We see each other different because skin color isn't the only thing that can bring people together. There is culture, language, and other differences based on where we come from. Even in Africa people see differences between other Africans based on tribe. Why else would we come here with different hairstyles that indicated who our people were. We are not all the same and it's ok.
Some of us and some Africans see each other differently because it was planned by Western Europeans who colonized the African continent and enslaved us. This planning is well documented. There is a reason that most Europeans focus upon their commonality regardless of culture and language difference. Europeans keep quiet when other Europeans countries [the US is a European country - not withstanding Obama] plunder resources from non-white countries. They are smart enough to understand that their destiny is conjoined, and they all share in the loot. It no coincidence that we got our rights in the US around the times that Africans fought and died to free themselves from overt colonialism and this occurred during the very time we were bonding in unity cross the oceans. Malcolm said “I, for one, would like to impress, especially upon those who call themselves leaders, the importance of realizing the direct connection between the struggle of the Afro-American in this country and the struggle of our people all over the world. As long as we think “that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out.” Malcolm often cited African leaders who struggled against colonialism in his speeches for our rights. He traveled to Africa at least 4 times. Soon after his 1964 return, he gave a speech drawing parallels between European colonial rule and institutionalized racism in the US: the police in Harlem were like the French in Algeria, ‘like an occupying army’. MLK was also inspired in our struggle by his 1957 trip to Africa upon the invitation of Kwame Nkrumah to attend the independence ceremony for Ghana. What MLK witnessed in Ghana left him reinvigorated. MLK said ““I could hear that old Negro spiritual once more crying out: ‘Free at last, free at last, Great God Almighty, I’m free at last,’” he told his congregation in his “Birth of a New Nation” sermon in Alabama. “I stood there thinking about so many things. Before I knew it, I started weeping. I was crying for joy.” It is no coincidence that Mandela went to prison in 63 and Malcolm was killed in 1965. Malcolm had commitments from African leaders to take our plight to the UN. You cannot have African Americans feeling connected to Africans who were also being oppressed by Europeans. Europeans, including the US, met in a secret conference for a year in Berlin 1854-55 to plan ways exploit cultural and language differences, keep Africans worldwide divided and split up and plunder the African continent. Most know little about this until recently despite many countries keeping minutes. Despite many 14 Europeans government being present, we have never seen the minutes kept by any of those countries. It shows just how cross-cultural unity works among Europeans. There is a reason Europeans work hard to keep Africans from understanding our commonality. Europeans were working across the ocean to imprison and kill African Americans and Africans alike. One COINTELPRO objective was to "prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups.” The CIA launched its own espionage project in 1967 called Operation CHAOS. It was designed to create chaos among Africans worldwide. Our commonality surrounds our African heritage and the oppression by Western Europeans whose cultures have exploited our African heritage in the past and present to justify our oppression as inferior people. African Americans have a different culture because it was forbidden by the US government to pass down the culture or language. Most Africans speak several languages, including English. We will never see reparations until we act in unity with Africans to get them. For these reasons and more we need to focus upon or common enemies and heritage, not cultural differences. We will never see reparations until we act in unity with Africans to get them. Slavery in the US would still exists if Britain had not outlawed it in 1833. What other Europeans do and think is more important than what Africans worldwide do and think.
But if you think about it Caucasians (Europeans) don't look at each other by differences in language and culture. As long as you're white, you're right so to speak. We as black people are different but the same.
Likewise, all African-Americans are not the same. No two human being is the same. Humans create culture and it's different from person to person despite being similar. The point is that we're all blacks and have the same origin.
Have always how African Americans just assume because we are black then we should stick... Try tribalism then you will understand the racism you experience in America is child play
As someone who is married to an African woman, I learned as a black American that the black people of Africa are just as diverse as the white people of Europe or the Asian people of Asia. Example, Germans are not French, French are not Italians and Italians are not Dutch. Koreans are not Japanese, Chinese are not Vietnamese, Thais are not Malaysians. So why should we expect Somalis to be the same as Nigerians, Nigerians the same as South Africans, or Egyptians the same as Ugandans. All these groups were different and distinct even before colonization. To say the divisions were due to colonization is just a misrepresentation of the tribal histories of Africa.
From an Ethiopian American born in the USA, we all black. We should learn to support one another and love one another. I don't care if you Nigerian, South African, or Somalian. Learn to care and support each other. Don't disrespect each other no matter how hard it may feel to do so. Peace be upon us black folk and let us pray for Gods glory.
You should have been on the show. It would have be nice to see an east african person on the stage. I hope this show, when it come on topic on africa they need to have africans from east, central, northern and other part participating and for ppl to hear other africans too. Not just nigerians.
Aslong you know you .and watch those that hand picked your ancestor and gave to the white man.because the white is still going to him in Africa to sabotage .steal and enslave Africa Uptill date.just know that
@@oliviaabbot225 I overstand what you are saying. My aunt spent 10,000 dollars researching our families history and one continuous action was done to Nubians was the Caucasians would burn all records and information about whose land this is and our true roots.Yes most of us are indigenous to America but my aunt was still able to connect 10% of my family's history to Ethiopia and the Sudan. So I would just like to state this point we are Earthlings who are indigenous to every corner and point of this entire planet and every other race and nationality are visitors on our mother Earth. We must remember that we are the Guardians of this planet and the entire planet was given to us by our ancestors. Love and peace Queen goddess Olivia💜👍💚💛🧡
Honestly this. A lot of this bad blood stems from both groups trying to maintain this ridiculous moral purity/superiority (victim status), when both sides have done and said some pretty repugnant shit to each other.
💩 rubbish! If a raped person hates thier rapist! Those emotions can not the judged equally! The resentment some blacks may have is completely understandable! White supremacy is just pure evil! So fuck off!
Black Americans worked too damn hard to get where they are at for any, ANY, foreigner to even utter the word “Luh” (Lazy) out of their mouth. Respect your elders (in the US) or go home. - Sierra Leoneon
You sound stupid and idiotic as all hell. Pick up a history book and stop embarrassing yourself like this. A whole grown adult male sounds this deranged.
Some black Americans are very lazy.I saw this when I was in college. No drive to better their own life.Too much smoking,drinking,video games, buffoonery and general foolishness. Not all, but some.
@westst99 You dumb as hell, all the great civilizations in Africa never had to step foot out of Africa to learn, build great infrastructure, or build empires? Show me one nation on the Mother Continent that is powerful (I'll wait) You have to squeeze your subservient ass into our community, our country, and our culture. In which my ancestors fought for your dumbass to come over here and get an education, so you could go back and build something greater than what's there.
I’m born in the UK with Jamaican parents... Caribbean is my soul. We work hard family oriented have admirable traditions, education in my Caribbean family is paramount... my partner is Nigerian, we love hard connect on levels, his strong African distinctions is 💎 I couldn’t see a function without it... 🖤
Haat Praat but unfortunately for you, you are a troll and an Agent Of division. You have nothing but hate in your heart (your display name says it all) je PRAAT alleen maar HAAT
And they didn't touch on any of that. It kind of ticked me off when the Nigerian fellow tried to make it seem as we Black folks living here in America are living in the lap of luxury and don't know what real struggle is.
@La Verne But if they work so much harder than we do, then why don't they have clean running water in most of these African nations? Not all of the water in these predominately Black cities is clean.. Plus we may have public schools here, but must of them are substandard in Black neighborhoods(building wise) and the curriculum is trash.. I mean have you taken the time to go to some of these, so called schools.. Many of the ones in places like Baltimore and Chicago for instance have mold coming out of the walls and no working heat in the winters.. Due in large part to the racism and discrimination that Black Americans face here in America; over fifty percent of the homeless in this country is Black. In Chicago 80% of young Black men can't even find jobs; and it is not for lack of trying. There are more Black men in prison in the US than all of the incarcerated women on the planet. Many of them imprisoned unjustly.. If they were really so much more hard working than Black Americans wouldn't most of the places have systems of justice set up where the women did have rights and whatnot. The rights of Black Americans gets violated all the time but that is because we are only 14% of the population in a country.
When your parents bring you to the homeland because you have life too easy in the land of milk and honey .... you get real and study to your head hurts. I seen an African young man scold a younger black man for dropping out of college from a full scholarship. He didn't appreciate that he was getting bullied to death. He said "As long as they don't take the book out your hands you keep reading!". I say to study among bucket crabs, you gotta have "Africa" strength
@Candace candace am Nigerian born what you said hurts that like me calling every African Americans a gangster or lazy it's wrong. Our mentality growing up was there no one to help you, I mean people die every day from lack of food and government corruption is beyond compare what that meant was you hustled any way to survive. Any persons that think the other races differentiate between our blackness is trippin because the richest black man is still a nigga in their eyes. I refuse to be my brothers and sisters enemies we have enough already.
@@TheStickman17 Saying that African countries have historically and presently let other countries walk all over them is not the equivalent to calling all African Americans gangsters and you know it. Even so, our gangsters ain't got nothing on your gangsters. 😂
@Candace candace this is the gag they dont want to talk about Getting a college degree for them is easier than sorting out corruption from governance and creating countries that have stable economies, reliable infrastructure, adequate health care, etiquette education and a government to keep it all going
Great conversation!!! I dated a Nigerian and he said, "American men are considered lazy because a lot of them don't want to work to take care of their families"
Love these types of conversations, this dialogue is needed. I like that Mike said the younger generation is changing the way we see one another due to Social Media. Which is true, we all have more in common than we think.
True this conversation is needed indeed. But It would have been even greater if they had africans from north, central, east and other part from the continent on stage also and to hear their view point. Not just a nigerian person.
@@Marvelous_M Thanks 😊 Having nigerians only speaking on africa really needs to stop. Because they arent the only africans out there and so its very insulting. I hope they do continue this conversation but they must have others africans too, not just nigerians.
Edwige Nlassa as a person from Central Africa I totally agree with this. Because other Africans have different views. They can’t just have point of view from Nigeria.
@@TheTruthVision Hi 😎😎😎😎😎😎Thank you my fellow african ✌friend, Diversity is important in this sort of discussion when it involves Africa. I had a rude nigerian stating that how nigerians are smarter then other africans🤣🤣🤣. To cut long story short.....I simply said to him that mindset is no different to what a white racist person would say about black people and what donald trump said... "shithole countries". Oh...i also advice him to see a psychiatrist regarding his state of mind🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
True this conversation is needed. But it would have been even greater if they had africans from north, central, east and other part from the continent on stage also and to hear there view point. Not just a nigerian person. Everything that this nigerian person said i completely disagree with him. FYI goat meat dish....is cooked throughout the african continent, not just in nigeria.
FOX SOUL NEEDS TO KEEP THIS KNOWLEDGEABLE ENERGY... Crying shame comment section n thumbs up is on a low..... meanwhile the antics of women and their body count and body parts on fox soul is getting pure traffic... keep going Mike!!!
