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Originally Posted by SneakerPimp2k8
there is a difference...same difference as Obama vs. Martin Luther King...these are men from two completely different places and lots of people think all blacks are the same. Im Nigerian and I don't feel we are the same as american blacks/southerners.
Originally Posted by Jumpshot
Culturally yes.
And what exactly makes you different?Originally Posted by SneakerPimp2k8
there is a difference...same difference as Obama vs. Martin Luther King...these are men from two completely different places and lots of people think all blacks are the same. Im Nigerian and I don't feel we are the same as american blacks/southerners.
Originally Posted by enlightenedespot
The bottom line is this, If another race wakes up tomorrow and says " We're gonna wipe out every Black person" you better believe they comin for all of us
EXACTLY what i was gonna say...at the end of the day...we're all black....Originally Posted by jefffort5
Originally Posted by enlightenedespot
The bottom line is this, If another race wakes up tomorrow and says " We're gonna wipe out every Black person" you better believe they comin for all of us
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There's no such thing as "race". "Race" is simply a social construct based on certain characteristics. It just doesn't exist.Originally Posted by Jumpshot
EXACTLY what i was gonna say...at the end of the day...we're all black....Originally Posted by jefffort5
Originally Posted by enlightenedespot
The bottom line is this, If another race wakes up tomorrow and says " We're gonna wipe out every Black person" you better believe they comin for all of us
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and quick question..is African AMERICAN..really a race? or maybe i worded it wrong..i hope sumbody gets what im trying to say
Not true.Originally Posted by FlyJr22
yes there is, very big cultural differences, only thing thing we have in common is ancenstry
Originally Posted by MrMoneyInDaBank
Originally Posted by SneakerPimp2k8
there is a difference...same difference as Obama vs. Martin Luther King...these are men from two completely different places and lots of people think all blacks are the same. Im Nigerian and I don't feel we are the same as american blacks/southerners.
Your getting caught up with the differences that stem from location. Of course people who spent hundreds of years in a desert climate are going to develop different customs and ways of life than someone who lives on a tropical island.
See, the white man dun got you programmed, BRUUTHA. You think this is home?Originally Posted by HueyP in LouieV
Now this is a good discussion.
I'm go in when I get back home.
co-sign...but i dont think ppl will ever unify..ever...and im just being real..but u can open other ppls eyes...Originally Posted by HueyP in LouieV
And that foundation is whats most important.
The things at the top were mostly placed there by our slave masters/colonizers.
We need to understand and unify that foundation and rebuild the upper layers through a progressive and unified black identity.
Originally Posted by OGbobbyjohnson773
See, the white man dun got you programmed, BRUUTHA. You think this is home?Originally Posted by HueyP in LouieV
Now this is a good discussion.
I'm go in when I get back home.
QFTOriginally Posted by HueyP in LouieV
Not true.Originally Posted by FlyJr22
yes there is, very big cultural differences, only thing thing we have in common is ancenstry
For starters...play some drums and see how West Indians, Black Americans and Black Africans react.
vjetti wrote:
I'm indian, but I definitely have noticed through college and work, there seem to be more hard-working, successful ppl that have an African sounding name and originate from that continent than African Americans. In my years in investment banking, there were probably four times as many Africans than African Americans.
This is due to the castration of the Black American family structure. During slavery it was very common to take men away from their wives andchildren and move them around a lot. This in turn made some son's grow up thinking they didn't need their father or need to be in the lives of theirchildren. Their daughters would grow up thinking they wouldn't need a man and that they can raise their children on their own. This leads to thedestruction of the Black American family.
You cannot compare Black Americans and Africans in this sense. Africans are an established people with strong familial morals like any European or Asianpeoples.
Its amazing to see strong Black American families today and throughout history with a patriarch and matriarch intact. Teaching their children the importance ofschooling and other things.
Another factor is poverty. Can't worry about school if you can't eat. Africans that come over have to be in a somewhat fortunate situation to make itover.
Of course there are instances. Like an uneducated single mother that understands the importance of education and forces it on her children. But for the mostpart these are cycles that are almost impossible to break.
I would like to contribute that to genetics, most people who are African/African Descent have natural "Riddim"Originally Posted by SlimK4
QFTOriginally Posted by HueyP in LouieV
Not true.Originally Posted by FlyJr22
yes there is, very big cultural differences, only thing thing we have in common is ancenstry
For starters...play some drums and see how West Indians, Black Americans and Black Africans react.
I guess the only people that see that are the folks that experience both sides