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A lot of “Black” ppl who are fear mongering about Black ppl getting stripped of birthright citizenship and will get deported are not Black Americans but are of foreign descent trying to group us as one so we feel scared as well. That does NOT apply to us.
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@Show713 Black Americans have moved all across this country. I’m not Texan but had ancestors who were in Texas during slavery just like many others. and Even if they don’t have lineage in Texas it’s a celebration of the last of our ppl being freed so its very much a Black American holiday.
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Do y’all think we’ll ever see an actual ethnic Black American become president in our lifetime?.
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At the end of the day, you’re not going to see Black Americans go to any Caribbean flag day, Jouvert, or carnival waving our flags & trail riding down the street blasting Boosie. We understand cultural awareness but other ppl can’t seem to understand it when it comes to us???
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@Arri_ade Texan Black Americans are still Black Americans & we’re celebrating the last of our ppl being freed. This like Mexicans from aztecan communities telling Mexicans of Mayan or Zapotec origin can’t celebrate Day of the Dead cus they started it which is now an overall Mexican holiday.
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@Show713 Why are u asking like I don’t already know? The point is Black Americans no matter if they have Texas lineage or not are celebrating the day of the emancipation of all our ppl. regionalism over this is dumb af especially when ppl outside of Texas been celebrating it before 2020.
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@Show713 We all know it started in Galveston Tx cus they were the last to be Freed. And yes my ppl outside of Texas have been celebrating it. And even if ppl just found out later about it why does it matter? At the end of the today we’re celebrating the last of Black Americans being freed.
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1. Hiphop came from funk music. 2. Pigmeat markham was rapping over funk before the art craft became known as hip Hop. 3.toasting came from Black American jive talk. 4. Ska/reggae heavily came from R&B.
I think ppl just love Jamaica man idk. I don’t wanna start a diaspora war but Jamaica has contributed a lot to Black American culture for a very long time so I think when ppl visit they feel a special connection and want to show that.
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@Show713 Why you restricting your comment ? lol. And nobody gatekeeping Caribbean ppl or Africans from celebrating with us but trying to include your own culture into is what we’re talking about.
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@Arri_ade Nobody said they can’t celebrate with us? The thing is it’s a Black American holiday. Why come waving Caribbean flags and making it into carnival tho? U can participate and respect just like Caribbean ppl said they didn’t want our music played at carnival and we respect that.
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I feel like the next time we get a “Black” person chosen as a parties nominee (most likely the democrats) and it’s not an ethnic Black American it will raise some eyebrows but then again too many of my ppl are simpletons and don’t care about how we are being ignored.
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@IjeleWills And if we did y’all would be following right behind us like y’all do with every fashion trend we start.
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And even then I don’t think most of them would get deported anyways. It’s just another democrat scare tactic.
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Black Americans have been through worst eras and already lived through a trump presidency. If they wanted us gone they would’ve been tried. Stop the bs
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Over these past few months I’ve been seeing ppl confused on the fact that Black Americans is an actual ethnicity. This is a dangerous game of erasure we are facing.
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@Arri_ade And the thing is those tribes are more different from each other than a Black American Texan is from the rest of Black Americans but they don’t gatekeep the holiday cus they’re all Mexicans just like we’re all Black Americans. Stop trying to use regionalism in defense of this.
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And tbh I already know the reason they keep throwing us a mixed ppl whose “Black” side comes from literally everywhere else but America but imma wait till the election over to say the quiet part aloud
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@soulaandoll That’s what I’m thinking. They’ll be having the same argument that we having now. They just like to play this “divisive” card on us.
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It’s always THEM popping up under anything Black American…
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I could’ve sworn everybody use to wear American flag print shirts some years ago and nobody gaf. Hell I go wear mines rn. Yall be making this discourse so deep.
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Black Twitter leftist, Black Marxist, & pan Africans normalized it. They lean heavily into anti Black American sentiments even if they being direct with it or not.
I saw someone refer to Black Americans as Black Amerikkkans in a derogatory manner and that's just sick. the KKK killed and raped my ancestors, not yours.
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@privatenotfake Agreed. ethnic pride and preservation is growing in our ppl so hopefully by the next time we will finally wake up.
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before y’all come here sayin I’m “dIviSiVe”, let’s be real for once. The group who has been in America for 400+ years & ancestors endured literally every Atrocity thrown at us & built its foundation representation for President are mixed & their “Black” side are 1st Gen…TWICE?
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Oh those ppl found this tweet and now finna pull out the most obscure less than 5 examples and even then it turned out to be an anchor baby, a immigrant that moved here as a child, or someone that didnt have their documents when returning from out the country or lied.
