There are no diaspora wars.
A diaspora is a group of people who originate from a common homeland but live dispersed outside of it, while maintaining some degree of collective identity, memory, or connection to that place of origin.
What diaspora are Black Americans apart of and which diaspora do Black Americans have ? They’re trying to create one but we simply dont have one. The ones we did have in the past transformed into their own ethnic groups in those locations.
Ask yourself: WHY DO THEY KEEP PLACING BLACK AMERICANS IN A DIASPORAN CONTEXT? What is the need they have for BAs to be apart of a diaspora?
A diaspora war would be Nigerians in Houston fighting with Nigerians Atlanta and those groups fighting with Nigerians in China and the UK and all of those groups fighting with Nigerians who are actually in Nigeria
That’s a Diaspora war.
You’re not in a diaspora because most BAs are within the USA. We have internal culture wars but how tf can we have a culture war with different cultures that we don’t have a shared origin with?
If people ask you what’s your great grandparents homeland you’re going to hear bunch of US States
The tension you feel is because your culture is being used as an adhesive to artificially unite other groups into a category that they do not fit into because it that contextual application it is simply racism.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of different ethnic groups from different places, different societies, different cultures, different worlds, etc being folded into a singular label that erases these differences. A group like this will always fight because they are fundamentally different people. Disagreement will always be there because they are different from each other.
It’s like how they keep blaming tribalism in Africa instead of the simple fact that these are entirely different cultures and people groups. There isn’t a tribalism being practiced in Africa. The false application of nations/shells there are simply colonial engines now being operated by people groups who never functioned in this manner.
It functions much like this artificial unity we get shamed into believing. What unity? Honestly what unity?
They won’t tell that to WIACs. They won’t tell that to the CADs. Tell them of this unity tell them to dissolve their borders and be one state. Remind them of the multiple ethnic cleansings that they are quite about remind them of the wars between the Dinka and Nuer. Remind them of Nigerians and South Africans. Remind them of the various tribes. Remind them of the discrimination against Haitians and Nigerians. Where was this “diasporan” unity ? Why are they quite about the children of the Congo mining cobalt? What about the unity of the Haitians? Ask the anuyak if they are the same people are the Nuer.
Let’s flatten these differences under a false label. If Ghanaians and Nigerians are united then erase the borders and tribes name.
We get accused of being divisive when the entire fucking world is divisive
These people who bring this fake unity up that has never benefited BA remind them that it has only applied to BAs because they seen how we were one ethnic group and they’ve been trying to extract that collectivized power for themselves for decades and honestly they’ve been successful in doing so
they play on our ignorance of the world and exploit our identification systems while suing our history to shame us into compliance
A diaspora is a group of people who originate from a common homeland but live dispersed outside of it, while maintaining some degree of collective identity, memory, or connection to that place of origin.
Black Americans originate in the USA, we have a collective cultural identity with regional variations and we don’t have communities outside the USA.
Black Americans are not fighting no diaspora war. We are fighting cultural appropriation
