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Africa is so massive and diverse it is not one country or culture we speak and dress differently Africans don't even know other african cultures or languages
We were separated from African culture but, African in African American genetic makeup can never leave us... From dance, rhythm, music, athletics, cooking etc., is instilled in us..
DL23KMT and yet most blacks in America look down on Africa and Africans in general. most of the ones paying attention now are suddenly doing that cos the white world has reminded them that they are not welcome.
Prince Jaren of course they have not welcomed but many of us been acting like we free, even celebrating independence day. With that knowledge what you still doing living among them? how much longer do you need to make that crucial choice?
I feel like Africans have a complex towards African Americans..they keep talking about African Americans like they have no culture when they don't even try to learn it yet they criticize them for not identifying as being African..I'm Nigerian but what's wrong is wrong.. African Americans have their problems but this video depicts them very wrongly..no African would ever have been able to step foot in the US let alone go to all these prestigious schools and get a better life if it wasn't for the pain and struggle African Americans went through..never forget those who fought and paved way for you to even think of stepping foot in the US.
This is so true! First of all The young ladies that were chosen to represent the Americans had absolutely no idea nor pride in who they were and where they came from let alone their very own heritage! There should have been the exact same level of representation for the American panelist as the African panelists! We would do better to learn about the truth of one another and how we are alike than to focus on the differences! And to the young lady with the head wrap you get the same energy that you put out there so keep it up if you want to! You would never see a panel of white people talking about the differences between Irish and German!
The guy on the left said Africans don't care/never cared what white people think/thought. AA care not because we want to but because WE HAD TO. Learning to assimilate to white culture literally meant the difference between life and death for many years in this country. We taught our children how to walk, talk, dress. We taught them yes ma'am/no ma'am, yes sir/no sir just so they could have the most basic necessities. It was the difference between life and death.Between a roof over your head or a burning cross on your lawn. We live in an age now where we can care a little less what white people think. We have that privilege, but our parents didn't. Our grandparents didn't. That kind of stigma doesn't just wash away.
Comedyking2020 Right and to be honest, some Africans, depending upon location, minded what white pple said too because they had to just like us..... #coughs.....APARTHEID!!
Comedyking2020 he’s lying! Europe and Asia have colonized most of Africa. Africans are hella docile when it comes to white people and they come from majority Black countries. They will come to America with their chest poked out but that’s not happening on their native land.
Comedyking2020 oh boo fucken hoo you are living in a dominant white country with a dominant white culture and have to assimilate you know you can leave right you don’t have to live here 50+ country’s in Africa pick one
That's why we can NEVER align ourselves with Africans. Because they don't fight white supremacy... they do fight against Black American progressive movements to assist white supremacy. Therefore we will no longer support Democrats and allow WHITE REPUBLICANS to scalle back those immigration benefits WE fought for so they can get some act right about white supremacy.
This was one-sided. It was all about appreciating African cultures, but no expounding on African American culture, playing into the assumption that WE don't have culture. Also having a sense of arrogance about it. Further, there are AAs who discovering their ethnic background; Africans aren't the only ones who know who they are.
cjadream7 lol what culture do we have? I'm an American born African blooded child. All I see is disrespect in our 'culture' here in America. So what do you have to be really proud about?
The African American culture has shaped and impacted the modern day GLOBAL cultural. World Wide Impact. The African American Civil Rights Movement has made it possible and opened doors every other minority benefits from that comes to the USA,
On behalf of a Black American, We have our own culture and it's honestly amazing. Our hiphop, Our style, OUR SLANG that EVERYONE USES. The only bad thing is that we don't know what we are & it's not our fault. Sometimes I get so annoyed because my parents always throw in that we're mixed with some native American but then say we're just black too. I want more than that! Over 150 years ago our ancestors were stolen from Africa and we completely lost our culture. My families diversity of type 3 and type 4 hair and variety in skin tones is enough evidence that we are AFRICAN DESCENDANTS. I just wish that my parents were more directly from Africa so I could be able to enjoy and explore our roots. America has stripped us from our roots so we created our own urban thing. But if we do want to be more African is it possible? Being an African American is fun but I wish I was literally AFRICAN American. I know for a fact that black people relate to this. Because of this we don't know who we are.
Nationality too. You can't say you're African when you never grew up in any African country or have any ties to any African country, because It's also about culture.
We didn't 'adopt' white cultural. We were made to a Adjust and adapt to it. Let's not forget that majority of Africa was colonized and they gained some of that white culture too and then turn around and denounce African Americans for having to do the same.
Although most of Africa was colonized we never adopted their structures ,we took only the language and system but cultures and lifestyle we never left for nobody and that wat makes us Africans not to say African American had a a choice
What I notice is a lot of these conversations involve Africans trying to tell AA's something about them and who they are while in the same breath knowing really nothing about Black culture + black history + black influencers etc (and I'm talking in-depth elements of black folks). They typically know about as much as white people do and there is this idea that they "understand" because they were born here. The role of the African immigrant in America is VERY different from the role of the Black American. I hate these conversations never include those perspectives.
Zarah CC21 THANK YOU! The girl with braids was trying to educate THEM on the fact that we have culture and they so piously interrupted to "inform" us we have culture. Like, seriously?? They indeed have a 'we're better than you' attitude'.
ok, when Africans come here or when the offsprings of africans are here they usually go through the american eductional system. Meaning they learn about slavery, black culture and other black figures. Not only that, but they are also taught what blacks had to go through in this country(black panthers, civil rights movements, etc). So all the discussions you see hear arent ment to hinder anyone. Africans grow up in this society around blacks and other fellow africns, so they are culturally diverse. In a sense they do know about black history and culture. The only thing is blacks dont really take the time to learn african culture.
DemiDoN I'm African American, thus, went through America's terrible public education system and I just learned about black female mathematicians who worked for NASA. We are not tought enough about our culture in the public school system.
We were all born here...took the same history classes...we know what you know. Yes we are VERY different but we also have alot in common...that is what people should be focusing on. Not the negatives. And I want to point out what the girl in the head wrap said...the shit we were put through growing up because we were "African" is just sad. Our names getting made fun of, for instance. That happened to me in middle school. So if you feel that we distance ourselves...that has ALOT to do with it.
Mara Okafor But Africans weren't the only group of people made fun of. Haitians..Trinis.. we were all made fun of as children. We aren't reluctant to allow people to celebrate our culture.
I can say as an AA it hurts me sometimes that I can never truly identify with the cultures of Africa that birth me. At times I feel like I was stripped of my culture and heritage. I know literally nothing of who I really am. I just wish I could connect to that part of me
Christal Carstarphen 😂😂 culture may not be the same, BUT you are an AFRICAN. So let culture not make u call ur self an American or what u think. 🤣🤣 LOL.
Christal Carstarphen yah but rlly in this world we might jus have to get used to bein by ourselves bc no race stands wit us they’re all against us even if they disguise it
The African culture is not in our history books so can you blame us??? Acknowledge the fact that more blacks are becoming more woke .thank god for the internet. Just like we have to learn the African culture on our own take time to know ours as well before you judge us.✊🏿
I am from Haiti, we know our roots are in Africa but we have an identity which is haitian. Not every black person who has black skin struggle with the identity issues that African American struggle with.
African Americans an ethnic group meaning black people who have been in America for centuries and you do have black people who came to this country from other countries
That guy in the blue shirt needs to learn his history. Brazilians are from Africa (mainly Nigeria of the Yoruba tribe), Jamaicans are Africans. So are Haitians.
+Acheron Styxx Brazilians have a large number of Nigerians (to be specific Yoruba's). Go to Wikipedia and you will see for yourself. I've been to Brazil and they tell you this as part of their tour.
+Gavin johnson please, I'm Yoruba and I don't know why the Yoruba Chiefs haven't told those people to stop calling themselves Yoruba. It's because we're not saying anything. I think my elders are just happy were recognised internationally but to be realistic, they're not Nigerian Yoruba's. Look at how white most of them look yet they're practicing ifa. That shit pisses me off. Both black Americans and Caribbeans better claim other cultures and leave Nigeria the fuck alone. They'll never be Yoruba's or Nigerians.
+Gavin johnson like the first guy said, they're most likely from Portuguese colonies. I just wished the Yoruba elders put an end to those idiots calling themselves Yoruba's. It's a big insult to me especially. Everyone should just leave Nigeria. We don't need outside interference, try Ghana or Senegal.
+Omo Oba I am Urhobo from the Niger Delta. So let me ask you a question? When the British Colonized Nigeria and enslaved our people in the 11 Century. Where did they take them to? Can you please answer this question ?
.....Cultures???? We are the same people. African cultures differ from eachother vastly themselves such as the Ethiopian from the Senegalese and African American culture is another facet of the African diaspora. To my African Americans, Afro Caribbeans and Afro Latinos please do not feel tentative about calling yourself Africans or feel any less African by those who disagree.
As an African, let me tell you - FEEL VERY TENTATIVE about calling yourself African and you should totally feel less African, especially when you make zero efforts to educate yourself on the African experience and how American's continually misrepresent and mock what is means to be African.
GM C have you even been in and African Americans home, Met someones Granny that can tell you stories about history that's not written or on T.V/UA-cam?, ate at family events, have you have truly even took part in African American Culture. If you did you would learn we are a mixture of tribes. Its ignorant and culturally insensitive to ask what tribes we come from. They inbred africans in america during slavery and had sex farms so please becarful with what you say when trying to help.. look up the Gullah Geechie people of S.C. They speak a Creole language that is a mix of African And English that traces back to Africa, They even traced there basket weaving skill Back to Sierra Leon. Then look up ebonics and see the connection of why we created so many dialects of english that go unrecognised as a language. Which allows society to say we don't speak english well and have no culture. Which all started with the Geechie people. We have African influence as well when it comes to food. Collard Greens, Blackeyed Peas,Gumbo,Fried Okra, Gizzards,Hot Wata Corn Bread aka fried Ugali, hush puppies, Jambalaya, Dirty Rice etc... The list goes on, everybody speaks and cooks food differently depending on were you are at....
Don't know why the guy in the blue shirt is getting g hate in the comments. He's absolutely correct. He's just saying that since Africans were shipped to Brazil, Haiti or wherever, they then got a ton of European influence thus losing their African identity. That's why this guy thinks of himself as black and not African because black is just racial and doesn't suggest place of origin or culture. Also, he's not culturally African so he's not African even tho he might have some genetical connection. That's why in places like Brazil or Dominican Republic, there's Blacks who are genetically African but culturally European, and they are proud of it. And actually, they seem to deny their African ancestry.
Edward Kenway Africans on the islands and south America have more African culture preserved than parts of Africa in Brazil they still have more ogun worshippers than in Nigeria where the ogun god originated from. Slaves were allowed to keep their names, gods, culture etc.