SAS Thyme I totally agree with you. Also, we're are the only race of people that's undivided in unity, and some of us have our priority twisted. I'm 53yrs old, and segregation destroy us period.
@@chartimbe946 When ever get the chance I've always ask my elders about that and to my surprise some have to me that it was desegregation that caused more of a problem in the long run. I wasn't born yet.
Its true we weren't taught about our culture growing up. But I learned as I got older. There is a great divide between African Americans & other blacks cultures. My good friend is from Nigeria & Ive learned her culture. But most Nigerian& other Caribbean women tht I've come across have the nastiest attitude towards American women & I can't understand it.
Actually I think it's because of the media. We all have misconceptions on each other. When I came to America my mom said stay away from blacks because they are violent. Why?? Because her reference point is from the media and all she sees is sex, drugs and gangs.
True. Crazy thing is, most will portray the American culture of black women. Come to America and dog us out, tell us we're not good enough (how we talk, we're not cultured, not intelligent, tainted blood, our skin, our hair), while running away from their home country.
@@RTTCTV that maybe true but why come to a country of ppl tht are violent & ignorant? If that's the case shouldn't you stay were you are if your country is so elite?
Raquel Evans As an outsider looking in I’ve seen just as many black American women act nasty towards Caribbean and African women. It definitely goes both ways. It’s strange to me because here in Canada we are smart enough to know that society sees us as black Women regardless of where we are born.
I can't say for Caribbean women but you're straight up lying about Nigerians. Nigerians actively search for black friends and treat you how you treat them. Mumu
The first time i came to america , I received so much animosity from african American.. i was super naive i thought I'm in a foreign land obviously I graduated towards African Americans thinking we could have some sort of connection like home but all i was wrong ...
@@The_Cruise_Fam Are you African? And if so, lol. There is literally thousands of tribes in Africa (Yes, I know it's a continent) beefing with each other. Go somewhere with that "Racism" crap.
@Victoria Adeyemi If black Americans were truly "xenophobic" as you said we are, then Caribbeans & definitely you Africans wouldn't be in America. Before the immigration act of 1965 it was zero percent of African immigrants in America. They had a ban on you guy's, and more then likely you wouldn't want to come anyways do to extreme in your face racism. Everything you people have in America has came off the back of black Americans. Fix your Tribalism in Wakanda first before you start talking about people being "Xenophobic".
Victoria Adeyemi Please, don’t agree with that nonsense standby. It wasn’t anything black Americans did. It was what immigration did world wide. It’s not only Africans that benefits from immigration there are other foreigners too. Why do we even care about these people?! They can kick rocks is all I care. I’d rather roll with people who are level head from any race.
Bitch I look good ! Truth is you are RACIST! And you are exhibiting it too. So before you call another white man racist, check yourself first. Human is a cursed race, period!
Ooooh i loved this. I don’t know if this show is strictly for Black Americans but as a British born and raised half Ghanaian half Jamaican woman, I would loved to have been the 4th person being interviewed. Just to provide another perspective and experience. I learn so much from these types of videos, the black American experience is so unique. Love from London 🇬🇧
There are over 2,000 indigenous African Languages; in Nigeria there are over 500 indigenous languages. All of those languages are connected to different CULTURES, etc. Its NOT by design, it just IS. Not all black people or any other culture are the same.
Have you ever asked yourself why it cost less to fly to kaduna from Lagos that it cost more to fly to Ghana from Lagos?? When both flights are thesame distance?? Its by design. Although not totally, the evil in man is still prominent
React to this Channel !!!! Wtf does that have to do with what he said. Ya god why are people so stupid loud and wrong. Abeg shut your mouth if you no get sense. Idiot. We re talking culture this one is talking airplanes
FYI...africa is made up of 54 countries and you will find many african countries that many languages, not just in nigeria. For example in DR kongo there are over 450 languages spoken and given the fact that theres two kongos, between both kongos combined and nigeria, there are more languages spoken in both kongos then in nigeria. One thing that make africa special then other continents is that is the most diverse region in the planet. You will find many of these countries speak many many different languages.
I am an immigrant in America. I have met a lot of hard-working African Americans but some still need to learn and understand that being African American does not mean superior to Africans. Some black college guys from my uni actually told some girls that they smell African. what is smelling African for someone who has been in the USA for years, eat the same food and bath the same water as you on campus? Its ignorance. Overall, there will always be a divide because of a lack of awareness, acceptance, and understanding of each other's cultures and upbringing, not forgetting what the media says about both African Americans and Africans.
Precious Naniso we are better than immigrants. You came to the country our ancestors built. Not the other way around. We are not in your country. Based on this fact alone we are better. Individual name calling doesn’t change the group dynamics.
John ETA Could you elaborate on what you and your kin have contributed to making America an economic powerhouse? Please don’t mention slavery because that only benefitted rich, upperclass, white southerners.
@@nwoka No one should explain anything to you when you can research it. If you think that the only thing African Americans brought to the USA was slavery you are extremely ignorant. Now go do your research and come back and list 10 things we have contributed to the US.
Actually, there is a smell from the ones I know to be honest. And one of them is a fishy smell and then other one i just can't figure out but is related to the food they cook. I will get the name and reply back but to me it smells awful.
In conclusion; Africans/immigrants see opportunity, african-americans see struggles? There's a truth in that. I noticed the same thing in Europe with our 1st generation african immigrants and us who were born/raised here. The older generation says we take things for granted. We really disappoint them when we do the same hard labour as them instead of going up that ladder.
True. It would have been even greater if they had africans from north, central, east and other part from the continent on stage also and to hear their view point. Not just a nigerian person.
@@edwigen7245 to be honest, AAs, Caribbean ppl and West africans are from the same places originally (i.e. West Africa) with overlapping history and ethnicity. To have others on there might not make sense as they are from different parts of Africa. Thus, North, East and South Africans etc might not be exactly appropriate for some of these conversation per se.
@@andrewh4806 To be honest, unfortunetly you are completely wrong. 1. The discussion was about africa and so the host should have included other africans too.You will find many africans from north, central, east, southern part of africa living in the US and so they are africans. 2. The enslaved african were also taken from central, east part of africa too and shipped to america/ west hemisphere. So to say that carribean ppl and AA are only west african descendant and from one place is completely false. One of my AA friend did a test and discoverd that her ancestors came from east africa. 3. Judging from your comment regarding west africa, you really need to understand that west africa.....is just a small part of continent. Africa is made up of - Northern, central, east, south and west.The continent of Africa isnt the west part. Its the whole of the 5 regions I mentioned. So please do acknowledge this. 4.Any discussion that include or involves AFRICA - africans from north, central, east, south, west have to be included. Hope this answers your comment.
My father is Nigerian and my mother is Jamaican there is truth to BOTH of those stereotypes. Stereotypes are called that for a reason because there is some truth!
@@theronwright1413 Don't AA have the opportunity to start businesses and attend universities? Do you honestly believe that Nigerians are getting these opportunities handed to them without doing the work required for it?
Africans and Caribbeans approach America as immigrants, just like... immigrants. They see America as a land of opportunity, but forgive black Americans for not seeing America as the beacon of opportunity for all, when their parents were born as American citizens, w/o even having civil/equal rights. Everyone on the outside is always full of opinions when they're the ones holding the microscope.
And not acknowledging ancestors of those who paid the ultimate price, which in turn helped to get the ball rolling to make America great while in her infant stage.
@Mocha Brown idk about all that. I live in NYC, where there are huge populations of blk Caribbeans and Africans. The general notion is that they think blk Americans are lazy. Their immigrant parents are more likely to be on their necks about college/education/owning businesses than the average blk American mom who's the product of slavery/jim crow/systematic poverty/classrooms w 45 students/third generation single parent working 3 jobs/etc, and only 13 years older than her child. Poverty + lack of easy access to opportunity equals low success odds. That's the point that black immigrants too often miss, or minimize. There's a laundry list of reasons why blk Americans aren't all drs and lawyers (the only seemingly acceptable careers to blk immigrants) only 55 years after we got equal rights.
@westst99 I rest my case. Thanks for proving my point. Smh.. It's like someone from Chicago trying to tell people in Houston what their local realities and issues are. 'What they need to do is...'. I just know that while black ppl are arguing about where their mamas are from, if I had a dollar for every white person who knows, sees or even cares about the difference btwn blks, I'd have about $12...
And funny enough, growing up I was poor, plus Iam Black American. I used too be called Haitian as an insult because the stereotype from where I come, they "looked poor". And the Haitian people I went to high school with that didn't "look Haitian" were ashamed of speaking Creole or letting people know their culture. Tall about a disconnect 🤦🏾
The point that the Nigerian guy made at the end of the conversation about the older generation of Nigerians calling Black Americans "lazy" was so self-serving. Yet, he didn't dare challenge his own people to put themselves in our shoes. This goes to show that anti-black Americanness does exist and that's why these diasporic wars will continue to rage on.🤷🏾♂️
Proud of you, Dulo. Nigeria in the house! You represented us well in this conversation! Fantastic! 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 And yes, we work and study twice as hard because of our existing reality.
So what are you saying? That 53 other african communities out there dont study hard and work twice as hard ? I think you need to know the difference between being confident and arrogant. And you sound very rude and arrogant.The greatest african person....the great nelson madela....worked hard all his life and he was the father of african nation, he was a south african. I think it important that you need to realize that all africans work very hard to achieve things in life.
There is poor in Africa and America .... and there are nice city areas as well ..... they just said that. 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ Different struggles however neither have it easier. There is truth that some who come to America have a preconceived notion on black Americans .... The same as whites do ....why do ppl have to lesson the struggles ppl have endured 🤦🏽♀️ #Onelove
Great discourse. These discussions should continue. Lot's of enlightenment. Revolution happening. The continent needs to unite and disconnect from those who disconnected its people and ripped its natural resources.
I really like the point about the perception of the meaning of the word lazy at the end. In the African household it exists across generations as well, my grandmother generally believes I am lazy, that is because her definition of what "not being lazy" is different since she has had to do way more to earn the little things I get with little to no effort. In perspective... the cost of free education facilities in the West is often the equivalent of a couple of thousands of dollars per year elsewhere in the world, so perhaps to not pursue it for someone coming in from the outside seems like laziness.
Yea Africa was extremely divided because it's the most diverse continent in the world more ethnic groups and genetic variations than the whole world combined.
Silver Slipper right ! Wth did he forget he was on a stage doing a live filming lol that has to be one hell of a itch ! N the face to go with it 😳I couldn’t focus on the question of why it’s designed like that I’m now more concerned about why he’s scratching like that lol
@@peacheskong2245 if you don't know how "jungle" has historically been employed by racist whites/Europeans, you have a lot of reading to do in addition to documentaries to watch on the history of racism in general.
