Black is cool, but nationality is better

[Nemesis]

Im Nigerian but Ive always seen African American as a nationality.... to be honest nationality is somewhat of a false construct....

most modern countries in Africa are less than 60 years old, artificially drawn up by the colonialists ...

to most Africans, tribe >> nationality ......

Im Nigerian and my tribe is yoruba, I don't share the same ancestry as the ibo tribe for example, we don't share the same language, rulers, customs...etc , on a cultural level I have as much in common with an Ibo person as I do a Ghanian or African American....

However even though we are different we come together to form one nation..... The things that make me Nigerian are alien to my culture as a Yoruba person and I guess thats the same for all the other tribes....

This is why I feel you don't have to necessarily identify with your country........... African American >>>American

If you catch my drift

 

[BigMan]

Yes I do. Now answer my question. Are jamaicans not involved with the selection of their government officials? If people love black so much why is bleaching so rampant?

You vote for parties not the individual. Seaga and Manley were the leaders of the their respective parties so they became PMs
skin bleaching is prevalent due to white supremacy/colorism that exist in every melanated population in the world

I grew up in flatbush so I know exactly what you mean. Moved to NC then OH and was like

Soon as the opportunity presented itself, I moved to Atlanta. Truth be told, Atlanta is what convinced me to move to Africa. Living in a city run by my people is one thing, but living in a country run by us must be

I told myself once I move and get settled in, I'm gonna start a program to help other black people interested in moving to an African country. Let them know what's the best places to live, what customs/cultural things to be aware of, what economic opportunities there are, etc.

Really need to get an ancestry test done to see which part of the continent I'm from.

You Jamaican right? mostly you come from the Akan, Igbo, Yoruba, or Ewe areas

 

[Blackout]

I remember telling someone on this board to move to a black city and the first thing he said was "I don't wanna live in the hood."

Honestly I think a lot of these really don't want to live around black people. Literally all you gotta do is google "black communities in america" and you'll get a list of potential cities.

Thats what the white media does. It fools everybody into thinking that the hood is the only place black people are.

Mainstream rap is the main offender of this.

Our people need to unplug from that shyt.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

You vote for parties not the individual. Seaga and Manley were the leaders of the their respective parties so they became PMs
skin bleaching is prevalent due to white supremacy/colorism that exist in every melanated population in the world


You Jamaican right? mostly you come from the Akan, Igbo, Yoruba, or Ewe areas

Yeah I figured I'm more than likely of Nigerian descent but I still wanna get swabbed no homo

 

[LadySimone]

Blacks are so far behind economically they cannot be choosey.

The world doesn't see "Nigerian," they see nikkas. We have to get on our feet as a race before we can start dividng amongst our nationalities.

That's where I think you're wrong. People can clearly differentiate between blacks from others countries and natives.

 

[humble forever]

Blacks are so far behind economically they cannot be choosey.

The world doesn't see "Nigerian," they see nikkas. We have to get on our feet as a race before we can start dividng amongst our nationalities.

Well, people actually do distinguish between africans and "nikkas" aka african americans or black americans

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Im Nigerian but Ive always seen African American as a nationality.... to be honest nationality is somewhat of a false construct....

most modern countries in Africa are less than 60 years old, artificially drawn up by the colonialists ...

to most Africans, tribe >> nationality ......

Im Nigerian and my tribe is yoruba, I don't share the same ancestry as the ibo tribe for example, we don't share the same language, rulers, customs...etc , on a cultural level I have as much in common with an Ibo person as I do a Ghanian or African American....

However even though we are different we come together to form one nation..... The things that make me Nigerian are alien to my culture as a Yoruba person and I guess thats the same for all the other tribes....

This is why I feel you don't have to necessarily identify with your country........... African American >>>American

If you catch my drift

I gotta Nigerian friend and he pretty much told me the same thing. One of the things I told myself to be very wary of is to not bring Americanized viewpoints to Africa whenever I touch down there. I'm gonna try my hardest to leave that shyt in Babylon, but it's probably so ingrained in me I don't even realize it

 

[Blackout]

That's where I think you're wrong. People can clearly differentiate between blacks from others countries and natives.

Well, people actually do distinguish between africans and "nikkas" aka african americans or black americans

Im guessing she is talking about outsiders other than black.

When it comes to white people and such all they see is black people/nikkas they dont care what tribe or area your from.

 

[BigMan]

Yeah I figured I'm more than likely of Nigerian descent but I still wanna get swabbed no homo

i haven't got any tests done but i'm like 90% sure my ancestry is from modern day Ghana and Nigeria but who knows

 

[Nemesis]

I gotta Nigerian friend and he pretty much told me the same thing. One of the things I told myself to be very wary of is to not bring Americanized viewpoints to Africa whenever I touch down there. I'm gonna try my hardest to leave that shyt in Babylon, but it's probably so ingrained in me I don't even realize it

happens to the best of us my dude...

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Thats what the white media does. It fools everybody into thinking that the hood is the only place black people are.

Mainstream rap is the main offender of this.

Our people need to unplug from that shyt.

Which is why I haven't watched TV going on 4 years now. I don't watch cac news either. Once I unplugged myself from the Matrix I started feeling physically better about myself.

 

[BigMan]

correction: igbo and akan are the biggest ancestries in jamaica

 

[Ronnie Lott]

when I was younger, I always wanted to be Jamaican or from other West Indian Islands because I thought they were cool. But then I grew wiser and conscious and realize they themselves don't even love being black.

Black Americans and Africans ftw

 

[Ronnie Lott]

I wish black people weren't on this divide and conquer/willie lynch bullshyt. nikkaz look for any and every reason to separate themselves and not fukk with each other.

What's crazy is that white folks for the most part are on the same page and they stick to the same code. It doesn't matter if they are Russian, Irish, Czech, Italian or any type of American born caucasian.

They stick together especially when it comes to white supremacy. They all get on the same page.

 

[LadySimone]

I think a lot of coli brehs are confused about this. People seem to not know that Black primarily equals AA, meaning American slave descendant. It is our cultural/social identifier. A nationality placeholder so to speak

nikkas think all you have to do to be AA/black is simply be someone of African descent born In the USA.

Its an ethnicity like Jamaican,nigerian etc .We are the only major black group not tied to a nation/island outside of the united states

I totally agree with this.