Before FBA/ADOS was even a concept, I’ve seen people from various parts of Africa and the Caribbean insist, and in the strongest terms, that they weren’t “Black” (to make it clear that they weren’t one of us}, but were Jamaican or Haitian or whatever nationality they were. And these were real life discussions and debates going back decades,
you guys need exposure to the world.
in some parts of the world black people are not "black" they are just the norm, the archetype i.e. to them that is what people normally look like.
they are not othered based on a dominant section of their society. they don't lead with racial labels of themselves because they don't need to.
then you have those in mostly latin countries who suffer from a lack of education and local mythos and norms.
most of them probably think that reality has 3 (rather than 4) dimensions.
not internet shyt. How many times have we had to suffer through some arrogant foreigner telling us we have no “culture” etc.?
simple answer:
everyone has culture.
americans appear to have "no culture" because their culture is money focused and has already been exported to the world.
i.e. people are already familiar with it so it does not seem "different".
shut down international media and trade for the last 100 years and they would be saying something else.
FBA came about largely as a response to that, and to help fulfill a political necessity. So we thank you all for drawing attention to that need and showing us the way.
gringo antipathy to brehdom is not based on whether someone is ADOS/FBASS.
it is based on whether they are a derivative of african.
that is the substrate under all of these discussions.
if it was just about ADOS/FBASS then you might have a point.
as soon as the son of a jamaican is born in the united states he enters that battle whether he likes it or not.
nikka, what?
