Do African Women Dislike Black American Women?

To Drusilla,






Damn!, you are good, kudos.

I disagree, you are VERY mislead

There are no Africans of only the blood. The separation was mere generations ago. Look at black american speech, dance, family structure, etc. It is ALL distinctly African. I don't say these things to sound cool. I just tell it how it is.

I don't feel like going into detail about why AA culture is sooooo very African, you can look up the similarities between AAVE (African American vernacular English) and West African languages on your own time. I was amazed when I looked it up. All my life, I was speaking a black english that has an African sentence structure, the lack of the verb copula is there, too, even individual words we use are african. Look at the pitch in black american speech and west african speech.

I won't even get into dances. I won't get into how we call non-blood relatives auntie and uncle, etc.

I will let you research all that.

But just tell me this, of all the things in black american culture, if it isn't african, what is it? There are almost NO similarities w black american culture and euro culture, except mcdonalds (lol) and even Africans that I know eat fast food in America.

Culture doesn't just rise out of no where, and black culture and speech didn't just rise from European traditions. The cultures are SO different. Africa has a HUGE influence.

It is ironic how I speak a more Africanized english than a lot of the first generation Nigerians that I see at my school. Explain that if you don't agree with what I have already said. How can I speak a more Africanized tongue than somewhat whose parents are from Nigeria if I am only an African of the blood?

Again, I am not trying to be cool. If my heritage were from Asia I would tell you that, too, I'm not trying to be cool and from "the motherland". But answer the question that I just posed.

For axample;


Where you at

Igbo= Ebee kino
Yoruba=Ibo lo wa,

If you translate this two languages word to word, you come up with ''where you at''

Abi oh!

@thecavsman


Sweetheart, everything you said was right on and one has to be open, willing and conscious enough to see what you see.Oh one thing, you forgot to mention the food. AA still eat and cook the same foods they cooked when they were in Africa. Also, AA still braid their hair and each year they are getting even more and more creative with the braiding styles that they create. Absolutely amazing, don't you think? 



@Justgood



Real, real, cute of you.


 I can tell that you are just budding in your tribal ways. It's okay, some day you will be forced, weather you like it or not to see that tribalism with your own people is not at all worth it.

Modified:



Aborigines have skin color in common with Africans as well, so what is your point?



That rules out the other West Africans as well as central Africans, South Africans, East Africans and of course North Africans.  Don't get mad 



Exactly! This is why I don't need to prove to you that I am African. Who might you be that I would have to prove anything to you?  You are certainly not God and you are certainly the God of Africa. 



Of course, just like a Ghanaian would not be able to theorize what it is to be a Nigerian. What you don't understand is, my experience with my connection to Africa is different from yours but that doesn't mean that I am less African or not African at all. Geez, the ancestors would be highly upset with you right now if they were still alive.


Don't be mad at me, I just pulled out of you what you truly feel. If I said what I said or not, you would have still felt the way you expressed to feel in the above. Like I said, you are no different from the African who gets mad when Africans make fun of Africa but then why they respect Africa and acknowledge that they are African, you are the same African who will try and take that from them because you think that all African Americans are the same. Shame shame, shame on you.



You need a few more years because your comprehension level is working from a budding tribalistic ego.




I am Black, Negroid, Negro, Colored, African American, Pan Africanist, Akata, what ever your heart desires dear. 




You need help   


@Drusilla


Read your post, thanks for the input. Real talk as usal.


@925


Did you read the lovely topic I started that said wonderful things about you 

Blah, Blah, Blah, what a pitty.

This African won't be wasting anymore time with this unconscious child, justgood fool 

No Tribal child like, African or white man can tell me who I am.

The only thing that matters is what my parents taught me and what their parents taught and so forth through generations.

@Thecavsman



Trust me, none of what some of them are saying is bothering me like that. I am just having a little fun. 


I look at it like this, Africans on the continent wish they could have the so called benefits that they think we African Americans take for granted. They feel like, "Who do those AA's think they are? If we can't have it both ways, neither can they. They can't have their cake and eat it too. They can't get all the American goods and then have Africa in their hearts, and souls as well. " As a result, just like their colonizers that being (White people) they invent ridiculous justifications.

#1 AA's were not born in Africa.

#2 They don't know where they came from in Africa.

#2 they don't display African culture.
 
And this is the kicker,

#3 They are all mixed up

But this is more of a kicker because it involves percentage,

#4 African Americans are known to posses at least 20% of white blood.

What gets me is, how come they never talk about the native America blood or even Asian blood some of us have.  Makes me think that some of them wish they had some of that %20 percent white blood, perhaps they think it may do them some good.  Maybe they think they will get some light skin and some so called good hair. 

Ha, ha, ha


As if from colonization Africa still remains fully African influenced. 

As a matter a fact, you should see how bad some of them speak of the South Africans in this Forum. I would swear that South Africans are AA's.



Be careful, the above may be construed as talking black, LOL



Maybe it is because they want to sound more white, LOL


All AA's are mixed with different tribes in Africa. This is why we have the Diaspora and Pan Africanism attitude. To bad there is not enough AA like minds in Africa, maybe then we could truly know what it means to have a United Africa.


True


They have been conditioned to disrespect AA achievements. As a matter a fact, I have seen some of them say that AA's whine to much. It is almost like they are telling us that we are ungrateful to all that white people have done for us, I see why Africa continues to be pimped.   


