I agree actually. I do think we should be more specific about which tribes played a part when talking about it.
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Has anyone explained why FBA's delineating is bad without bringing up Tariq yer?
Why are we delineating though?
We can establish that FBA is our tribe why also acknowledging that out ancestors are from the motherland.
It's not a bad thing for the most part. I wish it was done the way Jamacia and Brazil (more similar example) did it.Has anyone explained why FBA's delineating is bad without bringing up Tariq yer?
Your ancestors were awesome people. Shame that shyt never carried over to you. Oh well.
A list of Africans being terrible tethers.
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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?
4. never happened. In fact the only govts that actively called America out for their racist shyt was The USSR for political reasons and Fidel Castro who also provided protection to fleeing Black Panthers. You African negroes sat over there and watch us get abused an said NOTHING.
5. You wierdos in South Africa were still under apartheid wayyyyyyy into the late 80s early 90s. How you let crackas come to your land AS A MINORITY and run you when your the majority
The civil rights movement and subsequent legislation had already been done and signed back in the 60s. Another lie. You South Africans never inspired us to do shyt other then get a passport so we can dig in those beautiful women y'all got.
18. Bruh come on be for real
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I view delineating as focusing on our specific needs and issues before any other group. That gets lost with flat blackness where resources meant specifically for us go to everyone. When we did 99% of the work but get stuck with 10% of the benefits.
HimmyHendrix
Port Au Pawg Prime Minister / Black Queen Lover
of course not, especially when it’s practiced by everyone else.Has anyone explained why FBA's delineating is bad without bringing up Tariq yer?
truth they hate us, so delineation means our culture belonging to us and not the black race, and that creates cognitive dissonance that they’re aren’t comfortable with
As long as you can keep African Americans the ethnic group, separate from “Black” art, music, accomplishments etc, you can always claim those things as their own or try to directly connect yourself to them. which is why they claim hip hop creation or random celebrities being caribbean or african even though they’re not (Alicia Keys being jamaican, Usher being Haitian etc) or say Blues comes from Africa or our trends come from someplace else.
but the second you attach Black Americans to Black Arts, Music, Athletes etc, it turn them into culture vultures. Not identifying us as an ethnic group but as a default group of loss people means you don’t ever really have to compare yourself to us
You’d be surprised these people look at Beyoncé, Ali, Prince, MJ, Mike Tyson, J.Cole, Lebron, Will Smith etc as like Black people without an ethnic group, and just Black people who belong to the race but not really a people
That’s why you’ll get a heavy anti Black American person but they’ll be a crazy Beyoncé fan or Bron fan.
You start acknowledging that they belong to a. group and it makes them feel like shyt because their beliefs about us don’t match reality.
It’s why Beyoncé got so much push back for cowboy carter and embracing her American roots. they don’t want see us belong to anyone, just to the world like the rest of our culture.
can no longer call us culture-less or thugs or bums and also acknowledge that some of the people you admire the most and have made real impact in your life come from those group of culture less thugs.
Outside of a few specific geographic locations we're already pretty much separated. The vast majority of the diaspora including FBA's tend to stick to their own groups especially in Corporate America. That's why I don't get the vitriol for FBA's delineating. Nothing is really changing except giving ourselves a new name and taking pride in our lineage.
HimmyHendrix
Port Au Pawg Prime Minister / Black Queen Lover
after they already ran through the continent. they was supposed to kill them all and die behind itYou wierdos in South Africa were still under apartheid wayyyyyyy into the late 80s early 90s. How you let crackas come to your land AS A MINORITY and run you when your the majority
YaThreadFloppedB!
The Patron Saint of Threads
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b-b-but it doesnt make sense”these words, Young Tether, these… blurbs were the ones that hit me the hardest
The most educated. the most homeowners. In the belly of the beast at that. Yuh. When standardized tests in America came to be as way to keep Black Americans out of certain fields. When black mortgage loan applications are 2.5 times as likely to be denied as white applicants with similar observable borrower characteristics.
like how are we outperforming you🫵
…even while fighting against a prejudiced system literally designed to keep us from advancing.Then I traveled to Onitsha and Lagos and saw how
HimmyHendrix
Port Au Pawg Prime Minister / Black Queen Lover
NIGGGGAAAAAAAAA. Lagos was crazy for me. i got a home girl with a flat in Lekki.Then I traveled to Onitsha and Lagos and saw how
I could not believe my eyes with what I saw in Lagos
i’m thinking to myself these nigerians act like this abroad and this is how bad yall doing
the level of begging and panhandling was like i never seen. it was actually terrifying i felt so bad for them
and thats LAGOS. imagine the worst parts of the country.
deeply unserious people
Bunchy Carter
I'll Take The Money Over The Honey
Damn this thread was started yesterday, and there are 22 pages of people hating on FBA.
I though yall said FBA were Russian bots and only online, leave us alone and go be with your tribe.
I though yall said FBA were Russian bots and only online, leave us alone and go be with your tribe.
America talks a lot about it being a melting pot, but what is poignant is how their definition of race erased ethnic backgrounds for whom they deemed inferior.
I am a descendant of people that were enslaved, and I have realized this country will never pay what it owes. So fukk it, I take pride in what I have, and what I have is the knowledge of knowing that my existence is blessed. Hell yes I think ethnicities and genes affect traits, but that is a luxury we don’t get to explore. I love my African heritage but this 500 yer struggle has made this people my tribe. That’s why I never feel unsafe around my own. From Harlem to Bowen Homes, Chi to Detroit.
The struggle is relative to a persons situation, but I am proud of my heritage just like the Ibo and Yoruba and the countless others. And they are kin but the descendants are my tribe.
I am a descendant of people that were enslaved, and I have realized this country will never pay what it owes. So fukk it, I take pride in what I have, and what I have is the knowledge of knowing that my existence is blessed. Hell yes I think ethnicities and genes affect traits, but that is a luxury we don’t get to explore. I love my African heritage but this 500 yer struggle has made this people my tribe. That’s why I never feel unsafe around my own. From Harlem to Bowen Homes, Chi to Detroit.
The struggle is relative to a persons situation, but I am proud of my heritage just like the Ibo and Yoruba and the countless others. And they are kin but the descendants are my tribe.
Damn this is a perfect explanation but the other “tribes” wont see it that way.
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I think more should explain our angle like @JT-Money said. Regardless if others don’t understand or care. Tariq/Yevette really aren’t good figureheads for FBA/ADOS but the meaning behind them are needed.
Colonialism fukked the continent up but tribalism also played a part with the issues that Africa faces. If only the continent could unite. So because I feel that way I don’t agree nor am I the type of person to go around calling people tethers.
But FBA is the army rather yet the navy
Colonialism fukked the continent up but tribalism also played a part with the issues that Africa faces. If only the continent could unite. So because I feel that way I don’t agree nor am I the type of person to go around calling people tethers.
But FBA is the army rather yet the navy
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