Why Black Americans Don't Identify With Africa

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024

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  • @HowardHolloman
    @HowardHolloman 8 часов назад +5

    I'm a Black American and I identify with Africa, and I am proud to say it.

    • @pbs216
      @pbs216 6 часов назад +1

      ✊🏿

  • @breakingthenotion.6045
    @breakingthenotion.6045 День назад +7

    I do believe social media and travel vlogs have change the game. You can see all these videos and social media pictures showing Africa in a positive lights.

  • @robkamanda
    @robkamanda День назад +5

    🤔Tell those who dont identify with Africa to speak for themselves.. Most African Americans rock with the diaspora. Let those who don't continue to have butt aches about slavery and struggle with their lack of identity and the mess that comes with it. The rest of us will continue to reunite with our brothers and sisters all over the globe.

  • @riccorich
    @riccorich День назад +10

    I reallyhate when people say that Black Americans dont have culture, which is not true... hate it when they say Black Americans dont know who we are which is not true...

    • @frmoak2atl
      @frmoak2atl День назад

      The whole world imitates us. Everyone has a culture. To say someone doesn't have culture, is said out of ignorance.

    • @leontaecoleman3644
      @leontaecoleman3644 21 час назад +2

      we are not Africans.

    • @bornzulu-b1x
      @bornzulu-b1x 14 часов назад

      But it's true .

    • @riccorich
      @riccorich 14 часов назад

      @bornzulu-b1x excuse you?

    • @tegiobanda8753
      @tegiobanda8753 11 часов назад +1

      ​@leontaecoleman3644 so you dropped from the sky?

  • @kingtrilloriginal6967
    @kingtrilloriginal6967 23 часа назад +9

    Black Americans have never thought Africa was poor
    We are the people who travelled around the World teaching that Africa is Great
    Africans turned your back on us
    This girl doesn't know what she is talking about

    • @Bklyn112
      @Bklyn112 14 часов назад +1

      Precisely. Continental Africans came to US HBCU's in the early 20th century to be educated in non colonial universities. It is this reason that on the heels of the Civil Rights movement that African nations sought independence. My great grandfather taught Kwame Nkrumah at Lincoln University. The first Presidents of three other African countries were educated at Lincoln as well.
      She speaks of the mansions built but Nigerians but doesn't speak of how the majority live. This is not a slight to Nigerians either because as African descended people, our history and relationships with both our enslavers, colonizers and each other as a result.

    • @projectrain2254
      @projectrain2254 12 часов назад +3

      Stop capping! AA's all across the US used to bully Continental Africans, calling them names like "African booty scratcher". This is well known and speaks to the mentality of the time. To ignore that is disingenuous

    • @kingtrilloriginal6967
      @kingtrilloriginal6967 11 часов назад

      @projectrain2254 welcome to America
      Everybody bullies everybody
      Black people used to call other Black people African booty scratchers too
      Hispanics joke about Hispanics
      Whites jokes about Whites
      Asians joke about
      Africans are the only people still crying because you got teased in school😅

    • @SE-gs6gd
      @SE-gs6gd 9 часов назад

      @@projectrain2254this is such an urban legend. bAs actually lobbied for the US government to get rid of the caps on immigration from the continent. BAs especially ones who had money and were high profile helped to end apartheid in SA through supporting corporate boycotts. You guys need to research study and read! You don’t know what you’re talking about.

    • @eddya1043
      @eddya1043 9 часов назад

      @@SE-gs6gd Stop denying reality because the stories of bullying were true and it was a segment of the Black American population who cared about what was going on in South Africa. Most of the help South Africa got was from other African countries. Probably most blacks in America hate being called African American and there is a reason for that. The mainstream media hardly uses the term African American these days for a reason.

  • @sizwenyuka4739
    @sizwenyuka4739 День назад +5

    I am South Africa, the media here is also portraying the rest of the African continent as uncivilized or war torn. However, white people the same people who portray Africa as uncivilized are travelling the continent.

    • @StreetCornerFilmsAndTV
      @StreetCornerFilmsAndTV 19 часов назад +3

      True I remember when I was a kid I used to think South Africa is not part of Africa because of how the media used to paint a picture of Africans countries

  • @tecumseh4095
    @tecumseh4095 2 дня назад +8

    It’s all because of self hate. I am Shawnee and proudly identify with my tribe.