He doesn’t know the truth. « The power that be » is a nice formula that can mean anything and anyone. As long as it sounds mysterious and can negate any responsibility we might have, it is good to go. Our people are so busy fighting an enemy they cannot see or touch that they forget that our community is slowly getting worse and divided.
I want you guys to notice the answer that b watts was gave when host asked a black American how he saw other black people who were not culturally American. It's a very telling answer because for the most its truth. Black Americans don't look at black people from other countries as others are different but we always saw them as us. Really interesting compared to how blacks from different countries see us.
@westst99 couldn't of said it better myself brother. I don't mind that African Americans now love Africans and Africa but lets not act like they look down on us at one point. And to be fair some Africans did look down on African Americans but that was a small group for most part Africans loved and aspired to be like their American counterparts. Trevor Noah even has a whole special based on that.
@Mocha Brown you need to listen to how ignorant you sound. You are accusing other black ppl of wiping out other black ppl by migrating to that space. As if there is a difference between African American and african. Coz last time I checked all these ppl were black. Yawl are the same ppl who be on social media saying that the white man stole and raped you and erased you culture but you now have the nerve to say this. I'm sure you've done a dna searching for your African roots. I've never seen a more confused bunch.
Disagree. We knew African/Caribbean were different because the culture is different. We just didn't hate or disdain them for it like they do us. We let them join our organizations and our universities.
@westst99 there is a difference from roasting and capping than having disdain. We roast and clown each other its apart of our culture but grew with an d Caribbean people and never looked at them as different people but as same as me. But now that we have social media it's clear that we don't have the same views as our brothers and sisters in different countries we not them as they see it. That's what been brought to light has nothing to do with no damn black panther but now it's out yall want act bitter when he same energy and that's goes for those black Latinos to. Now that we calling everybody out now we xenophobic
If we were educated about each other’s cultures and ethnicities and stop being insulting and divisive we would be running the world. As an immigrant I fully support the ADOS movement but just know that chattel slavery did also exist in the Caribbean and has been devastated and brainwashed by Colonialism.
@Datsizer "You do realize Pan Africanism started in the US, right?" Not really. Henry Williams, from Trinidad, started the movement in the UK. And also, arguably one of the most influential black leaders who pushed for African American financial independence and went on to influence MLK and Malcom X, Marcus Garvey was from Jamaica--he was probably the most notable Pan Africanist. For someone who identifies themself as "African American" your knowledge of history is lacking to say the least.
The cultural disconnect between Black Africans everywhere is mainly because we did not tell our own stories for a very long time. Almost all of our education is framed from a Eurocentric perspective, the systems and institutions built in the past few centuries are still with us today, so we have a very distorted identity after constant indoctrination. When we factor in colonization of the African continent, slavery of stolen Africans, now living in the diaspora we are still suffering the effects of sinister actions of the past. Too many focus on tiny cultural differences unable to see the bigger picture where white supremacy is active, treating all black and people of color as one group to exploit. Instead of banding together to dismantle said system we take jabs at each other and try to improve our station within said system. Hopefully with more and African people of the diaspora becoming curious about Africa and more and more Africans on the continent reaching out, we will continue making connections, creating networks and hopefully work out our identity issues, start telling our own stories and start tearing down old systems.
The term "African booty Scratcher" wasn't specifically for Africans. I'm a dark skinned black American my family has been here for centuries and growing up because I was dark the children would call me that.
We are not the same though. Saying we all come from Africa so we're the same makes no sense because Africa is the most diverse continent in the world, we can NEVER be the same. And that's ok. We need to embrace our differences instead tryna force ourselves into a homogeneous group.
Afrika is diverse but afrikans are black thats my point people in north afrika are not afrikans these are arabs and berbers not indigenous afrikans white people in south afrika are european settlers not afrikans ok yes you have igbos yoruba hausa fulani mandinka wolof mende kru akan fanti xhosa zulu ndebele shona venda sotho hutu tutsi all different ethnic groups but guess what theyre all black people and if they lived in amerikkka guess what the police would say after he pulled any of them over or stopped and frisqued any of them or followed them around in the store it would be what tribe you come from you see europeans ie white folks dont care about that only us negroes with colonized minds think that way
So if we are not the same where did you get your AFRICAN features from and sec where did we different blacks come from where did our creation to exist on this planet came from there's a difference between creation of life and where we reside at live educate yourself beyond American knowledge and history
@@aamrakamran7275 what about oprah winfrey shes all lives matter what about all the black celebs married to whites tika sumpter whoopie goldberg rutina wesley alfre woodard susan rice byron allen taye diggs i can on all day about interacial loving black celebs who was more all lives matter than dr ml king cmon man
I am a blackman from the U.S.,I finally went home to Africa.Yes it changes the feelings more about Africa.It is way more better for blacks there.It just needs more stronger governments so the people can live.Time for the colonial borders to go.We have to become one family.One reason Africa is to rich in natural resources.
@@jezebelsmother9825 You going to stop me from going? Then go to hell and that's your opinion.What you dont know and now you will know.I have already been to "Black Africa" and I will be going back.Money talks and your bullshit walks.Go kick rocks "poop butt".
@@jezebelsmother9825 Who fuck are you Moron to be giveing instruction.Do you and dont worry about what I do asshole.We didnt come from the same womb.Fool!
I noticed the same thing.. But stop saying they have "us shook".. They have him and many other African shook. I as a Black American and very knowledgeable of this nations white supremacist history and am not afraid to call it out.
Our problem is that we don’t understand that we have the same story but just different chapters because of slavery. We are the same and I think a lot of blacks are starting to understand as you see more black Americans and Afro Latino going to visit the motherland or even moving there and I am happy to see that cause that s also their land. We are on the right path and hopefully we will come stronger and together as people
I met a female from Nigeria working in the USA, but bragging how she drives a Mercedes back in Nigeria. Under the same breath, stated she can't wear pants in her area, etc. (while showing us pics). Another female from Cameroon stated she was looking for a husband. I said I knew a few guys. The Nigerian stated she needs to stick with her own. I quickly pointed out she has a Mercedes, but drives on a dirt road. In the USA she's driving a Nissan, while in the USA wearing pants. So obviously, she was changing while in the USA.
most black Americans live off the back of white people it a mere fact whether it be jobs are housing black in the usa don't own shit whereas in Africa most houses are own by the descendants living there
@@osazuwaogbeide1540 Most African countries are funded and was conquered by Europeans. That's why y'all are speaking some form of English Spanish French Portuguese.
@@hb3041 But still atleast the land we own won't be taking away for not paying property taxes. IF shit goes haywire majority of you blacks will be the first one evicted from your homes
@@hb3041 I know because I have family and I have lived in the usa before. The land that your house is build on is not owned by you and that speak volumes
The same reason why Empire and star showed on Fox. Because it's a media conglomerate that's in the business of making money. They're very comfortable having a news networks geared towards a black audience along with having a news Network geared towards conservative whites. They don't care about either side they just want your money
Exactly. And that's where I disagree about it being completely down to white supremacy. It's about a difference in values and assimilation. The 3rd and 4th generation Caribbean immigrants are definitely much different to 1st and 2nd generation African and Caribbean immigrants in the UK and you can see the divide that is similar to the US.
I was watching a movie and I heard one of the characters say every society enslaves other human beings it’s always been that way.It made me think about the plight of blacks in American and the injustices we live with today.And I realized that what he said was real.In 2020 we are still slaves.Its just structured different.Thats why we are treated as irrelevant in this country.Thats why racism is still in affect,employment opportunities,subsidized housing,drugs,disproportionate jail sentences.Its set up that way to still enslave us.
He answered the question before he asked it. We are from different ethnicities and backgrounds. That’s like saying why don’t all white people or all Asians see each other same way. Anyone who thinks these groups have gotten along and have not enacted heinous acts against each other are delusional. Just like the multiple ethnicities in sub Saharan African have done to one another. So why are we assuming that because look similar, we should get along? I would love us to, but I question the premise of the question. People don’t get along with people with whom that they don’t share cultural, ethnic and social sameness. We have some cultural similarities, but culturally we are distinct from the numerous African cultures. Is there some grand conspiracy beyond basic human idiocy and ignorance at work on the part of all parties concerned? Probably not. Is there some legacy of racial supremacist thinking being re-enacted on an intraracial level. Definitely. I think it does us a disservice to conflate phenotype (how we look on the outside) with the sum total of who we are as African Americans and assume we are the same as everyone else within the African Diaspora. In an ideal world, there would be no division among any peoples. But first we must recognize each other’s uniqueness and experiences. That’s just my two cents.
I think people should take a look at themselves and be honest whether they're inclusive or decisive when it comes to black people of other cultures. Pointing the finger at others and looking at past experience doesn't solve anything. I think the first step is being aware and taking personal responsibility of being a part of the problem or a part of the solution..
@@proudseeker4814 would you agree the same applies when people call you nigga. Isn't nigga just as childlike? I think its funny when grown men and women go crazy over being called nigga.
Why are opportunity diffrent here than in Africa but we should not think Afric is not desirable land. You cant have it both ways. I cant say Mississippi is a great place to live and than say the south is the worst place to live. Their are major city's in Africa but Africa has more issues than they are willing to tell. Africans want money or currency to come their it's not about unity
I lived in Texas and I am from the Caribbean. When I was moving there I thought it was all white folks and cowboys... Houston is however VERY diverse... large Asian population (lots of Vietnamese) , Caribbean and African. Love that city!!!!
Trying to make conversation at same time making stereotypical word. Who says Nigerians get water from well? Who says we don't get water from fridge? People can get water from well perhaps in very poor villages. Remote one.
I believe he used that as an analogy of how hard African parents in America had to work for things prior to coming to America. They of course want to give their kids an easier life but a typical African parent occasionally just wants to see their kids make more effort than necessary. To them it signifies that you are willing to put in the work to succeed. Also signifies you can survive and get yourself backup if unfortunately you stop having access to that good life.
I think it really just boils down to a sense of community. The umbrella of the community can be as large or as narrow as the situation demands. I can identify as black when necessary but can distinguish myself as an African when necessary, I can identify as Nigerian to distinguish myself from Ghanaians. I can identify a Igbo to distinguish from a Yoruba. Etc. On the other hand an african American can identify as black, can identify as east coast vs west coast, team Knicks vs Net etc. It is just human nature to identify w/ different communities differently when they want to come together or when they want to be distinct. Similar levels of hostilities may apply depending on how narrow the umbrella is being set. So it's just a matter of eliminating some of the ignorance and knowing when/how to set the umbrella of community.
I did alittle research. I was curious to know what was Africa called before it was known as Africa, and who was Africa named after. I found my answer. Please do some research family. It's eye opening.
All my black people on here, be grateful for your blackness. Ain't nothing else like it, we haven't even lived 20% of our potential yet we haven't even prospered yet. That there is crazy.