I disagree. Everyone acts like your blackness owns you when you are 99% something else and 1% black. Let’s experience our other cultures. We already know how it feels to black in America and that’s what Africans know. It’s not self hate but we easily get rejected from Africans so some people would rather study other roots.
Stepheon Coles were you rejected by Africans in Africa? You are angry Africans are willing to accept you and blaming them for you not being able to enjoy your "other cultures" because Africans are over accepting even of people with 1% African dna. Not only are you contradicting yourself you are confused and clearly mislead.
Stepheon Coles that's because in Africa there is no step brother, niece, cousin, 1st cousin removed. Every one is either father/mother or brother/sister or uncle/aunt nothing more and Extended families the size of a city are still considered family. Just yesterday someone told my Bro we are related by great grand fathers and he came home ate drank canvassed and got to meet other people we welcomed him. So you maybe 1% but you are brother whereas with your Euro "culture" technicalities abound and if you are not in the nuclear family sorry bud you are a stranger and can even marry yourselves let alone someone who has a different skin colour altogether who never grew up in that place or speaks the language you are a f"#%&g foreigner. Read Nigerian footballer Leon Balogun's story born and bred in Germany but the people never failed to remind him he was not German he never felt at home until he went to Nigeria.
I am a black American who has visited Africa on multiple occasions and I have also lived abroad. I wish these conversations could include a perspective of people who are well travelled or more experienced.
I'm a 53 yr old black American,yes I'm 83% west African but my pple grew up here and built this country with 400 yrs of slavery so we have the rite to call ourselves black in a country we died to build,many Africans say u don't have culture and the Congolese guy said that Africans have their own countrys,well so do we,he's living in it now and who's is it if not ours and don't forget our music,style,food that everybody steals from us and we invented air con,elevator,escalator,washing machine,refrigarater,peanutbutter,plasma,first open heart surgeon,cell phone,traffic light,mayonaise,best singers,best athletes and if we were a individual country we would be the 17 richest country in the world so who cares what Africans think of us,if they want to get along then fine but they're in the land that our blood ,sweat,tears built,we're not in there's.
I wish you guys would have discussed the fact that you wouldn’t be able to attend these American colleges without Black Americans fighting and dying for desegregation and a slew of other civil rights that you can now enjoy. I feel Africans overlook this MAJOR fact. Would you even be able to attend school, get jobs - heck, ride the front of the bus to work WITHOUT Black Americans and they’re experience in America? Do you feel Africans pay back/give homage to their American ancestors enough?
They don't care about that,the girl in the head wrap said that she didn't respect black americans then changed what she said and added that she's gonna treat them as badly as they treated her.We're on our own in this world.
@Elizabeth R She is rather simple minded to base her attitude on her bad encounters instead of trying to know more in different settings and from various walks of life.
@Fancy Nancy I hate ones who think we don't care about education when we fought to create HBCUs when we still didn't have the choice to go to other schools. They wouldn't appreciate us going to their countries and looking down on them and saying they don't have anything accomplished.
We do have our own culture that is very unique. I don't think we need to idolize Africans or be sad the we don't "have our own" country. Our culture has a lot of pain and perseverance. We do have a lot of other races mixed in that perhaps we don't even know about but everything we have gone Through is something to be proud of. There's nothing wrong with our experience and our culture. We are very unique and don't need to be anybody but ourselves. ❤️
Nobody is saying Africans Americans don't have a culture..And we are not happy you guys passed through those experience...My grandpa told me our tribe from Nigeria failed to protect our brothers and sisters who were shipped out of the country because we were the closest tribe(South west)in Nigeria to the sea...So my point if we black hate each other, we can never get it right to face our oppressors.
I will always be proud to be African American!...I have always been fascinated in learning about African culture, in countries like Uganda, Tanzania, and Ghana. Especially since the only thing we learn in history class about black people is literally slavery and the civil rights movement..But after seeing how these people feel about us I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't be interested in Africa..sometimes I feel discouraged because I'll never get to truly know my African heritage since it was taken from me..but when i think of all the obstacles my people have overcome in America, it makes me proud of who I am..even if others cultures cant see how amazing we are🙌🏾
Cydnee Simone my advice to you is to do your research. Research your family tree and research west African countries. Connect the dots no matter how faint they are. You are American and you do have culture, it’s just that corporate greed has taken so many elements of our communities and sold it back to us, so it’s appears to be a bottomless pit.
Do your own research love, cause at the end of the day these africans that are displayed in this Video or born in america ... you have to experience the land to get a real experience and judgement. Africans that are living on the continent are more welcoming
Its amazing how timid the americans were in this. They sat there in deference to the Africans who all came to america to take advantage of a system that was opened up to them through the blood sweat and tears of black americans. I am not even black american in fact i'm caribbean and this triggered me to see how pompous these africans were sitting in america talking down to black americans whose story of struggles and achievement in america is unmatched. I find more inspiration in the black american story than in any of the africans who are mostly failing the continent so much so that they have to immigrate to the homeland of black americans.
I’m late but this was so one sided. I wish proud black Americans were representing on here. We don’t have to know African culture to know who we are. And the one girl with the head wrap is so condescending. We get it, you’re from Africa and you love it.
Hmm I don't know why it always feels like Descedants of slaves always have to be in the humble position when it comes to this conversation like this didn't feel like it was just a bunch of black people paying homage to Africa. Don't get me wrong I love Africa I wouldn't be here without Africa but let's not pretend it's history is more important than our own that we had to carve out ourselves while always struggling. I would never go to Africa with a sense that they owe me some special type of respect because DOS history gave black people in general the opportunity to even set foot in America let alone have civil rights and affirmative action when they do. Not only does our history and cultures separate us but our political views do too which is very dangerous for DOS because Africans that come here more often than not aren't the ones who relate with the majority of the DOS here, they aren't considered the poor or an under class where they come from. The Africans who do relate can't afford to come here. That's why in most cases the first thing they do is distance themselves from our collective. If I took a trip or moved to the Mother Land I would immerse my self in the culture and the history and be respectful of it and I would think the same should be expected when it's the other way around because wether people wanna acknowledge it or not DOS built this country, were responsible for its economic dominance and it is our home and always has been since our ancestors stepped foot her as prisoners of wars without a homeland to stand up for them.
The truth is that white people rule the world and they give black Americans/black Europeans their scraps, which is more than they give anyone else in the world. It makes Africans and other non white people very resentful towards black Americans/black Europeans, because they think we're ungrateful, when really they don't understand how hard black Americans/black Europeans had to fight for those scraps and Africans and other non white people will never receive white people scraps because they lick the ass of the white man while telling them every negative thing they want to hear about other black/non white people. You will never see black Americans cow towing for white Americans, as a whole, for their approval like Africans/non white people. We gained enough of their respect to gain their scraps, but we still have to keep fighting to stop their hate.
Lakeesha Davis very well said. One thing we possess is integrity for ourselves and our race as African Americans. Their jealousy, and lack of pride in the collective black race is the reason they sold other black people, and it's sad because they still possess that trait.
The thing I don’t understand is why Africans don’t like African Americans. This has been my experience when I’m around them, i’m not sure where I’m from but I am a black woman born in America, and from my experience Africans treat me badly especially the African women, let’s talk about that?
Why though do you only feature West Africans in these "African vs African American" debates? Africa is not just about Nigerians, how about Central Africans, East Africans & South Africans?? We too would like to participate and also please feature actual Africans debating with Black Americans, as in Africans that were born in Africa & moved to the US not these ones who were born in America to African immigrants
Georgi M these were friends of mine that would be able to do this video. I don't know many Africans that are not from West Africa.. especially being that I'm Nigerian so that's what was best fit. So sorry for the "lack of diversity" but I can't get one African from every part of the country. I just don't know enough.
Cindyrella OG but I commend you my fellow Naija people, you're always on the forefront, leading the continent in many things. Like most, if not all of the Africans vs African Americans, UA-cam videos are of Nigerians reaching out to our other brothers & sisters in Black America, showing them we still love & think of them as being part of us. I've not come across videos of other Africans trying to do this. Kudos sister OG & I really enjoy this video
When the volume is too low and then u turn the volume all the way up and its still too low, suddenly the music rolls in and u get taken to the hospital to get ur ears checked
At the end of the day, every descendant of the African diaspora derives from people who were deceived and stolen. We share the same genetics however we are different culturally through no fault of our own. We are a strong people and are very resilient. Many Africans come over and enjoy the fruits of the labor that Black Americans put in the work a structure for. Black American culture and Caribbean culture are probably the two most influential cultures in the world when it comes to popular culture and trendsetting. Everyone steals from us and we dont complain. Many Africans come over and develop Black American characteristics and wear Black Americans style so we dont get mad. We look at it as flattery. So check your attitude about people wearing dashikis and the such. Its not that serious. Just take it as flattery.
Jeremy Scott did they give you the money to purchase the dashiki? y should u need anyone s approval for wearing their type of cloth? if i see u wearing a Nigerian cloth I'd be proud of u, and respect u.
And please explain how Africans were supposed to find the US and fight to find their descendants? What's more, how would the descendants know where they belong to? Why do African Americans hate Africans so much? I like both Africans and African Americans so i don't understand this stupid issue.
Kandy Kane I feel like you need to educate yourself on the history of the different countries in Africa. During slavery which did not just occur in America but The Caribbean, The U.K, Brazil and I can name many more countries many slaves were in fact returned back to African to countries in which many of them did not originate from. Secondly most African countries were colonised meaning European countries came over forced their language and culture upon us, raped us and brainwashed us. So this hate you have assuming you as an African American have a struggle that we did not have is incorrect. Finally this "ATTITUDE" we have, is because we are treated as though we are beneath others. Even our fellow blacks who are ignorant like yourself will call us African bubus, call us monkeys, or ask if we speak click. We have a right to be proud of our roots because our culture is rich and beautiful. YOU need to humble and educate yourself rather than speak ignorance and claim to be a Jew. Acting like anybody begged you to care about Africa, you have obviously been triggered ... calm down
I feel a strong vibe that the Africans are very negative towards AA people thoughts. Besides the African guy in the black but the girl in the middle is very stuck up an judge mental.
Erika Sims Bcx most AA think they are the better version of black people..they feel superior to Africans and that's why most AA thinks Africans don't like them..
When y'all say.... Africans are jealous of black americans.. What are we jealous of..? Of them being descendants of slaves or us not.? Like if an african wants to go abroad it is just a passport and a visa.. So... Where's the jealousy coming from.. Y'all got to speak some sense cuz that's so stupid.. All blacks come from Africa. But... Slavery took us apart and some weren't born here. We come from the same source.. The difference is in our way to perceive things due to the environment we grew in.. Like there are things black Americans tolerate or accept that African don't because of the "whitish" environment they grew in with completely different perception, culture and beliefs with Africans.. Nobody should be over/under rated for what he/she is or where he/she was born.. Period.!
