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Yeah, we AAs are really sugar coating every damn, and the Africans are much more morally better than we are, thats the theme. I truly believe we AAs have done a better job of dealing with the white man that Africans have. >ep we AAs all glorify rap music and live negative, Africans are all hard working and morally better, I'm sick of this ignorant African bullshit. I know the progress my people have made and the obstacles we need to still overcome.

Where are you getting 41 million American blacks? The last time I checked, it was around 35 million. In addition, remember that there are other blacks, besides Black Americans who live in the United States. Many come from the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America. American black is very diverse.

I think YOU need to check the census stats, there are close to 41 million blacks in America, diverse? Yes.

And yes, there has been a regression. Go to any area, where blacks can be found in such large numbers. The Hip-Hop culture has destroyed black society in many profound ways.

WTF is a "hiphop" culture? Please don't use the same bullshit, stereotypical terms the mainstream uses, hiphop in itself is NOT negative or bad, it has more to do with environment these kids live in, not anything to do with an ambiguous "hiphop", culture, I'd like to see you define what it is. I grew up in Philly in the late 70s and 80s during the beginning of hiphop and it was a form of expression for people who had no voice then, now its just been owned and hijacked by white record company owners. Hiphop didn't destroy blacks just as Motown in the 60s and 70s didn't destroy blacks, thats bogus.

And you all have exported it abroad. Everyone wants to be the next Lil Wayne or T.I. Or one of those music video vixens. It is appalling.

BS, we have not exported anything and not everyone wants to be Lil Wayne or TI, how the hell are you drawing these conclusions?

Athletes, rappers or gang bangers is what many black american youth have turned to. Not doctors, lawyers, engineers etc.

Some have turned to doing the wrong thing but certainly not the majority, again what you say is fucking bogus. I've never seen so much ignorance about American blacks being painted with this broad brush. And I'm 37 not a very young but not very old either and I've walked in the streets of Philly, New York, New Orleans, DC, Baltimore and Atlanta so I know what I'm talking about.

I am proud of some Black Americans such as Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglas etc. These are people I am proud of. That being said, if you look at many Black Americans today, the people have regressed.

All the successes in the Civil Rights movement seems to be forgotten by the younger generation. Maybe they should talk to their grandparents about the struggle before it is too late.

Bull, we haven't haven't regressed, there are almost 41 million American blacks and although some act ignorant thats not the case for most. Today is just a different struggle than the one we had years ago.

adisacare wrote:

Well said. There is always going to be a person who doesn't like another person because of a difference. Maybe the difference is culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, social economic status, whatever, it's just foolish to stereotype everyone else who may share this "difference".

True indeed, thats what it comes down to. The one Igbo woman I dated to me was not different than dating an African American sista and expected the same good things out of a man that all good women expect out of men.

@Inked_Nerd

Ummm, but aren't the things you've mentioned a common issue within African American culture? Is it not perpetuated both in the media and in the streets? Yes, its bad to judge based on stereotypes but what you've mentioned are they not prominent in the African American community? Whether you want to admit it, there is a difference in between African and African American culture--yes, we are all one people in the "racial" sense but then again what culture on Earth isn't different from one another?

I never said nor implied that African Americans and Africans are the same, we are different culturally which is obvious. And yes there are negative things that some African Americans but that negative stuff is the exception and not the rule among us. As for Africans, well it would be dumb for me to hate my roots, which I obviously do not, but for any African to state that African Americans conform to some dumb stereotype is wrong and vice versa. I think both are uneducated about the other.


The Africans I've had the most experience with have been Nigerians and there's not much I can say except that with the exception of some males, I get along well with Nigerians, especially the women, of course BEFORE I got married, lol. I dated one Igbo woman here in Germany, she was cool, she just had to be boss and in charge of everything lol, must have been my quiet demeanor. I personally don't think there#s too much friction between Continental Africans and Diaspora Africans.

Its basically senseless to compare Africans to African American in terms of who is better or worse, I'm so sick of that damn argument. Over here in Germany for example, I've met some Africans who don't like African Americans simply because some of the local women here will not date an African male and exclusively prefer African American men, for cultural reasons in my experience. Some African men, but not all over, have even taken to dressing up and acting like African Americans just to get the women. In order to narrow the competition some of these men have resorted to bringing up dumb stereotypes about African Americans male such the myths about us being bad, irresponsible fathers, uncultured and disrespectful to women, its a joke. None of the African American men here hate on African men, I'm just speaking about Germany.

Well, here's my pic, I've been mistaken as Nigerian, but specifically as Igbo:

Seems like somebody in here don't know much about African Americans, there are close to almost 41 million of us, its impossible for the majority of us to be like the negative bull you see in the media.

I'd like to say some of the threads I saw here about Africans vs African Americans don't make any sense to me, lol. We both need to get educated about one another and quit the nonsense.


On another note, I took a DNA test with AfricanAncestry and found out that the people I most likely descend from are Igbos, which is most likely very true. The question I have is if I posted my pic, would anyone be able to tell whether I truly have an Igbo look or a look thats common in Nigeria? My girl, who is Moroccan, says I do. My pic is attached.