The main problem stems from America's negative media portrayal of black Americans through media of .music and movies which black American like me have followed and I must say is one of our biggest demises also should be noted I come from a Caribbean background
OMG when he said we just worried about rims on our car....what?!!!!??? Flint, Michigan doesn't have water....there are swaths of the United States that are underdeveloped because it's designed to keep some people poor. Most African Americans were born into not only poverty, but a legacy of poverty....
@Victoria Adeyemi when I say Nubian I mean melaninated people all over the world. Victoria Nubian is the all inclusive term for unity description. You need to truly let go of the word black. I will give you an example Dr. Henry Clark would say when he went to Egypt all the melaninated people would say we are all Nubians around the world but if you want to play the game we are Negros, blacks, colored or African Americans I refuse to play that game. Peace and coconut oil V.👍👍
@Victoria Adeyemi I am glad you are telling me this because now my question is how many Nigerians have that mindset because I have talked to sisters and brothers all around Africa and all agreed with me. I don't really ever mingle with Nigerians because many Nubian people born in America can feel the hatred from mainly Nigerians and no other African sisters and brothers separate from Nubians in America like you all. I truly apologize for trying to connect Nubian Americans and Nigerians. I still would love to hear the percentage of Nigerians who think like you because the last thing I am doing is trying to belittle your Nigerian heritage. Peace and coconut oil 💜💜
@Victoria Adeyemi I am a journalist so you are saying that all the sisters and brothers were lying to my face right. You are truly a Caucasian in melanin. I know one truth out of all the Nigerians I have ever met only 1% had any love or connection to Nubian Americans. Now I see why Nubian Americans feel the hatred from you all and feel we can never connect with you all. You are screaming no love and that's ok. Peace and coconut oil 👍
@Victoria Adeyemi I was bothered by what you were saying yesterday but everything happens for a reason. My Doctor and his entire family works in my health clinic and every Nigerian in the clinic accept for one Nigerian agreed with me and literally felt you are trying to separate and destroy the foundation between our two people's. If you feel that I am lying we can set up a meet and greet with me you and Dr. Eno. Let's come together and show just how right you are. Peace and coconut oil. 👍👍
@@ryancampbell8203 What your doing, keep up the good work ✌✌✌✌ Judging by victoria's comment unfortunetly she one of those nigerians that attends to thinks that they are the only africans in the planet 🤣🤣🤣and dont acknowledge that there are actually 53 africans communities out there.So you really shouldnt be suprised at her comments and you shouldnt be suprise either that shes never heard of "nubian". Nigerians are just one out of 54 africans communities. And since you had good experience with other africans communities, i would advice you to continue on that path and continue engaging with them.
....🤦🏾♀️ People in the comments are really living me speechless. I believe I'd mentioned this before on a different clip but, you need to realize is that the word "Akata" is similar if not the same as "Oyinbo" The two words are Yoruba slangs for foreigners. We all have labels for different people, even within our ethnicities we discriminate each other too based on situations (e.g. Obanje, 'Mammy water' etc) Oh, and one more thing, we have more than 99 languages and dialects spoken in Nigeria alone. So where am I going with this? For me, it all depends on the context in which the words are used. Some of the African Americans that may have overheard Africans (or specifically Nigerians) use the word Akata, were they berating or insulting someone in particular or not? Was the entire conversation even in English? Granted, there would be some stereotypes associated with the word but like I said it all depends on the context. For example, "The white man over said he would like to talk to you" vs "Dat Oyinbo wey dey dere say he wan talk" 👀👀👀👀 The second part is in pidgin (broken) English. Or "That black woman was not happy with her son's exam result" And if you know the "black woman" is African American? It may translate to------ "That Akata woman vex for 'in son eh! See vex!" Now keep in mind that this are only words/slangs from one language used to describe different foreigners. Yorubas also have names for Arabs or Chinese etc. You get the picture. But what cracks me up the most as I write this is that I'm Nigerian but not even Yoruba... If only most of y'all even knew how many different descriptors people from non-English speaking countries have for you.... Let's just say you'd be mindblown 🤯.
Oh wow.... Since I didn't grow up using that "word" I see no reason why I should use it in the first place. What I do know is, you didn't understand what I wrote 🤷🏾♀️. And that isn't any of my problem.
Should known your ancestors history, remembered our ancestors were divided to the four corners of the Earth. Speak of Africa, Africa is the most richest Continent of the atmosphere.
As a Nigerian, my experience of UK blacks, is that I find them looking down on me because I come from Africa. The smear campaign on Africa in the UK is so intense that those that grew up here with African parents in extreme cases, see their connection to Africa as a curse. The colonisers who built their country on the wealth of Africa, turn round and ensure that currently, their citizens hate Africa by constantly portraying it as savage n backward. While back in Africa, Hollywood paints a picture of gangster and wayward African Americans. So, a lot of Africans buy into that stereotypes of African Americans as people that are no good, lazy and don't abide by the law. Africans are not educated about the system that has been in place to keep blacks in the US subjugated. Africans also, have internalised the message that we are only valid when we achieve through the white man's "education", so we pursue it with our heart n soul. We pursue this success but it's a success that is based on seeking validation from the white man (this is not their fault but remnants of the colonial mentality). Black diaspora division is complicated and has a lot to do with the messages each group receives. We could be the same as African, Carribean and African American because we all understand struggle and we all share the blood of Africa. But we are kept seperared by our different experiences and the messages that the reigning powers feed us. As one of the panel said, the structure is put in place to keep us divided. We could benefit immensely from seeing our similarities, but we choose to keep our differences because it is what is taught to us.
Dulo Harris the civil rights movement made the most sacrifice for black people not millennials. The civil rights movement paved the way for your family to come to America for a new life.
We see each other different because skin color isn't the only thing that can bring people together. There is culture, language, and other differences based on where we come from. Even in Africa people see differences between other Africans based on tribe. Why else would we come here with different hairstyles that indicated who our people were. We are not all the same and it's ok.
We know this sis but still you have not understand your on the list period regardless it make no different
Some of us and some Africans see each other differently because it was planned by Western Europeans who colonized the African continent and enslaved us. This planning is well documented. There is a reason that most Europeans focus upon their commonality regardless of culture and language difference. Europeans keep quiet when other Europeans countries [the US is a European country - not withstanding Obama] plunder resources from non-white countries. They are smart enough to understand that their destiny is conjoined, and they all share in the loot. It no coincidence that we got our rights in the US around the times that Africans fought and died to free themselves from overt colonialism and this occurred during the very time we were bonding in unity cross the oceans. Malcolm said “I, for one, would like to impress, especially upon those who call themselves leaders, the importance of realizing the direct connection between the struggle of the Afro-American in this country and the struggle of our people all over the world. As long as we think “that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out.” Malcolm often cited African leaders who struggled against colonialism in his speeches for our rights. He traveled to Africa at least 4 times. Soon after his 1964 return, he gave a speech drawing parallels between European colonial rule and institutionalized racism in the US: the police in Harlem were like the French in Algeria, ‘like an occupying army’. MLK was also inspired in our struggle by his 1957 trip to Africa upon the invitation of Kwame Nkrumah to attend the independence ceremony for Ghana. What MLK witnessed in Ghana left him reinvigorated. MLK said ““I could hear that old Negro spiritual once more crying out: ‘Free at last, free at last, Great God Almighty, I’m free at last,’” he told his congregation in his “Birth of a New Nation” sermon in Alabama. “I stood there thinking about so many things. Before I knew it, I started weeping. I was crying for joy.” It is no coincidence that Mandela went to prison in 63 and Malcolm was killed in 1965. Malcolm had commitments from African leaders to take our plight to the UN. You cannot have African Americans feeling connected to Africans who were also being oppressed by Europeans. Europeans, including the US, met in a secret conference for a year in Berlin 1854-55 to plan ways exploit cultural and language differences, keep Africans worldwide divided and split up and plunder the African continent. Most know little about this until recently despite many countries keeping minutes. Despite many 14 Europeans government being present, we have never seen the minutes kept by any of those countries. It shows just how cross-cultural unity works among Europeans. There is a reason Europeans work hard to keep Africans from understanding our commonality. Europeans were working across the ocean to imprison and kill African Americans and Africans alike. One COINTELPRO objective was to "prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups.”
The CIA launched its own espionage project in 1967 called Operation CHAOS. It was designed to create chaos among Africans worldwide. Our commonality surrounds our African heritage and the oppression by Western Europeans whose cultures have exploited our African heritage in the past and present to justify our oppression as inferior people. African Americans have a different culture because it was forbidden by the US government to pass down the culture or language. Most Africans speak several languages, including English. We will never see reparations until we act in unity with Africans to get them. For these reasons and more we need to focus upon or common enemies and heritage, not cultural differences. We will never see reparations until we act in unity with Africans to get them. Slavery in the US would still exists if Britain had not outlawed it in 1833. What other Europeans do and think is more important than what Africans worldwide do and think.
But if you think about it Caucasians (Europeans) don't look at each other by differences in language and culture. As long as you're white, you're right so to speak. We as black people are different but the same.
Likewise, all African-Americans are not the same. No two human being is the same. Humans create culture and it's different from person to person despite being similar. The point is that we're all blacks and have the same origin.
Have always how African Americans just assume because we are black then we should stick... Try tribalism then you will understand the racism you experience in America is child play
As someone who is married to an African woman, I learned as a black American that the black people of Africa are just as diverse as the white people of Europe or the Asian people of Asia. Example, Germans are not French, French are not Italians and Italians are not Dutch. Koreans are not Japanese, Chinese are not Vietnamese, Thais are not Malaysians. So why should we expect Somalis to be the same as Nigerians, Nigerians the same as South Africans, or Egyptians the same as Ugandans. All these groups were different and distinct even before colonization. To say the divisions were due to colonization is just a misrepresentation of the tribal histories of Africa.
This was a great video. I believe Godfrey, the comedian, would have been excellent on this panel since he is Nigerian but born and raised in America.
Yes!
Agreed
He'd be too effective
@Gordon Payne Godfrey was born in Nigeria but who is check.
From an Ethiopian American born in the USA, we all black. We should learn to support one another and love one another. I don't care if you Nigerian, South African, or Somalian. Learn to care and support each other. Don't disrespect each other no matter how hard it may feel to do so. Peace be upon us black folk and let us pray for Gods glory.
Preach!!!
You should have been on the show. It would have be nice to see an east african person on the stage. I hope this show, when it come on topic on africa they need to have africans from east, central, northern and other part participating and for ppl to hear other africans too. Not just nigerians.