Can we stop shaming and putting down African Americans and acting as if we are better than them? And can we stop making fun of them for not knowing which country their ancestors were from and getting mad when they try to connect with a certain culture?
Exactly! We have been hidden from our culture forever and when we connect back to our roots, we get shamed for it. This world is definitely against us.
the guy who identify himselve as black and African not name was a lame ass excuses on why, Brazil and Haiti that doesn't make any sense because if you are from Brazil don't make. you Brazilian or Haitian, you're still African from Africa black people in Brazil come from Africa black people in Haiti come from Africa this guy has absolutely no idea on what he just said.
anybody/child of the diaspora owes no one (definitely not any African who thinks otherwise) any explanation as it concerns our culture, heritage and lineage! the way we dress, cook, dance, sing, style our hair are remnants of OUR AFRICAN ancestors, we've always had the keys. unfortunately the spirit of Africa has been clouded here in the US but go to the Caribbean/Latin America, spirit of Africa is strong!
There absolutely is a difference between Africans and African Americans, even down to the genetics. I am African, parents born and raised in guinea 🇬🇳 from the Fulani tribe. The reason why I say this because we most tribes in Africa only inter breed, to keep the gene pool the same. Fulani people have distinctive features, so do Igbo people, Hausa People, Tuareg and habesha people. We are different down to the genetics. The same way a Greek person looks differently than a Scottish or Armenian. African Americans are mixed with many different African tribes so they don’t have such distinctive features. Their gene pool isn’t from one tribe it’s mixed between many.
Sãdï Berry l'm a black american and l agree a 💯% on our difference especially when it comes to our culture an face features l think there's a big difference as a black american l can look at a African an know that he/she comes from africa...and l can look a black american an know they from America.
Linda Mccoy you actually can't tell if a person is from Africa we are the most diverse continent on earth,I'm indigenous African but I get mistaken for Indian,Arab you can find the lightest person with hazel eyes and blond hair and darkest person with light eyes and light hair
Love, Leila remember you from africa so you will always look african we black AA are not from africa so we have a big differences in our culture, music, food, clothers, features...etc trust an believe we are very different and most AA will also tell you that.
Linda Mccoy if you saw me on the street you wouldn't say I'm African till I tell you your statement is false if I saw a black American on the street I'd think they were African till they spoke ,black Americans are west African sooooo
Watch the video. In America, we cant do ANYTHING without somebody getting mad, offended. Cant dress African even though our race is African. Cant do anything. Sheesh. Just tired.
Free you mind, this whole "race" thing is a very European concept from the jump. Just celebrate the straightforward cultural diversity that exists on the earth. This race stuff has us over complicating things. African Americans have their own unique culture and history just as the Igbo does. That doesn't mean we can't still go with ethnic Africans. We can love Asians, Latin Americans, and Europeans just as well. Race is bankrupt.
red foxx 313 lets be honest. Most black americans r so rude & disrespectful. I kind of u derstand what they have been through tho so i dont judge them for being that
MrJovon yea African American ancestors are from many peoples in Africa-.- but yea they also have their own thing like the Harlem Renaissance. I see African Americans as culture of arts (music, painting, etc) they also were the backbone of fighting oppression, Carribeans the culture of food (guess that'd include New Orleans lmao it's similar w/ carnival food), Africa and it's cultures in itself...for example Bantu have a wood culture with like the artistic figurines...and by God THE HUTU AND TUTSI ARE THE SAME PEOPLE no such thing as other 'races'. All are BANTU. ALL ARE BANTU. The way African people act with this not-being-bantu thing reminds me of Europeans trying to say Irish aren't white-.- it's very fuckin annoying! Anyway rant over...back to topic...Congo has an iron-rust culture(they actually might have invented casting iron), Nigeria has a wax-like thing I think(lost wax casting method), S. Africans have a pastoral culture, the Muslims up north are fond with mud cultures(awesome housing describing it in words doesn't give it justice) and ink dye, etc.The world's a big place.
Always improve do whatever you wanna do b/c theyre wearing your ish over there. Most of the africans i know dont think aa are stealing. If anything, they get a sense of pride when they see that. They only kiss their teeth if you dont know where that particular style "might" have originated. Some things are uniquely part of a certain culture; other things i see in many diff parts of africa
As an older African American woman, I know I am African and I don't really think there is that much of a difference in the two cultures. To me as a 50 year old, i do completely respect the fact that Africans respect their parents and education is supreme!!! African Americans used to be that way!!! Things started to change when drugs were put into our neighborhoods. The Nigerian young woman is disrespectful for saying she is not black. She most definitely is a black woman who is African. Everyone will see her as black for the rest of her life. White is a color too and all white people refer to themselves as such. Do you think they say "I'm not white, I'm Irish"? No they don't. She makes it seem like being black is a derogatory thing. As for the African American young man who is most definitely African American. Stop seeing that as a negative. I do pray that in the next two generation the children of Africans new to America are still respectful to their parents and STILL put a premium on education. As an AA, I hate the fact that we are born citizens and don't take advantage of our education system. As a teen, I went to Catholic school. During one of our winter breaks, I went to visit my friends in public school. I could not believe all the students who were skipping class (80%). I That was very sad to me even as a teen. All immigrants respect education. They understand that education levels the playing field. They all understand that they need to go for the best careers ( doctor, lawyer, engineer, nurse, pharmacist). Not careers that keep you poor. We get a FREE education and we don't use it to our advantage. So I say to all African and African Americans. Take the good traits of each culture as your own. Come together in respect. You are not better than us and we are not better than you. Blessings
ROSLYN JONES our education definitely isn't free, we do pay taxes! since some of us have to pay for private school because the public schools are so poor. we used to have beautiful black neighborhoods but your generation allowed drugs to tear them down. the younger generation is just trying to pick up the pieces and piece together what we have left. this generation is more educated then the generation prior but no one cares. it's really sad
ROSLYN JONES actually we do that in Europe. Me and my European friends get called white all the time in USA and I say I'm Finnish and my friends say they're Bosnian.
Cindyrella OG I’m unsubscribing. What should offend you is how your own people were kidnapped, enslaved and stripped of their native culture, and because of that WE DON’T KNOW.
Right,they have zero understanding of that.She acted just like how the Europeans act when slavery is brought up.They love to bypass their role in the most inhumane act commited on the NATION of Yahs people.
Some of the Africans on the panel don’t realize that African Americans have had a presence in America for four hundred years - 250 years of slavery + 100 years of a civil rights struggle and still racism - 50 years. Our ancestors didn’t come here free or willingly so they don’t seem to have much of an understanding of our struggle and how our struggles have benefited them as immigrants here and that is sad. So when African Americans are talking about whites we are not talking about all whites it is just a reference to the historical trauma that African American people have experienced for centuries due to whites in this country and because of that, we are very attuned to racism. There is a disconnect there. If they are so concerned about our understanding of African clothing before wearing it maybe we should ask them to learn a little about our history here in America before making generalizations about us. Additionally, we are a mix of several different west African tribes - and we are largely descendants of west African slaves who stripped of their culture and histories. Today we will interpret and express our Africanness in different ways and that's ok. If I want to wear Fulani earrings today or cook some Jollof tomorrow or do nothing at all - it shouldn't matter. It is our decision to determine how we will intepret and express our Africaness after the horros of the transatlantic slave trade. Just love us for who we are. Wanting to know about Africa has never been a fad. Many African Americans have been curious about Africa for generations - especially since the movie Roots came out in 1977. From this conversation, I am feeling a lot of disconnect between the Africans and African Americans. With so much disconnect at least I can just value being an African American - we have a very beautiful and rich culture right here in America.
Slaves were shipped from West Africa but kidnapped from countries as far North as Sudan... Africans welcome any Diaspora that want to reclaim...I don't even think there's a word for all that was stolen from them
MA'AM THE MAJORITY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE ENSLAVED . MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY THESE ARE FACTS.THEY TALK AS IF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WAS INVENTED YESTERDAY.AND THEY HAVE AN OBSESSION WITH BEING INCARCERATED.
@@Loveamericasave go talk to them because I don't clean houses but I will own a business one day . As a Nigerian American and maybe one day in the words of nino Brown. When this conversation is done "you can come work for me"😉 and clean mines lol.
And yet these african people in that room would be offended if you wanted to call yourself african.......... How that make since either im a child of africa or not make up you damn mind!!!!!
Justin Wallace why you soo presses the truth is us africans are very diffrent from yall african americans tbh but yes it shouldnt be bad for yall to say yall are african
@@ashleywildeman796 only diffrence is culture and where we was born. But when it comes to culture we did not choose to walk away from our african ancestors culture it was forced out of us. So sorry our ancestors chose to live so i could say this to you today and i dont want you to think im saying this from a place of hate. But this is truly why we forever run towards africa or want to be connected with it unlike most people in the diaspora.
Justin Wallace okay i get your point but my thing also is why do us africans have to learn about yalls history but yall dont know about our history like yall dont know the kho khoi or even Chief Ndlambe only Nelson mandela
@@ashleywildeman796 i get where you are going with that statement. The issue is we spend most of our entire time learning american history with egypt being the only huge section from africa. By the time we are 20 only thing left to do is make sure you are not addicted to drugs and can make it out in the world on your own. Must of us are responsible for families before we even get to the age of 20. I will agree that we must learn the history of where our ancestors came from( especially those who have found the origins or part of it in africa). I myself through being matched with an african relative found out im part igbo nigerian. However i have been told and i have watched videos that no matter how much we learn your history and cultures. Alot of west africans still look at us with disdain and treat us as if we are less than them. We are also huge targets of being set up for scams when we try to go over there. That also makes us AAs a little hesitant to understand you but alot of us still try.
Being black means culture, melanin popping, Haters coming from this way and that, kinky hair, full lips, black struggle, Being black is a gift cherish it
I’m a Ghanaian I live in Ghana, born and raised. I can’t say I know to a full extent what it feels like to be African. Cos I haven’t been to any other African Country before. Not even Togo which is a few hours drive away from Ghana. And even as a Ghanaian I only know what it feels like to live in Accra (greater Accra) and Akosombo (eastern region) because out of the 10 regions in Ghana I’ve only been to and live in these 2(a 23 year old woman) and even in accra when I visit some places like Nima some people don’t really accept me as Ghanaian cos I grew up in East legon (kind of an upper class community in Accra). The point I’m trying to make is what does it mean to say you know what it feels to be African or Black. Yes we might relate to some of the same things like our modern dances and music. But to be honest Africa is a place with a very diverse ways of living and understandings. Every country ,region , town village differs. And to be honest the only thing that brings Modern Africans together is the internet. Until the invention of social media I didn’t know Nigerians also ate fufu and jollof rice. I didn’t even know that jollof was from Senegal. What I’m trying to say is the way the world sees Africa as one one group of united people with similar ways of life etc. is very far from the reality Africa is big and has changed so much in Ghana we have lost most of our cultures (I’ve never even been to a festival before) due to the introduction of Christianity and Islam. Right now the culture of Ghanaians is to make money by working, have an education, go to church or the mosque, buy expensive cars and build expensive houses.. we don’t care about going to the festivals and wearing traditional clothings and believing in our ancestors etc those things are quickly dying if not dead yet. This is the reality. Don’t get me wrong I’m proud to be a Ghanaian.
