Black Politics 🇺🇸 TLDR: Pan-Africanism, as historically constituted, cannot be fixed because its operating system is incompatible with African sovereignty. Pan-Africanism has backed itself into a “damned if we do, damned if we don’t” corner because its modern ideological center of gravity rests on Black Americanism. Post: This is not a moral accusation against Black […]
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For years, Mardi Gras Indian chants like “Jock-a-mo feeno ah na nay” have been dismissed as nonsense syllables, playful gibberish, or vaguely “African-sounding” sounds with no real linguistic content. That assumption doesn’t hold up when you place New Orleans culture inside the actual linguistic environment it developed in. Long before Louisiana became an English-speaking space, […]
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Most discussions of Black American English (BAE) frame it as a survival of African languages or as the product of African creolization. But if we look closer at the linguistic environment of the Atlantic world (1600s–1700s), the story points us in a different direction. 🚢 What is Maritime English? Maritime English was the simplified contact […]
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Black Americans are a creolized ethnic group in America who speak Black American English (B.A.E) They have a culture built off defiance and adaptability. BAs delineate mainly by area (Regional, State, City) We are one ethnic group with many subcultures, heritages, etc 🖤🔱❤️ Black Americans are a creolized ethnic group in the United States who […]
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(I had to rewrite this because Reddit refreshed on mobile and deleted my original editing and fact checking. Yes I’m mad) Imagine this: 500 years from now they did up ShadowBudd bones and see that hey he spoke English lived in a place colonized by the English and all of his writings are in English. […]
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If I asked for a coke, would you give me a Pepsi, a Root Beer, or a Coca Cola? If I asked for a piece of fruit any type, would you give me a carrot ? What people are doing is instead of correcting it, they are instead changing carrots to be fruits instead. They […]
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Often I dream of Black America and her children. One key feature that we do is use “Area” to delineate between ourselves even within cities. The colonizers basically went into many parts of Africa into complex societies and flatten them into “tribes.” If the equivalent is to be said of modern day, Louisiana would be […]
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WeRemember 🖤🔱❤️ Let’s deep dive into extractors. I have always said that Black America currently lack the LEPS (within the we remember framework and matrix) in order to get reparations. The Black dollar currently circulates less than 24 hrs in the black community. We need our own economy and a cultivation of our ecosystem in […]
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You wake up in the morning and look in the mirror you’re Black (thank God you won the lottery) Man or woman doesn’t change what comes next. You got paid today. You buy clothes the store is owned by MENA merchants who don’t wear what you’re buying. You get gas the station is run by […]
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Our perception of skin tone has been corrupted. It was filtered through racism. Dark skin. Light skin. Black. White. These were never neutral descriptions. Not all light-skinned people were mixed, and there were dark-skinned people who were mixed. Yet we used a spectrum built on racist ideas to explain differences in skin tone. That system […]
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