The division must end. I am a African period. 💜💜💜
@Kriss You knew what he meant smh lol
Aslong you know you .and watch those that hand picked your ancestor and gave to the white man.because the white is still going to him in Africa to sabotage .steal and enslave Africa Uptill date.just know that
@@oliviaabbot225 I overstand what you are saying. My aunt spent 10,000 dollars researching our families history and one continuous action was done to Nubians was the Caucasians would burn all records and information about whose land this is and our true roots.Yes most of us are indigenous to America but my aunt was still able to connect 10% of my family's history to Ethiopia and the Sudan. So I would just like to state this point we are Earthlings who are indigenous to every corner and point of this entire planet and every other race and nationality are visitors on our mother Earth. We must remember that we are the Guardians of this planet and the entire planet was given to us by our ancestors. Love and peace Queen goddess Olivia💜👍💚💛🧡
@@ryancampbell8203 better
@@nerdyafrican1185 I was just about to say the he knew what he was trying to say
The hate goes both ways. No ones completely innocent
Honestly this. A lot of this bad blood stems from both groups trying to maintain this ridiculous moral purity/superiority (victim status), when both sides have done and said some pretty repugnant shit to each other.
@@nwoka all of it is counterproductive.
💩 rubbish! If a raped person hates thier rapist! Those emotions can not the judged equally! The resentment some blacks may have is completely understandable! White supremacy is just pure evil! So fuck off!
Youre obviously white
The reality is that we will always have our differences but that shouldn't overshadow what we have in common.
I'm so proud of the younger people who are doing one simple thing and that's waking up. That alone is huge step.
Black Americans worked too damn hard to get where they are at for any, ANY, foreigner to even utter the word “Luh” (Lazy) out of their mouth. Respect your elders (in the US) or go home.
- Sierra Leoneon
You sound stupid and idiotic as all hell. Pick up a history book and stop embarrassing yourself like this. A whole grown adult male sounds this deranged.
Some black Americans are very lazy.I saw this when I was in college. No drive to better their own life.Too much smoking,drinking,video games, buffoonery and general foolishness. Not all, but some.
Word! I say to any immigrant in the USA, if you are so outstanding and brilliant, why are you here?
Why not make things happen in your home country?
@westst99 You dumb as hell, all the great civilizations in Africa never had to step foot out of Africa to learn, build great infrastructure, or build empires? Show me one nation on the Mother Continent that is powerful (I'll wait) You have to squeeze your subservient ass into our community, our country, and our culture. In which my ancestors fought for your dumbass to come over here and get an education, so you could go back and build something greater than what's there.
@westst99 Akon was born in America
I’m born in the UK with Jamaican parents... Caribbean is my soul. We work hard family oriented have admirable traditions, education in my Caribbean family is paramount... my partner is Nigerian, we love hard connect on levels, his strong African distinctions is 💎 I couldn’t see a function without it... 🖤
I'm also UK born with Jamaican parents...from Clarendon. I would rather die before taking up with an African.
Haat Praat but unfortunately for you, you are a troll and an Agent Of division. You have nothing but hate in your heart (your display name says it all) je PRAAT alleen maar HAAT
@@TheTruthVision Je hebt gelijk. Ik hou niet van Afrikanen. Daar ben ik trots op.
@@haatpraat2993 Lol. With the way you sound, I'm sure no African wants to have anything to do with you. We don't work with negative energy like yours.
The problem is that Caribbeans, African look at the bad apples in black society and think that all black Americans
Nice conversation but there are a lot of cities in America they don’t have clean water. They’re also living on land with toxic waste.
And they didn't touch on any of that. It kind of ticked me off when the Nigerian fellow tried to make it seem as we Black folks living here in America are living in the lap of luxury and don't know what real struggle is.
@@00ghostcobra African slums are way worse in terms of basic needs . I'm from flint
@La Verne But if they work so much harder than we do, then why don't they have clean running water in most of these African nations? Not all of the water in these predominately Black cities is clean.. Plus we may have public schools here, but must of them are substandard in Black neighborhoods(building wise) and the curriculum is trash.. I mean have you taken the time to go to some of these, so called schools.. Many of the ones in places like Baltimore and Chicago for instance have mold coming out of the walls and no working heat in the winters.. Due in large part to the racism and discrimination that Black Americans face here in America; over fifty percent of the homeless in this country is Black. In Chicago 80% of young Black men can't even find jobs; and it is not for lack of trying. There are more Black men in prison in the US than all of the incarcerated women on the planet. Many of them imprisoned unjustly.. If they were really so much more hard working than Black Americans wouldn't most of the places have systems of justice set up where the women did have rights and whatnot. The rights of Black Americans gets violated all the time but that is because we are only 14% of the population in a country.
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I absolutely LOVE Dulo! A funny guy but yet a very intelligent individual
When your parents bring you to the homeland because you have life too easy in the land of milk and honey .... you get real and study to your head hurts. I seen an African young man scold a younger black man for dropping out of college from a full scholarship. He didn't appreciate that he was getting bullied to death. He said "As long as they don't take the book out your hands you keep reading!". I say to study among bucket crabs, you gotta have "Africa" strength
Word!!
Of all the comments here,this is the most concise. Well done 👍 Sir.
@Candace candace am Nigerian born what you said hurts that like me calling every African Americans a gangster or lazy it's wrong. Our mentality growing up was there no one to help you, I mean people die every day from lack of food and government corruption is beyond compare what that meant was you hustled any way to survive. Any persons that think the other races differentiate between our blackness is trippin because the richest black man is still a nigga in their eyes. I refuse to be my brothers and sisters enemies we have enough already.
@@TheStickman17 Saying that African countries have historically and presently let other countries walk all over them is not the equivalent to calling all African Americans gangsters and you know it.
Even so, our gangsters ain't got nothing on your gangsters. 😂
@Candace candace this is the gag they dont want to talk about
Getting a college degree for them is easier than sorting out corruption from governance and creating countries that have stable economies, reliable infrastructure, adequate health care, etiquette education and a government to keep it all going
Great conversation!!! I dated a Nigerian and he said, "American men are considered lazy because a lot of them don't want to work to take care of their families"
But do you agree tho??
@@RTTCTV There is some truth compared to their African upbringing ..
Many American men tend to leave their kids. Many seem to put energy into superficial outlets such as chasing women and being a womanizer.
For those I have encountered, the work ethic is not the same. It is more self-centered first, then the homies, then perpetrating an image.
Exist N Nature Media viewing American black men from the same lens as the White Supremacy..
Love these types of conversations, this dialogue is needed. I like that Mike said the younger generation is changing the way we see one another due to Social Media. Which is true, we all have more in common than we think.
True this conversation is needed indeed. But It would have been even greater if they had africans from north, central, east and other part from the continent on stage also and to hear their view point. Not just a nigerian person.
Edwige Nlassa Absolutely! As a person from east Africa I agree. Hopefully they continue this conversation.
@@Marvelous_M Thanks 😊
Having nigerians only speaking on africa really needs to stop. Because they arent the only africans out there and so its very insulting. I hope they do continue this conversation but they must have others africans too, not just nigerians.
Edwige Nlassa as a person from Central Africa I totally agree with this. Because other Africans have different views. They can’t just have point of view from Nigeria.
@@TheTruthVision Hi 😎😎😎😎😎😎Thank you my fellow african ✌friend, Diversity is important in this sort of discussion when it involves Africa. I had a rude nigerian stating that how nigerians are smarter then other africans🤣🤣🤣. To cut long story short.....I simply said to him that mindset is no different to what a white racist person would say about black people and what donald trump said... "shithole countries".
Oh...i also advice him to see a psychiatrist regarding his state of mind🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love this talk, as a Nigerian American this is a well needed discussion... There’s so much the diaspora can offer each other
100%
Agreed, united we are stronger.
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True this conversation is needed. But it would have been even greater if they had africans from north, central, east and other part from the continent on stage also and to hear there view point. Not just a nigerian person. Everything that this nigerian person said i completely disagree with him. FYI goat meat dish....is cooked throughout the african continent, not just in nigeria.
@@edwigen7245 no Africans and caribbeans need to be in the fba community and in our institutions.
FOX SOUL NEEDS TO KEEP THIS KNOWLEDGEABLE ENERGY...
Crying shame comment section n thumbs up is on a low..... meanwhile the antics of women and their body count and body parts on fox soul is getting pure traffic... keep going Mike!!!
SAS Thyme I totally agree with you. Also, we're are the only race of people that's undivided in unity, and some of us have our priority twisted. I'm 53yrs old, and segregation destroy us period.
@@chartimbe946 When ever get the chance I've always ask my elders about that and to my surprise some have to me that it was desegregation that caused more of a problem in the long run. I wasn't born yet.
Its true we weren't taught about our culture growing up. But I learned as I got older. There is a great divide between African Americans & other blacks cultures. My good friend is from Nigeria & Ive learned her culture. But most Nigerian& other Caribbean women tht I've come across have the nastiest attitude towards American women & I can't understand it.
Actually I think it's because of the media. We all have misconceptions on each other. When I came to America my mom said stay away from blacks because they are violent. Why?? Because her reference point is from the media and all she sees is sex, drugs and gangs.
True. Crazy thing is, most will portray the American culture of black women. Come to America and dog us out, tell us we're not good enough (how we talk, we're not cultured, not intelligent, tainted blood, our skin, our hair), while running away from their home country.
@@RTTCTV that maybe true but why come to a country of ppl tht are violent & ignorant? If that's the case shouldn't you stay were you are if your country is so elite?
Raquel Evans As an outsider looking in I’ve seen just as many black American women act nasty towards Caribbean and African women. It definitely goes both ways.
It’s strange to me because here in Canada we are smart enough to know that society sees us as black Women regardless of where we are born.
I can't say for Caribbean women but you're straight up lying about Nigerians. Nigerians actively search for black friends and treat you how you treat them. Mumu
Black people need to read and educate themselves. A good book to start with is "Breaking the curse of Willie Lynch".
Jw maybe you should also educate yourself on black people who aren’t western.
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The first time i came to america , I received so much animosity from african American.. i was super naive i thought I'm in a foreign land obviously I graduated towards African Americans thinking we could have some sort of connection like home but all i was wrong ...
Don’t mind them. They are as racist as White supremacy themselves.
But are always quick to shout racism.
All humans are racist as far as I’m cornered.
@@The_Cruise_Fam Are you African? And if so, lol. There is literally thousands of tribes in Africa (Yes, I know it's a continent) beefing with each other. Go somewhere with that "Racism" crap.
@Victoria Adeyemi If black Americans were truly "xenophobic" as you said we are, then Caribbeans & definitely you Africans wouldn't be in America. Before the immigration act of 1965 it was zero percent of African immigrants in America. They had a ban on you guy's, and more then likely you wouldn't want to come anyways do to extreme in your face racism. Everything you people have in America has came off the back of black Americans. Fix your Tribalism in Wakanda first before you start talking about people being "Xenophobic".
Victoria Adeyemi Please, don’t agree with that nonsense standby. It wasn’t anything black Americans did. It was what immigration did world wide.
It’s not only Africans that benefits from immigration there are other foreigners too.
Why do we even care about these people?! They can kick rocks is all I care. I’d rather roll with people who are level head from any race.
Bitch I look good ! Truth is you are RACIST! And you are exhibiting it too. So before you call another white man racist, check yourself first.