Karen okine agree for the most but disagree on the lost culture part. The fact that majority of Ghanaians speak Twi is proof that they’re still holding onto their culture. You grew up in East Legon, you can’t compare your experiences to another who grew up in less “D-bee” community. You probably cannot speak any Ghanaian language. If you put in a little bit of research you will realize there are a lot of cultural things still going on. Funerals, outdoorings, engagements, festivals just to name few all display the rich Ghanaian culture
This video is so bias in the Africans prospective. It would have helped to have African Americans on the panel that were more outspoken and voiced their opinion just as well as the Africans on this panel.
It was very disheartening to see. One girl legit seemed like a yes person. The other American black woman seemed kind of disappointed in the conversation as well and like she just decided to keep quiet.
This had potential but sadly it was mostly one sided. Seemed as though this space was created for Africans to air their grievances against AA (Not referring to us as black Americans, y'all can stay mad idc). Now get the panel right and this convo can be progressive as well as entertaining. Both perspectives need to be equally represented so that understanding on both sides can take place. Also, girl with head wrap, let that hurt go, sis. You being there goes to show just how lopsided and biased this "panel" was.
Feyi Joseph The "mediator" wasn't neutral so it was more like 4 v 3. The whole discussion was leaning in a direction that was favorable towards one group thus leaving the audience with one perspective instead of that of both groups. Chalk that up to the questions, panel or whatever. Watching it seemed to me that unification may have been the objective but it turned into a space for them to air their grievances against AA. Also, racism and bullying is not the same. Further, by holding on to that hurt she is hindering the process to unify. She's shutting out ppl that didn't bully her and taking her anger out on all AA. She need to let it go perhaps consider therapy. And maybe I could let racism go if it were a thing of the past but me and my ppl are affected by it everyday.
@@debrawilson08 The African American representatives should have done some research the to get a better understanding of how to approach the topic in a more intelligent and knowledgeable way.
Shari No amount of research or preparedness on their part could have changed the way this so-called progressive discussion went. If everyone doesn't leave their biases at the door, come into it with open minds and with intent to understand then this is the way it'll turn out. Or worse. Imagine if the panel consisted of AAs who were as bias and were boldy outspoken about it like the rest of the panel. The ones there sat through it and didn't become hostile or combative. Yet you critize them and blame the regressive, lopsided, bias nature of this discussion on them and their "lack of knowledge and research". Girl. Please do inform me on what they needed to research and become more knowledgeable about. They know their experiences and obviously was willing to learn about the experiences of others as well. So what are you talking about?
No you’re right Africans talk mad shit about African Americans they’re only showing us how much shit they talk about us I’ve attended one of these so called bridge the gap events and all the Africans talk about is how much we call them ugly and it’s sad because only the ugly ones complain as if they never said so dumb ignorant things to each other as kids please grow up just like I Said whoever invented this bridging the gap club are some African American haters period.
Two great books that I think provide a different kind of insight on this topic are: 1. "Homegoing" written by Yaa Gyasi (Ghanaian - American) and 2. "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian)
Africa is not a country, it is a continent.From Morocco to Egypt.From Algeria to South Africa,Nigeria, Kenya,Somalia,Gambia Weast Africa, East Africa...there's no such a thing like African culture, there are different african cultures, with different languages, traditions, religions and history.Even in one country you can find diversity.And the media keeps simplifying it.Our continent is so diverse and amazing.Remember this! Love from Morocco
And yet y’all are looking down on Africans like they ain’t shit how about you keep your hip hop culture we don’t need you too insult Africans and look down on us we aren’t the onces that enslaved your ancestors.. I think you AA should worry about stop killing each other like it’s an warzone.
@@ultimatefirecracker1486 AA is not looking down on Africans. Africans are looking down on us, thinking they are better because they know where they come from and we don’t
I think that we have created our own identity off of our own experiences in the Americas. I personally have stopped being on the African American tip. Im American . We have a very large part in the creation of America.
You guys are really young and may not be aware that 2009 wasn't when AA's started to embrace Africa. We would have to start as early as the 60's, 70's to the 80's and 90's until now. This isn't new. What's new is the internet and how we're all able to see each other and connect on a level that we weren't able to connect before. I have relatives who are in their 80's and 90's who've been doing what this younger generation is doing when it comes to connecting with their African roots. This is not new but I appreciate how we are able to connect now. Another thing, African Americans have not adapted white Amaican culture. We created our own and it was frowned upon by whites because it wasn't their norm. We created our own language, names, food and style of dress. Our natural hair was called unprofessional and ugly so much so that laws were passed to make us conform. Now look at them, doing everything they criticized us for doing. We never wanted to be like them. We just wanted the same rights as them. Without us, America would be soulless
UUmmm . There is. Even if there wasn't don't mean Black people can't discuss this topic. The first wave of Black people and white people first came to the Americas under vastly different circumstances.
Black people are debating this because some Africans and blacks don't accept each other. Blacks in America are making sure they learn more about their cultures learning about their lost origin.
We Africans have traditions & culture and AA more into their culture..... Same Roots but different mind set. Hopefully we all have togetherness in the future ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
One ☝🏾 thing that always stopped me and my friends from moving to Africa and starting a family there Is it seems like African women only open to dating non black foreigners and we’ve always been told that African women don’t date African American men
@@advocatejoel2924 Zim is still here. Rhodesia died with the removal of ian smith and Rhodesia itself. Then put in a coffin when Mugabe died. Rhodesia is far in the past. New chapter
Black people in america are of African decent we are mixed up also like people from Africa. We do carry out african culture we just speak in a different language. Whats the point of saying we are diffrent as if africa doesn't have different types of africans with different cultures and religions sounds like a lack of knowledge.
extremedude1234 The problem is you don't speak on what you know. You speak about what you don't know instead of asking questions. Its okay to be wrong and not know everything. You need to do research.... Alll African americans are not from Louisiana. And a majority of our culture did not come from there. We reside in different states we speak differently, eat differently, and have different upbringings. You learned the white people version of American history which is the reason you think the way you do. African Americans and Native American Families hold the True stories. Why must you listen to the dictators story and be so one sided. The slave ports were in Virginia and South Carolina. You prove you no nothing. Like i said look up Gullah Geechi of South Carolina. They can go to the Caribbean and Africa and communicate in African Creole if they wanted to. Your in denial that's up to you lol.... Africa was colonized to. For example Today, Nigeria is about 50% Muslim and 40% Christian, with about 10% embracing traditional or indigenous beliefs. I actually know Igbo Family's that religiously go to African American Christan churches. Africans dont eat moi moi? That has black eyed peas, some east africans eat collard greens, some east african eat ugali which is an unfried version of hot water corn bread, West Africans don't eat Okra, Africans dont have there on variations of jolof rice??? Are variation is jambalaya ..... Your extreemly ignorant
extremedude1234 The Gullah are a distinctive group of Black Americans from South Carolina and Georgia in the southeastern United States. They live in small farming and fishing communities along the Atlantic coastal plain and on the chain of Sea Islands which runs parallel to the coast. Because of their geographical isolation and strong community life, the Gullah have been able to preserve more of their African cultural heritage than any other group of Black Americans. They speak a creole language similar to Sierra Leone Krio, use African names, tell African folktales, make African-style handicrafts such as baskets and carved walking sticks, and enjoy a rich cuisine based primarily on rice.
extremedude1234 The Gullah people are directly descended from the slaves who labored on the rice plantations, and their language reflects significant influences from Sierra Leone and the surrounding area. The Gullahs’ English-based creole language is strikingly similar to Sierra Leone Krio and contains such identical expressions as bigyai (greedy), pantap (on top of), ohltu (both), tif (steal), yeys (ear), and swit (delicious). But, in addition to words derived from English, the Gullah creole also contains several thousand words and personal names derived from African languages-and a large proportion of these (about 25%) are from languages spoken in Sierra Leone. The Gullah use such masculine names as Sorie, Tamba, Sanie, Vandi, and Ndapi, and such feminine names as Kadiatu, Fatimata, Hawa, and Isata-all common in Sierra Leone. As late as the 1940s, a Black American linguist found Gullahs in rural South Carolina and Georgia who could recite songs and fragments of stories in Mende and Vai, and who could do simple counting in the Guinea/Sierra Leone dialect of Fula. In fact, all of the African texts that Gullah people have preserved are in languages spoken within Sierra Leone and along its borders.
extremedude1234 by the way you are typing i don't even Believe you are African or African American. Because you keep saying them as if you are an outsider... You sound like an outsider.. A trolll
I love this!! Crazy I'm a Haitian American. I'm very prideful of my roots. And my love for Africa, my God!!!! I love us!!! We are one. Divided...different stop points but I am an Haitian born American who originated from Africa!!!!!
