BLACK HISTORY QUESTION???

[Dupac]

because i think we're a unique people with our own personality?

ok

 

[gns]

How can I put this...

U NIGGAZ R NOT THAT SPECIAL

Every other country that blacks were shipped to has a similar history of struggle and strife and dam near genocide as it pertains to black people.

Pigeon holing yourself into only appreciating and learning AA history leaves y'all ignorant to a lot of shit and understanding certain things and different people.

U already have threads of niggaz asking y can't AA & Africans get along.

Y would u try to segregate yourselves especially with the civil rights movement involving black people who weren't American?

Whether it's a month or the whole year, our history should be studied by adults and children alike because a great american civil rights leader, who wasn't even American stated :

If u don't know your past u r doomed to repeat it.

Another thing, when I arrived in this country I knew more American history than the high school seniors i attended school with and still had a detailed knowledge of my own.

That shit was not a good look.

 

[jono]

Newsflash America does not like you

And Africa doesn't know you.

That duality DuBois spoke of strikes again.

And u are assuming that off what?

The fact we have no connections to the people there that aren't superficial like all of us having similar skin tones.

Don't share a language, cultural norms, societal norms, religion etc. what makes the Igbo the Igbo, what makes the Bantu...Bantu and not Igbo.

nah, cuz blacks be ignorant as shit to african culture....

they don't know shit about it, be confused as fuck wearing dashiki's for black history month, but don't even know what region or country the shit they rocking comes from....not to mention if that's even where they descend from....africa big as fuck yo.......like fucking humongous....and black people just be trying to group an entire continent in their history without knowing shit about it..

which is insulting as fuck to the struggle of the black american in this country.....blacks went through slavery, were "freed" only to be persecuted, hunted, killed and suffered through generations of shit, yet still managed to make numerous contributions to this country...

there's so much rich history right here in america that blacks made for themselves....struggles they've persevered over..progress made in multiple fields....

we have our own strong history completely separate from whatever african ancestors we have, and we should embrace that instead of denying it....

2 different worlds

different struggles though some can be paralleled

different experiences

now days we are different peoples due to all the admixture even in the smallest percentages

Also "black" is a byword that was exclusively attributed to those of us in the USA that descend from the diaspora/slave trade that had our identity stripped from us.

Africans still have their ethnic tribal identity so therefore it makes no sense for them to lay that aside and take on a vague identity attributed to us lost ones in the Western Hemisphere. If I knew I was a Fulani/Hausa/Igbo/Fon/Ashanti/Wolof/Mandink/etc etc why would I lay that aside in exchange for being called a vague term such as

"black" or "African Amerikkkan", "negro", "colored"

At the end of the day... Igbo have their history

Yoruba have their history

blacks have our history

Keep in mind that Africa is the most diverse continent on the planet so there no sense in lumping us all in together with them. Black is our new tribal identity and we have our own history to take pride in.

That's the truth.

I still find out new things about Black America everyday. There are so many great stories, people, ideas that go overlooked.

shit's kinda disgusting, how so many would push the accomplishments of all those who struggled in this country aside to focus on an entire continent that wants nothing to do with the black american...

shit's kinda disgusting, how so many would push the accomplishments of all those who struggled in this country aside to focus on an entire continent that wants nothing to do with the black american...

How exactly would learning about Africa impede or put AA history to the side?

Who sez u have to cram all this knowledge into one month?

Here's an amazing trick u guys should try......open up a history book on a prolific, black, freedom fighter,, on March 1st. I bet chall can do it.

I don't think anyone is arguing that it would or is.

And we are talking about black history month....not all year round. Anyone with common sense can read any book at any time.

Ok why are you assu mm in that i personally have no connection to Africa and that african - american culture has no connection to africa

Who said I did? You personally can do whatever you want.

 

[700]

My history goes back further than the trans Atlantic slave trade

i guarantee yo history don't go back more than 60 years

 

[Kwan Dai]

I am a history buff period. I enjoy reading and researching the past. However, I do pay a bit more attention to the struggle of Blacks across the globe. While there are some unique aspects to the Black struggle in America there are many parallels and similarities to Black Culture in other countries not just Africa. But in the Caribbean, and South America. I say study it all, draw your own conclusions while, gaining knowledge of a vast culture.

 

[jono]

.

 

[FatterThanKat]

First you divide them, then you conquer them

 

[NothingButTheTruth]

First off, every month is black history month for me. And second, of course!!! Stop looking for something to divide us and embrace unity for a change.

Some of y'all are conditioned beyond repair.

 

[zombie]

it's called black history month not african american history month so it is correct to study the history of all black peoples not just african americans.

 

[700]

it's called black history month not african american history month so it is correct to study the history of all black peoples not just african americans.

I ain't tryin to study shit bout no black ass Haitian

fuck that

"Strickly 4 my Niggaz"

 

[StillFaggyAF]

First off, every month is black history month for me. And second, of course!!! Stop looking for something to divide us and embrace unity for a change.

Some of y'all are conditioned beyond repair.

British North America was one of the most effective New World colony when it came to conditioning African captives. The one drop rule prolly saved usthem from going full coon

 

[zombie]

it's called black history month not african american history month so it is correct to study the history of all black peoples not just african americans.

I ain't tryin to study shit bout no black ass Haitian

fuck that

"Strickly 4 my Niggaz"

Nigger don't you ever quote me again you are to stupid to talk too

 

[DarcSkies]

Unless you want to go into what tribes blacks came from and what regions and why certain tribes decided to sell off other tribes from Africa then it has little to do with the black American experience.

Africa is a very SMALL part of African-American history. It is simply the place our ancestors came from. Once they left Africa a whole new identity was formed. Like it or not black Americans have little to do with Africa.

Just ask Africans. They cant stand your black ass for the most part.

 

[mryounggun]

They are succeeding in stripping us of our African heritage. SMH.

 

[mryounggun]

Unless you want to go into what tribes blacks came from and what regions and why certain tribes decided to sell off other tribes from Africa then it has little to do with the black American experience.

Africa is a very SMALL part of African-American history. It is simply the place our ancestors came from. Once they left Africa a whole new identity was formed. Like it or not black Americans have little to do with Africa.

Just ask Africans. They cant stand your black ass for the most part.

Agreed. But Africa has a great deal to do with Black Americans.

 

[zombie]

African americans can be some of the biggest fools on the planet and this thread is proof of it.

 

[DarcSkies]

Unless you want to go into what tribes blacks came from and what regions and why certain tribes decided to sell off other tribes from Africa then it has little to do with the black American experience.

Africa is a very SMALL part of African-American history. It is simply the place our ancestors came from. Once they left Africa a whole new identity was formed. Like it or not black Americans have little to do with Africa.

Just ask Africans. They cant stand your black ass for the most part.

Agreed. But Africa has a great deal to do with Black Americans.

How so, other than it being where we were kidnapped from? That makes it relevant but lets not pretend it goes any deeper than "thats where we were kidnapped from...thats where Arab traders sold us after wars, etc."

 

[gns]

They are succeeding in stripping us of our African heritage. SMH.

And these niggaz is letting them

 

[BIGG WILL]

Like it or not black Americans have little to do with Africa.

Agreed. But Africa has a great deal to do with Black Americans.

Care to explain?

 

[taeboo]

The goal Carter Woodson had when he started black history week was to highlight black accomplishments here in America, but I don't see the issue with discussing African history too if people want to.

SN: Woodson picked the first week of Feb to celebrate negro history week because of Frederick Douglass's bday.