Human is a cursed race, period!
Ooooh i loved this. I don’t know if this show is strictly for Black Americans but as a British born and raised half Ghanaian half Jamaican woman, I would loved to have been the 4th person being interviewed. Just to provide another perspective and experience. I learn so much from these types of videos, the black American experience is so unique. Love from London 🇬🇧
There are over 2,000 indigenous African Languages; in Nigeria there are over 500 indigenous languages. All of those languages are connected to different CULTURES, etc. Its NOT by design, it just IS. Not all black people or any other culture are the same.
Have you ever asked yourself why it cost less to fly to kaduna from Lagos that it cost more to fly to Ghana from Lagos?? When both flights are thesame distance?? Its by design. Although not totally, the evil in man is still prominent
It’s by design
React to this Channel !!!! Wtf does that have to do with what he said. Ya god why are people so stupid loud and wrong. Abeg shut your mouth if you no get sense. Idiot. We re talking culture this one is talking airplanes
It’s a metaphor. Google it.
FYI...africa is made up of 54 countries and you will find many african countries that many languages, not just in nigeria. For example in DR kongo there are over 450 languages spoken and given the fact that theres two kongos, between both kongos combined and nigeria, there are more languages spoken in both kongos then in nigeria. One thing that make africa special then other continents is that is the most diverse region in the planet. You will find many of these countries speak many many different languages.
I am an immigrant in America. I have met a lot of hard-working African Americans but some still need to learn and understand that being African American does not mean superior to Africans. Some black college guys from my uni actually told some girls that they smell African. what is smelling African for someone who has been in the USA for years, eat the same food and bath the same water as you on campus? Its ignorance.
Overall, there will always be a divide because of a lack of awareness, acceptance, and understanding of each other's cultures and upbringing, not forgetting what the media says about both African Americans and Africans.
Precious Naniso we are better than immigrants. You came to the country our ancestors built. Not the other way around. We are not in your country. Based on this fact alone we are better. Individual name calling doesn’t change the group dynamics.
Africans smell bad.
John ETA Could you elaborate on what you and your kin have contributed to making America an economic powerhouse? Please don’t mention slavery because that only benefitted rich, upperclass, white southerners.
@@nwoka No one should explain anything to you when you can research it. If you think that the only thing African Americans brought to the USA was slavery you are extremely ignorant. Now go do your research and come back and list 10 things we have contributed to the US.
Actually, there is a smell from the ones I know to be honest. And one of them is a fishy smell and then other one i just can't figure out but is related to the food they cook. I will get the name and reply back but to me it smells awful.
In conclusion; Africans/immigrants see opportunity, african-americans see struggles? There's a truth in that. I noticed the same thing in Europe with our 1st generation african immigrants and us who were born/raised here. The older generation says we take things for granted. We really disappoint them when we do the same hard labour as them instead of going up that ladder.
@ATL 1 damn. Never thought about that. Africans can't wait to leave, meanwhile chinese are buying up all the land.
Do you know all black Americans
This was a great topic...I Love Black People ❤️🖤💚✊🏿
True. It would have been even greater if they had africans from north, central, east and other part from the continent on stage also and to hear their view point. Not just a nigerian person.
@@edwigen7245 to be honest, AAs, Caribbean ppl and West africans are from the same places originally (i.e. West Africa) with overlapping history and ethnicity. To have others on there might not make sense as they are from different parts of Africa. Thus, North, East and South Africans etc might not be exactly appropriate for some of these conversation per se.
@@andrewh4806 To be honest, unfortunetly you are completely wrong.
1. The discussion was about africa and so the host should have included other africans too.You will find many africans from north, central, east, southern part of africa living in the US and so they are africans.
2. The enslaved african were also taken from central, east part of africa too and shipped to america/ west hemisphere. So to say that carribean ppl and AA are only west african descendant and from one place is completely false. One of my AA friend did a test and discoverd that her ancestors came from east africa.
3. Judging from your comment regarding west africa, you really need to understand that west africa.....is just a small part of continent. Africa is made up of - Northern, central, east, south and west.The continent of Africa isnt the west part. Its the whole of the 5 regions I mentioned. So please do acknowledge this.
4.Any discussion that include or involves AFRICA - africans from north, central, east, south, west have to be included. Hope this answers your comment.
@@edwigen7245 Even Jay Z has bloodline from east africa (Rwanda)
@@mableii6537 .I didnt know that!!!
Oh..you mean central africa? Bcos rwanda is in the central part of africa, next to kongo.😊
My father is Nigerian and my mother is Jamaican there is truth to BOTH of those stereotypes. Stereotypes are called that for a reason because there is some truth!
And your point is??
Karen Cole Nigerians think they are better. But they have more opportunities over here than black Americans!!
@@theronwright1413 More opportunities? Such as?
SupraSoulStar they get businesses and tested special at universities etc
@@theronwright1413 Don't AA have the opportunity to start businesses and attend universities? Do you honestly believe that Nigerians are getting these opportunities handed to them without doing the work required for it?
This conversation could have been far better. I feeling a qualified historian or someone with some solid facts is missing.
Facts!
I am interested in what you know on this topic. It's part of my work.
I was thinking the same thing they shoulda got one expert
That's me. I have an extensive history of many African tribes and countries, plus American history, including that of African american.
@@ramseyabsessien8990 They desperately needed you.
Africans and Caribbeans approach America as immigrants, just like... immigrants. They see America as a land of opportunity, but forgive black Americans for not seeing America as the beacon of opportunity for all, when their parents were born as American citizens, w/o even having civil/equal rights. Everyone on the outside is always full of opinions when they're the ones holding the microscope.
And not acknowledging ancestors of those who paid the ultimate price, which in turn helped to get the ball rolling to make America great while in her infant stage.
@@Conserned1 Facts.
And being brought here against our own will taken from our original home.
@Mocha Brown idk about all that. I live in NYC, where there are huge populations of blk Caribbeans and Africans. The general notion is that they think blk Americans are lazy. Their immigrant parents are more likely to be on their necks about college/education/owning businesses than the average blk American mom who's the product of slavery/jim crow/systematic poverty/classrooms w 45 students/third generation single parent working 3 jobs/etc, and only 13 years older than her child. Poverty + lack of easy access to opportunity equals low success odds.
That's the point that black immigrants too often miss, or minimize. There's a laundry list of reasons why blk Americans aren't all drs and lawyers (the only seemingly acceptable careers to blk immigrants) only 55 years after we got equal rights.
@westst99 I rest my case. Thanks for proving my point. Smh.. It's like someone from Chicago trying to tell people in Houston what their local realities and issues are. 'What they need to do is...'. I just know that while black ppl are arguing about where their mamas are from, if I had a dollar for every white person who knows, sees or even cares about the difference btwn blks, I'd have about $12...
And funny enough, growing up I was poor, plus Iam Black American.
I used too be called Haitian as an insult because the stereotype from where I come, they "looked poor". And the Haitian people I went to high school with that didn't "look Haitian" were ashamed of speaking Creole or letting people know their culture.
Tall about a disconnect 🤦🏾
@westst99 go back to your hell holes.
The point that the Nigerian guy made at the end of the conversation about the older generation of Nigerians calling Black Americans "lazy" was so self-serving. Yet, he didn't dare challenge his own people to put themselves in our shoes. This goes to show that anti-black Americanness does exist and that's why these diasporic wars will continue to rage on.🤷🏾♂️
Proud of you, Dulo.
Nigeria in the house!
You represented us well in this conversation!
Fantastic! 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
And yes, we work and study twice as hard because of our existing reality.
So what are you saying? That 53 other african communities out there dont study hard and work twice as hard ?
I think you need to know the difference between being confident and arrogant. And you sound very rude and arrogant.The greatest african person....the great nelson madela....worked hard all his life and he was the father of african nation, he was a south african. I think it important that you need to realize that all africans work very hard to achieve things in life.
There is poor in Africa and America .... and there are nice city areas as well ..... they just said that. 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ Different struggles however neither have it easier. There is truth that some who come to America have a preconceived notion on black Americans .... The same as whites do ....why do ppl have to lesson the struggles ppl have endured 🤦🏽♀️ #Onelove
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Great discourse. These discussions should continue. Lot's of enlightenment. Revolution happening. The continent needs to unite and disconnect from those who disconnected its people and ripped its natural resources.
I work in a hospital in nyc with alot of immigrants. They may have multiple jobs but are not the hardest working.
Facts
the fact is that there is no correlation between race/ethnicity and hardwork. All depends on how you were socialized.
@@kubolor1234 hard work means nothing these days it has too have an purpose dude your being hard harded all the time
Having mutiple streams of income while raising a family IS working hard.
@@rai2423 ....im talking about actually doing the work.
I really like the point about the perception of the meaning of the word lazy at the end. In the African household it exists across generations as well, my grandmother generally believes I am lazy, that is because her definition of what "not being lazy" is different since she has had to do way more to earn the little things I get with little to no effort. In perspective... the cost of free education facilities in the West is often the equivalent of a couple of thousands of dollars per year elsewhere in the world, so perhaps to not pursue it for someone coming in from the outside seems like laziness.
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Mike did very good research on this topic. I’m impressed.
Tribalism has always existed although yes Europeans use this to their advantage
yeah because they're sneaky fuckers, look at the French
@Kriss
It is when it turns bloody & ends up in genocide ex: biafrans murdered by Hausa-Fulani, Hutus vs Tutsis etc
Yea Africa was extremely divided because it's the most diverse continent in the world more ethnic groups and genetic variations than the whole world combined.
So many tribes in 1’country of Africa that are each other different
I love and admire A.A. Is a community that has been a point of referment to me, always.
AFROPEAN.
Did dude scratch between his thighs?
4:03
Silver Slipper right ! Wth did he forget he was on a stage doing a live filming lol that has to be one hell of a itch ! N the face to go with it 😳I couldn’t focus on the question of why it’s designed like that I’m now more concerned about why he’s scratching like that lol
😅😂😂😂😂 ole nasty...he sure did. Just scratchin away. 😷
Lmao wtf dude is so obvious at that. Dang the camera man didn't even try to pan away
I quickly scrolled back to the video to see for myself after reading this comment. LOL...yuck.
Which part of Ghana is the ‘jungle’?? Using racist terms even while trying to educate others
It's ignorant but not racist. Don't apply that term to every perceived cultural slight.
Since when was ''jungle'' a racist term?
@@peacheskong2245 if you don't know how "jungle" has historically been employed by racist whites/Europeans, you have a lot of reading to do in addition to documentaries to watch on the history of racism in general.
“ the power that be” just say white/ Caucasian . I don’t understand how saying the truth could be offensive.
He doesn’t know the truth. « The power that be » is a nice formula that can mean anything and anyone. As long as it sounds mysterious and can negate any responsibility we might have, it is good to go. Our people are so busy fighting an enemy they cannot see or touch that they forget that our community is slowly getting worse and divided.