I’m so annoyed. Why do Africans think that they being made fun of as children is something only true to them? I’m African American, Black, Negro, or whatever you want to call it and i too was made fun of by other black american kids growing up. I wasn’t born in Africa. I’m not first generation second or 3rd. I’ve been called African booty scratcher, poop crayon, charcoal, tar black and every thing else. And i was popular ....The sooner y’all realize that it wasn’t “African” thing but a being in american as a black persons thing the better. Like the guy said let it go. I’m not walking around mad at every black person i see because i was teased as a child for my skin tone. Just like you may have been embarrassed or not as proud as you are to be who you are it’s the same for everyone with this skin living in America ! Because here we are taught to hate ourself and anyone that look like us. In a system that for some reason African don’t understand or chose to have some sort of cognitive dissonance about the fact of the situation. Not to mention we aren’t even taught 1. The truth about ourself 2. The truth about Africa civilization or 3. African people. let alone that there are different countries with different tribes and customs of each own. Everything we learn we probably learned on our own without any help of our education system unless you went to a HBCU and even that is 17, 18 years into life. So please not enough credit is given to the African American (blacks) in the US By those Africans who are closer tide to Africa. And for the record our (black Americans) ancestors fought and died for us to have the name African American and i would not dare be stripped of it. And to the Africans who are born here 1st generation and so on ..how long does it take for you to consider yourself “African American” with the rest of us? Nigerian American tuh there is no such thing here girl 🙄
@ 36:18 the girl with the head rap sounds stupid, she said because the way she was treated by, kids kids kids in school when she was younger, is what make's her fill some type away about all black people here in the USA, and she is now treating us the same way because of how kids in school, treated her, she has a lot of growing up to do
Alexandro Aldama What she was called in school is not anyone else's problem except for the stupid kids who bullied her. I sympathize with her but I'm not about to feel guilty for something that she went through.
the first thing we need to do is stop judging understand that we have been separated from each other for over 400 years those of us who were stolen from the country our language are Village our culture was stolen and we have had to develop a culture and a hostile environment for hundreds of years forgive us where we error but understand that we have been spoon-fed lies about our native country and its people as well as our native country has been spoon-fed lies about us so let us just let go of the lies and start afresh and learn of each other and embrace each other and grow and knowledge of our struggles in this country and the mother country and all the other countries where we were forcibly deposited
I live in London and I'm from Africa. When I hear people say I'm African American I don't see the difference just because you live in America or born there doesn't mean you're initially from there. Im not going against anyone's nationality or opinion, but this is mine. You're black because your from the Caribbean or Africa
aero34100 Majority of African Americans that aren't mixed have about 60 to 70% African DNA in them. Their European DNA is a whole lot less than that, so it's not just a little...
for black american that claim not to african.i got a question.if you take lion from africa and bring to american zoo for generations do you call american lion ?
Another thing contrary to popular belief, many blacks never permed their hair. I have seen Africans say oh now you all want to have natural hair.... Excuse me but my hair has always been natural and really long not to brag. My mother, grandmother, and great grandmother never permed and long hair is in our DNA no chemical. Nobody is going to tell me what to do or that I'm copying them when I've been doing me. Also if I wanted to wear African clothing I will and I don't care who likes it or not.
African American Culture is beautiful, we have the Gullah Geechees of the Carolina Coast, France Creole people of New Orleans. The Civil rights Movement, African American by far have the strongest impact on the earth then any blacks
I'm sorry but Africans have something that you don't have respectfully they have the mother continent AFRICA where all humans originated from and all the history they left behind for humanity
@@millennialpopculture669 imagine the world without African-American stop lights, refrigerator, open heart surgery, peanuts" chips, lets like talk entertainment please
Afro-American Culture Our languages and dialects:Louisiana Creole, Gullah Geechee, and Ebonics. Our music: Rap, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Rhythm, Blues, Disco, Hip hop, Hard bop, Electro, Swing, Gospel, etc. Our Food: Soul Food, Creole, and Low country food, Southern food in general. Our clothing and jewelry : Zoot Suits, Street clothes, Pimp clothing, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s clothing to present. Our Hair styles: 70s Afro(Fro) High top, Fade, Sponge Twists, Various braid styles such as cornrows etc. Our Dances: Break dance, Tap dancing style, Pop lock, Group Dances. Our Movie and live action Genres: Blaxploitation, and Black Comedy. Religion and spirituality: Baptist Christian, Islam, Voodoo, and Hoodoo. Our Political history: Civil rights, Black power, Black Lives matter, etc. Our warriors: Black panther party, Deacons for defense, etc Our revolutionary inventions: The Traffic light, The modern day PC, Gemayel Electric cell for Phones, video games consoles and Cartridges, Microphone, The hot comb, Various African hair products, The 3D Glasses, Lingo programs (Graphics, animation, web design),Train cart gears, omelets, various peanut uses, super soaker, Heating Furnace, shoe inventing machine, multiplex Telegraph, The filament for the lightbulb, mailbox, The basic for cars before the white peoples version, UV Telescope, Vertical coin counting tool, The electric guitar, Home security system, Etc, Etc, etc....
Please STATE real facts and no lies!.... Hair Styles such as Afro's or Cornrows have been wore by multiple Africans tribes before colonization of African continent. Omlets has it's origin from Ancient Persia. Beside Music and Dance i don't see anything else so much as "afro american culture". Islam? Voodoo? COME ONE STOP BEING RIDICULOUS!!! .......... The 3D Glasses was invented by a british, i could go on and on at the things you have mentioned are absolute NOT true at all.
The rest of the world isn't trapped in the one drop rule mentality like Americans are. People in those colonized countries are very mixed even if they have dark skin.
Correct. Many people lack knowledge and are not aware that Brazil is one of the Blackest countries besides Haiti. A large number of African Slaves were sent to Brazil from Angola. It amazes me that our people know more about European culture, than the history of Africa. Again, I agree with you Ms. Ireland.
Maybe you should travel, learn and understand OTHER people's culture. Not everyone sees the world like Black Americans do. The rest of the world has a DIFFERENT HISTORY regardless of how it started.
I enjoyed the conversation because I feel this topic is constantly ignored yet I felt like the fact that everyone played nice and no one thought to mention the 300+ years of slavery, rape, brutality, Jim Crow and all the other injustices “Black America” has endured and are still envolving from was ridiculous. I would like to see this conversation updated and with a group of people that are willing to truly converse about uncomfortable content and opinions.
They just trying to tell you they love you. They really want to know you. With all that pain and turmoil in your lives, we understand. Black man behind bars, drugs, police brutality. A system designed to make sure you go nowhere. Your great, great, great mother's are just speaking through your soul. They will take the abuse from you as long as you get over the hurt. We love you...if the pain is too much always know you are being watched. We're a people of deep spirituality.
As a Black person in America, you're still African. We just have cultural amnesia due to our history being beat out of us over generations. You wouldn't tell someone straight from Africa who had been hit on the head that they weren't African anymore because they have amnesia and don't remember. Same thing with us. As African Americans, we've been beat over the head so to speak over hundreds of years and have cultural amnesia, but that doesn't make us any less African because we don't remember.
Myisha most of us do not have European ancestry naturally. That’s that bullshit they keep telling you. If we were as mixed as they claim then we would all be light skin and have lose textured hair as well. Yes some of us are mixed but not all of us.
Everybody is always talking about African Americans need to learn African history. If we are talking about unity, why no one talks about Africans learning African/Black American history?
I will take it a step further how come not one of the 54 countries in africa tried to reunify African Americans with the continent. The answer is simple they don't want us.
We black people of America are black Americans period you know the people who ancestors were slaves in America then had children who then created jazz, their own style of dress and dance I just wish you people would stop hating on us this is who we identify as period wtf is an African please tell me because Africa wasn’t called that until slavery happened so step off
+Kabir Mohammed what the hell do you mean you are a black African? 😕 smh. what is a black African? please drop "African" and just call yourself black, you will make more sense
+Skynet Production they are European imposters or settlers, born and raised in Africa. let's keep it 100% thrill besides what natural born African goes around calling himself "black African"? that's internet nonsense
@Skynet Production The Whites who came to Africa only continued what their ancestors had always done to blacks, native americans and others. It's not the same, they will never equate themselves to the black africans, so there will always be a difference. Just stating the truth.
+Alluring Bliss thank you for telling it like it is. the internet got African people becoming stupid all in the name of social acceptance. "black African" my foot
Africans vs African Americans?Black Americans don't have to immigrate to be successful, we create success in our own country no need to leave it and go to someone else's
Lmao you do know that there are other 1st world countries where black immigrants go for opportunities, such as Canada, the UK or even France ( let's not forget that there are many Africans that speak French because of colonisation). America is not the only place to have a successful good life because of the opportunities . And as an African who was born and raised in America, the arrogance that a lot of Americans have, its doesn't even matter if your black or white, it speaks for itself.
The experience of Africans in the UK and Africans in the US etc is different but I get what the first guy (I didn't catch his name, the Congolese one) was saying about how the African "fire" is spreading and gaining popularity
As an African woman i feel deeply saddened when I scrolled through the comments because we have been generalized based on a few Africans that live in the US. I for one have been thought for most of my high school and primary life about African American history and I would not say I know all about it but I know a big part of it. In my opinion we are not jealous (Africans) or untitled well most of us aren’t in fact we are proud at most because of what African American have accomplished for themselves (which is what they did) because they were not thinking about Africans but themselves and we Africans are just reaping the benefits in sort. And Africans chose to live in the US because it offers better opportunities then most African countries. I hope what I said is not misunderstood
You should also include the "Afro-Latino's" and Caribbean nations as well. After all every black person living in the Americas came from Africa and the only thing that separated us was a boat stop.
I work with an African that is really concerned with what White people think of him. So that's not true. It's all according to the person! I'm a new subscriber. Thanks for your video.
All afro people have their origins in the continent of Africa. Africa is vast. I think there's too many negative stereotypical attitudes about the continent by african Americans.
I think as African Americans we still have a very rich and beautiful culture and history here in America. Four hundred years of struggle and pain but there is also a very beautiful and rich heritage and culture that emerged here and we should be proud of that.
This is late in coming I just ran across this video. I do not mean to spark anger or anything but this is my perspective as a black person born and bred in America. I will not answer to African American regardless of where my ancestors came from. When white people gave us that label it was meant to let us know that we were not apart of their America. The only people they do that to is to Asians, Latinos, blacks, and any other brown ethnic group. I happen to be an American who is black the end. I was not born in Africa, did not migrate to America, have no affinity toward Africa other than they are people from another region just like any other people from other regions of the plant. Now I love hearing about my African roots but that will not make me claim to African American, just like knowing I have native American ancestors will not make me claim to be Indian anymore than the white ancestors I have would make me claim to be white. I am black that was born in America therefore I am a proud black American. Enough with the divisiveness.
Black Americans and African Americans will never be the same. We're different. Simple. Black Americans are welcome to embrace different African cultures but they will always do it as outsiders. Culture is something in your blood that you can trace, something you're raised in, and taught. It's at the core of who you are and is the base on which you form your identity. It is your moral starting line. Black Americans have been disconnected from their cultural roots in Africa. Unfortunate as that may be y'all have built your OWN culture (a super dope and widely influential one at that) with it's own philosophies, political views, leaders, struggles, clothing styles, history, music, poetry, and literature. Own it. A DNA test cannot tell someone that they belong where they do not. If the test tells you you're from Kenya or Ethiopia or something, so tf what? What does that mean? "Nations" in Africa, though we accept it as that now, are a European creation and a result of colonization. Before that, ethnic groups, kingdoms, and tribes were the political landscape in Africa with their own plethora of languages and cultures, many of which are preserved today. So your DNA is Nigerian? Are you Yoruba? Fula? Ebo? Hausa? Oh you're DNA test makes you a Ghanaian? Okay. What kind of Ghanaian are you? Are you Asante? Ewe? Ga? Are you a Northerner? Kwahu perhaps? Did you know Hausas could be found in other parts of Africa? That there are Akans in in Ghana, Ivory Coast, and elsewhere as well? What exactly does that DNA test give you claim to? Just be you. You're part of the African Diaspora just like blacks in Europe, in Asia, Caribbean blacks, and Afro-Latins. Black Americans need to own their culture instead of running back to something that has been diluted and disconnected from their heritage. Wearing Dashikis, and getting ankh tattoos does not make one African. Any tourist could do that.