    • @Worldaffairslover
      @Worldaffairslover День назад

      You’re a pretend Ian that’s 1/10000000th shawnee

    • @slaydog5102
      @slaydog5102 14 часов назад

      How is it self hate when they know nothing about africa?

    • @tecumseh4095
      @tecumseh4095 13 часов назад

      @ Are you nuts. They are African!
      "Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?" Malcolm X.

    • @tecumseh4095
      @tecumseh4095 11 часов назад

      @ Don’t be ridiculous. They know they are Africans.

  • @bandxdwayne
    @bandxdwayne 2 дня назад +11

    Here’s my humble opinion. When the host asked that question, he phrased it as if Africa is a country. Africa is not a country. It is a genetically,ethically and culturally diverse Continent. I say this as to answer his loaded question. Black Americans Do identify with Africa but only in the abstract. We are originally from the African continent but we are not African. We are uniquely North American. Just like the First Nations indigenous peoples of the Americas we are the Second Nation indigenous people. We were originally taken from many tribes, cultures and peoples of our continent of origin and then forcefully removed from our cultures through forced breeding,destruction of our own languages, and the forcing of the European culture onto us. Thus black Americans became a cultural group of their own. Created by the people who lived it for self preservation’s sake. While the foundation of black culture will always remain African, everything else is uniquely black American culture. Which is why we are always at the forefront of popular culture all over the world. They like our style, fashion,activism and survival skills and have benefited from it. While at the same time being used as a buffer against us by white Americans, looking down on us and buying into the narrative given to you by the white colonizers that we are criminals, and trouble makers that you should never trust or ally with. Which should be the direct opposite because they are afraid of us. People want to be like us but don’t wannabe like us. And this is the way the colonizers want to keep it.
    The host has obviously bought into the narrative what American and European white supremacy has been feeding him and he’s trying to put this lie onto this very young woman’s shoulders. She is too young to understand the nuances of that question and the motives behind it.

    • @issues_at_stake
      @issues_at_stake  2 дня назад +3

      I don’t want to educate you sir/madam, but please search “social distance between Africans and African-Americans” and you will find enough literature and works of other black people that can add to your vast wealth of knowledge

    • @bandxdwayne
      @bandxdwayne 2 дня назад +3

      @
      Thank you sir for your reply. I really appreciate it. I’m a 61 year old American black man and know from lived experience. This perceived social divide was created and has been used by the western colonizers to keep friction between primarily black Americans and Africa. We(black Americans)are the only people who, for the most part, don’t have a relationship with the colonizers. We were never colonized. We were kidnapped. Members of royal families don’t come to America addressing black people, kissing babies 👶🏾 and expecting us to throw rose petals at their feet. They know that we don’t give a crap about them and we don’t immigrate to Europe. African nations were “given” their independence by their European colonizers where we had to fight for ours by ourselves. Most African states are only 100 years old at the most. And black Americans have shown All of the colonized countries how to fight for their independence. And that’s when the colonizers realized that we were a threat to their continued exploitation of the wealth of Africa. So they began a worldwide campaign to keep a rift between us including the US government. Africa is waking up and is poised to become a global powerhouse and they are getting more desperate to keep their exploitation going. They don’t want any Wakandas in Africa. And this rift has been used since at least the last 175 years since the American civil war when it comes to western countries. It’s not only just about Africa. Anyone who immigrates to the United States learns very quickly that their prosperity depends on their hatred for black Americans and to gain a closeness to white Americans. They are used as a tool to slow down black progress. Including African immigrants. But the young lady was right about how media coverage portrays African people. Like you don’t know how to handle your own business so you need to have white people to guide you which is a STRAIGHT UP LIE they tell themselves. They are afraid of us uniting.

    • @SE-gs6gd
      @SE-gs6gd 9 часов назад

      @@bandxdwaynethis is 100% true and well said. The US government did the same with Haiti. They definitely didn’t want those enslaved people who fought and freed themselves from a global super power to link up with anyone in the British colonies in North American. Everything was done to completely subjugated black people in order to suppress any power they could amass through numbers

  • @eddiethorne6461
    @eddiethorne6461 22 часа назад +5

    This man should talk to a black American man about that subject not a woman.

    • @PHlophe
      @PHlophe 16 часов назад

      Thorne, jump in .

  • @sophieb24
    @sophieb24 8 часов назад +1

    They wouldn't donate the money for ads because they prefer or want to spread propaganda.

