The reason for the Sudanese genocide being anti-Black racism makes no sense to me. Sudanese Arabs look visibly Black.

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Just about every article I read about the genocide in Sudan cites Arab supremacy and anti-Blackness as the main reason why the RSF and the Janjaweed before them have been slaughtering Black people for decades. But, the thing that confuses me is that Sudanese Arabs generally look Black. Every picture I see of RSF fighters show guys that would be called the N word if they were in rural Alabama. Not sandnikka but straight up N word with the hard R. It makes no sense you see a similar situation with Boko Haram or Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killing people but they recognize themselves as Black people. Is it a Dominican "me no black papi" situation? Is it a mistranslation by Western media and they meant it to be tribalism/ethnic tension than racism?
 

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Does it matter the reason?
The only thing that really matters is that a genocide is occuring and getting attention to hopefully stop it right?
Focus on the actual important thing.
That's true. I'm just trying to make sense of it.
 

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Racial categories vary depending on the context. The way race is perceived in America is different in other parts of the world.

Have you heard about the controversy about the South African singer Tyla not considering herself black but colored? Or dark-skinned Dominicans not seeing themselves as black in the US? Or Africans sometimes seeing mixed and very light-skinned folks as white?

Same thing in Sudan. You can have darker skin and some stereotypical african features but still be racialized as arab rather than black in Sudan.
 

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Just about every article I read about the genocide in Sudan cites Arab supremacy and anti-Blackness as the main reason why the RSF and the Janjaweed before them have been slaughtering Black people for decades. But, the thing that confuses me is that Sudanese Arabs generally look Black. Every picture I see of RSF fighters show guys that would be called the N word if they were in rural Alabama. Not sandnikka but straight up N word with the hard R. It makes no sense you see a similar situation with Boko Haram or Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killing people but they recognize themselves as Black people. Is it a Dominican "me no black papi" situation? Is it a mistranslation by Western media and they meant it to be tribalism/ethnic tension than racism?
Its similar to the Jewish thing where their race is tied to lineage, not skin tone.


Race is a silly concept breh where your identity can be based in where you live, what you look like, who your oarents are, what job your ancestors did, what language you speak, or your skintone. people still hold on to the system because it's an excellent method for primitive resource accumulation and the perfect excuse to steal from others.

Let me stress the steal from thing, because often times they are killing people in order to take their land and resources. This happens literally everywhere you see racism playing out.
 

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Its similar to the Jewish thing where their race is tied to lineage, not skin tone.


Race is a silly concept breh where your identity can be based in where you live, what you look like, who your oarents are, what job your ancestors did, what language you speak, or your skintone. people still hold on to the system because it's an excellent method for primitive resource accumulation and the perfect excuse to steal from others.

Let me stress the steal from thing, because often times they are killing people in order to take their land and resources. This happens literally everywhere you see racism playing out.
This whole thing in Sudan just makes me sad. I've been hearing about the atrocities there since I was in elementary school but it never seems to stop. I try to make sense of it like the Palestine genocide which seems clear cut for the reasons but Sudan just seems like wanton destruction for the sake of chaos and stealing resources. This world is just tragic.
 

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Many Somalis are dark skin Blacks, but consider themselves Muslim first, and Arab because of their facial phenotype and hair texture. They are quick with the Jareer insult too.

A lot of Blacks who are mixed with anything run away from their Blackness. Ethiopians do it. Somalis do it. And Sudanese do it. Cape Verdeans do it. Domincans do it. And the list goes on and on.

They are fools.
 

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Just about every article I read about the genocide in Sudan cites Arab supremacy and anti-Blackness as the main reason why the RSF and the Janjaweed before them have been slaughtering Black people for decades. But, the thing that confuses me is that Sudanese Arabs generally look Black. Every picture I see of RSF fighters show guys that would be called the N word if they were in rural Alabama. Not sandnikka but straight up N word with the hard R. It makes no sense you see a similar situation with Boko Haram or Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killing people but they recognize themselves as Black people. Is it a Dominican "me no black papi" situation? Is it a mistranslation by Western media and they meant it to be tribalism/ethnic tension than racism?
1. The original Arabs were black so the premise doesn’t make much sense.

2. You’re applying western concepts of race to Africa. In western countries, you have race. In Africa you have ethnicity. The Sudan war is an ethnic war, not a race war.
 

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A large portion of people from that section of Africa dont view themselves as blacks but Arabs. Based off what I've seen online alot of Somalians/Sudanese/Ethiopians and Eritreans looks at Arabs/North Africans as brothers before they would look at a Nigerian or Cameroonian as a brother :manny: . But then again thats just the internet so hopefully im wrong.
 

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Same thing happening in in Sudan, happen in all of North Africa. Kill all the Blacks, then 100s years later claim they were never there and anyone that claims different is a hotep.

All the boxers who go to Dubai and call that clown "His Excellency", not knowing they funding a genocide :snoop:
 

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Racial categories vary depending on the context. The way race is perceived in America is different in other parts of the world.

Have you heard about the controversy about the South African singer Tyla not considering herself black but colored? Or dark-skinned Dominicans not seeing themselves as black in the US? Or Africans sometimes seeing mixed and very light-skinned folks as white?

Same thing in Sudan. You can have darker skin and some stereotypical african features but still be racialized as arab rather than black in Sudan.
They aren’t radicalized as Arab, they are actual Arabs.
 

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Its alot of tribes and ethnicities in Africa. Just Nigeria alone got over 400 languages....they might look the same, but that dont mean they are the same.

Thats why one of the biggest lies they tell about the African slave trade is "Africans sold Africans"......its like if they said Germany Invading France during WW2 was like Germany invading itself but nobody does that even though they are both white in skin color.

The genocide/war in Sudan is due to many things like ethnics groups, geo-political and resources.
 
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