M Dot I don't think you should be discouraging black people from finding out where they're from and more about who they are. Having AA culture is beautiful, but there is something powerful in knowing where you come from. I am blessed to know my roots and understand more about who I am and why I look a certain way. I encourage you to explore that if you haven't. And by the way there are DNA tests that can trace you to your tribe.
+Morgan Mitchell First off, I know my roots. I'm a Ghanaian, raised Ghanaian, can't be anything else but that, and with a full knowledge and pride my ethnic heritage. A DNA test was not needed for that. 2nd With the migration, emergence, eradication, and mixture of ethnic groups having taken place as early as 2 centuries ago and been going on for thousands of years, I question the accuracy and relevance of any testing program that claims they can track one's tribal history lol. The anthropological studies in Africa aren't often narrowly focused enough for a confirmed factual tracking of the ethnic migration patterns of tribes to exist within any one database. And especially not one that can be mass marketed to "connect ppl to their roots." Also even if such a database existed, culture is deeper than that. Like I said before, culture is something you're raised in, and taught. It's at the core of who you are and is the base on which you form your identity. It is your moral starting line. It's not just something you can just claim. Academically, culture is held together by general knowledge, common practices and beliefs, and acceptance. The only thing that makes Black American culture less powerful and united than an African American might have is that Black Americans themselves do not believe in it, don't embrace it. They are constantly running from it. Everyone spends all their time trying to claim that they're this percent Native American, or that percent White, trying to use DNA tests to be something they're not, or marrying into another race or culture, not because of love, but so that their kids don't have to claim full Black American.
I know my roots too, they started right here in America, when the Africans ancestors where pulled off the boat and merged with others on this American soil. I may not know of the various tribes, but I'm proud all the same! God bless Africa and May God bless the diaspora! From coast to coast, I'm am proud.i know that there is power within my veins from Various tribes. Also, Black Americans from every state have their own subcultures that has impacted America.
As much as Africans want AA to embrace Africa and its culture they don’t treat us as Africans. They keep saying we are the same but don’t accept us at the same time. Which one is it?
i had on my head phones so i could hear just fine i appreciate the topic and discussion presented. I'm alway trying to learn about Africa as a whole. This ruffled some feathers and sifted the wheat nice video!
Cindyrella OG I think you all are very bias from what I have seen the African american majority they win African continent they won congratulations...I guess
I don’t like being called African American only because I don’t connect with African roots and I don’t have the same culture in a way. I like what the girl said as how we had to make our own culture cause we don’t completely follow African or white culture.
I love this conversation but there a few things that are contradicting. I don’t understand how we should identify as the same but it’s appropriation when Blacks wear clothing of African culture.
We are. All the negativity being said shows the CONSTANT ignorance. I had an African woman tell me that she didn’t approve of me being with her son, because I was African-American and the reason YOU listed... I asked his simple question, and she COULD NOT answer me: “If you feel that way, why don’t you teach me about my heritage then? You all were raised under our native culture, I WASNT and that’s not my fault- So why not teach... Instead of being a butt about it!?” Exactly. Because you are like many... You want to call something, that you yourself don’t wanna help to change... So you miss everyone else with it. African-American culture is our own that we had to adapt because we didn’t have that connection to our native being.
I appreciate everyone in this video. Watching you all made me very proud. To see people of my own color have a civilized conversation about such a very important topic in this way was very Educating. A conversation with structure, respect, where everyone didnt raise their voice nor talk over any one. Respectfully, everyone could bring their point over, explain their thoughts, accept differences, stick to the question and apart from the sound issue, a very constructive podcast. Please keep up educating and having more of this. We need this.
Y'all.. I know the sound is awful.. please read the bio before you watch. Turn your volume all the way up to hear. If you don't want to do that, don't watch. Simple.
Worth the watch, regardless. Thank you for this great piece! I enjoy brothers & sisters breaking down cultural barriers. #OneLove
Cindyrella OG Needless to make that statement. To say "don't watch. Simple", sound rude in my opinion.
Nana Quame lol of all the rude comments I've seen, what I said doesn't compare. You don't have to agree with my delivery. I meant what I said.
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Cindyrella OG New research African-American Y Chromosome oldest yet found derived from SC man ancestral region of Indigenous "black" Americans. Ancestral territories Yamassee plus other tribes.
Africa is so massive and diverse it is not one country or culture we speak and dress differently Africans don't even know other african cultures or languages
Rowan Phillips My twi friend from Ghana didn't know what Grebo was. I'm from the Grebo tribe.😑😳
Annie Howe that's because they busy absorbing the shit from Hollywood. don't have enough time to study the Africans culture
Twi is a language it is called akan/ashanti
Ralph King When did I say it wasn't? My friend didn't know there was a tribe called Grebo(Glebo) in Africa.
don bongo nyah / judgemental fool
We were separated from African culture but, African in African American genetic makeup can never leave us... From dance, rhythm, music, athletics, cooking etc., is instilled in us..
FACTS!! If a Cow is born in a Pig pen, It's still a Cow!
DL23KMT and yet most blacks in America look down on Africa and Africans in general. most of the ones paying attention now are suddenly doing that cos the white world has reminded them that they are not welcome.
don bongo nyah well hell we should of been paying attention, because it been that way since slavery... we're just a tad bit more welcoming
CeddieCed it's good to see. just a shame it's taken this long
Prince Jaren of course they have not welcomed but many of us been acting like we free, even celebrating independence day. With that knowledge what you still doing living among them? how much longer do you need to make that crucial choice?
I feel like Africans have a complex towards African Americans..they keep talking about African Americans like they have no culture when they don't even try to learn it yet they criticize them for not identifying as being African..I'm Nigerian but what's wrong is wrong.. African Americans have their problems but this video depicts them very wrongly..no African would ever have been able to step foot in the US let alone go to all these prestigious schools and get a better life if it wasn't for the pain and struggle African Americans went through..never forget those who fought and paved way for you to even think of stepping foot in the US.
Agreed!
This is so true! First of all The young ladies that were chosen to represent the Americans had absolutely no idea nor pride in who they were and where they came from let alone their very own heritage! There should have been the exact same level of representation for the American panelist as the African panelists! We would do better to learn about the truth of one another and how we are alike than to focus on the differences! And to the young lady with the head wrap you get the same energy that you put out there so keep it up if you want to! You would never see a panel of white people talking about the differences between Irish and German!
Amen sis!
Muslimah Afiz your comment is 100% true! I’m glad you see both sides....it’s really appreciated. This is coming from an African american
Muslimah Afiz exactly
The guy on the left said Africans don't care/never cared what white people think/thought. AA care not because we want to but because WE HAD TO. Learning to assimilate to white culture literally meant the difference between life and death for many years in this country. We taught our children how to walk, talk, dress. We taught them yes ma'am/no ma'am, yes sir/no sir just so they could have the most basic necessities. It was the difference between life and death.Between a roof over your head or a burning cross on your lawn. We live in an age now where we can care a little less what white people think. We have that privilege, but our parents didn't. Our grandparents didn't. That kind of stigma doesn't just wash away.
Comedyking2020 Right and to be honest, some Africans, depending upon location, minded what white pple said too because they had to just like us..... #coughs.....APARTHEID!!
Comedyking2020 he’s lying! Europe and Asia have colonized most of Africa. Africans are hella docile when it comes to white people and they come from majority Black countries. They will come to America with their chest poked out but that’s not happening on their native land.
Comedyking2020 oh boo fucken hoo you are living in a dominant white country with a dominant white culture and have to assimilate you know you can leave right you don’t have to live here 50+ country’s in Africa pick one
RideorReadComedy said perfectly!!
That's why we can NEVER align ourselves with Africans. Because they don't fight white supremacy... they do fight against Black American progressive movements to assist white supremacy. Therefore we will no longer support Democrats and allow WHITE REPUBLICANS to scalle back those immigration benefits WE fought for so they can get some act right about white supremacy.
This was one-sided. It was all about appreciating African cultures, but no expounding on African American culture, playing into the assumption that WE don't have culture. Also having a sense of arrogance about it. Further, there are AAs who discovering their ethnic background; Africans aren't the only ones who know who they are.
cjadream7 I couldn't agree more!
Yes!! I thought I was the only one who thought it was one sided. Why are the AAs just sitting there like we have NOTHING
Uhm sorry, but... aren't always African Americans complaining about Culture Appropriation because of "their African background"?
Come again Mandy? I'm not sure what you're asking.
cjadream7 lol what culture do we have? I'm an American born African blooded child. All I see is disrespect in our 'culture' here in America. So what do you have to be really proud about?
The African American culture has shaped and impacted the modern day GLOBAL cultural. World Wide Impact. The African American Civil Rights Movement has made it possible and opened doors every other minority benefits from that comes to the USA,
And still non-black people of colour continue to discriminate against black people
Yaas!
Facts.
CharleneWithrow THANK YOU
Alex N. Ikr so ungrateful
On behalf of a Black American, We have our own culture and it's honestly amazing. Our hiphop, Our style, OUR SLANG that EVERYONE USES. The only bad thing is that we don't know what we are & it's not our fault. Sometimes I get so annoyed because my parents always throw in that we're mixed with some native American but then say we're just black too. I want more than that! Over 150 years ago our ancestors were stolen from Africa and we completely lost our culture. My families diversity of type 3 and type 4 hair and variety in skin tones is enough evidence that we are AFRICAN DESCENDANTS. I just wish that my parents were more directly from Africa so I could be able to enjoy and explore our roots. America has stripped us from our roots so we created our own urban thing. But if we do want to be more African is it possible? Being an African American is fun but I wish I was literally AFRICAN American. I know for a fact that black people relate to this. Because of this we don't know who we are.
Jelani Armstrong what are you implying by "true history"? Have you taken time out to watch the link I provided?
Jelani Armstrong If you don't know ancient Egyptians were indeed *black* ..........i just...... I have no words
Jelani Armstrong I have no desire to argue when I know the truth. we'll agree to disagree in due time the truth will be revealed. Shalom
I won’t necessarily say “stolen”
I've been to Egypt..the ancient Egyptians were black...please study.
this video should've acknowledged the differences between race and ethnicity.
Relicious E yes that's where most of the tension really is at.
Deuces Wild exactly
Where's your video, lil mama?