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America does not want somebody connected to that cus they know we might actually hold it against them for what they done to our ppl for centuries and actually do something to help us.
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5. The term rap was literally used in Black American communities way before Jamaicans got here it means “to converse”. 6. Rosco Gordon creation of the Rosco rhythm became the foundation for ska & reggae but y’all don’t see us using him to claim yall stuff like yall use Herc.
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It’s really ethnocide the way ppl acting in the qts/comments but we’re American so yall don’t care. If many Black Americans were to move to another country & conflate our identity with theirs, thus erasing their own individual identity, we’ll be called colonizers tho.
Black American is an ethnic group. U not automatically a Black American just cuz u were born in 🇺🇸 if you aren’t a descendant of chattel slavery in the US, u not Black American, u either Caribbean American or 1st/2nd gen African or Afro Latino. Plain & simple.
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Anytime Black Americans talk about reparations, here comes everybody else with their “what about me?” bs. U don’t see BAs do the shi to no other group but everybody feels obligated to mule off us cus for a long time we let them do it but that’s coming to an end.
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@123itsmeMary They say that like Latin America didn’t have a caste system with Black ppl at the very bottom and that their countries pushed for blanqueamiento. They just use America as scapegoat for their own racism.
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This will always be my favorite video. Black Americans to the world ❤️
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@BlackPowerBA Pan Africans romanticize Latin America. Brazil has a higher police brutality rate towards Black ppl than America, Garifuna leaders being assassinated, afro Colombians struggled with land rights for years, & etc. They only act like they care when we point out their hypocrisy.
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@QlMNenhza True, their attachment to whiteness is most likely the only way they’ll accept one.
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Half the people y’all preaching for don’t even want your Black ass In their countries. We already not even the majority minority here anymore and y’all wanna dig us deeper. Just look at what happening in Chicago with spaces for us being shut down. But keep putting your capes on.
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Ppl are so used to back in the day when many Black Americans didn’t use to be prideful of our ethnicity & gatekeeping, so now that we are, they attack us with we’re “divisive” & we shouldn’t be proud cus we’re American & our history. They want us to be ashamed & fawn over them.
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I wonder why ppl who love to downplay Black Americans with “America is a white country” & “not ours” never have the same smoke for Afro ppl in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, & most of Latin America who go through a similar situation of minority marginalization?.
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the media are trying their hardest to force team Black Americans. It’s clear that they slowly but surely want the story of BAs to be transformed into the immigrant story to fit their whole “melting pot” & “nation of/built by immigrants” narrative.
Check out this new docu series. THE GREAT MIGRATION: A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE. A lot of great people in it. was honored to join the conversation. Premieres on @PBS, Tues, Jan 28 @ 9/8 c
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@HIStoryismadeup Sadly in the worst turn of events I could see that being the case. In the future we’ll be even more of a minority than we already are to immigrants as they continue to grow in size and the need to appease to us as an ethnic group will matter less than it already does now.
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@RealKhalilU @GoofyWise Why would we be Jamaican? U do know Caribbean ppl got to those islands the same way we got to America right? I promise Caribbean ppl swear they native to those islands and it doesn’t get enough backlash.
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Mind u immigrants have been doing this to Black American communities & benefiting off of resources that were originally meant for us for decades. It’s cool when they do it, it’s a problem when I do it …
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Caribbean ppl really don’t know their history. A lot of them make it seem like they native to them islands, didn’t go through slavery, and act like they know their heritage more than Black Americans even tho we got over here the same way. But Black Americans the “ignorant” ones?
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It’s always “so and so contributed to this” like we can’t say the same for most of everybody cultures. The difference is y’all use contribution as way to take full claim and lie to over exaggerate it while most Black American don’t give a damn about our contribution on yall.
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Y’all say this and then turn around and say “Black Americans don’t know where they come from” like us being from America is any different from y’all being from the Caribbean…
I wonder how Black Americans think we got to the Caribbean? Osmosis? Bc apparently they were the only ones with slavery.
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Yall try to push Black Americans out of being American just like yts do and just like how they did us in country music. How do ppl still not understand the nuance of cowboy Carter Is about reclamation & a social commentary? We have every right to the flag of this country.
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@1JeiceLaurent @got_cake I never understand why so called “pan Africans” still align themselves with her. She has said some of the most sinister stuff about Black Americans and they seem to not care. I thought pan Africans were supposed to call out any disdain towards any group & be fair?.
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I’m telling yall it’s a growing ethnocide against Black Americans happening right in our faces. They want us Replaced and to distance ourselves from this country to be like them.
