Let's discuss why Black folk run away from being apart of Africa

[Shizlansky]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

And a lot of culture in Africa needs to be gone. Don't act like africans is superior to us here.

You slick dissing yourself and biggin them up on some superior shit

 

[jetlifebih]

Africans and African Americans have that long lost sibling relationship where one sibling moves away at a young age, so by blood your related, but you don't know this person from a can of paint

 

[Ajackson17]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

And a lot of culture in Africa needs to be gone. Don't act like africans is superior to us here.

You slick dissing yourself and biggin them up on some superior shit

Some of needs to go as well. The truth is harsh and unkind to the emotions of man. Go back to the family structure, control your resources, rethink the ideologies that was given to us and hammer down on us, treat our people with respect, and go back to the basics.

Africans and diaspora Africans assimilated a lot of European ideologies that is literally destroying us and letting folks that do not have your best interest with extreme critique of their words and actions needs to be adopted by all of us.

 

[Arya Tsaddiq]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

This gave me an idea for a thread

 

[ThaNubianGod]

The blunt truth is many niggas are shamed of their African roots and the negative perception crackers depicted still has an effect. Them African booty scratcher jokes came from somewhere. Shit is sad cuz black folk don't know their culture

I don't buy this at all. The real truth is that we were born in America, and been here for generations. You don't see White people talking about moving back to Ireland, Germany, etc. You're not seeing Asians going back to Japan, China.

What reason is there for someone to uproot their family structure and move to a foreign country? Where specifically in Africa is it better for us? Because i'm not seeing this.

Every group u name is accepting and willing participate in/with they culture tho ...but not niggas

Again, what do you base this on? I hear these assertions always with zero examples. I'm also tired of people sideways about Black Americans like we "don't love ourselves", "have a slave mentality", or "reject our culture". It's all BS.

 

[yellowtapesport]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

This gave me an idea for a thread

Wait, aren't u already a TS?

 

[Arya Tsaddiq]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

This gave me an idea for a thread

Wait, aren't u already a TS?

Don't mess this up for me

 

[CapitalB]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

iv been sayin this forever..

but niggas dont wanna hear me tho..

 

[semi-auto-mato]

some of y'all really need a better understanding of the word culture. if u say African culture that is way too broad. there are over 2000 languages spoken on the CONTINENT of Africa. that means for most of us we can't even communicate effectively. we would have a hard time learning customs, traditions, laws, and beliefs. we would have to be educated all over again. now if there are over 2000 languages spoken that means there are many many many different cultures. communication in some form is the key to a culture. for humans language is the way we teach and pass down our culture. which one of them languages should i learn? u cannot say go back to Africa to get in touch with ur roots. you have to be able to point out a country at the very least. we could then go to that country but then we gotta assimilate into a subculture there...smh. u see where im going with this? that shit aint easy at all.

i get it its cool to scream Africa. those of shaking our heads don't look cool at all. ashamed of our roots and all that good shit but cant no one tells us where the hell we going. y'all just saying go back to Africa lmao.

hey man if y'all do some Liberia shit come holla at me. i will visit.

Ain't no one saying go back, but build connections back even if it's one country such as Ghana and later Nigeria, then Benin and so on. Everything is a process.

i have no idea what u mean by build connections. going back in hopes of finding ur roots is different from building a connection. if u are saying blacks in America should consider building foreign relations with African nations for the purpose of economics. that is one thing. if u saying we need to start in Ghana then go to Nigeria then ethopia to learn about our roots that is completely different. you gotta explain ur plan a whole lot better

 

[semi-auto-mato]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

sadly my dude its already forgotten. that is why u cant point to a country and a city and stay this is where i come from. its not our fault.

 

[Ajackson17]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

sadly my dude its already forgotten. that is why u cant point to a country and a city and stay this is where i come from. its not our fault.

No, isn't. Why we love beats, because our ancestors love the drums, why we create soul food, look at west african cuisine. From our dances, to our dialect, our speech, our movements and etc. We need to see where it descends from.

I can get deeper with this topic.

 

[semi-auto-mato]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

sadly my dude its already forgotten. that is why u cant point to a country and a city and stay this is where i come from. its not our fault.

No, isn't. Why we love beats, because our ancestors love the drums, why we create soul food, look at west african cuisine. From our dances, to our dialect, our speech, our movements and etc. We need to see where it descends from.

I can get deeper with this topic.

music is universal. every culture has music. soul food is ours. things like okra might grow in west Africa and slaves knew how to grow that but they also added things once they got here and created soul food in the south. niggas not arguing that some shit didn't come from Africa. the argument is Africa is a Continent. you have to be able to narrow shit down. you are looking for a needle in a haystack if u think u can go to Africa and connect to ur roots because ur family loves okra and that shit is grown in West Africa (again a bunch of countries who have different cultures).

 

[Ajackson17]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

sadly my dude its already forgotten. that is why u cant point to a country and a city and stay this is where i come from. its not our fault.