Nationality too. You can't say you're African when you never grew up in any African country or have any ties to any African country, because It's also about culture.
Rene G Girl stfu if slavery never happened 99.9% of African Americans would be in Africa right now. We are Africans born in America!
We didn't 'adopt' white cultural. We were made to a Adjust and adapt to it. Let's not forget that majority of Africa was colonized and they gained some of that white culture too and then turn around and denounce African Americans for having to do the same.
Denise La Facts! I agree!
The bloopers killed me😂
L O Homie thought he was going to flex with french. LOL
Although most of Africa was colonized we never adopted their structures ,we took only the language and system but cultures and lifestyle we never left for nobody and that wat makes us Africans not to say African American had a a choice
Amen.
What I notice is a lot of these conversations involve Africans trying to tell AA's something about them and who they are while in the same breath knowing really nothing about Black culture + black history + black influencers etc (and I'm talking in-depth elements of black folks). They typically know about as much as white people do and there is this idea that they "understand" because they were born here. The role of the African immigrant in America is VERY different from the role of the Black American. I hate these conversations never include those perspectives.
Zarah CC21 THANK YOU! The girl with braids was trying to educate THEM on the fact that we have culture and they so piously interrupted to "inform" us we have culture. Like, seriously?? They indeed have a 'we're better than you' attitude'.
ok, when Africans come here or when the offsprings of africans are here they usually go through the american eductional system. Meaning they learn about slavery, black culture and other black figures. Not only that, but they are also taught what blacks had to go through in this country(black panthers, civil rights movements, etc). So all the discussions you see hear arent ment to hinder anyone. Africans grow up in this society around blacks and other fellow africns, so they are culturally diverse. In a sense they do know about black history and culture. The only thing is blacks dont really take the time to learn african culture.
DemiDoN I'm African American, thus, went through America's terrible public education system and I just learned about black female mathematicians who worked for NASA. We are not tought enough about our culture in the public school system.
We were all born here...took the same history classes...we know what you know. Yes we are VERY different but we also have alot in common...that is what people should be focusing on. Not the negatives. And I want to point out what the girl in the head wrap said...the shit we were put through growing up because we were "African" is just sad. Our names getting made fun of, for instance. That happened to me in middle school. So if you feel that we distance ourselves...that has ALOT to do with it.
Mara Okafor But Africans weren't the only group of people made fun of. Haitians..Trinis.. we were all made fun of as children. We aren't reluctant to allow people to celebrate our culture.
Black American is what I go by, I know nothing about Africa.
same. I never been to africa and im culturally american so i say black american.
I can say as an AA it hurts me sometimes that I can never truly identify with the cultures of Africa that birth me. At times I feel like I was stripped of my culture and heritage. I know literally nothing of who I really am. I just wish I could connect to that part of me
Christal Carstarphen 😂😂 culture may not be the same, BUT you are an AFRICAN.
So let culture not make u call ur self an American or what u think.
🤣🤣 LOL.
Christal Carstarphen yah but rlly in this world we might jus have to get used to bein by ourselves bc no race stands wit us they’re all against us even if they disguise it
Baby identify with me
We are all African
I agree. It’s a deep pain.... we carry so much and ANCESTRAL grief that we haven’t had a chance to release or heal from
The African culture is not in our history books so can you blame us??? Acknowledge the fact that more blacks are becoming more woke .thank god for the internet. Just like we have to learn the African culture on our own take time to know ours as well before you judge us.✊🏿
Jasmine Roberson thank you I just found this out like two weeks ago and I was completely shocked lol I will delete this comment soon.
White mans biggest mistake: developing/inventing internet
I am from Haiti, we know our roots are in Africa but we have an identity which is haitian. Not every black person who has black skin struggle with the identity issues that African American struggle with.
The Nigerian girl said somewhere somehow the cultures differed .... you mean like during slavery . Do people forget how we got here.
L' évadé d'un centre I didn't and I'm only 33 years old. You want to blame us for being sold into slavery as well?
lmao that guy basically said i'm not 'african' american because there is a chance i'm from haiti or Brazil
i'm dead
WASH POPPIN lolll ik I'm crying too😂. But if you take that part away he actually made sense
WASH POPPIN no the term African American means decendents from enslaved Africans
Tommy Richardson thank you bra
Bri Mondy hey no problem I think black people need to see this video to show how much Africans and black Americans are alike
African Americans an ethnic group meaning black people who have been in America for centuries and you do have black people who came to this country from other countries
That guy in the blue shirt needs to learn his history. Brazilians are from Africa (mainly Nigeria of the Yoruba tribe), Jamaicans are Africans. So are Haitians.
+Gavin johnson Most slaves going to Brazil were from Portugues colonies so the Guinea coast, Angola and Mozambquie not Nigeria.
+Acheron Styxx Brazilians have a large number of Nigerians (to be specific Yoruba's). Go to Wikipedia and you will see for yourself. I've been to Brazil and they tell you this as part of their tour.
+Gavin johnson please, I'm Yoruba and I don't know why the Yoruba Chiefs haven't told those people to stop calling themselves Yoruba. It's because we're not saying anything. I think my elders are just happy were recognised internationally but to be realistic, they're not Nigerian Yoruba's. Look at how white most of them look yet they're practicing ifa. That shit pisses me off. Both black Americans and Caribbeans better claim other cultures and leave Nigeria the fuck alone. They'll never be Yoruba's or Nigerians.
+Gavin johnson like the first guy said, they're most likely from Portuguese colonies. I just wished the Yoruba elders put an end to those idiots calling themselves Yoruba's. It's a big insult to me especially. Everyone should just leave Nigeria. We don't need outside interference, try Ghana or Senegal.
+Omo Oba I am Urhobo from the Niger Delta. So let me ask you a question? When the British Colonized Nigeria and enslaved our people in the 11 Century. Where did they take them to? Can you please answer this question ?
.....Cultures???? We are the same people. African cultures differ from eachother vastly themselves such as the Ethiopian from the Senegalese and African American culture is another facet of the African diaspora. To my African Americans, Afro Caribbeans and Afro Latinos please do not feel tentative about calling yourself Africans or feel any less African by those who disagree.
Eruc, African culture is not homogeneous. even Nigeria alone does not have common culture.
Sira Mike hence my point "African cultures themselves differ vastly"
As an African, let me tell you - FEEL VERY TENTATIVE about calling yourself African and you should totally feel less African, especially when you make zero efforts to educate yourself on the African experience and how American's continually misrepresent and mock what is means to be African.
Your comment alone is a disgrace.it doesn't show any level of education.
GM C have you even been in and African Americans home, Met someones Granny that can tell you stories about history that's not written or on T.V/UA-cam?, ate at family events, have you have truly even took part in African American Culture. If you did you would learn we are a mixture of tribes. Its ignorant and culturally insensitive to ask what tribes we come from. They inbred africans in america during slavery and had sex farms so please becarful with what you say when trying to help.. look up the Gullah Geechie people of S.C. They speak a Creole language that is a mix of African And English that traces back to Africa, They even traced there basket weaving skill Back to Sierra Leon. Then look up ebonics and see the connection of why we created so many dialects of english that go unrecognised as a language. Which allows society to say we don't speak english well and have no culture. Which all started with the Geechie people. We have African influence as well when it comes to food. Collard Greens, Blackeyed Peas,Gumbo,Fried Okra, Gizzards,Hot Wata Corn Bread aka fried Ugali, hush puppies, Jambalaya, Dirty Rice etc... The list goes on, everybody speaks and cooks food differently depending on were you are at....
Don't know why the guy in the blue shirt is getting g hate in the comments. He's absolutely correct.
He's just saying that since Africans were shipped to Brazil, Haiti or wherever, they then got a ton of European influence thus losing their African identity. That's why this guy thinks of himself as black and not African because black is just racial and doesn't suggest place of origin or culture. Also, he's not culturally African so he's not African even tho he might have some genetical connection.
That's why in places like Brazil or Dominican Republic, there's Blacks who are genetically African but culturally European, and they are proud of it. And actually, they seem to deny their African ancestry.
Edward Kenway Africans on the islands and south America have more African culture preserved than parts of Africa in Brazil they still have more ogun worshippers than in Nigeria where the ogun god originated from.
Slaves were allowed to keep their names, gods, culture etc.
Why would you deny your ancestry? Thats ORIGINALLY where you came from. To those who say I'm not African are just self haters .
I disagree. Everyone acts like your blackness owns you when you are 99% something else and 1% black. Let’s experience our other cultures. We already know how it feels to black in America and that’s what Africans know. It’s not self hate but we easily get rejected from Africans so some people would rather study other roots.
Stepheon Coles were you rejected by Africans in Africa?
You are angry Africans are willing to accept you and blaming them for you not being able to enjoy your "other cultures" because Africans are over accepting even of people with 1% African dna. Not only are you contradicting yourself you are confused and clearly mislead.
Stepheon Coles that's because in Africa there is no step brother, niece, cousin, 1st cousin removed.
Every one is either father/mother or brother/sister or uncle/aunt nothing more and Extended families the size of a city are still considered family. Just yesterday someone told my Bro we are related by great grand fathers and he came home ate drank canvassed and got to meet other people we welcomed him.
So you maybe 1% but you are brother whereas with your Euro "culture" technicalities abound and if you are not in the nuclear family sorry bud you are a stranger and can even marry yourselves let alone someone who has a different skin colour altogether who never grew up in that place or speaks the language you are a f"#%&g foreigner.
Read Nigerian footballer Leon Balogun's story born and bred in Germany but the people never failed to remind him he was not German he never felt at home until he went to Nigeria.
the guy in blue shirt is so lame. pretending to be some type of intellectual. haiti, brazil ? wtf
Cephas Laryea exactly... lol
That guy is Trevon he's from my hood homie you know what it is
He has the most logical argument out of the group. The people who disagree with him are those who would label themselves as "African American".
he's actually very intelligent
Cephas Laryea yeah a fucking lame bigtime
I am a black American who has visited Africa on multiple occasions and I have also lived abroad. I wish these conversations could include a perspective of people who are well travelled or more experienced.
I'm a 53 yr old black American,yes I'm 83% west African but my pple grew up here and built this country with 400 yrs of slavery so we have the rite to call ourselves black in a country we died to build,many Africans say u don't have culture and the Congolese guy said that Africans have their own countrys,well so do we,he's living in it now and who's is it if not ours and don't forget our music,style,food that everybody steals from us and we invented air con,elevator,escalator,washing machine,refrigarater,peanutbutter,plasma,first open heart surgeon,cell phone,traffic light,mayonaise,best singers,best athletes and if we were a individual country we would be the 17 richest country in the world so who cares what Africans think of us,if they want to get along then fine but they're in the land that our blood ,sweat,tears built,we're not in there's.
eastcoastbrotha-ONE OF JUDAH Best comment I have seen. Thank you brother.
