Africans, Caribbeans, And Foreign Black People

[The Nigerian]

I'm sure you already know that many African American's have lost total connection to their roots, identity culture, traditions,or the meaning of discipline, accountability and structure. This explains why many of us have embraced being called nikka with no objection .

My question to foreign Black people in America including Jamaicans, Dominicans, Haitians, Nigerians, Ghanaians, Caribbeans etc is this.

Since you guys come from countries that have a firm identity,culture and understanding of self respect .Do you guys subscribe to being called nikka or do you correct American black men who call you a nikka like I do?

I really hate these ignorant hip hop new generation black guys who go around using the word nikka. These are the same idiots that got whites and other non-blacks using the word in public thinking its cool because they heard an ignorant dumb ass black guy using it. now they think its okay but I have to always check them when they bring that shyt around me.

If I had it my way these ignorant hip hop no good losers would be lined up in front of a firing squad. We can't move forward with idiots like them who pull us backwards.

I don't do the whole n-slur thing. It's actually toxic to my ears. I kinda flinch anytime I hear it. I get disappointed when a fellow Black person says it.

But low key, it's kinda hot when educated Black girls say it.

So you really actually think using nikka has some kind of negative subconscious effect on our minds?

It definitely does, breh.

 

[How Sway?]

what's with all this stuff about how A. Americans Dont have an identity or a culture? I've been noticing a lot of these threads lately

 

[the next guy]

neg pending. op is a self righteous jackass. stop gossiping about other people, and what they do

 

[CashmereThoughts]

These threads are becoming tiresome, breh. African American identity is as firm as any of those. Being American is no less authentic than being Italian. Just be an American.

We never was full fledged Americans. You can be "American" all you want I know thats a fallacy. Ol I'm patriotic ass nikka.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

what's with all this stuff about how A. Americans Dont have an identity or a culture? I've been noticing a lot of these threads lately

We don't nikka, our languages, religions, and knowledge of self have been forcefully stripped from us. We couldn't even tell you what country out ancestors came from.

 

[George Gooney]

To OP I have a question... What the fukk are you doing on this site??? Who invented the culture that inspired this site???

 

[Bsmitty156]

Self respect is determined by a perons ACTIONS.

When. you accept being called a nikka, ppl dont take you serious,dont respect you and treat you like a nikka.

No. I demand respect by the way i carry myself.

I know tons of black professionals in private settings who say nikka. When your fellow black brother or sister says it to greet you and you don't accept it do you think that'll gain you respect by disrespecting their welcome? I don't even use the word but don't take offense when a black person says it in kindness. Reading people's energy will take you a lot further than being hung up on a word.

I'm sure you already know that many African American's have lost total connection to their roots, identity culture, traditions,or the meaning of discipline, accountability and structure. This explains why many of us have embraced being called nikka with no objection .

My question to foreign Black people in America including Jamaicans, Dominicans, Haitians, Nigerians, Ghanaians, Caribbeans etc is this.

Since you guys come from countries that have a firm identity,culture and understanding of self respect .Do you guys subscribe to being called nikka or do you correct American black men who call you a nikka like I do?

I really hate these ignorant hip hop new generation black guys who go around using the word nikka. These are the same idiots that got whites and other non-blacks using the word in public thinking its cool because they heard an ignorant dumb ass black guy using it. now they think its okay but I have to always check them when they bring that shyt around me.

If I had it my way these ignorant hip hop no good losers would be lined up in front of a firing squad. We can't move forward with idiots like them who pull us backwards.

I can't say enough how all of this is so offensive and more ignorant than the "ignorant blacks" who say nikka. You romanticize foreign blacks just like whites. I know Haitians and Africans who lack self respect, don't have deep rooted cultural ties, etc. Every group has negative issues so making it seem like foreign blacks have it all together isn't even accurate. So much of what Africans and West Indians have done has been inspired by AA's but you're giving them all the credit and throwing us to the dogs.

You keep saying other ethnic groups do it better basically but you know what else they do? They help uplift one another. All those Korean family businesses and Chinese families making their kids be doctors is for a reason. It's to increase the group not just their own net worth. So how can you separating yourself as a cultured, black man who is better than the ignorant, hip hop idiot, nikka using blacks be helpful to the community?

That's the bigger issue. Blacks who try to be standoffish and act better than other blacks. You didn't teach yourself to demand respect you had a parent or male figures do that. Be that figure to other blacks not some...I'm better than you, let me go be chummy with random Africans because we are so much more alike even though my black ass grew up on the east coast all my life fool.

Firing squads, really?

With blacks like you who the hell needs white supremacists and southern white republicans.

 

[Nemesis]

im Nigerian descent and I dont use it on principle, none of my Nigerian friends use it to be honest but I know quite a few people that use it.... each to his own, i have a habit of swearing a lot so even though its slightly different Im the last person to lecture someone about what kind of language they use

 

[BocaRear]

As long as you're black you can say nikka

 

[TRFG]

Island folks say “nikka“ just as much as we do. Africans from my personal experience with them usually don't say it

Which island folks say it? We hardly use that word. Come to think of it I have never heard it used growing up.

 

[TRFG]

I always cringe on the inside when I hear that word. I guess because in the smaller caribbean islands that word is unheard of.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

These threads are becoming tiresome, breh. African American identity is as firm as any of those. Being American is no less authentic than being Italian. Just be an American.

self defeatist African americans, real aa, as in descendant of American slaves, kill me.

And embarrasses all of us.

AA have a strong identity and strong culture. LOL at thinking "other" blacks as being moral saints, they're not.

Actually some of the biggest acts of c00nery comes from many of them

 

[dontspeakmuch]

Do you hear South Asians(Indian, Pakistani's, Bangladeshi's etc) referring to themselves as "Paki's" though

Ive heard them called Paki to their face by arabs and iranians and while it may offend the older ones, the younger ones dont find it offensive like that. that or they jus didnt want to fight. but the kids were friends really

 

[Greenstrings]

We don't nikka, our languages, religions, and knowledge of self have been forcefully stripped from us. We couldn't even tell you what country out ancestors came from.

Sometimes I feel like African Americans focus so singlemindedly on what was lost and taken from them that they all too easily forget what they've built in the intervening time.

With odds stacked against you the works of literature, art, music, theatre philosophy and rhetoric that African American culture has spawned is as rich a cultural tapestry as any. You've made America yours as much as any group of people living there has, if not more so.

Those religions you lost can no longer be yours and are even now lost to most of those living in Africa who can no longer know or directly relate to their meanings and practices.

Think about it. Your ancestors arrived in America over 400 years ago do you really think that there are Africans outside of royalty can trace their ancestors that far back? No, that notion of Africa is lost to everybody. But they don't suffer from a perceived lack of cultural identity because such a quality doesn't come from anything that obvious. It comes from the freedom to form your own narratives. To tell your own stories. The freedom and security we take for granted that allows us to manipulate our cultural histories into whatever helps make sense of the present.

And I guess that's where the problem lies. African Americans feel that they can't fully claim ownership of slavery and jim crow narratives because African Americans were not in control of slavery and jim crow and that is incredibly hard to face. So there's this desire to skip the most painful periods in favour of what came before. A desire to return to an 'innnocent' Africa that can not effectively speak to the present and I don't think that leads anywhere.