No, isn't. Why we love beats, because our ancestors love the drums, why we create soul food, look at west african cuisine. From our dances, to our dialect, our speech, our movements and etc. We need to see where it descends from.

I can get deeper with this topic.

music is universal. every culture has music. soul food is ours. things like okra might grow in west Africa and slaves knew how to grow that but they also added things once they got here and created soul food in the south. niggas not arguing that some shit didn't come from Africa. the argument is Africa is a Continent. you have to be able to narrow shit down. you are looking for a needle in a haystack if u think u can go to Africa and connect to ur roots because ur family loves okra and that shit is grown in West Africa (again a bunch of countries who have different cultures).

If you read my opening statement I already stated we come from west coastal Africa and central Africa. That has already been stated. But some of the things we have and intermingled from Europeans are few things that are good and most isn't good.

 

[semi-auto-mato]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

sadly my dude its already forgotten. that is why u cant point to a country and a city and stay this is where i come from. its not our fault.

No, isn't. Why we love beats, because our ancestors love the drums, why we create soul food, look at west african cuisine. From our dances, to our dialect, our speech, our movements and etc. We need to see where it descends from.

I can get deeper with this topic.

music is universal. every culture has music. soul food is ours. things like okra might grow in west Africa and slaves knew how to grow that but they also added things once they got here and created soul food in the south. niggas not arguing that some shit didn't come from Africa. the argument is Africa is a Continent. you have to be able to narrow shit down. you are looking for a needle in a haystack if u think u can go to Africa and connect to ur roots because ur family loves okra and that shit is grown in West Africa (again a bunch of countries who have different cultures).

If you read my opening statement I already stated we come from west coastal Africa and central Africa. That has already been stated. But some of the things we have and intermingled from Europeans are few things that are good and most isn't good.

if u say west Africa u are talking about at least 16 different countries. different cultures and subcultures. the idea of getting back to Africa can happen if we started our own country like Liberia. it can happen if a person is lucky enough to be able to figure out where their family originated at in Africa. the thought we are getting back to our roots by going to west Africa or central Africa is way too broad.

a person might say my roots are in the south. u would say where. they say Alabama and u would say ok.

we can say our roots are in Africa but where?

how do u know all of us came via a country in either west or central Africa. if we going by the slave trade how do u know that u didn't originate in north or east Africa? they had a slave trade and a route to the atlantic ocean.

 

[Ajackson17]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

sadly my dude its already forgotten. that is why u cant point to a country and a city and stay this is where i come from. its not our fault.

No, isn't. Why we love beats, because our ancestors love the drums, why we create soul food, look at west african cuisine. From our dances, to our dialect, our speech, our movements and etc. We need to see where it descends from.

I can get deeper with this topic.

music is universal. every culture has music. soul food is ours. things like okra might grow in west Africa and slaves knew how to grow that but they also added things once they got here and created soul food in the south. niggas not arguing that some shit didn't come from Africa. the argument is Africa is a Continent. you have to be able to narrow shit down. you are looking for a needle in a haystack if u think u can go to Africa and connect to ur roots because ur family loves okra and that shit is grown in West Africa (again a bunch of countries who have different cultures).

If you read my opening statement I already stated we come from west coastal Africa and central Africa. That has already been stated. But some of the things we have and intermingled from Europeans are few things that are good and most isn't good.

if u say west Africa u are talking about at least 16 different countries. different cultures and subcultures. the idea of getting back to Africa can happen if we started our own country like Liberia. it can happen if a person is lucky enough to be able to figure out where their family originated at in Africa. the thought we are getting back to our roots by going to west Africa or central Africa is way too broad.

a person might say my roots are in the south. u would say where. they say Alabama and u would say ok.

we can say our roots are in Africa but where?

how do u know all of us came via a country in either west or central Africa. if we going by the slave trade how do u know that u didn't originate in north or east Africa? they had a slave trade and a route to the atlantic ocean.

DNA testing brotha. It helps, we are made up of different tribes and different groups. Don't be discourage. Try to learn from the one that you are the closest to. Which for me Yoruba in Benin next Mbundu in Angola.

 

[yellowtapesport]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

sadly my dude its already forgotten. that is why u cant point to a country and a city and stay this is where i come from. its not our fault.

No, isn't. Why we love beats, because our ancestors love the drums, why we create soul food, look at west african cuisine. From our dances, to our dialect, our speech, our movements and etc. We need to see where it descends from.

I can get deeper with this topic.

music is universal. every culture has music. soul food is ours. things like okra might grow in west Africa and slaves knew how to grow that but they also added things once they got here and created soul food in the south. niggas not arguing that some shit didn't come from Africa. the argument is Africa is a Continent. you have to be able to narrow shit down. you are looking for a needle in a haystack if u think u can go to Africa and connect to ur roots because ur family loves okra and that shit is grown in West Africa (again a bunch of countries who have different cultures).

