Africans in the 50s and 60s not held to Jim Crow laws in the South

[CoryMack]

Quoting Malcolm without understanding him is exactly how grifters twist Black history into anti-Black nonsense. Malcolm wasn't saying Africans weren't discriminated against, he was exposing how ridiculous white supremacy is. He was showing how appearances, not identity, shaped racist assumptions. The fact that someone could walk into a segregated restaurant and be treated better just for wearing a TURBAN doesn't mean Africans "had it easy," it means racism is shallow and performative. That's what Malcolm was ridiculing.

I'm sick of people cherry-picking Malcolm's words, and erasing how he changed after his pilgrimage to Mecca, to fit their narrow agendas while ignoring the actual substance of his message.

i understand him well enough. those were his words, not my interpretations on them. i don't have to read the analysis of some crakkka or some lost scared nikka like you to "understand" him. that's what the man said. now you wanna call him a liar, do that. we already knew how ridiculous white supremacy was; we didn't need Malcolm to tell us that. his example about his friend and the turban showed that if you said you were "African" in many cases you would receive different treatment than a native born Black.

and let's stop fukkin pretending that this isn't the case. I'm sick and tired of nikkas like you coming in and acting like what many of us have seen and experienced for the past 3 decades at least isn't what's happening. we don't need to search hard for examples of white people taking one group of Blacks and elevating them over other groups. that's the basis of alot of the tribalism going on over in parts of africa today.

 

[CoryMack]

"in order to defeat white supremacy we must first defeat other black people

"

- You basically

Carlos Cooks said that before we could get down to the business of dealing with white people we'd be five years dealing with c00ns, because ultimately it's the c00ns holding us back. It's the c00ns who collaborate with white people that have destroyed our forward progress. And I believe that.

 

[Dr. Acula]

This is an obvious lie.

Kwame Nkrumah’s biography and Azikiwe’s biography refutes OP’s xenophobic agenda.

Also, there’s a well studied diplomatic incident of African diplomats experiencing Jim Crow racism in the 1960s. Finally, Alabama cacs best up Ghanaian students in 1963.

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The Racist Diplomatic Incidents That Embarrassed JFK Abroad​

The humiliating abuse of African dignitaries under Jim Crow laws helped pressure the government to finally throw its weight behind civil rights legislation.

Erin Blakemore

Abbie Rowe/White House Photographs/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
Published: February 26, 2019
Last Updated: March 02, 2025
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William Fitzjohn and his driver raced up Route 40 through Maryland, hoping to find a hot meal before the African diplomat’s meeting at the White House. It was April 1961, and segregation was the status quo in large swaths of the United States. Fitzjohn, the charge d’affaires for the country of Sierra Leone, knew that despite his elite diplomatic status, he might be turned away if he tried to eat at an establishment that discriminated against black people.
Fitzjohn had previously heard that the restaurant chain Howard Johnson’s was open to serving black customers, so his driver headed to one nearby. But when he entered Hagerstown, Maryland’s Howard Johnson’s, a surly waitress told Fitzjohn she wouldn’t serve him. Even when he showed his diplomatic credentials, she refused to budge. “It was very emotionally upsetting,” Fitzjohn told an Associated Press reporter afterward.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Be a CIA pawn parroting divisive tribal rhetoric , brehs

be a naive dodo bird negro brehs

White supramacist sat next to us on the same couch in the same living room for hundreds of years watching africa not do anything significant for our cause and stance in the west. They're not worried about symbolic pan africanism

They are not importing batches of stokely carmichaels here, from the continent or anywhere else

The most would be like when the NOI was going to supposedly recieve billions from Gaddafi. shyt like that causes concern. Not these lil panny lala lands

Again they would buffer non fbas before they would be worried about that

 

[CoryMack]

Be a CIA pawn parroting divisive tribal rhetoric , brehs

i don't have to be a pawn. all i have to do is believe what many of you on this board have admitted, and also look at the way some of you from the continent talk about each other on here. that tells me everything i need to know "breh." so get the fukk on.

 

[Torrential]

Carlos Cooks said that before we could get down to the business of dealing with white people we'd be five years dealing with c00ns, because ultimately it's the c00ns holding us back. It's the c00ns who collaborate with white people that have destroyed our forward progress. And I believe that.

Are you calling all african folks c00ns ?

