“I am A Foundational Black American” - Ryan Coogler

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I mean there’s not a metric you’re leading us in. Education, Wealth, Influence, General Quality Of Life.

I mean how could you guys be better?
Which Black American country is this from? If we're talking about USA, a decent majority of this country is still white American, with a system devised by and set-up by whites primarily. That's the complaint from a lot of black Americans, isn't it? I'm looking at the declaration of independence and I'm not seeing any black signatures there.
 

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Which Black American country is this from? If we're talking about USA, a decent majority of this country is still white American, with a system devised by and set-up by whites primarily. That's the complaint from a lot of black Americans, isn't it? I'm looking at the declaration of independence and I'm not seeing any black signatures there.
That makes what you’re saying even worse. You actually control your countries and you’re still doing worse :laff:

America has never been a white country btw. Ever.
 

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If you are a black person in this country, you didn't sprout from the soil; you came from somewhere. Being too lazy or ignorant to find out where and then creating a term to distance yourself from unknown relatives is...weird. Mad africans come here, see people who have doppelgängers walking around in their very same villages back home, then have to listen to y'all goofy FBA cats talk about, "Nah, man, we been here fam." My nikka, if you are carrying a bag of apples through an orange grove and a couple fall out, are they oranges now?
Do you talk this same dumb shyt to Jamaicans, Nigerians, etc? If not, explain yourself or stfu.

There really isn’t an end-goal for Tariq’s followers if they succeed in cleaving African Americans from the African diaspora.

If they succeed, then what? They’re stuck in an Apartheid America led by white supremacist Presidents while African American population growth stalls and is rendered politically less significant?
:skip: We been stuck here with these klansmen, and got yall ungrateful ass over here too. Ain't nobody scared. And wtf was Mama Africa gon do for us? Sell us again? :mjlol:

Traore is the only real man I seen from the continent this century, argue with ya mammy. :coffee:
 

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Do you talk this same dumb shyt to Jamaicans, Nigerians, etc? If not, explain yourself or stfu.


:skip: We been stuck here with these klansmen, and got yall ungrateful ass over here too. Ain't nobody scared. And wtf was Mama Africa gon do for us? Sell us again? :mjlol:

Traore is the only real man I seen from the continent this century, argue with ya mammy. :coffee:
I just listed 30 things we’ve done for Africa and I could have done 100. And i did that without even adding the obvious one in getting them over here :dead:

such an ungrateful group of people.

170+ years of free advocacy and they repay nikkas by calling us lazy, uneducated and hateful :laff:
 

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Doesn't answer my question post but nice chatgpt list anyways

Your ancestors were awesome people. Shame that shyt never carried over to you. Oh well.

A list of Africans being terrible tethers. :sadcam:
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1. **Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah invited Black leaders** like Martin Luther King Jr. to celebrate African independence.
2. **Ghana offered citizenship** to Black Americans like W.E.B. Du Bois.
3. **Sekou Touré (Guinea)** gave **political asylum** to Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).
4. **African nations lobbied the UN** to shame U.S. racial segregation internationally.
5. **South African anti-apartheid struggle inspired** Black American activists to push harder for U.S. civil rights.
6. **Nigerian leaders supported Malcolm X** at the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
7. **Liberia served as an early “Back to Africa” refuge** for freed Black Americans in the 19th century.
8. **Ghana's "Year of Return"** encouraged Black Americans to reconnect and invest in Africa (2019).
9. **Gambia’s Roots Homecoming Festival** (inspired by Alex Haley’s *Roots*) celebrated diaspora unity.
10. **Mali offered land opportunities** to African Americans wanting to reconnect economically.
11. **Nelson Mandela** publicly thanked Black Americans for protesting apartheid and pushing U.S. sanctions.
12. **Pan-African Congresses** helped unite African and Black American intellectuals like W.E.B. Du Bois and George Padmore.
13. **Tanzania offered training and refuge** to Black Panthers in exile.
14. **African art and philosophy** shaped the Black Arts Movement in the U.S.
15. **The OAU helped fund** global anti-racism education campaigns that highlighted U.S. racial injustice.
16. **Senegal’s Gorée Island** memorialized the Middle Passage, educating visiting Black Americans on their ancestors' experiences.
17. **Nigeria’s FESTAC ’77 (Festival of Black Arts and Culture)** invited Black Americans to celebrate African diaspora creativity.
18. **African musicians inspired jazz, blues, and hip-hop** rhythms in Black American music.
19. **Ubuntu philosophy** influenced Black American community-building movements.
20. Nigeria established Diaspora Day (July 25th) to recognize and connect with the African diaspora, including Black Americans.

Chatgpt savage, yeah?
 

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Its plain selfishness.
:mjgrin:Oooh! Finally, some honesty!

adjective: selfish
  1. (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

How exactly are we lacking consideration for you by delineating? Why should we be concerned with anyone else's personal profit or pleasure?

Please be specific. :lupe:
 

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That makes what you’re saying even worse. You actually control your countries and you’re still doing worse :laff:

America has never been a white country btw. Ever.