  • @oliverdanso-dapaah4968
    @oliverdanso-dapaah4968 2 дня назад +3

    Millions starved from China to Ireland due to famines

  • @Blackmank-y6u
    @Blackmank-y6u 14 часов назад +7

    Caribbean people too, I mean we do have a lineage which can be traced back to Africa, this is undeniable, but to say we are directly from the motherland after 400 years and many generations 😅yeah its a bold statement, even the African would consider us as foreigners.

    • @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND
      @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND 13 часов назад +1

      Not most!

    • @Blackmank-y6u
      @Blackmank-y6u 13 часов назад

      @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND Well if you want to be African which in it self is a Whyte man name that's you personally, my great great great grandparents have always been Caribbean from the day they brought us here, we know nothing about their language or culture, they're negros but not the same place culturally, basically I don't like African, and if you don't keep your guard up they'll play that same dirty trick.

    • @Blackmank-y6u
      @Blackmank-y6u 13 часов назад

      @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND you a hamit

    • @francoisbashale9952
      @francoisbashale9952 11 часов назад

      @@Blackmank-y6u
      A person always starts out as a foreigner in a relatively foreign area. Even in the continent of Africa, Africans identify other Africans as foreigners even when sharing a border. Frequency of familiarity changes the status of relationships with any group of people. Just 1500 years ago Arabs were considered foreign in Africa, now they rule most of north Africa.

    • @Blackmank-y6u
      @Blackmank-y6u 11 часов назад

      @francoisbashale9952 So what's the issue with Republican Dominican refusing black people then?.....

  • @1hiphoppop
    @1hiphoppop 13 часов назад +1

    I identify completely with Africa.

  • @jojopaliyo
    @jojopaliyo 2 дня назад +9

    What on earth is she talking about?

  • @sackperry3939
    @sackperry3939 10 часов назад +1

    She don’t look FBA for the most part tho, she might be 1 or second generation American

  • @slaydog5102
    @slaydog5102 14 часов назад +1

    Why is it difficult for people to identify with people who sold them off?

    • @EmbayeGrebrat
      @EmbayeGrebrat 11 часов назад

      I myself even have a hard time connecting with some of my families who abused me when I was just kid

    • @SorySangare-w6b
      @SorySangare-w6b 8 часов назад

      Ahhh lack of education is a sad thing !!

    • @EmbayeGrebrat
      @EmbayeGrebrat 7 часов назад

      @SorySangare-w6b Are you responding to me, what exactly do you mean?

  • @lonewulfmo9128
    @lonewulfmo9128 16 часов назад

    What helps me is hard Pilling myself using the question ' what matters? ' what is the reality.
    To me: focusing on my attitude and action today is all that matters. The reality is its just differences in protein formation in the eyes, skin, hair and the existential purpose and direction I create right now

  • @ddavis8988
    @ddavis8988 День назад +10

    The answer is because we are not Africans.
    That is not our culture.
    In gwneral, we respect their culture, but it ain't us.
    No adult Black American believes everybody is living in huts. That is a childish thought process.
    We like Africans, we respect Africans, but that is just not us.
    We have our own distinct culture that we love and that we are proud of.
    I am married to an African woman. I love my African in-laws. But it aint because of ignoeance of culture, we are just not that.

    • @leontaecoleman3644
      @leontaecoleman3644 21 час назад +1

      Exactly they keep thinking that we are them.when we are not them.we’re are own race.

    • @Mutaaga13
      @Mutaaga13 7 часов назад

      True being forced out of the motherland and being separated for hundreds of years its understandable that you are in many ways different from us , here , I do love african Americans and follow many especially those in the spotlight celebrities etc ... its satisfying to see them visiting and some staying in africa , very touching

  • @DatriniThug
    @DatriniThug 2 дня назад +6

    Nah ive never heard a Trinidadian say im not black. We dont think like the dominicans

  • @jojoko64
    @jojoko64 2 дня назад +6

    It's not true, speak for oneself. Stop it!

  • @demo_andfriends
    @demo_andfriends 14 часов назад +1

    yeah!!!... "there are children in africa that haven't eaten"... even we in africa tell our children, the same. 😂😂😂 ..... 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬

  • @francoisbashale9952
    @francoisbashale9952 День назад +1

    Not all north American people relate to each other as well as South Americans , Europeans or Asians. Africa is a huge continent with 51 plus countries. People generally relate to familiar situations, things and people. We only relate to each other after we become familiar with each other.

