Differences are good. Many different communities coming to together in a society each with different pros and cons People are afraid of different cultures but the truth is many different people coming together can be a net benefit as they each offer a different solution to the societies problem when they mix. How did this […]
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This is Tippu Tip (also written Tippoo Tib or Tippu Tib) He was one of the most powerful slave and ivory merchants in nineteenth-century East and Central Africa. His birth name was Hamed bin Mohammed el Murjebi. He was born around 1837, usually associated with Zanzibar’s Swahili-Arab merchant world, and rose to prominence through the […]
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who’s feeding Alt-Right propaganda machines esp toward narratives of white people experiencing racism. I think this behavior is beneath us. This is just feeding their propaganda machine for clicks out of some childish “they used to do it to us” logic. Druski and Forever Band are supply their army with ammunition. Why supply your enemy […]
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Performative jargon is language that sounds intelligent, moral, or politically aware, but is mostly being used to signal identity, sophistication, or virtue rather than to clarify reality. What it really is is verbal theater. It often hides weak thinking behind trendy terms, inflated phrasing, and abstract moral posturing. Instead of explaining a point plainly, it […]
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There’s so much talk in our community when it comes to Colorism where BM are seen as perpetuators of colorism and BW are innocent bystanders being affected by it. Two people standing in the rain will get wet. That is how internalized racism, colorism, and related pathologies work. People often talk as if these forces […]
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWB8t7nDnh9/?igsh=cnkxeGx3c3kzZDAx because you are wrong and don’t understand Black Culturr. American culture is Black American culture. “Culture” comes from Latin cultura, meaning cultivation. You will know Black American culture by the fruits she has produced. You’re primary talking about social infrastructure and not the more visible forms of culture. Culture to you is a living system […]
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The first oddity is representational. Ghana is a modern postcolonial state. It is not identical to all the distinct peoples who lived in the region before British rule, and it is certainly not identical to all descendant communities in the Americas. So when Ghana speaks as though it can centrally lead a reparations movement, it […]
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Reparations are usually framed as redress for an injured people, class, or community. They are tied to harm, inheritance of harm, unlawful dispossession, forced labor, exclusion, or state-sanctioned injury suffered by actual populations. In that sense, reparations are not just “money to a country.” They are a claim rooted in a harmed group. Indemnity is […]
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There is a growing confusion in public discourse between symbolic alignment and historical standing. That confusion becomes especially visible when foreign states or leaders enter American racial questions under the language of reparations, memory, and justice. Ghana’s recent push at the United Nations, framed through the moral language of the transatlantic slave trade and historical […]
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Ghana’s push for reparations is a HIJACK. Many will say: Modern Ghana didn’t participate in the slave trade but I respond if modern Ghana didn’t participate in slavery than how can they be owned reparations? Ghana doesn’t have a claim for compensation. If reparations are framed too broadly, they can sound morally inconsistent when local […]
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