Little help...thinking black people need to create our own title, not "black".

[GodinDaFlesh]

Real Africans do Real Things

 

[Still Benefited]

Why is this a step forward but looking into our history considered "a step backwards"....At least going back to learn your history I consider to be educating yourself.....renaming yourself symbolically as a collective or changing your slave name is a big waste of time if you not gon bother to change your mindstate along with it....We can revisit this idea once we chance our minds as a collective and start to work together to move forward....until then symbolic changing of names is bullshyt and a waste of time to make people really feel like they doing something imo....I think we have enough meaningless symbolic shyt going on right now.

Aint this the same idea of what African American was supposed to do

 

[Dzali OG]

Illinois ,Michigan and Maryland are the states that should be ours and known to the world that its our land , moving south might be the wrong idea

We're sun people, don't do too well in the cold...

 

[Dzali OG]

do you really think thats a realistic option

you cant have your own israel in another mans backyard. we'd have to go back to africa with secured resources and weapons to defend those resources.

More than likely. Imagine the espionage we would face if Florida and Georgia was ours.

 

[cylde21]

We're sun people, don't do too well in the cold...

that's a myth

 

[notPsychosiz]

We also need our Israel. A state down south should be given to us along with the Caribbean.

Israel wasn't given to anyone. It was already someone elses.
It was stolen systematically through violence and genocide.

If you think we should take something over, thats a conversation. But trust me, no one is about to 'give' us anything.
We weren't even given what they said we were to be given when emancipated. Thats where the '40 acres and a mule' quote comes from. They were supposed to give freed slaves a penance of land and a livestock equivilant to start them off.
Instead plantation owners started privatizing prisons. Then, by not giving the newly freed slaves any land or resources, the white men could employ them for next to nothing or imprison them when they stole, either way returning them to slavery.

And if the freed slaves somehow avoided either, the plantation owner's white wife would just yell rape and they'd kill them.

 

[god shamgod]

You mightve misinterpreted that scene breh breh. The word black/dark isn't negative. A white man wrote that dictionary and gave those terms negative connotations. Black soil is the most fertile, dark skin is the healthiest and strongest. Dark hair is the shiniest. If you look at alot of African cultures, black/dark had a lot of positive connotations.

Black cat = bad luck
Black magic = evil
Black plague = widespread disease /death
Blackballed = barred or rejected

etc,etc that's what I meant the word is negative

 

[↓R↑LYB]

The title is completely irrelevant IMO. What's good is a title if you're still 100% oppressed and controlled by another group.

 

[CinnaSlim]

Black cat = bad luck
Black magic = evil
Black plague = widespread disease /death
Blackballed = barred or rejected

etc,etc that's what I meant the word is negative

Only because cacs said so. That's what I mean.

 

[StretfordRed]

You mightve misinterpreted that scene breh breh. The word black/dark isn't negative. A white man wrote that dictionary and gave those terms negative connotations. Black soil is the most fertile, dark skin is the healthiest and strongest. Dark hair is the shiniest. If you look at alot of African cultures, black/dark had a lot of positive connotations.

And of course the one I never knew about until I was quite old was "in the black" as a financial term

 

[The Nigerian]

I like Melanoid or Melanated.

But Black is cool too.

 

[DATMAN$]

first it need to stop with labeling us as african american when we never been to africa if thats the case everybody in the world would be african americans because we all came from africa

 

[Amphibious]

Illinois ,Michigan and Maryland are the states that should be ours and known to the world that its our land , moving south might be the wrong idea

Nah.

 

[Mr Rager]

Interesting thought....

 

[Naijan]

Hue Americans..