He’s not worried about offense necessarily, he’s worried about those powers trying to shut him or the show up.
He is on somebody's payroll .😂 So, of course he isn't going to call them out directly.
I want you guys to notice the answer that b watts was gave when host asked a black American how he saw other black people who were not culturally American. It's a very telling answer because for the most its truth. Black Americans don't look at black people from other countries as others are different but we always saw them as us. Really interesting compared to how blacks from different countries see us.
That is one thing among many that america has taught us.
@westst99 couldn't of said it better myself brother. I don't mind that African Americans now love Africans and Africa but lets not act like they look down on us at one point. And to be fair some Africans did look down on African Americans but that was a small group for most part Africans loved and aspired to be like their American counterparts. Trevor Noah even has a whole special based on that.
@Mocha Brown you need to listen to how ignorant you sound. You are accusing other black ppl of wiping out other black ppl by migrating to that space. As if there is a difference between African American and african. Coz last time I checked all these ppl were black. Yawl are the same ppl who be on social media saying that the white man stole and raped you and erased you culture but you now have the nerve to say this. I'm sure you've done a dna searching for your African roots. I've never seen a more confused bunch.
Disagree. We knew African/Caribbean were different because the culture is different. We just didn't hate or disdain them for it like they do us. We let them join our organizations and our universities.
@westst99 there is a difference from roasting and capping than having disdain. We roast and clown each other its apart of our culture but grew with an d Caribbean people and never looked at them as different people but as same as me. But now that we have social media it's clear that we don't have the same views as our brothers and sisters in different countries we not them as they see it. That's what been brought to light has nothing to do with no damn black panther but now it's out yall want act bitter when he same energy and that's goes for those black Latinos to. Now that we calling everybody out now we xenophobic
Dont forget what Happen in RWANDA becouse of German collonies and how they devided the HUTU and TUTSI.
Why I love London so diverse and most people know where they come from and the culture...
Diversity and multiculturalism doesn't do anything for blacks. Wake up!
London sucks, you missing the point, we should be building in Africa not Europe or America
That’s because everyone went through windrush by choice and weren’t enslaved to have their history erased and rewritten for them
Honestly everybody needs let go of they dam ego and understand we a family. Hotep.
Dulo said it all. Precise and truthful.
If we were educated about each other’s cultures and ethnicities and stop being insulting and divisive we would be running the world. As an immigrant I fully support the ADOS movement but just know that chattel slavery did also exist in the Caribbean and has been devastated and brainwashed by Colonialism.
Datsizer so black Americans don’t speak negatively about Caribbean’s?
@Datsizer Wth? Carribbeans countries have their beautiful parts and sh#tty parts like all other places. I'm ADOS, btw.
@Datsizer Stop playing the victim. African americans have not done better too. And we all need to do better
@Datsizer "You do realize Pan Africanism started in the US, right?"
Not really. Henry Williams, from Trinidad, started the movement in the UK. And also, arguably one of the most influential black leaders who pushed for African American financial independence and went on to influence MLK and Malcom X, Marcus Garvey was from Jamaica--he was probably the most notable Pan Africanist. For someone who identifies themself as "African American" your knowledge of history is lacking to say the least.
@Datsizer as far as I know Jamaicans and Trinidadians deserve the credit of establishing pan africanism
Oh Africa is Beautiful. welcome brothers and sisters
Black people are waking up finally
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The cultural disconnect between Black Africans everywhere is mainly because we did not tell our own stories for a very long time. Almost all of our education is framed from a Eurocentric perspective, the systems and institutions built in the past few centuries are still with us today, so we have a very distorted identity after constant indoctrination.
When we factor in colonization of the African continent, slavery of stolen Africans, now living in the diaspora we are still suffering the effects of sinister actions of the past. Too many focus on tiny cultural differences unable to see the bigger picture where white supremacy is active, treating all black and people of color as one group to exploit. Instead of banding together to dismantle said system we take jabs at each other and try to improve our station within said system.
Hopefully with more and African people of the diaspora becoming curious about Africa and more and more Africans on the continent reaching out, we will continue making connections, creating networks and hopefully work out our identity issues, start telling our own stories and start tearing down old systems.
The term "African booty Scratcher" wasn't specifically for Africans. I'm a dark skinned black American my family has been here for centuries and growing up because I was dark the children would call me that.
REALLY? i dont know what that means
@@romenhome5138 the kids would call all of the very dark skinned kids African booty Scratchers even the ones who weren't Africans.
@Marquis Doe exactly, it wasn't something exclusively for Africans
Great talk!!! Awesome points made !!! This is a important discussion that needs to be had to unite the diaspora. 🎯💯❤💜💛
We are not the same though. Saying we all come from Africa so we're the same makes no sense because Africa is the most diverse continent in the world, we can NEVER be the same. And that's ok. We need to embrace our differences instead tryna force ourselves into a homogeneous group.
Afrika is diverse but afrikans are black thats my point people in north afrika are not afrikans these are arabs and berbers not indigenous afrikans white people in south afrika are european settlers not afrikans ok yes you have igbos yoruba hausa fulani mandinka wolof mende kru akan fanti xhosa zulu ndebele shona venda sotho hutu tutsi all different ethnic groups but guess what theyre all black people and if they lived in amerikkka guess what the police would say after he pulled any of them over or stopped and frisqued any of them or followed them around in the store it would be what tribe you come from you see europeans ie white folks dont care about that only us negroes with colonized minds think that way
So if we are not the same where did you get your AFRICAN features from and sec where did we different blacks come from where did our creation to exist on this planet came from there's a difference between creation of life and where we reside at live educate yourself beyond American knowledge and history
@@msbrickcity_900 we don't need Africans in our spaces and institutions. They have a pro zaddy all lives matter mindset black Americans do not need.
@@aamrakamran7275 what about oprah winfrey shes all lives matter what about all the black celebs married to whites tika sumpter whoopie goldberg rutina wesley alfre woodard susan rice byron allen taye diggs i can on all day about interacial loving black celebs who was more all lives matter than dr ml king cmon man
@@aamrakamran7275 lol u love the divide and conquer huh? instead of unite and prosper..
I didn't want it to end, could listen to this all day
I love how this talk on actual pertinent issues in the community devolved into the why AAs suck. 😂
I like the stereotypes part, talking about the stereotypes against African American community. It's so true!!!
Dulo made some great points
I am a blackman from the U.S.,I finally went home to Africa.Yes it changes the feelings more about Africa.It is way more better for blacks there.It just needs more stronger governments so the people can live.Time for the colonial borders to go.We have to become one family.One reason Africa is to rich in natural resources.
If your a black Americans your an American. Africa isn’t your home. Be proud of your American culture.
@@jezebelsmother9825 You going to stop me from going? Then go to hell and that's your opinion.What you dont know and now you will know.I have already been to "Black Africa" and I will be going back.Money talks and your bullshit walks.Go kick rocks "poop butt".
Raymond Rance Lol idgaf where you go. I was Just informing you that your embarrassing yourself & they laughing at you. Have fun in Wakanda sis.
@@jezebelsmother9825 Who fuck are you Moron to be giveing instruction.Do you and dont worry about what I do asshole.We didnt come from the same womb.Fool!
Raymond Rance lol you slow. Where did I give instructions angry bird & where did I say you was my sibling? You are an embarrassment. Go away
This conversation is mad superficial and basic they should get some experts on here.
yea i felt the lack of professionalism and in dept knowledge it was a weak conversation
What Mike said about Nigerians and Caribbean’s is pretty accurate.
Black Americans stand alone everybody wants to be us but look down on us at the same time
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Cultural CONFUSION
Wow I can't belive there comes time to here this convo. It's about damn time.
Why that dude scared to call out white people. WTF. He said, "the power that be." Damn they got us shook.
FirmBodyVal The beginning of the discussion showed how a whole lot of nothing was going to be said and a waste!
I noticed the same thing.. But stop saying they have "us shook".. They have him and many other African shook. I as a Black American and very knowledgeable of this nations white supremacist history and am not afraid to call it out.
T. Rizbone YOU are just one person! That’s a good thing.
@@00ghostcobra Oh, please! some ADOS say use the terms Power that be ourselves as well as the term Dominant Society.
@@sherrisolomon8673 We know full well who those "powers that be" are.. So it would be best to call them out.
Our problem is that we don’t understand that we have the same story but just different chapters because of slavery. We are the same and I think a lot of blacks are starting to understand as you see more black Americans and Afro Latino going to visit the motherland or even moving there and I am happy to see that cause that s also their land. We are on the right path and hopefully we will come stronger and together as people
I met a female from Nigeria working in the USA, but bragging how she drives a Mercedes back in Nigeria. Under the same breath, stated she can't wear pants in her area, etc. (while showing us pics). Another female from Cameroon stated she was looking for a husband. I said I knew a few guys. The Nigerian stated she needs to stick with her own. I quickly pointed out she has a Mercedes, but drives on a dirt road. In the USA she's driving a Nissan, while in the USA wearing pants. So obviously, she was changing while in the USA.
most black Americans live off the back of white people it a mere fact whether it be jobs are housing black in the usa don't own shit whereas in Africa most houses are own by the descendants living there
@@osazuwaogbeide1540 Most African countries are funded and was conquered by Europeans. That's why y'all are speaking some form of English Spanish French Portuguese.
@@hb3041 But still atleast the land we own won't be taking away for not paying property taxes. IF shit goes haywire majority of you blacks will be the first one evicted from your homes
@@osazuwaogbeide1540 you don't live here.how would you know
@@hb3041 I know because I have family and I have lived in the usa before. The land that your house is build on is not owned by you and that speak volumes
We need a fresh look at each other we see each other through the eyes of our oppressors.
I’m quite surprised this is on a Fox network!
That's why he said the powers that be. But Fox is entertainment. Even their news
Yea. I’m wondering why they care about promoting black issues?
The same reason why Empire and star showed on Fox. Because it's a media conglomerate that's in the business of making money. They're very comfortable having a news networks geared towards a black audience along with having a news Network geared towards conservative whites. They don't care about either side they just want your money
The stereotype of Caribbean in America is a compliment in comparison to the stereo type of Caribbeans in the UK.
Exactly. And that's where I disagree about it being completely down to white supremacy. It's about a difference in values and assimilation. The 3rd and 4th generation Caribbean immigrants are definitely much different to 1st and 2nd generation African and Caribbean immigrants in the UK and you can see the divide that is similar to the US.
It’s crazy to hear Dulo’s accent outside of his comedy videos 😭
I was watching a movie and I heard one of the characters say every society enslaves other human beings it’s always been that way.It made me think about the plight of blacks in American and the injustices we live with today.And I realized that what he said was real.In 2020 we are still slaves.Its just structured different.Thats why we are treated as irrelevant in this country.Thats why racism is still in affect,employment opportunities,subsidized housing,drugs,disproportionate jail sentences.Its set up that way to still enslave us.
