Do Y'all Hear People Talking About "FBA" And "Tethers" In Real Life?

[2Quik4UHoes]

Yeah, I have friends that subscribe to this kinda shyt. But we’ve got a light hearted friendship so we crack jokes at one another over the shyt. One of them is starting to feel like Tariq is a con artist but he still fukk wit em.

It is what it is, as someone whose parents come straight from Africa to me it ain’t my place to tell you what your identity is especially in this scenario. I can have my own thoughts and opinions on that but it’s not for me to impose on others. That’s why while I disagree with many aspects of this newfound Black nativism it still doesn’t mean I have to engage it insofar as my attempting to shift the narrative towards something I agree with. Only the believers can decide whether or not they still believe.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Yeah, I have friends that subscribe to this kinda shyt. But we’ve got a light hearted friendship so we crack jokes at one another over the shyt. One of them is starting to feel like Tariq is a con artist but he still fukk wit em.

It is what it is, as someone whose parents come straight from Africa to me it ain’t my place to tell you what your identity is especially in this scenario. I can have my own thoughts and opinions on that but it’s not for me to impose on others. That’s why while I disagree with many aspects of this newfound Black nativism it still doesn’t mean I have to engage it insofar as my attempting to shift the narrative towards something I agree with. Only the believers can decide whether or not they still believe.

Part of the problem with FBA. Is black americans are expected to be culturally aloof dodo bird negros who dont zone in on the idea of ethnicity,lneage and culture that stems from that, that is specific to us. That version of black americans is the one non fbas have been used to. Thats why "fba" comes off as a group to you all.

Its the predominate culturally aloof american negro, that your used to........VS this "group" of black americans who are standing on culture. Which is a foreign concept to outside observers, so it takes on the form of this divergent "group"

Someone doesnt have to explicitly dstate FBA or ADOS, the sentiment is already out there. Simply not articulated as fba or ados specfically

but thats changing

 

[Devilinurear]

One time

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

The message is spreading.

All the democrat shills know about it right? They tried to silence it during the election, only referring to us as alphabet group and other slick shyt.

Y’all can pretend like it’s only online but you’d be fooling yourself.

 

[kn83]

I've never heard anyone say "FBA/ADOS" or "TETHER" outside of the Internet. I'm from Cameroon (came to America when I was 4) and I've been called an "African Booty Scratcha" a few times growing up in Southside Chicago by some ignorant Nikkas but that was the exception not the norm for me.

Most of my friends and girlfriends growing up were and are FBAs and other Black folks outside of my Nationality.

 

[null]

FBASS is gaining .

Ive heard an African say the hard er irl and another one say I'm not Black, I'm African

schawrzschild stupidity radius breached

 

[staticshock]

fukk no

Only goofies care about this shyt

 

[keond]

Never heard the name Tariq Nasheed or FBA outside of the internet. Im a be honest

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Never.

 

[big bun]

Never.

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

NOPE

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

Matter of fact i dont hear ppl talking about 95% of the shyt the coli talks about IRL

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Yall didn’t hear Ryan Coogler say FBA?

But honestly where outside are you having race relations discussions? Yall going to reparations town halls?

 

[Dameon Farrow]

No. But I don't run in circles that have time to get mired in it. Matter fact, pretty sure my Trump voting cousin would be familiar with it. He is big on Yahweh and that kinda talk(along with right wing support) seems to tie together in my observation.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Just because those terms aren’t common doesn’t mean the sentiment isn’t prevalent

THIS! Too many non-AfroAmericans think what's being relayed with terms such as "FBA" and "Tether" are new, when they are in fact just new terms or acronyms for SENTIMENTS THAT ALREADY/HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED!

FBA is no different from "African American" or "AfroAmerican", all 3 terms MEAN EXACTLY THE SAME THING. "FBA" and "ADOS" were/are responses to new waves of black immigrants (that didn't exist in the USA when Aframs gave themselves these terms of identification) blurring the ethnic "lines" by taking on these terms instead of soley identifying with THEIR ACTUAL GEOGRAPHIC ROOTS







"Tether" means exactly what is relayed when Aframs say, "yall came here (to the USA) on the backs of our peoples hard work" or "____came here and is riding our coattails"


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additional info to put into context why "AfroAmericans" started using "FBA" and "Tether"

2 jamaicans with different takes on ethnicity in an American context.

SECRETARY POWELL: Well, I said it that way because people say, well, how will you be able to be successful in my military career and in the other things I've done in life. And I said that I grew up in a very diverse environment, and because I am not that black as a physical matter -- I am as black as anybody whose skin could be 20 shades darker than mine -- I consider myself an African American, a black man, proud of it and proud to stand on the shoulders of those who went before me. But I know that because of my background and my upbringing, I'm probably more acceptable over the years to the white power structure that I was dealing with as I came up.


Because, you see, Jim Crow and discrimination is not history to me; it's my life. I was raised in the pre-civil rights period. I've been thrown out of places because I was just black enough not to be served. So I have no illusions about who I am or what I am. But as I go about my job, what I say to people is I'm the American Secretary of State; I'm also black. I don't say I'm the black American Secretary of State, because it implies, gee, is there a white one somewhere, you know? [Laughter.] No, I am the Secretary of State. You take me as you see me, a proud American representing his country, and by the way, I'm awfully proud to be black. And I want, as a black person, to be an example and an inspiration to not just other black youngsters coming along, but to all youngsters who may think that because of their background or where they came from or their origins, somehow they can't achieve their dream. In our society you can. And I'm an example of it, out of the South Bronx, immigrant parents; you know the story. And I was able to achieve because there were people who were willing to accept me for what I was, treat me right, and allow me to demonstrate my ability. And these were white people, black people. These were people superior to me, people who worked for me, who trusted me. And that's the message I've always tried to convey to young people.

Be Heard: An MTV Global Discussion With Colin Powell

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Some Blacks Insist: 'I'm Not African-American'

Joan Morgan, a writer born in Jamaica who moved to New York City as a girl, remembers the first time she publicly corrected someone about the term: at a book signing, when she was introduced as African-American and her family members in the front rows were appalled and hurt.

"That act of calling me African-American completely erased their history and the sacrifice and contributions it took to make me an author," said Morgan, a longtime U.S. citizen who calls herself Black-Caribbean American. (Some insist Black should be capitalized.)

She said people struggle with the fact that black people have multiple ethnicities because it challenges America's original black-white classifications. In her view, forcing everyone into a name meant for descendants of American slaves distorts the nature of the contributions of immigrants like her black countrymen Marcus Garvey and Claude McKay.

Morgan acknowledges that her homeland of Jamaica is populated by the descendants of African slaves. "But I am not African, and Africans are not African-American," she said.

'African American'? 'Black'? How To Identify Is Often A Touchy Question


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Question for the folks here. What's the difference from African American, FBA, and ADOS?

They essentially all mean the same thing: "Americans who descend from USA's, African slaves"

We've been using African American as group name since the 80s I think.

Actually, it's been used since the 1700s!

What's wrong with that name? It's the same shyt no?

Things got fuzzy after the Civil Right Act because of the bigger wave of black immigrants that weren't around when Aframs gave themselves the term "African American"

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the afroamerican identity vs outsiders claiming the term was a talking point by Afroamericans long before ADOS was a thing