String Bell's Sheisty Thoughts

[Ake1725]

most other africans I know just refer to yall as black americans. very few times do I hear Liberians saying African American

so we agree on this one

black folks here are closer to white americans culturally than west Africans anyways

no we are not

 

[Luke Cage]

I did an ancestry.com test. and apparently i am mostly african.

 

[Wildin]

 

[EBK String]

And what exactly "african" are you expecting to see here?! Smh

Society evolves, people modernize. White people don't do the same things they did in medieval times , yet they acknowledge it as their origins and celebrate it through demonstrations. When black people send their kids to schools under these curriculums your learning their origins

My ancestors were forced to cease practicing African customs and traditions. Not American. Laws were put into place to stop African cultural practices, not American. They separated kids from parents and began brainwashing them into celebrating their history and legacy while dismissing and being ashamed of our own. This point would make sense If we had a choice in the matter to not be "african" we didn't we were forced into a new kind of negro, now we here the result of thar process and Jim Crow saying "ain't nothing about me African" while doing all things European and watching Asians mexicans Puerto Ricans and Indians proudly celebrate themselves and what they were prior to being "American "

Trying to be some new king of nikka won't change our status as permanent underclass and believing that it will is selling a religious like fairytale narrative. You could call yourself the American pie mayonnaise patriots and it wouldn't change our position here in America 1 bit. Smh

We would be an underclass in Africa to. They don't see us as their brothers.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

I hope it made you feel better to get all that nonsense off.

Everybody borrowed from each other.

That’s what humans do when they interact, consciously or unconsciously.

That doesn’t make them them.

It’s what went along with that.

So the yam may be important to you and your tribe, but there is a story and tradition that ties you to that yam.

There’s nothing truly special about the yam in and of itself, but it’s special to you if you come from a culture where you were indoctrinated with the history of how the yam was vital to survival for a small group of “black” people at one point in time, and they’ve venerated it ever sense.

And that’s fine.

That’s how culture works.

But just because I have brown skin and we share some ancestral ties, the yam (I’m just using yam repeatedly to make my point, for you slow nikkas) isn’t magically going to do something for me without the culture surrounding it, no matter how much I try and fool myself.

Believe me, I’ve tried several times to trick myself into picking up some foreign customs in my journey to find myself, and in the process I realized I was losing myself trying to chase some shyt that isn’t my culture.

Most of you back to Africa nikkas don’t even understand the purpose of culture and keep trying to impart your bullshyt on someone else.

fukk outta here.

Nobody said anything about "back to africa" but again this exposes the underlining self hatred and the true intentions of those who criticize black power and Pan africanism. You all don't want to even consider getting away from your slave Master. You fear leaving his side and ending up in a rut because in your mind the white man is God to you and the only ones who can keep nikkas in order and keep things Civilized. You have no confidence you can do the shyt your dam self so much so you will endure an oppressive society who is currently giving you their ass to kiss all so you don't have to deal with building your own shyt. Smh.

Btw celebration of African history is not all about "back to africa " lol no more than the Puerto Rican day parade or st Patrick's day celebrations are a call to "go back to Puerto Rico " or "go back to Ireland " it's simply being proud of who you are and your ancestors, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES!!

 

[cornercommission2k12]

We would be an underclass in Africa to. They don't see us as their brothers.

1.1 billion Africans on the continent

Please tell me how you gathered the opinions of all of them so much so you can speak to the sentiment of all of them as if they are a monolith? What polls did you take? What was your course of research here?

Smh

 

[Consigliere]

Everyone should want to know where their ancestors and cultural heritage are from.

 

[tuckgod]

Nobody said anything about "back to africa" but again this exposes the underlining self hatred and the true intentions of those who criticize black power and Pan africanism. You all don't want to even consider getting away from your slave Master. You fear leaving his side and ending up in a rut because in your mind the white man is God to you and the only ones who can keep nikkas in order and keep things Civilized. You have no confidence you can do the shyt your dam self so much so you will endure an oppressive society who is currently giving you their ass to kiss all so you don't have to deal with building your own shyt. Smh.

Btw celebration of African history is not all about "back to africa " lol no more than the Puerto Rican day parade or st Patrick's day celebrations are a call to "go back to Puerto Rico " or "go back to Ireland " it's simply being proud of who you are and your ancestors, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES!!

I’m very proud of my ancestors.

Which is why I would never disrespect them by shunning their teachings because some bum on the internet is trying to get me to give up my life and move to a shanty town in Nigeria.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

No lies was said in the video

 

[Peak]

It's a strange term to place on people who have been part of the American fabric for 500 years.

 

[kingofnyc]

And what exactly "african" are you expecting to see here?! Smh

Society evolves, people modernize. White people don't do the same things they did in medieval times , yet they acknowledge it as their origins and celebrate it through demonstrations. When black people send their kids to schools under these curriculums your learning their origins

My ancestors were forced to cease practicing African customs and traditions. Not American. Laws were put into place to stop African cultural practices, not American. They separated kids from parents and began brainwashing them into celebrating their history and legacy while dismissing and being ashamed of our own. This point would make sense If we had a choice in the matter to not be "african" we didn't we were forced into a new kind of negro, now we here the result of thar process and Jim Crow saying "ain't nothing about me African" while doing all things European and watching Asians mexicans Puerto Ricans and Indians proudly celebrate themselves and what they were prior to being "American "

Trying to be some new king of nikka won't change our status as permanent underclass and believing that it will is selling a religious like fairytale narrative. You could call yourself the American pie mayonnaise patriots and it wouldn't change our position here in America 1 bit. Smh

what u mean by “doing all European things”
we created our own entity which essentially means no group of people on this planet is like us - and i’m proud of that
i don’t need some label to define me when i'm not them & they’re not me, especially a label that sold my ancestors to this new land

 

[96Blue]

I identify with their term Freedmen American, or Descendant Of Freedmen.

No one in my family is African and I have no connection to Africa other than blood, obviously.

 

[MyApps]

Isn't it impossible to be from 2 separate continents at the same time?

 

[Hungerpain]

Facts
It's a habit of saying it tho.
I use Black American as much as I can.

 

[Buddy]

A lot of groups are arguing this now. it's time to for them to coalesce and have a debate on who we really are. The "not African" part is established.

Are we Asiatic? Israelites? Indigenous? etc