    • @MaboloLibwese
      @MaboloLibwese День назад +1

      There are 54 countries in Africa

  • @TheMagicktony
    @TheMagicktony 14 часов назад +1

    How can they identify when genetic and culture have been mixed for hundreds of years.

  • @pbs216
    @pbs216 6 часов назад

    America is just my location. I am African.

  • @nzappazapp8360
    @nzappazapp8360 День назад

    Its important to be honest the situation in Africa is worse than what the media shows, the poverty is real and all the problems exist.
    Fixing the problems needs real effort and not empty rhetoric. Africans can earn respect by standing up against bad leadership and exploitation and build prosperous nations so that two Africans will not sit in a foreign land trying to validate themselves. The lady is clearly African whose family migrated less than 50 years ago and yet she identify as American when she clearly has family in Africa

  • @henryosok8317
    @henryosok8317 День назад +1

    Why it so hard for africans to identify with black americans.

    • @prohdusah
      @prohdusah 16 часов назад

      All they hear about America is how great it is. But how are blacks portrayed to the world?

  • @kenwebale5228
    @kenwebale5228 2 дня назад +4

    why should they ? they are americans what african experience do they have apart from being tourists

    • @issues_at_stake
      @issues_at_stake  2 дня назад +2

      Please search “social distance between Africans and African-Americans” and you will understand more

    • @kenwebale5228
      @kenwebale5228 2 дня назад +2

      @@issues_at_stake it is just a search of a cliche "identity" i wonder why you would want an african experience you did not grow into africa is diverse 52 countries to be exact and 3000 indigenous languages and cultures what do they identify with its not like italian where you pick a country or mexican

    • @rwconz_live2267
      @rwconz_live2267 2 дня назад

      @@kenwebale5228 Hey, sorry to be that guy but genetically we are African. What part of that do you not understand?

    • @stubby1305
      @stubby1305 2 дня назад +3

      I just spent a couple of weeks in Cape Town and being an older Black man from the Southern U. S., on my first trip to Africa, I can totally identify with all aspects of that community especially the relationships between White, Black and "Colored" peoples. From visiting a winery to making friends in a nearby township. They knew some of our heroes, villains, and culture. As I also knew some of theirs. Non Whites moved a certain way in white spaces as a lot of us do here. Black and other non Whites are at the bottom trying to move up the same way here also. The thing that makes a real difference everywhere, is how much money you have access to. Shout out to Langa and One Flow Yoga. The one thing that we all have in common is that life is a struggle for the majority of people everywhere and for the small few, they manage to struggle a lot less.

    • @StylistecS
      @StylistecS 2 дня назад

      @@rwconz_live2267genetically we are American more than we are African.

  • @carlosf.5282
    @carlosf.5282 День назад

    It's plain stupidity given to us through slavery.

    • @slaydog5102
      @slaydog5102 14 часов назад

      Who sold africans to the yt man?

  • @JLoyal-z4w
    @JLoyal-z4w 4 дня назад

    Especially the opposition I would the like to hear other arguments different ones

  • @sizwenyuka4739
    @sizwenyuka4739 День назад

    By the way, the sister did not want to comment to the idea that in fact, there are lot of children who are starving in the USA. There are children who are starving in Harlem, Bronx, Chicago etc. By the way, black people in America are getting shot by the police for being black I feel sorry for them.

  • @jairoferreira9641
    @jairoferreira9641 22 часа назад

    Yes, I agree with everything, but I also see that black Americans do not consider black Latinos as simply black, since they were also brought from Africa. Wouldn't this also be a way for white Americans to divide all black people? OK?

  • @Blackdove0421
    @Blackdove0421 11 часов назад

    Don’t speak for all of us speak for yourself.

  • @oliverdanso-dapaah4968
    @oliverdanso-dapaah4968 2 дня назад +3

    You send money for famine and you laugh. You send millions to fund wars and no comments

    • @Noah3-6-5
      @Noah3-6-5 День назад

      💯💯💯 They're too dumb to understand !

    • @slaydog5102
      @slaydog5102 14 часов назад

      What?

