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| Ugandan & Jamaican woman |
This won't be the last time. I just watched a video by a young lady whose parents are Ugandan and Jamaican. She bears her beautiful (internal & external) soul about her experiences in America, the whole 'African vs African American etc' thing. She was on both the receiving end, and honest enough to admit how... she perpetrated or harbored hate against Haitians. The black phenotype in this post is NOT her but was intentionally chosen to examine some false or prejudicial stereotypes. I will leave 10 bullet points for now.
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| inside a tree from Gogo Nana, a Sangoma |
● 1) There's no escaping labels and categories, it's inherent in linguistics. Yes human is a label / category. Woman is a label / category.
● 2) I'm African, I'm Black, I'm African American, I'm Black American, I'm ALL of these and comfortable in my skin.
● 3) The consensus of scientists tells us all humans alive today descended from an African.
● 4) Because of classism (aka elitism), race (social construct or not) became a division of peoples leading to or supporting forms of gross economic exploitation, social degradation, physical brutality and political inefficacy.
● 5) Therefore unless the cause (white supremacist ideology) is removed as the overarching global system the use of race or other such monikers shall remain. Some substantial, sustained and worldwide JUSTICE is the only way that race or equivalent language can be eradicated.
● 6) Black can allude to, but Africa is a distinct geographical connection. The world, or as said the powers that be, do not wish for you to connect to Africa the geographical location, because as Malcolm X said ~ "land is the basis for all economic security. Land is essential to freedom, justice and equality."
● 7) By and large, blacks/Africans no longer call themselves negro. I hope there's no need to expound.
● 8) We catch up, we understand better with time, accurate information and knowledge. American blacks or African Americans, for a time, colloquially used the term Afro American. You find this usage a lot in Peru and Brazil now. That is, they will soon drop the Afro Peruvian or Afro Brazilian terms for African Peruvian and African Brazilian. By the way, they can also use African American because they were born in South America. This use would be inline with certain sociopolitical considerations.
● 9) Denying that you are from Africa is futile and ignorant.
● 10) In America, some blacks/Africans have established one of the connotations for African American as those blacks in America descending from the system of chattel slavery practiced on USA soil, whether US State, colony or territory. This was done in part for reasons and strategy of legal recourse. e.g. Obama is a Kenyan American and would not be an African American for instances of legal recourse for wrongs perpetrated to descendants of the MAAFA or triangular slave trade specific to the USA. If you don't understand the basic precepts of law, then we shall attempt to bring any who so desires up to speed.
*obviously the 10 bullets (four aces) are from a black American, African American or American vantage point. America holds a key leadership role in uniting people in the pursuit for JUSTICE for all, and that would include justice and equity for blacks / Africans all over the world *
Scipio Less War, , 2016
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