in positive way. Blackness is the absent of a proper nationality, name, ethnicity and family. It is a status of something that is undefined and improper.
So when James Brown said, "Say it loud, I am Black and I am Proud."
That's an American centric thing. We created the term Black and we are the leaders of everything that is Black.
Black is not something for every single African descended person because not all African descended people have had a loss personhood, nationhood, and generational familial ties that Black Americans have through slavery and apartheid. Blackness is something you obtain through loss.
Other motherfuckers wanna be Black because it's cool.
There's a reason why Richard Pryor went to Africa and said he didn't see no niggas. He saw Africans.
Pan-Africanism is a religious pipe dream of the Black people in the West that try to relieve themselves of their minority status by imagining a pan-ethnic connection to every person with dark skin and curly hair and that shit isn't real.
Lol, like, if you are African immigrant locked up in an Israeli concentration camp, you are Black.
If you are a Top Boy, stabbing up motherfuckers and shooting it out with the coppers, you are Black.
You are one of these stupid gangland motherfuckers in the suburbs of Scandinavia, bombing shit, you are Black.
But if you are an African, in Rwanda, with a family, a tribe, a home with servants and shit. You are not Black.
Being Black is a peculiar position. It only happens when a group of people assert themselves over you and strip you of your status as a human subject because they have power and you don't.
If there are no White people around, there are no Black people.
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TTBF
Get well soon 🦉🇨🇦
I haven't not experienced a single thing you wrote and my family is from Guyana in South America, now living in Canada where I was born.
Problem is some people (and really most of us are guilty of doing this at one point or another) look at blackness as if it's competitive sport and you gotta prove your blackness through ignorance and what trauma you've had to endure. This happens everywhere there are black people not just the US. It's bullshit and it encourages a cycle of ignorance and more trauma.
Elzo69Renaissance
Boss Talk only
Fam prolly cheating you out some money
Loch121
OG
But everything I listed wasn’t traumatic and just a quick brain fart of examplesI haven't not experienced a single thing you wrote and my family is from Guyana in South America, now living in Canada where I was born.
Problem is some people (and really most of us are guilty of doing this at one point or another) look at blackness as if it's competitive sport and you gotta prove your blackness through ignorance and what trauma you've had to endure. This happens everywhere there are black people not just the US. It's bullshit and it encourages a cycle of ignorance and more trauma.
I mean you kinda proved my point by saying you haven’t experienced those things.
Doesn’t make you not black just not black in the way American black ppl view blackness.
I haven't not experienced a single thing you wrote and my family is from Guyana in South America, now living in Canada where I was born.
Problem is some people (and really most of us are guilty of doing this at one point or another) look at blackness as if it's competitive sport and you gotta prove your blackness through ignorance and what trauma you've had to endure. This happens everywhere there are black people not just the US. It's bullshit and it encourages a cycle of ignorance and more trauma.
Maybe...if you have to prove your Blackness to people that call themselves Black...then you are not Black.
Like, if a group of people define themselves according to loss and trauma...why would you wanna be apart of that group.
Like I knew I was Black because of the Klan and sharecropping.
Ain't nobody was like, "Hey, we Black over here, it's sure is great thing to be."
Lol, got damn, popular culture has ruined motherfuckers understanding of Blackness.
Loch121
OG
He’s Nigerian….
Nah he be giving me low tickets fr fr
I be trying to go get a second opinion and he is always doing it cheaper
Let's be real...
Most people that ain't Black American, wanna be Black because of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Martin and Hip Hop music.
They saw people on TV that look like them and signed up to be Black but not understanding what it's like to be nigga.
Elzo69Renaissance
Boss Talk only
Loch121
OG
I can’t front we some bad mutha fuckas .The definition of cool.
But we are assholes but America was built on being an asshole.
I’m from here and barely like niggas and I’m niggas.
Loch121
OG
lol you’re probably right
Elzo69Renaissance
Boss Talk only
There’s a saying that goes “ u enter into a business transaction w a Nigerian and only one person will be making money and it won’t be you”
Loch121
OG
See this why mutha fuckas don’t like us lol