Surely not

i don't have to be a pawn. all i have to do is believe what many of you on this board have admitted, and also look at the way some of you from the continent talk about each other on here. that tells me everything i need to know "breh." so get the fukk on.

be a naive dodo bird negro brehs

White supramacist sat next to us on the same couch in the same living room for hundreds of years watching africa not do anything significant for our cause and stance in the west. They're not worried about symbolic pan africanism

They are not importing batches of stokely carmichaels here, from the continent or anywhere else

The most would be like when the NOI was going to supposedly recieve billions from Gaddafi. shyt like that causes concern. Not these lil panny lala lands

Again they would buffer non fbas before they would be worried about that

there's no reasoning with the three of you . you got it

enjoy your tribal circle jerk and just know they'll always find a way to fraction us up. Today it's diaspora wars. Tomorrow it'll get more granular when they pit regional areas in the US against eachother .

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

i understand him well enough. those were his words, not my interpretations on them. i don't have to read the analysis of some crakkka or some lost scared nikka like you to "understand" him. that's what the man said. now you wanna call him a liar, do that. we already knew how ridiculous white supremacy was; we didn't need Malcolm to tell us that. his example about his friend and the turban showed that if you said you were "African" in many cases you would receive different treatment than a native born Black.

and let's stop fukkin pretending that this isn't the case. I'm sick and tired of nikkas like you coming in and acting like what many of us have seen and experienced for the past 3 decades at least isn't what's happening. we don't need to search hard for examples of white people taking one group of Blacks and elevating them over other groups. that's the basis of alot of the tribalism going on over in parts of africa today.

Your understanding of Malcolm X is as shallow as your core beliefs, and just as performative.

 

[HimmyHendrix]

Your understanding of Malcolm X is as shallow as your core beliefs, and just as performative.

Don’t speak on him anymore tether. Stop pushing your weird belief on the great one

 

[Amo Husserl]

Many years ago, I was online talking to a northern European biracial, still in northern Europe, who very blithely dismissed my claims of US racism. Foreigners flocked to agree with her. The logic? Her African father had attended college in a really white state during Jim Crow and had 'no problems'. I had to explain to her that her father's experiences differed greatly from those of my own ancestors, but she was committed to the gaslighting,

Years later, after Trayvon, she was like, Damn, you might be right. Silly bytches and the men who echo them.

How is a northern European biracial gonna help the FBA/ADOS community maintain their rights and develop their human capital, and build generational wealth and keep it in the lineage in the United States? How?

 

[Uachet]

Look, trying to downplay or deny what happened in the past—suggesting that people like Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, or even my own step-grandfather who could pass for white were exaggerating or fabricating—is not helpful. These things happened. They were witnessed and even mentioned in well-known speeches. To pretend otherwise and label people as liars is misleading and dismissive of lived experiences.

That said, I can understand why some people made the choices they did. Many in our community did the same—including my step-grandfather, until the mid-1960s. For some, it offered a way to navigate an incredibly difficult and unjust system. It was a strategy for survival, a way to avoid the intense pressure and discrimination that Black Americans faced. These were tactics rooted in a broader system of power—divide and conquer—that have been used historically across the world: in Africa, the Americas, Australia, and beyond. It was effective, much like how occupying forces have sometimes managed to turn people against their own. It’s important to acknowledge that, while not everyone participated, some did go along with it—often out of necessity, not malice.

What happened in the past can’t simply be erased. Even today, there are individuals—though certainly not all—who distance themselves from their communities in visible ways, perhaps to signal alignment with the dominant power structure. In response to this history and ongoing reality, some Black Americans are now choosing a different path. Many are embracing the idea that we represent a distinct ethnicity with our own unique history, struggles, and identity. This means focusing on our specific challenges, even if it sometimes means placing less emphasis on the issues faced by other groups.

Some among us believe that we have the right to prioritize our own community and its needs—just as many other ethnicities have done. It’s not about exclusion, but about self-determination, and ensuring our voices and concerns are no longer overlooked.


Edit: I used chatgpt to clean it up, but I guess it is valid since it was used here alrady to talk against the past. Just making that note clear.

 

[Uachet]

Look, this attempt to obscure what happened in the past and act like people are lying—like Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, or even my own step-grandfather who could pass for white—is a waste of time. It happened. It was seen. It was even mentioned in a well-known speech. So to act like it didn’t happen, to call everyone liars, is absolutely disingenuous.


