Nobody is forcing you to join or even support
Worry about your own interests
I don't know why some of you feel the need to be a part of every fukking movement
If it's not for you keep it moving
But im Black first,AA second
Those who feel the same way can rock with me,the rest can eat a dikk
What does being Black first even mean?
Are we in the African Union? There Arab countries in the African Union. Where is our representative? We come from Africa. We one of the first Pan-African organizations in the modern era, the TransAfrica Forum, that assisted in the international effort to end apartheid in South Africa. The Free South African Movement was started by us. We told the American government don't work with the Apartheid South Africa government. You think any African government is gonna do that for us?
Did CARICOM ask you about how you feel about reparations they have been fighting for? Did we get a newsletter? They did they contact our representatives and say "Hey, lets make this reparations thing a global movement."
We even signed up to fight for Ethiopia in the war against Italy. Pressured the USA government to not assist Italy in anyway. We not even East African. Who signed up to go fight for us? Who put pressures on their governments for our behalf?
The only place where non-ADOS Black people have ran for office, have dictated policy for the majority of Black people that aren't their own is the USA. We had a half white Kenyan president that we supported like he was one of us.
We were Black first since the beginning. We made institutions that serve African people worldwide and we still gonna do it because that's been our role since slavery. We took that burden. We came from slaves with nobody's help. No Black countries did anything for us. Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Mexicans, Jamaicans, all of us came up by our power. There was no African brigade. There was no global war over slavery. We fought our own battles where we were at.
So when you say you are Black first, what does that mean in practice? Because every other Black country in this world is them first. The continent is African first. What government institutions or non-American institutions that you know of that serves everybody that's Black?
ADOS are the only Black people that actually did things that everybody gets to use - even non-Black people. You don't need to be American or even Black to go to an HBCU. We have the Urban League, that serves everybody. WEB Dubois made NAACP, he used the word colored specifically to not alienate people of color around the globe. That was before the internet. When Black Americans were being lynched and firebombed, he thought about every colored person in the world including his own people. NAACP serves everybody, even conducts international affairs work. That's been our history, making the world a better place for everyone since 1865, straight outta of slavery.
So define what Black first actually means because there is a lot of pretense, because Black Americans are the only group of Black people that actually made things that still stand today that serves the entire diaspora and colored people worldwide. Nobody can accuse us of not being Black first or even a person of color first because we got tangible receipts, everybody else got empty fukking words and shytty cliche platitudes and bullshyt personal anecdotes. They don't have no buildings that still stand. We put up buildings all over this country.
Check the history.
