Well the thing is, if Yvette and Tone get compromised tomorrow, we can keep on going.
The movement is in those of us that recognize that being American DOS is it's own ethnic group and justice claim.
@Stacker Pentecost been talking about this before them and people were going at her but she always had a strong NBA following.
This movement has been budding since Obama became president and people were saying, "Yeah he's Black, but he isn't Black like us." Those critics got silenced during his presidency because it was called divisive. A lot of Black folks hid Obama's bias against Native Black Americans.
In all honesty, most Black Americans intuitively think of themselves as something different than the rest of the diaspora.
There are a lot of Black Americans, that were native to the USA, that do not even like the term African American because they do not feel like they are African. It doesn't make sense to them. The shifting political terms that Black Americans have had was due to a cognitive dissonance and double consciousness.
Being an descendant of West Africa, born in the West, without any discernible African traits but instead have this creole culture of West African and European and American. Certain Black Americans have always tried to find the African in Black Americans instead of recognizing the ingenuity of Black Americans of creating their own unique creole culture.
Black Americans been called, negro, colored, Afro-American, Black, and African-American.
The American DOS movement was bound to happen with the internet, with the failure of Obama's presidency, the failure of Caribbean and African states post 60s revolution and the migration of foreign Blacks into the USA and the increasing wealth inequality.
When a contradiction occurs, which is Native Black Americans and Foreign Blacks being lumped socio-politically in the same group without any meaningful history together socio-politically and a clear socio-economic difference with in the collective Black population in the USA, there was bound to be a raise of ethnic and class consciousness amongst Native Black Americans.
The presence of Foreign Blacks is revealing who Native Black Americans are, it's molding a clear and distinct identity. Because most Black Americans never ever have come in contact with Africans and West Indians until recently. If you are not a Black American in NYC, Chicago, Miami, DC before 1980, you never came across foreign Blacks. Now they are here and their children are here and they are participating in Black American culture and mimicking Black Americanness to hide who they are and they keep coming.
Think of Black American popular culture right now. Barack Obama is foreign. Kamala Harris is foreign. Joy Reid is foreign. Drake is foreign. Rihanna is foreign. Cardi B is foreign. Nicki Minaj is foreign. Wale is foreign. Trevor Noah is foreign. Ella Mai is foreign. Idris Elba is foreign. Issa Rae is foreign. 21 Savage is foreign. Amanda Seales is foreign. The Weeknd is foreign. Daniel Kaluuya is foreign.
Foreign Blacks are now in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Charlotte. They are where the bulk of the native Black population is. The only way that Native Black Americans can deal with Black immigration and foreign Blackness is to make sure that they are not part of the Native Black American population socio-politically. They have to be kicked out and stand on their own merit and by their own deeds. They can't hide amongst Native Black Americans and speak for Native Black Americans yet somehow only advocate for their group through this ethnic blindness as if they are not different and that Native Black Americans have their own interests.
This was bound to happen. If Tone and Yvette and
@Stacker Pentecost did not point this contradiction out and how wrong it is, somebody else would.
This is a groundbreaking moment in Native Black American History, it is historic. NBA are starting to realize what makes them them. NBA are finally positively reconciling with slavery instead looking for Africanness, they are realizing their Americanness and the contribution and the originality that was given to their country. Ultimately, understanding that the USA truly belongs to Native Black Americans and there is nothing to be ashamed of recognizing that.