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Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
Many CADs whether they’re first-gen, second-gen, or part of a diasporic lineage outside the U.S. understand and respect the distinction between their heritage and Black American heritage/lineages. I’ve met many CADs here in the U.S. actually who are deeply immersed in their own cultures. Whether it was Nigerian, Ghanaian, Somali, etc. but also fully assimilated […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
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 […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
People get offended when they’re accused of talking white. “Talking white” refers to mimicking white American speech patterns or defaulting to strictly standardized English as a primary mode of expression. What people call “proper English” is really standard English, and Black Americans often code-switch between Standard English and BAE, which in origin was a fully […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
When Caribbean and African migrants arrived in the UK during the post-WWII Windrush era, they did not arrive as a single people. They came as distinct nationals including Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Barbadians, Nigerians, Ghanaians, and Sierra Leoneans. Many groups from across the British Empire. Each group possessed distinct languages, religions, cuisines, class systems, and accents. Many […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
They say blackness is not a monolith until it’s applied to Black Americans then magically everyone’s Black American. We come from different societies different cultures different histories What binds us is our collective effort in eradicating successively colonial structures and the paradigms that fuel them in order to attain sovereignty. Sovereignty has been gained for […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
If Puerto Ricans, who are Americans by birth and can be visibly “black”, aren’t considered “Black Americans,” why are recent Afro-Caribbean and African immigrants use the identifier of Black American identity instead of retaining their own? (Haitian-American or Nigerian-American) Why do they use a generic argument of Black American being for anyone “Black”? While telling […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
Is Blackness defined by ancestry, culture, phenotype, lived experience, or something else? Does DNA percentages make someone Black or is it rooted in lineage and shared struggle? Should community determine it or institutions like the government, the census, or corporations? Do you only consider Black American with connection to BA history Black? If someone does […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
Black American is a sociopolitical, sociocultural, and ethnonational identifier for the descendants of the formerly classified “American Negroes” whose ancestors were under the legal, economic, political, social, and cultural conditions of Enslavement and NeoSlavery within the USA. “Black” in this context is a sociopolitical and sociocultural identity that was created and popularized by the “American […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
Ideologues are attempting to usurp you It bothers me because it’s category error that when left unchecked will be propagated everywhere along a false system of conflation while erasing distinctions Nigerian Culture(s) are not Black Culture(s) It is Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, ad the many other ethnic groups etc etc Cultures This is the end result […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Jan 25th, 2026
I’m interested to see you all’s opinions 🦹🏾♂️ Bonus: What is the difference between an Indian (from India) and a Haitian saying it? Many will argue proximity or carrying the same risks due to similarities in phenotype. The usual “if a police in …” This isn’t a good marker and defines it along the lines […]