I know you don't want to be cool, I have seen you stress that many times. The thing is, what would be cool about admitting that your roots are African? From what non African people feel, they just see any black person with roots in Africa as a joke. Someone who can easily be fooled into abuse in all forms. 



It is just like I said, the ones who get mad with AA's who are disgusted with Africa are the same ones that will taunt AA's who love Africa and respect their African roots. We as African or African decent/black which ever you prefer, we have a long ways to go.






I can't tell you how many AA's I see each day who look like they just walked out of Africa. I am a talker so I play with them. I say " Brother or Sister, you remind me of an African" and almost 99.9 percent of the time they always respond with "I am African"

This is interesting because Most Africans on the continent either say that Jamaicans are African or that they are more African than AA's. The thing is, Jamaicans are mixed with white and Indian blood as well. Do you see what I am seeing? It is no secret that Jamaicans as well as Africans on the continent are going out of their way to get to places like Europe and America. What they both have in common is, they each want what they feel we AA's take for granted. We have to be groveling and our groveling has to be as noticeable as their groveling before we can be Africa. They don't even see how much of an insult they reflect upon Africa with that kind of thinking. Don't get me wrong though, Jamaicans love AA's and AA's definitely connect with Jamaicans because we have almost everything in common accept for where we were born.




I agree.

But what happens? I am told that I will never understand Africa or anything about it and that I am a lost soul without a foundation, as if there are no lost Africans. I see them all the time.

But, some people, and I stress that it's not all Africans, cannot see the bigger picture. At the end of the day, I am just a wannabe to them.

@Donzman

You your self has talked about how bad AA's are and how they do this or that. You don't Say Americans when you are talking about AA's. You yourself has made sure to separate African or Black Americans away from Asian, Indian, and European Americans. You know why you do that? Without even realizing it, you yourself, you know that black Almeria is a separate entity from the other Americans.


Why, because AA's are black and they are black because  of their direct ancestral connection to Africa. That means we have a different culture from the rest and that culture, weather you like it or not, it is a result of Africans in America over a long, long period of time. It is no different from the first generation Africans, born in Africa, who have been living in America since they first began kindergarten. You would never know that they were born in Africa unless the conversation of where one was born came up.



I know you didn't ask me this question but I just couldn't resist. Europeans have no culture. Unless culture is to steal and rob from everyone and claim what you stole as your own. Which in the case of Europeans, culture would be whatever tickles their fancy and they have the gull and go take it to claim it as their own. They don't call America a mixing pot for nothing and they don't call white Americans Americans while they call everyone else African American, Asian American, Native American and so forth. For white people, American means white people and the other Americans, well, they are just in America because they are a left over resulted aftermath of European theft from other countries. In reality, the other Americans are the reason why America is called the mixing pot.

Who jumped her, and why would they jump her for saying that she was black?

i wonder what school you go to because everyone getting jumped just because they want to claim something.

@EBELEDI
THOSE ANSWERS ARE TOUGH BOY.

@NAIJADIVA

I GO TO  GOODWEATHER SCHOOL IN YONKERS.

Sista,

Please be careful not to confuse "Westernized Africans" with "Reglar Africans".

Reglar Africans don't be thinking all wacky about African Americans or wondering nothing about who we think we are. They be happy to see us and just glad that wee little people want to see them.

Westernized Africans, a different breed altogether.

These are the educated Africans who can fall in and out of leadership in Africa and who are ripping off all the people of Africa. Their children are sent with stolen money to live in safer places than they have made their own countries.

They are the natural enemy of the African American, and that is what all this stupid anti-AA talk is about. Some of them on this huge forum are probably paid to disturb conversations and bring their prejudice. Chinua Achebe is one such African American who for instance tries to win back the hearts and souls of Westernized Africans to be again Reglar Africans.

African Americans care about the Reglar Africans and Westernized Africans want to keep AA from ever waking up and using our power to get rid of their corrupt luxury lifestyles, they earn by stealing the dollars from Reglar Africans.

Let's not lump all Continental Africans into one group based on what "Westernized Africans" say. Smile.

To Drussilla,


when you say westernized Africans, is very confusing, is it every Africans that lives in the west that are the westernized Africans?, if the answer is, YES, then you are probably talking about those who could not understand or make positive use of there experiences, believe me some of the people you might see as westernized Africans are some of the people that care more about Africa and are cracking there brain on how to better things for Africans, you are confusing every thing with the so called flash in the pan westernized Africans who tries to appear westernized to look cool, watch out most of these people has spent only a very little time in the western system, and therefore don't understand it and think that all that glitter is gold, and in most cases do change with time.

african american are not african that's all i know they don't act africans they might look like but they don't act like one,do yall know that caribeans eat fufu?

ok you are putting poverty in the lines of culture

how in the world is nigerian culture white

if you call nigeria white because of "poverty", you might as well call the whole continent white because there is poverty all over

i still don't get your comments on americans being the most united black people there are

there are pan africanist everywhere in the continent in africa as well as the carribbean

many other black ethnicities are also united

the only way i can understand your comment is if you are using the term "continental african" as an ethnic group which it isnt

would you also describe the slums of Camden, New Jersey as "white"

the label of pride is every where even in the United States you have different gangs, and people feeling superior to someone else because of what hood they are from, or the people feeling superior to someone else because another person wasnt raised in the hood

in america there is also a division between the middle class, lower class, and the "elite" educated class

there are some black people who grew up in white neighborhoods, and percieve all other black people as being lower than they are despite the ethnic heritage they have in common

so you should use the term "white" as something universal and not just african