If you really wanna talk "cultural pride" then some of us are going to have to face hard truths. Like for instance...70% of Blacks in America have a "niger-kordofanian" background. Thats a fact.
but no one wants to embrace this
Instead we focus on what the whiteman is focused on...Egypt.
Oh how we love talking about Egypt aka Kemet....we tip ride Isis and Horus. We see Tupac with his mom in the form of Nefertiti tatted on his body. U see Black Americans rocking "the ankh' like its regular jewlery. We have conversations about how the building of the pyramids is such a mystery. Oh how we love saying Egypt was Black. We stuck on Egypt. But most Black Americans arent rooted in the upper eastern part of Africa. And when slavery came...Egypt was occupied by Muslims so whats with all this Egypt dikk riding? Why we dont talk about Angola ot Tanzania?
You know what u dont hear? You dont hear Blacks in America talking about investing in real estate in Mozambique even tho Real Estate is high quality over there this very second. Ask a Black person what they think of the king of Swaziland having crowds of virgins from all over gathering around with t*ts hanging out, adult women and teens all trying to win his favor to be his wife...Most these Black folks dont know shyt about that. If the whiteman aint focused on it...neither are we. Whiteman was focused on South Africa in the late 80's/early 90's now all of a sudden the conscuous community is focused on South Africa. And of course who soon followed? The conscious rappers of the time....KRS, Public Enemy...oh how they were name dropping South Africa when the whiteman had his eyes on it.....who in hip hop is screaming south Africa now?
Do u wanna have a real conversation where we aint talking just for daps? Cuz I'm about to go there...
You speak of our lack of cultural pride......Well lets be realistic .......we dont really wanna say that this is us.....
Admit it...u know Blacks dont wanna embrace this....We act like we do openly.... we dont say it out loud but Blacks are shamed of having this as our history.....Why? Because its rooted in the false impression that the whiteman actually civilized us from being primitive and gave us a better life in America taking us out of Africa by force.
Again majority of Blacks in America have a "niger-kordofanian" background....But we'll embrace Egypt before we embrace what we really are. We say "well Egypt is in Africa so thats us" but technically, according to the bloodline, it aint us....we dont wanna embrace that "bushmen" image. Keep it a buck. I'm half Honduran so I have no choice but to embrace it but my fellow Black Americans subconsciously aint embracing it.
U wanna talk cultural pride? Da Lench Mob and X Clan at one point tried to push the "bushman" image on the youth but it never caught on....Even MJ in the beginning of the "Black or White" video was pushing the "bushmen" image on us.......Instead we embraced being "Americanized" baseball hats, shirts with name brand logos and expensive sneakers. As Black Americans we embraced Fubu and Rockawear. Jordans and any other Black athlete with a shoe. The snowman T shirst was negative but it was a "hood thing" that spoke to Black folks in the ghetto. And then there is Jazz, Rock N Roll, R&B and Hip Hop. Yes our ancestrial culture was taken from us but in the midst of that it created The Black American...We have our own culture. And IMO I say its a culture that is still developing.
Well stated.
The FBI didn't redact the names of spies and informants on there files. The main finger pointing has come from Elaine Brown who's has her own credibility issues within the party.
