It’s pure projection, the same kind of tactics and behavior invented by the same cacs he worships.Dumbest post in the thread
you can argue almost everything is a branch of white supremacy
black americans not establishing or claiming 400 years of hard work and excellence and instead of prioritizing a place they’ve never been to where some* of the people there descend from those who sold them is 100% white supremacist tactics.
Pannies see what they want to see. same way there’s a 20 second clip of Africans, Indians and Chinese ancestors dancing in Sinners and they’ll pretend the movie was centered in African spirituality.
I actually don't really understand what you mean here
It's everyone outside of him fighting to use him for dueling agendas. It's a very stupid time in humanity. The internet is the worst thing that happened to a lot of people. It's not like edited news. Everyone can cook up and spin narratives to fit their shyt and fools will fall for it. I have no issues with anything he has said. Some people are pretending he is moving away from one thing to another. No such thing has happened just natural growth.
Funny how the acronym crew walked right past this post.
Anyway, nothing wrong with him reaching that conclusion. I did the same around 15-20 years ago. I actually no lie made a promise to myself and my ancestors that I’d be well-versed in understanding our history, beliefs, culture, etc. because I saw firsthand what happened when we overlooked ourselves.
Years ago most of these kind of conversations were limited to what we now know as the ‘conscious community’. Whether folks want to admit it or not, there was A LOT of self-loathing among African Americans in these circles around not feeling ‘“African enough” within our own culture and in-turn immersing in other cultures of the continent and diaspora as a way to counter that sentiment, which IMO was the wrong approach and a misinterpretation of Pan-Africanism altogether (I could go a whole lot deeper into this but I’d really gotta sit and write about it.).
Long story short, immersing myself in the history of our culture here made me a better Pan-African. The deeper you go in them cotton fields, rice fields, tobacco fields, etc. The more you engage The Blues, the juke joints, etc. you literally can’t deny the African within us.
It looks Ryan is reaching the same understanding…from a true Pan-African perspective.
That’s not the type of time he’s on. He was describing how he partially arrived at conceptualizing Sinners - and it involved a crazy 24 hours in which he witnessed a cotton field for the first time. Coogler is a proud black american man, but he has pan-african sensibilities. In this very same interview he lists pan-african authors as some of his research points for the movie. In the movie he makes a direct connection to Africa (this is without mentioning how affectionately he speaks of Africa often)
In this interview he - again - makes the direct connection from Africa to Blues in the deep American South:
People are using out of context excerpts and quotes to project onto him
no, because they no the relationship is already futile and they know africans are already tribal WITH each other, their neighbors. Why would they seriously embrace people who have been gone for hundreds of years.
Slavery according to white teachings is just a bunch of black people picking cotton. When in reality slavery was the emulation of an entire workforce. If there’s a job, there’s a slave doing it for free.
Yeah fair enough. There are plenty of anecdotes of Africans embracing Black Americans who visit, but that is not entirely the same as an African nation signing up for the plight of Black Americans in some manner - politically or economically - which is what I'd really like to see. I don't even know what their teaching of Black American history is like in those countries, if it happens at all. They got their own shyt going on and things to learn.
It’s no different than today, most in the workforce work menial jobs but there are people who have specialized positions
Bro before tariq and fba-THATS ALL IT WAS. Thats the actual real gripe. Tariq is just a smokescreen