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I just found out about this upcoming game called “South of Midnight”, which is set in a fantasized southern gothic world that explores the Deep South’s folklore & mythos with a Black American Woman as the protagonist.
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My takeaway from This discourse is ik y’all wouldn’t care if Afro Brazilians wave their flag even tho they were the last in the west to end slavery, had blanqueamiento, & some of the highest brutality toward Black ppl. Same for most Afro Latinos waving flags their oppressed in
that lady has y’all defending the literal american flag oh….
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It’s so strange how ppl want Black Americans to hate being American be the same ones preaching for everybody else to come here and become…American
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What is y’all’s obsession with trying to take our identity away from us? Y’all know Black American has always referred to Black ppl with lineage in contiguous United States. Stop the word salad…
It's just a perpetual thorn in my side as a historian who thinks it's crucial that we start Black American history with Ayiti-Kiskeya (Hispaniola) and Boriken (Puerto Rico) because that is where the first Black Americans were in the 1490s and 1510s. Our histories are shared.
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This is why niggas from New York are guilty until proven innocent. Too many foreigners up there that will say some like this while actively using our culture.
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A so called Black American using akata as a “joke” in 2013? Some fishy
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Black Americans have included others in our culture, spaces, resources & movements but when they get a leg up they sh!t on us. We seen this with the Irish, Italians, Jews, & Asians. Many Brown & “diaspora” immigrants are no different & lean into “model minority” when in yt spaces.
A lot of Black people are starting to talk about immigrants the way white people talk about Black people. Don’t.
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Ion like how ppl get on here & act like Black Americans ain’t been the most generous ppl to share & celebrate other groups. Our spaces, organizations, & resources are extended to anybody with melanin while they gatekeep everything from us & work in enclaves but we’re “divisive”??.
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How y’all feel today after losing to Noah Lyles?
On behalf of Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean. We thank you, Julien Alfred.
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I really don’t like this “only difference is a boat stop” bs. They don’t have family ties to U.S. chattel slavery, Black codes, sharecropping, Jim Crow, convict leasing, GI bill exclusion, redlining, towns being destroyed, wealth being stripped from freedman bank, & so much more.
We are ALL descendants of slaves. Stop this Black American versus Black immigrant bullshit! Oh, and Kamala Harris is Black!!😝
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Another win from a Black American 🦅🇺🇸🥇
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It’s actually sad how much yall try to prove we look alike for whatever validation. This whole argument started cus we said we can generally tell ourselves apart. Literally every group has said this before but yall get mad when we say it…
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And where was these people at when Caribbean ppl said they didn’t want Hip hop or Afrobeats played during carnival?.
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Yall seen how they had the Puerto Rican day parade the other day and ppl were able to keep the celebration centered on just Puerto Ricans? No bringing other flags or cultures , just living in the expierence of the ppl it’s for. Thats all we ask for Juneteenth.
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Like in truth nobody makes it that deep. Even non Black Americans be wearing it
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@TorraineWalker Black Americans can’t even do something like this without the “diaspora” barging in and bringing their flags & cultures. They cry “wE aLL bLaCk” when we ask for basic respect to celebrate Just us.
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Dems will learn to do right by Black Americans. They cant keep playing in our faces. cant even give us a real Black American but instead 2 biracials of foreign origin cus they don’t want somebody with ties to this country’s history against our ppl and they might actually fix some.
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But when we said this about Juneteenth everyone attacked us but seem to understand when they are on the receiving end
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@ScissorHand07 Are u just attending and experiencing their culture or are u bringing the Black American flag & trail riding down the street like they are parading down the street like it’s carnival at Juneteenth? Nobody said they can’t attend so this comparison falls short.
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Caribbean ppl not knowing their ancestors came from Africa and thinking they just popped up on them islands doesn’t get enough backlash like y’all give Black Americans. Dare I say it’s more common for them to say this type of stuff than us but it’s crickets
Black British culture came from the Caribbean - where most of us come from. “Afro American” culture came from slaves… who came from Africa. Come on now man.
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Behind the American flag is crazy smh.
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U do know Black Americans had the most slave revolts? The major difference y’all skip over is that we never even made up above 25% of the population since we been here. in the Caribbean, most islands were already 80-90+% Black by the late 1600s, an advantage we didn’t have.
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@CuntyxFenty @kwaneIe_ And yet u named artist whose albums doesn’t even come to close to how artistic and well produced as cowboy Carter was….
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I’m sorry but the way y’all been speaking on kids over politics this past week is so weird when they barely even understand it. Y’all just as much of a cult as the other party tbh.
Dumbass just like his damn daddy.
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