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Son what
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That's my primary issue with it, while they are getting better living arrangements and conditions their culture and their roots will remain completely unknown. We stay within our culture because we are surrounded by it, but if we are raised down the road or across the county our whole identity is completely different. I mean if you have seen a thread or two of the #GrowingUpBlack hashtag really anywhere you can see how the majority of us pretty much grow up the same way with very and often eerily similar. I just recently found out via one of those DNA joints that I'm 55% Nigerian and all I want to do is look more and more into the culture and the country.
My entire DNA results are: 88% African (55% Nigerian, 11% West African, 6% Sierra Leonean, 13% Kenyan, & .9% Maasai), 8% European (3% Iberian, 1% Italian, & 4% Baltic), and 3% Asian (2% Central Asian & 1% Chinese/Vietnamese)
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SlaveVoyages
slavevoyages.org
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I also did one of the DNA tests via 23andMe.
No specific country forms a majority but I am overwhelmingly West African.
No specific country forms a majority but I am overwhelmingly West African.
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I’m 81% African, the majority of mine was Cameroon/Congo at 25%
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good listen:
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I was about to send this to my girl (not in no funny way lol we always have discussions about the dynamic of black women and black men relationships) but I couldn't help but realize that the host of the show is racially ambiguous looking woman, so i looked more into her background on IG (because thats what my girl would do lol) and even I couldn't help to see its a little weird seeing her have these conversations with these black women when she's not really the one that feel the same effects that these black women face in the dating seen, obviously because she's light skin, curly 3a type hair and racially ambiguous. Its great she gave these women a platform but she shouldn't make it seem like she can relate to them. Even her man is racially ambiguous looking Corbin Blue looking cat lol
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Eyes aside, to a degree that woman resembles my G.M. when she was younger. Lightskin, curly type 3 hair, etc. I don't see the ambiguity in this woman. Light skin aside her traditional west/central african looks are dominate. She just looks off black, but black nonetheless.
Now there are a ton privileges lightskin black women face, but a major disadvantage is that exclusion they face from darker individual's due to the disdain of the position they've been propped up on socially. Yeah it's ****** up, but yhey didn't do that. Brainwashing & Self-hate did that.
Yeah he may have an advantage over them, but not by much b/c she's still Black. 4eyes looks good and unless her personality is trash then her problems her aren't equal to the problems the other 2 will face romantically b/c honestly... Those 2 are eh.
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They just be flat out lying about our history to push agendas and people still wanna deny it and claim "oh that's a conspiracy!!".
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I feel we don’t give Jamie enough credit
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Upon further inspection, her dad is Indian so she's biracial. And besides her skin complexion I don't really see the africanoid features but two eyes tell two tales.
And personally I've never seen any disdain for light skin people in my personal life, maybe on the internet when they cast someone to play a role that should have been a dark skin person lol Ive seen light skin be revered in my personal life and family as well, which is unfortunate but its the mentality of our people. I never get where full black light skin people say that they faced exclusion... now biracial people yeah I can see it and thats obvious because you have a parent that are of a different race, you may lean towards one side or have dual allegiances, etc. I can see where they are coming from.
4eyes is fine too lol
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Interesting. Most West Indians have West African majorities. My largest is Nigerian at 37% (overall 84.3% African).
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You did.
Not once did I compare the invidivuals.
But see what you want to see.
Take the last word
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actually most black people in the Americas have West Indian origins.
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The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird is a 2013 novel by James McBride about a slave who unites with John Brown in Brown's abolitionist mission. The novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013 and received positive to mixed reviews from critics.
American drama miniseries based on the book of the same name. The series was created and executive produced by Ethan Hawke. Produced by Jason Blum, with Blumhouse Productions, it will premiere on August 9, 2020 on Showtime.
The memoirs of Henry Shackleford, a slave in Kansas during the Bleeding Kansas era, are discovered in a Delaware church. Henry, nicknamed "Little Onion" for eating a particularly rancid onion, accidentally encounters abolitionist John Brown in a tavern. Brown mistakes Henry for a girl and gives him a dress to wear; Shackleford wears a dress for much of the novel. The two join together, and Henry narrates his encounters with Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and the events at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The book is narrated in the first person through Henry.
"McBride introduces readers to Henry Shackleford by following genre conventions of the slave narrative. True to form, Shackleford opens the account by providing some of his life history, describing the enslaved community from which he emerged, and portraying the enslavers’ world in Kansas Territory. McBride, however, disrupts the familiar narrative in the first sentence – “I was born a colored man and don’t you forget it. But I lived as a colored woman for seventeen years.”[2] When an altercation results in the death of his father, Henry becomes Henrietta (nicknamed “Little Onion”) in order to survive as a fugitive. Rather than correct the mistaken gender identity, Henry embraces the confusion, explaining to his readers: “Truth is, lying comes natural to all Negros during slave time.”[3] Afraid, without kin, and a witness to his father’s brutal death, he chose life and followed John Brown’s army until opportunity permitted a clearer path to freedom."
James McBride’s Reimagining of John Brown and His Legacy - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Below you will find the third review in our Civil War fiction roundtable, from Hilary Green, an associate professor at the University of Alabama. Previous and subsequent reviews in the series are available by following the links in the guest editor’s introduction. The controversial figure of...
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interesting discussion. i'll admit, these are not the women who catch my eye at 1 AM Saturday night with multiple red cups in me
but these are absolutely the women who I would stop going out at 1 AM Saturday night for. the fact that it's tough for these educated, successful, gorgeous black ladies to just get a first date is eye opening. i just wanna love all of them.
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Meh. That's with most women as they got older. Reality hit and they were no longer desirable.
Best believe they went through a ho phase in their younger years and living for the moment not realizing with each passing year, their chances of finding a suitable mate was deminishing
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