Now, I can understand why they did it. Just like some in our own community did it—even my step-grandfather, until the mid-60s. It was an easier life, a means of avoiding the heat that Black Americans were receiving. It was the white man’s way of maintaining power by using divide-and-conquer tactics. They used it on the continent of Africa, they used it wherever we are, and they used it on the natives here in the Americas and Australia. It worked, just like the Nazis were able to get the French to work against their own people. It doesn’t mean everyone did it, but it does mean that some went along with it.


What happened then cannot be erased. Even now, we have plenty—not all—who make sure their flags wave to let the power structure know they are not one of us. And now, some Black Americans are deciding we will do the same thing. We will accept that we are a wholly different ethnicity, with our own history, trials, and tribulations. This also means that we will focus on the issues our ethnicity faces, even if that focus leaves other ethnicities in the cold. Some of us believe we are under no obligation to consider any other group, and we reserve the right to focus only on ourselves—in a similar vein to what other ethnicities have done in the past.

edit: Here is the original, unsoftened version by me.

 

[CoryMack]

Your understanding of Malcolm X is as shallow as your core beliefs, and just as performative.

my understanding of Brother Malcolm is just where it needs to be. i don't have to do some deep dive into the man to read his words and understand what he meant. i don't deify him like some of you mistakenly do. he was just a man. a helluva man, but just a man nonetheless. the problem is those of you who proclaim to "understand" so much about the man, but when it comes time to put his words into action you nikkas suddenly become forgetful and become the biggest buckdancers around.

you wanna be a "pan africanist" go on ahead. just leave the rest of us the fukk out of it. too many of us have been down that road, and thank god we've awoken.

 

[CoryMack]

Are you calling all african folks c00ns ?

Surely not




there's no reasoning with the three of you . you got it

enjoy your tribal circle jerk and just know they'll always find a way to fraction us up. Today it's diaspora wars. Tomorrow it'll get more granular when they pit regional areas in the US against eachother .

did you see where i said, anywhere, that "all africans were c00ns." that's a disgusting, lying tactic that i'd expect from a crakkka. do me a favor my friend, and never quote me again. well it won't matter if you do you're going on ignore with the other disingenuous liars.

 

[Phantum]

This is why they shouldn't be taken seriously. He is inadvertently minimizing the violence of white supremacy, reducing Jim Crow to a costume drama, and pushing the false idea that Black suffering could be escaped through performance, which trivializes the real, shared brutality Black people faced. It is extremely insulting.

It really makes me sad that any black person would think that way. They can have fun in this thread though

 

[tuckgod]

Look, trying to downplay or deny what happened in the past—suggesting that people like Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, or even my own step-grandfather who could pass for white were exaggerating or fabricating—is not helpful. These things happened. They were witnessed and even mentioned in well-known speeches. To pretend otherwise and label people as liars is misleading and dismissive of lived experiences.

That said, I can understand why some people made the choices they did. Many in our community did the same—including my step-grandfather, until the mid-1960s. For some, it offered a way to navigate an incredibly difficult and unjust system. It was a strategy for survival, a way to avoid the intense pressure and discrimination that Black Americans faced. These were tactics rooted in a broader system of power—divide and conquer—that have been used historically across the world: in Africa, the Americas, Australia, and beyond. It was effective, much like how occupying forces have sometimes managed to turn people against their own. It’s important to acknowledge that, while not everyone participated, some did go along with it—often out of necessity, not malice.

What happened in the past can’t simply be erased. Even today, there are individuals—though certainly not all—who distance themselves from their communities in visible ways, perhaps to signal alignment with the dominant power structure. In response to this history and ongoing reality, some Black Americans are now choosing a different path. Many are embracing the idea that we represent a distinct ethnicity with our own unique history, struggles, and identity. This means focusing on our specific challenges, even if it sometimes means placing less emphasis on the issues faced by other groups.

Some among us believe that we have the right to prioritize our own community and its needs—just as many other ethnicities have done. It’s not about exclusion, but about self-determination, and ensuring our voices and concerns are no longer overlooked.


Edit: I used chatgpt to clean it up, but I guess it is valid since it was used here alrady to talk against the past. Just making that note clear.

These lying ass nikkas denying obvious truths for years, literally, is how we got here in the first place.

You lie constantly about simple shyt, there’s giant lies you’re really trying to cover.

Now everything is on front street.