How long has everyone been “black”?

[murksiderock]

Black people in foreign nations know that they are black and proudly rep that blackness, by and large. From Cuba to Colombia to Mexico to DR to PR to Venezuela to Guatemala to Brazil to The Motherland and everywhere else...

Are there deniers and people ashamed of their blackness in these places, people who will shun their blackness? Of course, but there are plenty of born and bred Black Americans like this too. There's no way you're a grown Black man or woman who grew up here in the US and never met someone Black like us, who didn't enjoy their blackness...

Just as those people only represent a tiny minority if Black folk here, they aren't the majority of black folk internationally...

This isn't news, anyone who thinks black people in other countries don't rep their blackness is unlearned and ain't been around enough. This desire to further fragment who all can be black is wack, too...

We're damn near everywhere, and everywhere you find us you find the same overall Black pride you find with us here in America...

 

[tuckgod]

This site is a Black immigrant haven.

Threads like this will always be attacked.

Read the Twitter thread.

 

[tuckgod]

So true

 

[Fillerguy]

This is what happens when sm raises you

 

[Amo Husserl]

I grew up in the 90s.

Dudes from the islands would rep they island. Cats rom Africa would rep they nation. And American brehs repped they state and city. And everyone was fukking "black" people. There was no confusion. Everyone was exchanging music, smoking blunts, and chilling.

The 90s are gone. Distinctions were globally made before the 90s, you proved my point.
Everyone can be "black", it's the greatest common factor in the United States for the diaspora but those CRM benefits don't work the other way around outside of the United States. Distinctions have been made, let's be real. Stop acting obtuse all "black" people benefitted from ADOS/FBA work, ADOS/FBA blacks want to further distinguish themselves for specific benefit. We can't only all be "black" when it's time to exchange music, smoke blunts and chill.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Cats can't even objectively define 'Black', but are quick to tell you what it looks like using 'White Supremacist' criteria. If you don't agree, you're a c00n.

FOH.

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[Still Benefited]

Lmao how is the words of random people on Twitter more important or reflective of artists who millions of people in said country actually listen to? Do you think when Sizzla made that album Jamaicans were up in arms saying ‘We’re not black’ why call the album that

He has a point though,because twitter is more widely used and influential on peoples perceptions back then. But twitter is still a relatively small group of black people posting.


So if among that small group you have alot of people who hate black people or at least what they consider "akata" etc. Disgusing themseleves as black people,yet still preaching the same anti "akata" rhetoric. Dont you believe that should be noted?



This is important becsuse unfortunately twitter is being used to create narratives and cause real strife. Although twitter only reflects a small minority of black people.



But then again,maybe they just wildin

 

[bigde09]

It’s clear most of you don’t really interact with people in real life these diaspora threads and women threads on here prove that.

 

[skokiaan]

Dudes from the islands would rep they island. Cats rom Africa would rep they nation. And American brehs repped they state and city. And everyone was fukking "black" people. There was no confusion. Everyone was exchanging music, smoking blunts, rocking the culture, and chilling.

Well said but will still be ignored.

Imagine white Americans telling white Europeans they not white, they just Swedish European, Russian European etc but European Americans are the whites.

 

[RhodyRum]

Africans and Caribbeans never referred to themselves as "black people" until the mid-2010?



Who the fukk raised you niccas? Were yall actually raised around black people in a black community or did only turn pro-black when Trump and "ADOS" trolling against Africans arrived?

You have to be socially inept as shyt and never been anywhere near a "black" scene, event, political movement, community or anything all your life to even ponder this nonsense. At no point in my life have I EVER witnessed a Caribbean or African breh offended if you call him black. Quite the contrary. As someone posted earlier some of the most unapologetic music artists and records I ever listened to asserting messages for "black people" when I was a kid came from Caribbean artists and music. You have got to be kidding me. Imagine a rasta man afraid to call himself "black."



If anything it's you self-aggrandizing hashtag c00ns who so badly want to be "distinguished" from being "black" or "African" like others, and identified as "descendant of slaves" "foundational American" and other fake ass bourgeois bullshyt ain't no one got time for. Yall the only one I see who are so angry and insecure about having an identity that unites us. I don't see no one else making some big push to be identified as anything other than black people among all black people besides you "I'm proud to be an American" ass nikkas.

This is like the third thread today trying to incite hatred towards "black foreigners." I see we gonna do this nonsense all over again.

This forum as a whole is high key getting repetitious and boring. You can set your clock to the same 5 or 6 topics that 90% of the threads are gonna be about on a daily basis.

After a decade of posting here, it's getting more apparent to me on a daily basis I'm probably not making it to December 31 of this year as a Coli Cat. At this point this place is comfort food but only so many times one can eat mac'n cheese consecutively.

 

[Elim Garak]

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Black, African American, ADOS whatever.

I'm dark skinned and mostly of African descent anyway (88%). Any of the terms works for me. If you're the product of 2 "black" parents but on the lighter side, maybe the identity is trickier. Like "black" makes more sense than "African American" since you aren't particularly African??? Maybe?

 

[RhodyRum]

Don't adults get tired of being obtuse?

Well it's easier on the back than being acute

Spoiler

 

[Fill Collins]

Y'all know damn well who and who isn't Black, you wouldn't call Ayatollah Khomeini, Hugo Chavez, or Michael Imperioli Black

 

[Hey_zeus]

Converts. Blackish