The white man's interference is universal though. When your ancestors were given Liberia, they saw how bothersome the white man is. :manny:
Unless you're implying that it isn't due to the white man and that the problem is merely in being black. Because that is the end point of what you're saying. That blackness aka African origin in itself is inherent garbage that requires the white man's influence, by way of oppression or genetic intrusion, to alleviate these issues. That's a terrible claim to make if true. It sure sounds like you're trying to hint at this. :francis:
 

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Why are people getting so butthurt by this? :dahell:. He’s a Foundational black American 🇺🇸
Because of the association with Tariq and his merry band of weirdos. If he used "Black American" like some other celebs have done in the past (like Smokey Robinson), everyone would have shrugged or raised an eye-brow at most and moved on.
 

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Your ancestors were awesome people. Shame that shyt never carried over to you. Oh well.

A list of Africans being terrible tethers. :sadcam:
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1. **Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah invited Black leaders** like Martin Luther King Jr. to celebrate African independence.
2. **Ghana offered citizenship** to Black Americans like W.E.B. Du Bois.
3. **Sekou Touré (Guinea)** gave **political asylum** to Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).
4. **African nations lobbied the UN** to shame U.S. racial segregation internationally.
5. **South African anti-apartheid struggle inspired** Black American activists to push harder for U.S. civil rights.
6. **Nigerian leaders supported Malcolm X** at the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
7. **Liberia served as an early “Back to Africa” refuge** for freed Black Americans in the 19th century.
8. **Ghana's "Year of Return"** encouraged Black Americans to reconnect and invest in Africa (2019).
9. **Gambia’s Roots Homecoming Festival** (inspired by Alex Haley’s *Roots*) celebrated diaspora unity.
10. **Mali offered land opportunities** to African Americans wanting to reconnect economically.
11. **Nelson Mandela** publicly thanked Black Americans for protesting apartheid and pushing U.S. sanctions.
12. **Pan-African Congresses** helped unite African and Black American intellectuals like W.E.B. Du Bois and George Padmore.
13. **Tanzania offered training and refuge** to Black Panthers in exile.
14. **African art and philosophy** shaped the Black Arts Movement in the U.S.
15. **The OAU helped fund** global anti-racism education campaigns that highlighted U.S. racial injustice.
16. **Senegal’s Gorée Island** memorialized the Middle Passage, educating visiting Black Americans on their ancestors' experiences.
17. **Nigeria’s FESTAC ’77 (Festival of Black Arts and Culture)** invited Black Americans to celebrate African diaspora creativity.
18. **African musicians inspired jazz, blues, and hip-hop** rhythms in Black American music.
19. **Ubuntu philosophy** influenced Black American community-building movements.
20. Nigeria established Diaspora Day (July 25th) to recognize and connect with the African diaspora, including Black Americans.

Chatgpt savage, yeah?
majority of this list is hard cap or a nothing burger that does not help us :laff:

1. Celebrating your independence does nothing for us
2. Offering Citizenship without land is a nothing nurget
3. Legit
4. Is a lie.
5. Inspired us to push harder for civil rights when we were being oppressed for 300+ years? This is silly
6. X notoriously did not get support at that conference he said it himself
7. Indigenous Liberians sabotaged us.
8. Year Of Return, not paid for, not housed, is a tourist attraction to get money, no free land
9. Gambia’s festival is inspired by one of us and is about raising money for locals
10. Land opportunities is not free land
11. Thanking us for doing something is nice but also doesn’t help us in anyway
12. Those Pan Africanist conferences were started by Black Americans
13. Is legit
14. Is another lie, stop taking credit for our art
15. not direct help for us, that’s global* not for us
16. another tourist attraction
17. another tourist attraction
18. more cap
19. once again we had community before any “inspiration” from africa
20. Tourist attraction



Funny part about both our list. Ours is about actual change and investment from ONE ethnic group.

Even a prompt that included the entirety of Africa couldn’t come up with actual things to match the contributions of our one ethnic group and that is incredibly sad and shows how Africa has failed us.

Notice no money given. No gold. No help with infrastructure. Just hollow gestures.


NASTY!
 

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Coli nikkas:

What has Africa given back to us???
:damn:

Same Coli nikkas:

What can some broke ass Africans possibly do for us???
:damn:
 

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The white man's interference is universal though. When your ancestors were given Liberia, they saw how bothersome the white man is. :manny:
Unless you're implying that it isn't due to the white man and that the problem is merely in being black. Because that is the end point of what you're saying. That blackness aka African origin in itself is inherent garbage that requires the white man's influence, by way of oppression or genetic intrusion, to alleviate these issues. That's a terrible claim to make if true. It sure sounds like you're trying to hint at this. :francis:
Africans haven’t been able to contribute anything to world in 500
years at this point man. Idk what to tell you.
 

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:mjgrin:Oooh! Finally, some honesty!

adjective: selfish
  1. (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

How exactly are we lacking consideration for you by delineating? Why should we be concerned with anyone else's personal profit or pleasure?

Please be specific. :lupe:
They’re so used to one way advocacy that’s why. so much so that they think we actually owe them something at this point
 
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