i have a nigerian friend who doesn’t lean too deep into this , but he definitely has principles to life that singles him out a lot in conversations

Jaylen Brown doing his part to help bridge the gap

What does "Was it raelly Neismith?" suppose to mean?

It was supposed to say Naismith

But if you look at the outside of the sneaker, it has the Chichén-Itzá in Mexico and the Olmec heads (the Xi or the Rubber peoples) who were the founders of rubber ball based games. I think it's interesting and hella polarizing to melanated folks that not all "Blacks" were brought to the Americas

thread title raised my blood pressure, i already posted in here though

The discourse I’m seeing on Twitter about Juneteenth is really disheartening

People make discussing politics always seem like a cringe fest but it's incredible way to connect with someone. Even if you disagree with each other. It lays down what you really believe.

what r people saying

It's Nigerians wyling isn't it?

There was a lot of vitriol at the choice of colors used on various Juneteenth fliers/promotion events. The Pan-Africanist colors of Red/Green/Black drew a lot of critique. Had a lot of the hotep types saying “we’re not African or Caribbean! Red, white, and blue are the colors on my Juneteenth flag” etc
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Sinners sparking even more divisions in the diaspora. I really think FBA as presented online is a CIA psyop to disrupt unity amongst blacks in America specifically.

I don't have time to type a well thought out response to this, but I'll say that I'm Nigerian and disagree with Acho. Nigeria as a country is f***ed up because of the white colonizer. The white colonizer after they were "done" with imperialism, put a whole bunch of people with no regard to their different ethnicities and culture and called them a country. Even as a kid the name "Nigeria" never sat right with me due to how similar it was to the n word and obviously when I got older I understood why that was the case. So in short Acho is wrong about there being no trauma with white people for people in Nigeria. Nigerians blame other ethic groups within their nation for why the country is bad instead of realizing it is the fact they were forced into a situation they wouldn't be in if it weren't for colonization, also why is he acting like there weren't some slaves that came from the West African region

what's the division about??

A lot of it is that I’m seeing is about Hoodoo culture. They’re certain black Americans that want to say hoodoo is strictly a Black American practice, with no ties to any African culture or practices. I’m not an expert on the matter, but just traveling places, you’d have to be willfully ignorant to say hoodoo practices aren’t passed down from African ancestors. It’s definitely become its own thing and distinct in certain areas, but it has ties to African practices.

Like a lot of the root work Annie was doing in the movie, I have seen that irl in the DR, and Nigeria. It’s like increasingly alarming how FBA types want to cut themselves off from Africa entirely.

S*** like this

Like bro Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, those countries keep their African ancestry at the forefront of their culture

My hot take for Friday; I think your average American, not even just black probably thinks black people would still largely be riding in the back of the bus so to speak, if it wasn’t for the Civil Rights movement in America lol. American Exceptionalism is something I suffered from as well.

yea this just of kind of proves that a lot of the FBA stuff is not really founded in any historical research.

I thought we were past people thinking like this

I blame African niggas. Constantly telling Black Americans they have no culture and hitting them with that “find your roots” bullshit.

u throwin gas on the fire. it's not that simple and there's a subset of Black people in amerikkka who are equally guilty of shaming continental Africans / Caribbean immigrants. whole diaspora jus needs a ideological reset to even address this in good faith

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Emmanuel Acohe, PK Suban blunt rotation

I agree that it does go both ways but I honestly don’t believe that Africans (ones from and living in Africa) want anything to do with black Americans. I see them hating on Caribbeans too but not as much.

That being said, a lot of this seems like both sides being toxic online to pass the time cause in real life I see way more unity than division. At least among the younger generations

im of the mindset that whats online is in tandem with 'real life', although a large part of diaspora wars is definitely jus rage bait for engagement.

i'd concede that yea, part of the older african / caribbean generation has a disdain for Black people in the US. but that's also a group who has become way too complacent about the costs of living in an imperial core (re: Amerikkkan exceptionalism) rather than actively continuing to nation build toward global pan-African solidarity. and that won't happen when we're all too busy commodifying ourselves and having petty bad faith arguments meant to deny the obviously shared culture(s) / ancestry between us.

Bruh used a tweet as evidence

I just think a growing sentiment you find with a lot of black Americans is a “where would you be with out us?”. Because of the “culture”. When in reality a lot of the freedoms we enjoy today as black people, the US has typically been one of the last nations to allow such freedoms.