  • @JLoyal-z4w
    @JLoyal-z4w 4 дня назад

    Would be nice to hear more opinions not only hers

  • @nupc717
    @nupc717 10 часов назад

    but the girl is also african as well

  • @SE-gs6gd
    @SE-gs6gd 9 часов назад

    Black people in America who are not immigrants have been in the US for hundreds of years. Our ancestors were African but we are American. It’s hard to identify with a culture that was taken from our ancestors I don’t agree with this young lady because her understanding of this is very surface and is kind of a weird take. bAs define are not ashamed of their African roots at all we celebrate our ancestors but we recognize that they were separated from their African sisters and brothers and so created a wholly formed legitimate BA culture that is copied around the world including on the continent. This young lady needs to do more research and maybe live a little more life. She sounds somewhat disconnected.

  • @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND
    @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND 13 часов назад

    Stop telling your colonizing untruths. We're not from Alkebulan!

  • @iibreathvictory
    @iibreathvictory 21 час назад

    "Dont identify with Africa" yet they are in America because of their ancestors that went to America back then through slavery 😂😂😂

    • @slaydog5102
      @slaydog5102 14 часов назад

      In america due to being sold off by africans

  • @megarudeboy0078
    @megarudeboy0078 День назад

    False narrative! Most of them do. This is a new generation thing

  • @josephmilligan4021
    @josephmilligan4021 2 дня назад +3

    Im a American and its a great thing that they are african. Africa has done great things. There is nothing wrong with being African its just we are not the same people. That's fine. The us and Caribbean are closer related than Africa. Carib indians are Caribbean and black Americans are Amerindians. Carib ex taino Arawak. Amerindians gechee Cherokee Creek yamassee. Im gechee. very simple.

    • @Universofinanceiroo
      @Universofinanceiroo День назад

      How are you black American and Amerindian at the same time, you crazy person? Blacks are a “racial” group exclusive to Africa, while Amerindians are a racial group from the Americas, they are unrelated, Amerindians are related to East Asians, Blacks to the oldest people in the world who are native to Africa . What will be your next identity crisis? Are black people in America real Asian Indians? Stop this stupid theory put out by a white guy in an old newspaper. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @PHlophe
      @PHlophe 16 часов назад

      Milligan , i onno where cheroki and arawak fit in this convo but Black people whether from africa, europe, the US or carribean are strictly of african origin. so there is no "all lives" here .
      continental african came shame you public into relating with the african heritage and you will comply on the spot . I do it and i always wait for the right moment to put pressure. people fold. if you are ashamed of that heritage and you seek proximity with everyone except the source then you will be put in your place.

    • @sackperry3939
      @sackperry3939 10 часов назад

      @@PHlophe
      Of course you don’t know but It’s not your culture 😂and our culture is not yours

  • @ronm4385
    @ronm4385 2 дня назад +1

    I am South African and cannot say I can identify with Africa in it's entirety.

    • @issues_at_stake
      @issues_at_stake  2 дня назад +1

      Can you say your reasons, why you can’t identify with Africa in its entirety as a African

    • @ronm4385
      @ronm4385 2 дня назад

      @issues_at_stake I cannot identify with Nigerians for instance. I cannot identify with their culture and mannerisms. The only thing I have in common with Nigerians is that they are black and in the same continent, other than that there's really nothing.

    • @Noah3-6-5
      @Noah3-6-5 День назад

      It's because you're not African, you're a DUTCH colonizers who moved to africa decades ago to conquer. Now you speak a DUTCH dialect and you called it Afrikaans. I've never been in South Africa, but I live in The Netherlands but I understand "AFRIKAANS"...Explain that!!!!!! Y'all all the way fucked up, with a Oranje Town, where no black people are allowed??????? Nah fam!

    • @kanti8942
      @kanti8942 День назад +3

      when apartheid was in force, you identified yourself as an African, right

    • @ronm4385
      @ronm4385 День назад

      @kanti8942 Yes and I still do, however I am not going to associate myself with human and drug traffickers. Is it African to destroy our communities with drugs and traffic our vulnerable women? Is that the African agenda?

  • @roylloyd5898
    @roylloyd5898 5 часов назад

    It has nothing to do with poverty in Africa, but everything to do with a long time away from home!
    We Blacks in the Western world are Westerners first and foremost and yet, it never comes up in any conversations!

  • @joemintsa869
    @joemintsa869 12 часов назад

    Are they Africans?

  • @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND
    @YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND 13 часов назад +1

    Because we havenof genealogy paperwork, and it's not from Alkebulan... 🪶🏹🪮🌎🧬