He answered the question before he asked it. We are from different ethnicities and backgrounds. That’s like saying why don’t all white people or all Asians see each other same way. Anyone who thinks these groups have gotten along and have not enacted heinous acts against each other are delusional. Just like the multiple ethnicities in sub Saharan African have done to one another. So why are we assuming that because look similar, we should get along? I would love us to, but I question the premise of the question. People don’t get along with people with whom that they don’t share cultural, ethnic and social sameness. We have some cultural similarities, but culturally we are distinct from the numerous African cultures. Is there some grand conspiracy beyond basic human idiocy and ignorance at work on the part of all parties concerned? Probably not. Is there some legacy of racial supremacist thinking being re-enacted on an intraracial level. Definitely. I think it does us a disservice to conflate phenotype (how we look on the outside) with the sum total of who we are as African Americans and assume we are the same as everyone else within the African Diaspora. In an ideal world, there would be no division among any peoples. But first we must recognize each other’s uniqueness and experiences. That’s just my two cents.
We are not the same, we come from all over the world ✊🏾🌎
I think people should take a look at themselves and be honest whether they're inclusive or decisive when it comes to black people of other cultures.
Pointing the finger at others and looking at past experience doesn't solve anything. I think the first step is being aware and taking personal responsibility of being a part of the problem or a part of the solution..
This is a great conversation...the best one I've seen on RUclips.
Are Africans the only ones scratching booties? Isn't it human to scratch oneself?
And they weren't the only ones called that. We were called that too. They're the only ones using it as a reason to divide though.
@@proudseeker4814 would you agree the same applies when people call you nigga. Isn't nigga just as childlike? I think its funny when grown men and women go crazy over being called nigga.
Let's kill that diaspora divide! The diversity of us from the adversity of our experiences makes us the most powerful together.
Why are opportunity diffrent here than in Africa but we should not think Afric is not desirable land. You cant have it both ways. I cant say Mississippi is a great place to live and than say the south is the worst place to live. Their are major city's in Africa but Africa has more issues than they are willing to tell. Africans want money or currency to come their it's not about unity
So true!
Campaign for America huh lol sad
@@msbrickcity_900 what's sad?
America has issues with racism and oppression but people still see it as desirable so what’s your point?
I lived in Texas and I am from the Caribbean. When I was moving there I thought it was all white folks and cowboys... Houston is however VERY diverse... large Asian population (lots of Vietnamese) , Caribbean and African. Love that city!!!!
Trying to make conversation at same time making stereotypical word. Who says Nigerians get water from well? Who says we don't get water from fridge? People can get water from well perhaps in very poor villages. Remote one.
I believe he used that as an analogy of how hard African parents in America had to work for things prior to coming to America. They of course want to give their kids an easier life but a typical African parent occasionally just wants to see their kids make more effort than necessary. To them it signifies that you are willing to put in the work to succeed. Also signifies you can survive and get yourself backup if unfortunately you stop having access to that good life.
I think it really just boils down to a sense of community. The umbrella of the community can be as large or as narrow as the situation demands.
I can identify as black when necessary but can distinguish myself as an African when necessary, I can identify as Nigerian to distinguish myself from Ghanaians. I can identify a Igbo to distinguish from a Yoruba. Etc.
On the other hand an african American can identify as black, can identify as east coast vs west coast, team Knicks vs Net etc.
It is just human nature to identify w/ different communities differently when they want to come together or when they want to be distinct.
Similar levels of hostilities may apply depending on how narrow the umbrella is being set.
So it's just a matter of eliminating some of the ignorance and knowing when/how to set the umbrella of community.
I did alittle research. I was curious to know what was Africa called before it was known as Africa, and who was Africa named after. I found my answer. Please do some research family. It's eye opening.
Some years ago I found out and it blew my mind. Naomi I'm wondering did it make you reconsider some things ? It did for me.
This comment is so pointless. You did your research and so? What did you learn? Who wrote it? Where are your references? How credible are they?
I'm nigerian from a Yoruba Tribe so mine will be Oduduwa , then u have the igbo called biafra the u have the fulani's
Africa is not named after Scipio Africanus.
The word afriuka has its roots in present day Ethiopia...
Nice show. We have to educate how self and set ourselves free from ignorant
The shot out to Tobe in Houston is Tobe Nwigwe; he's an amazing artist
All my black people on here, be grateful for your blackness. Ain't nothing else like it, we haven't even lived 20% of our potential yet we haven't even prospered yet. That there is crazy.
Seems like they took a lot of time trying to point out stuff about African Americans
yes, We Nigerians think they too sensitive and they might clap back .
mdna72 not even close
The main problem stems from America's negative media portrayal of black Americans through media of .music and movies which black American like me have followed and I must say is one of our biggest demises also should be noted I come from a Caribbean background
4:03 C'mon buddy you got to hold yourself back
OMG when he said we just worried about rims on our car....what?!!!!??? Flint, Michigan doesn't have water....there are swaths of the United States that are underdeveloped because it's designed to keep some people poor. Most African Americans were born into not only poverty, but a legacy of poverty....
This Young Man With The Cornrows Was Not Articulate Enough To Express Himself And Get His Points Across.
I thought he actually did a great job putting things in perspective respectfully
He did actually. Topic like this is like a landmine, you can't afford to use the wrong word.
This information is beautiful. Nubians figuring out the negative problems together and change the problems.💜💜💜💜💜👍👍
@Victoria Adeyemi when I say Nubian I mean melaninated people all over the world. Victoria Nubian is the all inclusive term for unity description. You need to truly let go of the word black. I will give you an example Dr. Henry Clark would say when he went to Egypt all the melaninated people would say we are all Nubians around the world but if you want to play the game we are Negros, blacks, colored or African Americans I refuse to play that game. Peace and coconut oil V.👍👍
@Victoria Adeyemi I am glad you are telling me this because now my question is how many Nigerians have that mindset because I have talked to sisters and brothers all around Africa and all agreed with me. I don't really ever mingle with Nigerians because many Nubian people born in America can feel the hatred from mainly Nigerians and no other African sisters and brothers separate from Nubians in America like you all. I truly apologize for trying to connect Nubian Americans and Nigerians. I still would love to hear the percentage of Nigerians who think like you because the last thing I am doing is trying to belittle your Nigerian heritage. Peace and coconut oil 💜💜
@Victoria Adeyemi I am a journalist so you are saying that all the sisters and brothers were lying to my face right. You are truly a Caucasian in melanin. I know one truth out of all the Nigerians I have ever met only 1% had any love or connection to Nubian Americans. Now I see why Nubian Americans feel the hatred from you all and feel we can never connect with you all. You are screaming no love and that's ok. Peace and coconut oil 👍
@Victoria Adeyemi I was bothered by what you were saying yesterday but everything happens for a reason. My Doctor and his entire family works in my health clinic and every Nigerian in the clinic accept for one Nigerian agreed with me and literally felt you are trying to separate and destroy the foundation between our two people's. If you feel that I am lying we can set up a meet and greet with me you and Dr. Eno. Let's come together and show just how right you are. Peace and coconut oil. 👍👍
@@ryancampbell8203 What your doing, keep up the good work ✌✌✌✌
Judging by victoria's comment unfortunetly she one of those nigerians that attends to thinks that they are the only africans in the planet 🤣🤣🤣and dont acknowledge that there are actually 53 africans communities out there.So you really shouldnt be suprised at her comments and you shouldnt be suprise either that shes never heard of "nubian". Nigerians are just one out of 54 africans communities. And since you had good experience with other africans communities, i would advice you to continue on that path and continue engaging with them.
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People in the comments are really living me speechless.
I believe I'd mentioned this before on a different clip but, you need to realize is that the word "Akata" is similar if not the same as "Oyinbo"
The two words are Yoruba slangs for foreigners. We all have labels for different people, even within our ethnicities we discriminate each other too based on situations (e.g. Obanje, 'Mammy water' etc)
Oh, and one more thing, we have more than 99 languages and dialects spoken in Nigeria alone.
So where am I going with this? For me, it all depends on the context in which the words are used. Some of the African Americans that may have overheard Africans (or specifically Nigerians) use the word Akata, were they berating or insulting someone in particular or not? Was the entire conversation even in English?
Granted, there would be some stereotypes associated with the word but like I said it all depends on the context.
For example, "The white man over said he would like to talk to you" vs "Dat Oyinbo wey dey dere say he wan talk" 👀👀👀👀 The second part is in pidgin (broken) English.
Or
"That black woman was not happy with her son's exam result"
And if you know the "black woman" is African American? It may translate to------
"That Akata woman vex for 'in son eh! See vex!"
Now keep in mind that this are only words/slangs from one language used to describe different foreigners. Yorubas also have names for Arabs or Chinese etc. You get the picture.
But what cracks me up the most as I write this is that I'm Nigerian but not even Yoruba... If only most of y'all even knew how many different descriptors people from non-English speaking countries have for you.... Let's just say you'd be mindblown 🤯.
Oh wow....
Since I didn't grow up using that "word" I see no reason why I should use it in the first place.
What I do know is, you didn't understand what I wrote 🤷🏾♀️. And that isn't any of my problem.
westst99 stop making excuses for the anti black American resentment that is built into their psyche.
I think Godfrey would've been great for this discussion. He talked about this in one of his VladTV interviews.
Should known your ancestors history, remembered our ancestors were divided to the four corners of the Earth. Speak of Africa, Africa is the most richest Continent of the atmosphere.
Love from 🇰🇪
As a Nigerian, my experience of UK blacks, is that I find them looking down on me because I come from Africa. The smear campaign on Africa in the UK is so intense that those that grew up here with African parents in extreme cases, see their connection to Africa as a curse. The colonisers who built their country on the wealth of Africa, turn round and ensure that currently, their citizens hate Africa by constantly portraying it as savage n backward. While back in Africa, Hollywood paints a picture of gangster and wayward African Americans. So, a lot of Africans buy into that stereotypes of African Americans as people that are no good, lazy and don't abide by the law. Africans are not educated about the system that has been in place to keep blacks in the US subjugated. Africans also, have internalised the message that we are only valid when we achieve through the white man's "education", so we pursue it with our heart n soul. We pursue this success but it's a success that is based on seeking validation from the white man (this is not their fault but remnants of the colonial mentality). Black diaspora division is complicated and has a lot to do with the messages each group receives. We could be the same as African, Carribean and African American because we all understand struggle and we all share the blood of Africa. But we are kept seperared by our different experiences and the messages that the reigning powers feed us. As one of the panel said, the structure is put in place to keep us divided. We could benefit immensely from seeing our similarities, but we choose to keep our differences because it is what is taught to us.
Real conversations for black people
Dulo Harris the civil rights movement made the most sacrifice for black people not millennials. The civil rights movement paved the way for your family to come to America for a new life.
That sooo true and i think it important that ppl like dulo needs to respect this.