If you read my opening statement I already stated we come from west coastal Africa and central Africa. That has already been stated. But some of the things we have and intermingled from Europeans are few things that are good and most isn't good.

if u say west Africa u are talking about at least 16 different countries. different cultures and subcultures. the idea of getting back to Africa can happen if we started our own country like Liberia. it can happen if a person is lucky enough to be able to figure out where their family originated at in Africa. the thought we are getting back to our roots by going to west Africa or central Africa is way too broad.

a person might say my roots are in the south. u would say where. they say Alabama and u would say ok.

we can say our roots are in Africa but where?

how do u know all of us came via a country in either west or central Africa. if we going by the slave trade how do u know that u didn't originate in north or east Africa? they had a slave trade and a route to the atlantic ocean.

DNA testing brotha. It helps, we are made up of different tribes and different groups. Don't be discourage. Try to learn from the one that you are the closest to. Which for me Yoruba in Benin next Mbundu in Angola.

Selling hope to the hopeless

 

[zzombie]

I don't see why it's important to find your roots down to exact tribe and nation. Especially today in west Africa the various tribes are marrying each other. So it makes no real difference

You just come from west Africa and can claim any tribal background you wish because African Americans are a mix of all those tribes anyway.

 

[Ajackson17]

We African Americans have our own culture. It is admired and emulated in EVERY country in the world. We simply don't realize our appeal and influence on the rest of the world especially but not limited to people of color. It is this lingering slave mentality that blocks too many of us from seeing what everybody else knows. We don't need to be like anyone else. They want to be like us.

You can never forget your root culture where you derive from and some of our culture needs to be gone.

sadly my dude its already forgotten. that is why u cant point to a country and a city and stay this is where i come from. its not our fault.

No, isn't. Why we love beats, because our ancestors love the drums, why we create soul food, look at west african cuisine. From our dances, to our dialect, our speech, our movements and etc. We need to see where it descends from.

I can get deeper with this topic.

music is universal. every culture has music. soul food is ours. things like okra might grow in west Africa and slaves knew how to grow that but they also added things once they got here and created soul food in the south. niggas not arguing that some shit didn't come from Africa. the argument is Africa is a Continent. you have to be able to narrow shit down. you are looking for a needle in a haystack if u think u can go to Africa and connect to ur roots because ur family loves okra and that shit is grown in West Africa (again a bunch of countries who have different cultures).

If you read my opening statement I already stated we come from west coastal Africa and central Africa. That has already been stated. But some of the things we have and intermingled from Europeans are few things that are good and most isn't good.

if u say west Africa u are talking about at least 16 different countries. different cultures and subcultures. the idea of getting back to Africa can happen if we started our own country like Liberia. it can happen if a person is lucky enough to be able to figure out where their family originated at in Africa. the thought we are getting back to our roots by going to west Africa or central Africa is way too broad.

a person might say my roots are in the south. u would say where. they say Alabama and u would say ok.

we can say our roots are in Africa but where?

how do u know all of us came via a country in either west or central Africa. if we going by the slave trade how do u know that u didn't originate in north or east Africa? they had a slave trade and a route to the atlantic ocean.

DNA testing brotha. It helps, we are made up of different tribes and different groups. Don't be discourage. Try to learn from the one that you are the closest to. Which for me Yoruba in Benin next Mbundu in Angola.

Selling hope to the hopeless

What are you talking about?

 

[StillFaggyAF]

I don't see why it's important to find your roots down to exact tribe and nation. Especially today in west Africa the various tribes are marrying each other. So it makes no real difference

You just come from west Africa and can claim any tribal background you wish because African Americans are a mix of all those tribes anyway.

Personally i would like to know what tribe(s) i come from. Thats just me tho

 

[aneed123]

The blunt truth is many niggas are shamed of their African roots and the negative perception crackers depicted still has an effect. Them African booty scratcher jokes came from somewhere. Shit is sad cuz black folk don't know their culture

I don't buy this at all. The real truth is that we were born in America, and been here for generations. You don't see White people talking about moving back to Ireland, Germany, etc. You're not seeing Asians going back to Japan, China.

What reason is there for someone to uproot their family structure and move to a foreign country? Where specifically in Africa is it better for us? Because i'm not seeing this.

Every group u name is accepting and willing participate in/with they culture tho ...but not niggas

Again, what do you base this on? I hear these assertions always with zero examples. I'm also tired of people sideways about Black Americans like we "don't love ourselves", "have a slave mentality", or "reject our culture". It's all BS.

I base it on reality. Niggas don't claim anything African related. It aint hard to look up ur roots. It's so much traditional stuff that will just fade away cuz folk aren't interested. Most black folk descend from west Africa. How about attempting to learn about it vs dismissing it completely with the I'm black not African stuff anyway I've witnessed what I said first hand so do dismiss my point