Bunch of fukking losers in here crying about nothing
Obviously, time is on your side, since you've been doing it for a longer period of time. Just as Afro-brazilians have had a head start over African Americans soccer wise, but if soccer is popularised in the USA, it"ll take time but eventually players who can compete at a high level against Brazilians will emerge.and when do you foresee this happening
the type of flair and styles of gameplay Black americans have is cultural, and not only that it varies by geographical region. Brehs from Cali hoop different than brehs from the midwest, midwest brehs hoop different than brehs from the east coast, and brehs from the north atlantic hoop different than brehs from the mid atlantic and south.
and even within all those regions play styles differ from city to city.
it's cultural to us in more than one way, there's levels to this shyt and I don't think you cats understand
if you think some kids starting to hoop in the street anywhere on the globe can even come close to approximating what we do, at the level we've done it, especially in the context of how long we've done it you're delusional
I see we talking about pele, so obligatory story: My big brother is bff with an afro mexican that used to have a band. S/o to Cameradas on the east side, i think they closed. Anyway, one night, we come through and they got a afro latin singer, a female. As is my duty, bc im in the fam, i chat her up, tho her English is bad. Come to find out, she's one of pele's many daughters! Not even being funny, i had no idea who he was, but i tipped my hat when i found out.
No, i hear you, we kin. What im trying to convey, possibly poorly, is that i believe ados exist in a very special place of 'system- breakers'.
Bc our constaints were so tight. We couldnt even drum.Thats basic African diaspora 101 shyt. What we must have gone through, to be forced, under duress, to invent bodily percussion. "Hambone" (search the coli or google), taught to me by my mother, who was taught by her mother. All proof of our ingenuity in contuing the percussion of the homeland.
So we broke everything. We made fiddles make new notes, we made drums and harmonicas do things they were never intended to do.
Understand, i mean no disrespect to Africans. Thank you mama Africa for birthing us all. But we ended up over here and took seeds and made them into trees, from a position of nothing. Coal turns to diamonds of they undergo enough stress, no?
System-breakers.
shyt is mythical.
Exactly. fukking losers sad white mommy and daddy is focusing on exploiting another group of negroes. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.Bunch of fukking losers in here crying about nothing
nikka what the fukk are you crying about? Did you type this because some jews decided to open a NBA league in Africa?
False this African league will be primarily for native born Africans. With the goal being talent from Africa and play in the NBA. Goal is to get more Giannis
Exactly. The fukk wrong with these nikkas? Is it Tariq brainwashing?
But it's not just the genes tho.
Physicality is part of it, sure, but something ive learned about us ados, esp with all the music history i learn here, is that, due to our position in this country, we've had to cultivate skills that the rest of the diaspora didn't. Creativity is the major one. We dont just play music, we invent a whole new music theory. We didn't just play basketball like the jews who played in the early professional leagues, we started breaking ankles and dunking on nikkas.
Which leads me to my second point. Bc we existed as a minority in a white country, degraded and fukked up, we took the kernel African spiritual concept and made it our armor. To what do i refer, you ask? Swag. Its well known to sociologists, anthropologists, and historians that the idea of "cool" originated out of the jazz age.
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African-Americans invented cool as a stylistic defiance against racism during World War II. This is simply well-documented social, historical, and linguistic fact. To be cool in the 1940s referred to the ability to be relaxed in one's own style in any environment, an act of courage and mental strength for any Black person during the Jim Crow era. Whether meaning high praise ("Cool!"), vetting someone to others ("she's cool"), or referring to a relaxed state of mind ("I'm cool, man") -- our modern usages all began in jazz culture...
Joel Dinerstein is the author of Jazz: A Quick Immersion (2020), The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (U. Chicago 2017), American Cool (2014), Swinging the Machine (2003), and Coach: A Story of NY Cool (2016). I am a cultural historian and English professor at Tulane University working on the history of cool, popular culture, American music, and race and ethnicity. ... My TED Talk on cool is called Why Cool Matters.
African-Americans invented cool — Joel Dinerstein
From Africa to us, just read half of pg 1, really:
An Aesthetic of the Cool on JSTOR
As im sure africans would agree, we different.
Exactly
