Ab-Soul: I'm not a "black" man, I am a man.

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

You said all this to say what? What you are / are not and what you wish to be referred as is two totally different things.

I have no problem with what he wishes to be called, but he IS a black man and there's no getting around that. He can not definitively say that he isn't, which is exactly what he did

@RebelX

His newer tweets make him sound like dumb as hell. Black or dark having negative connotations doesn't stim from English or the anything to do with it. It comes from man's primal fear of darkness / black of night dating back to prehistoric man falling prey to animals at night.

The word Black originates from dark. Throughout man's history dark / darkness of night, absence of light, ect... has always been associated with negative or evil and that's when a majority of fukked up shyt like crimes, satanic shyt, sexual deviant activity, etc... Occurs even to this day

I think your going overboard by calling what he said dumb.

What he is saying is that technically none of us fit any of the characteristics given to the adjective "black" in the English dictionary. Technically none of us are dark enough to be the color "black" and hopefully none of us fit the other negative descriptions given to the word black in the English dictionary (Grim, wicked, dirty etc.)

In my opinion its trivial but a lot of people share this idea that "words have power" and say overstand instead of understand and don't refer to themselves as black.

It's definitely word play used by white people, you can't deny that. They call themselves "white" which is associated with pure and unblemished. But obviously they're not white either.

I won't go as far as to say "I'm not black" just because of the misinterpretations that may arise. At the end of the day, I know who I am, I know who my ancestors are, I know what they went through, I know what I go through, I know who my brothas and sistas are... Call it black, nikka, African American, whatever, none of those truths change.

But it would definitely be dope if we had a name for ourselves appointed by us. It wouldn't make us any less us, in fact, it would make us more us because we're identifying with ourselves instead of being identified.

 

[DrX]

when he end up like that big nikka eric garner.....no tears will be shed

 

[NotaPAWG]

but they weren't denying being black were they?.....

 

[The Mad Titan]

Deal with some of the white folk long enough and they'll have you thinking you are just a man or a women. But they'll quickly remind you that they are a white man or woman.

 

[DrX]

Deal with some of the white folk long enough and they'll have you thinking you are just a man or a women. But they'll quickly remind you that they are a white man or woman.

exactly....that fukk nikka is comfortable

 

[MaseratiDiaz]

No the fukk it isn't. I should neg you for this atrocious post

I can't believe people are trying to justify this. This is inferring there is something negative with being black and inversely positive being called your gender before race.

Being a black man is a great thing and at the end of the day, you were going to be black before your gender was even specified at conception.

Damn you c00ns and feminist who agree with this dumb shyt blow me

Before the white man called you black and used that label to classify you as lower than them what did Africans call themselves? Hint. It wasn't black. Black and white is some Eurocentric shyt.

 

[TOP LAD]

I Like Soul and all but he's just to much of a try hard sometimes

 

[Adidacs]

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[Don Mack]

I don't play the color game either given the negative connotations of the word black.

 

[Killer Instinct]

 

[Big Boss]

I love myself and black women

 

[YGSWIFE]

ab soul can eat a dikk

 

[Juliano Soprano]

If he wants to make a statement like this, he should expand on what he means exactly. Me for example, yeah I'm a black man because I was labeled as such in this white mans world, but when it comes down to it, I'm a man and not only that...being 'Black' I'm the original man. Listening to Ab Soul music through the years, it would seem this is what he means.

Watch this video from the honorable Brother Leo Muhammad for insight on what I mean about the labels

 

[rich]

my nikka soul,
Sell your integrity and identity to this industry brehs

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

i remember KRS said something similar to this in a interview and Professor Griff sonned him in that book Analytix

Yeah, Kris always ran with the "Before you're a color....first your human." bullshyt.

If you're gonna write some shyt like this, then you have to make it clear what you mean.

Exactly.