Nairaland Forum

MandingoII:

No African American or Carribbean american (beside haitans) would want to live in Africa UNLESS we can keep our creature comforts.
The only Africa I respect are South Africans.
There struggle mirrors ours.

A.Chigozie:

I'm not here to hate, I'm here to learn and communicate with my Nigerian sisters and brothers.  [/color][/b]

I'm not speaking about you and the many other people that are not causing problems, its the few that go on post and rant about the most ignorant things. I'm tired of it but i do know that a majority of African Americans are not doing that. And yes it is true that is the internet and i cannot tell who is typing behind the screen they could be he/she, White/Black/Asian etc,

MandingoII:

witchraft
juju
corruption
genocide
tribalism
arrogance

PAGAN 9JA:

first of all i must say that u are d one being arrogant by thinking u r better than us jus cuz u hav more wealth n are well fed while we starve.
second, u AA's are just plain jealous that inspite we dont have nothing, we have a rich culture, tradition and our ancestral beliefs which u have lost. why then are so many other AA's coming bak to Africa to learn Orisha and other traditional faiths u want our stuff and then u bakstab us. We dont need your education on tribalism. We fight amongst each other cuz its almost always an issue of christian vs muslim, but it so happens dat its not jus a few individuals here and there, but in fact whole tribes either side with one or the other. Therefore the main religious issue is ignored and all the blame gos on[i] tribalism[/i]. U AA's r jus plain jealous dat u dont have tribes or culture or anything of dat sort. U follow your enslavers faith and now u r trying to impose dat on us. what witchcraft r u talking about, eh whenever u see a Pagan worshipping his ancestral/traditional deities, u immediately brand em as witches.

i can understand dat its not cuz of your fault that u culturless. But that doesnt mean dat u spoil our identity n culture. either u see n help us enhance our beliefs n traditions or jus get d hec.k outta here. im case u noticed, its a Nigerian forum where u celebrate OUR culture , NOT for AA's who have come here to defame n denounce our traditions n try to impose der cultureless culture on us.

k.o.n.y:



Why do africans swear black americans have no culture lmao. Our culture is seen worldwide. A huge chunk of american culture is black culture lol

Religion- Gospel, the black church which is way different than other american churches

Food- Soul food,cajun food. Black american food is better than anything in africa

Fashion- Black people basically wrote the book for urban fashion. And no im not talking about men wearing their pants under their Bottom

Music- Black music is superior to anything in africa. BA's basically created modern music (rock,randb,hip hop,jazz,blues,pop etc)

Our leaders are the biggest in the african diaspora

How do africans figure black americans have no culture?

PAGAN 9JA:

thanx for givin me d list bro. u AA's have a culture, but no offence intended, but since u asked for it by insultin ma traditional brothers n sayin dat we practice witchcraft, lemme tell u dat your culture is  a hybrid/borrowed culture. its NOT original n this is fact

1.Religion: whether its a black church, a white church or even a rainbow-colord church. a church is a church. again, borrowed from the enslaving european creatures.

2.Food: Cajun is not AA. it is a food started by descendants of French colonists, deported to Louisiana from Acadia, Canada.

3.Fashion: wat fashion, eh r those baggy pants n stuff your traditional clothes LMAO!!! thats again borrowed from the europeans. all u guyz did was to ""edit"" it a bit. make it wider n stuff. 

4.Music: theres again the same case. u guyz just improvised on western music and added sum of ya own flavor, n this resulted in wat we know today as hip-hop, blues, etc.

and your leaders are the biggest in the ""diaspora"". Even Africans have great leaders such as Mandela, Kofi Annan, etc.



so as i said before, derz no point in despising and acting lyk the saviours of us Africans. we dont need any more saviours cuz it seems that saviours always tend to bring bad luck to us ppl. first jesus n muhammad, den d euroean fellas (as one quote said, the white man has come to save the African man from himself), the arabs and now u rich and haughty Afro-Americans.

k.o.n.y:

You are way off. First of all i never said anything about africans practicing witchcraft.lol


1.I never said black people created their own religion. There is no black american god we worship. Many of us are christians or muslims JUST LIKE MANY,MANY AFRICANS. All i was trying to say is that the black church is like a culture in itself along with Gospel music. Even africans have been influenced by gospel music

2. Cajun is most definently black/creole american food. My focus is more own soul food anyway. But cajun food is black and its birthplace-new orleans is a city full with black culture

3. Dude fashion is all about mixing things and making it your own. Blacks are more influential than africans in this department either way you slice it. Blacks have had a big impact on fashion well before baggy pants were in style

4. Wow you have no idea what your talking about. Blacks created western music dummy. Western does not automatically mean white. A huge chunk of western culture is black american culture. Silly african

Nelson mandela is the only person from africa worthy of being seen as a leader, or someone that AA's would be impressed by. Martin luther king is still more important and influential than he is.

There are more blacks than africans in positions of power in media,politics,society,government,business etc

If it wasnt for black americans what would people of the african diaspora have?

PAGAN 9JA:

first on first, by you, i meant the AA ppl in general.
- it does na matter wat u worship, BUT U MUST NOT EVER BRAND AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS AS WITCHCRAFT OR EVIL SATANIC STUFF. this was wat Mandingo n his ppl did, si it was in reply to him.
-Cajun is not black, NOR was it from new orleans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_cuisine
-before men wore pants, they wore leaves or they kept der genitls in wooden cans. AA's didnt exist bak then.
-western music was not created by blacks, unless Mozart, Beethoven, Doug green, etc wer black.


your martin luther king copied all his ideas n style from Mahatma Gandhi n he even admitted it.

ppl of d diaspora are african americans, so wat dya mean by your laste sentence. i find it sensibly sensless.

odumchi:

The problem with many AAs is not theat they are all born ignorant or what-not, but ti is because of their behavior. African American culture is counter-cultural and distructive to African culture. In a society in which fellow blacks call each other "Nigger, sag pants, direspect elders, run away from home to join gangs, fight each other, disregard education" nothing good is sure to come out. Such values are counter productive to African values, not to talk of Nigerian values which are mostly: "Language, Culture, ethnicity (thnic origin), tradition, filial piety and etc".

Havin been to the US, it pains me to fill out forms and when asked for my ethnicity, the only options are "Black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native and other". None of these are my ethnicity. I am not an AA, and last time I chehcled Black was a colour not an ethnicity. I am often tempted to put down "Igbo" as my ethnicity.

PAGAN 9JA:

Odumchis is riight. We r afraid dat u might bring this kinda culture to our Nigeria, encourage intertribal marriage, make a mockkery of culture n try to hybridize it n stuff. its harmful to us. but we can still be friends.
Im so proud of you Odumchi. You are the first person i have seen here who is truly proud of his actual origins. Forget your color, forget u r African or even Nigerian or even christian. First and foremost, YOU ARE IGBO! Igbo is wat make different from the rest because its the blood that flows in your veins.
your last sentence literally brought tears to my eyes. atleast der r some ppl on this accursed planet who still care. 

Mrs.Chima:

You got anything against IGBOS?

PAGAN 9JA:

Ali Farka copied the AA style of music and tried to mix it with Malian music. everyone noes dat.