Black people did not invent the traffic light, a Russian did.
Well said Eastcoastbrotha!!!
Amen 🙌
Ricardo Reyna I’ll give you the patent if you need
I agree with the guy in the blue. African, African American and Black are completely different yet still the same.
SomeOneToRemember56 Black is color lol
I wish you guys would have discussed the fact that you wouldn’t be able to attend these American colleges without Black Americans fighting and dying for desegregation and a slew of other civil rights that you can now enjoy. I feel Africans overlook this MAJOR fact. Would you even be able
to attend school, get jobs - heck,
ride the front of the bus to work WITHOUT Black Americans and they’re experience in America? Do you feel Africans pay back/give homage to their American ancestors enough?
They don't care about that,the girl in the head wrap said that she didn't respect black americans then changed what she said and added that she's gonna treat them as badly as they treated her.We're on our own in this world.
Das right brother..
This
@Elizabeth R She is rather simple minded to base her attitude on her bad encounters instead of trying to know more in different settings and from various walks of life.
@Fancy Nancy I hate ones who think we don't care about education when we fought to create HBCUs when we still didn't have the choice to go to other schools. They wouldn't appreciate us going to their countries and looking down on them and saying they don't have anything accomplished.
We do have our own culture that is very unique. I don't think we need to idolize Africans or be sad the we don't "have our own" country. Our culture has a lot of pain and perseverance. We do have a lot of other races mixed in that perhaps we don't even know about but everything we have gone Through is something to be proud of. There's nothing wrong with our experience and our culture. We are very unique and don't need to be anybody but ourselves. ❤️
ADANNÉ 🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Exactly
Nobody is saying Africans Americans don't have a culture..And we are not happy you guys passed through those experience...My grandpa told me our tribe from Nigeria failed to protect our brothers and sisters who were shipped out of the country because we were the closest tribe(South west)in Nigeria to the sea...So my point if we black hate each other, we can never get it right to face our oppressors.
Lol get rid of that ibo name my G
This is the reality My Friend we sold to America only people from blaksmith and famers families
I will always be proud to be African American!...I have always been fascinated in learning about African culture, in countries like Uganda, Tanzania, and Ghana. Especially since the only thing we learn in history class about black people is literally slavery and the civil rights movement..But after seeing how these people feel about us I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't be interested in Africa..sometimes I feel discouraged because I'll never get to truly know my African heritage since it was taken from me..but when i think of all the obstacles my people have overcome in America, it makes me proud of who I am..even if others cultures cant see how amazing we are🙌🏾
Cydnee Simone my advice to you is to do your research. Research your family tree and research west African countries. Connect the dots no matter how faint they are. You are American and you do have culture, it’s just that corporate greed has taken so many elements of our communities and sold it back to us, so it’s appears to be a bottomless pit.
Do your own research love, cause at the end of the day these africans that are displayed in this Video or born in america ... you have to experience the land to get a real experience and judgement. Africans that are living on the continent are more welcoming
Its amazing how timid the americans were in this. They sat there in deference to the Africans who all came to america to take advantage of a system that was opened up to them through the blood sweat and tears of black americans. I am not even black american in fact i'm caribbean and this triggered me to see how pompous these africans were sitting in america talking down to black americans whose story of struggles and achievement in america is unmatched. I find more inspiration in the black american story than in any of the africans who are mostly failing the continent so much so that they have to immigrate to the homeland of black americans.
I’m late but this was so one sided. I wish proud black Americans were representing on here. We don’t have to know African culture to know who we are. And the one girl with the head wrap is so condescending. We get it, you’re from Africa and you love it.
Agree
Hmm I don't know why it always feels like Descedants of slaves always have to be in the humble position when it comes to this conversation like this didn't feel like it was just a bunch of black people paying homage to Africa. Don't get me wrong I love Africa I wouldn't be here without Africa but let's not pretend it's history is more important than our own that we had to carve out ourselves while always struggling. I would never go to Africa with a sense that they owe me some special type of respect because DOS history gave black people in general the opportunity to even set foot in America let alone have civil rights and affirmative action when they do. Not only does our history and cultures separate us but our political views do too which is very dangerous for DOS because Africans that come here more often than not aren't the ones who relate with the majority of the DOS here, they aren't considered the poor or an under class where they come from. The Africans who do relate can't afford to come here. That's why in most cases the first thing they do is distance themselves from our collective. If I took a trip or moved to the Mother Land I would immerse my self in the culture and the history and be respectful of it and I would think the same should be expected when it's the other way around because wether people wanna acknowledge it or not DOS built this country, were responsible for its economic dominance and it is our home and always has been since our ancestors stepped foot her as prisoners of wars without a homeland to stand up for them.
Charles Henry well said! My thoughts exactly.
Lady de Narbonna the young first generation Africans did not show respect. They were full of resentment and condescending.
The truth is that white people rule the world and they give black Americans/black Europeans their scraps, which is more than they give anyone else in the world. It makes Africans and other non white people very resentful towards black Americans/black Europeans, because they think we're ungrateful, when really they don't understand how hard black Americans/black Europeans had to fight for those scraps and Africans and other non white people will never receive white people scraps because they lick the ass of the white man while telling them every negative thing they want to hear about other black/non white people. You will never see black Americans cow towing for white Americans, as a whole, for their approval like Africans/non white people. We gained enough of their respect to gain their scraps, but we still have to keep fighting to stop their hate.
Charles Henry yes. Africans are arrogant sometimes as if they have everything. I think it's more of a jealousy thing..
Lakeesha Davis very well said. One thing we possess is integrity for ourselves and our race as African Americans. Their jealousy, and lack of pride in the collective black race is the reason they sold other black people, and it's sad because they still possess that trait.
The thing I don’t understand is why Africans don’t like African Americans. This has been my experience when I’m around them, i’m not sure where I’m from but I am a black woman born in America, and from my experience Africans treat me badly especially the African women, let’s talk about that?
Why though do you only feature West Africans in these "African vs African American" debates? Africa is not just about Nigerians, how about Central Africans, East Africans & South Africans?? We too would like to participate and also please feature actual Africans debating with Black Americans, as in Africans that were born in Africa & moved to the US not these ones who were born in America to African immigrants
Georgi M these were friends of mine that would be able to do this video. I don't know many Africans that are not from West Africa.. especially being that I'm Nigerian so that's what was best fit. So sorry for the "lack of diversity" but I can't get one African from every part of the country. I just don't know enough.
Cindyrella OG lol I know right!
AshTheOne lie!!!
so why don't you label it West African (Nigerian) vs African Americans?
Cindyrella OG but I commend you my fellow Naija people, you're always on the forefront, leading the continent in many things. Like most, if not all of the Africans vs African Americans, UA-cam videos are of Nigerians reaching out to our other brothers & sisters in Black America, showing them we still love & think of them as being part of us. I've not come across videos of other Africans trying to do this. Kudos sister OG & I really enjoy this video
When the volume is too low and then u turn the volume all the way up and its still too low, suddenly the music rolls in and u get taken to the hospital to get ur ears checked
Why you gotta name similar to mines that's weird lol
At the end of the day, every descendant of the African diaspora derives from people who were deceived and stolen. We share the same genetics however we are different culturally through no fault of our own. We are a strong people and are very resilient. Many Africans come over and enjoy the fruits of the labor that Black Americans put in the work a structure for.
Black American culture and Caribbean culture are probably the two most influential cultures in the world when it comes to popular culture and trendsetting. Everyone steals from us and we dont complain. Many Africans come over and develop Black American characteristics and wear Black Americans style so we dont get mad. We look at it as flattery. So check your attitude about people wearing dashikis and the such. Its not that serious. Just take it as flattery.
Jeremy Scott did they give you the money to purchase the dashiki? y should u need anyone s approval for wearing their type of cloth? if i see u wearing a Nigerian cloth I'd be proud of u, and respect u.
And please explain how Africans were supposed to find the US and fight to find their descendants?
What's more, how would the descendants know where they belong to?
Why do African Americans hate Africans so much? I like both Africans and African Americans so i don't understand this stupid issue.
Africans came to the Americas well before before Europeans did for trade.
Kandy Kane I feel like you need to educate yourself on the history of the different countries in Africa. During slavery which did not just occur in America but The Caribbean, The U.K, Brazil and I can name many more countries many slaves were in fact returned back to African to countries in which many of them did not originate from. Secondly most African countries were colonised meaning European countries came over forced their language and culture upon us, raped us and brainwashed us. So this hate you have assuming you as an African American have a struggle that we did not have is incorrect. Finally this "ATTITUDE" we have, is because we are treated as though we are beneath others. Even our fellow blacks who are ignorant like yourself will call us African bubus, call us monkeys, or ask if we speak click. We have a right to be proud of our roots because our culture is rich and beautiful. YOU need to humble and educate yourself rather than speak ignorance and claim to be a Jew. Acting like anybody begged you to care about Africa, you have obviously been triggered ... calm down
Kandy Kane awww I can tell you don't. You unintelligent ignorant clown.
I feel a strong vibe that the Africans are very negative towards AA people thoughts. Besides the African guy in the black but the girl in the middle is very stuck up an judge mental.
Erika Sims Bcx most AA think they are the better version of black people..they feel superior to Africans and that's why most AA thinks Africans don't like them..
James Alexis Bulley that’s true based on my experience.
James Alexis Bulley that’s definitely not true.
@Finn Not racist but hateful
When y'all say.... Africans are jealous of black americans.. What are we jealous of..? Of them being descendants of slaves or us not.? Like if an african wants to go abroad it is just a passport and a visa.. So... Where's the jealousy coming from.. Y'all got to speak some sense cuz that's so stupid..
All blacks come from Africa. But... Slavery took us apart and some weren't born here. We come from the same source..
The difference is in our way to perceive things due to the environment we grew in.. Like there are things black Americans tolerate or accept that African don't because of the "whitish" environment they grew in with completely different perception, culture and beliefs with Africans..
Nobody should be over/under rated for what he/she is or where he/she was born.. Period.!
Can we stop shaming and putting down African Americans and acting as if we are better than them? And can we stop making fun of them for not knowing which country their ancestors were from and getting mad when they try to connect with a certain culture?
sexyrose93 True
Exactly! We have been hidden from our culture forever and when we connect back to our roots, we get shamed for it. This world is definitely against us.
Thank You 😊
Thank you, it is not our fault we ended up here. Show some compassion as we try to reconnect.
Black American are awesome. Black American music is divine. They suffered a lot and now they’re powerful.
So many things I wanted to say and add to this conversation ...
the guy who identify himselve as black and African not name was a lame ass excuses on why, Brazil and Haiti that doesn't make any sense because if you are from Brazil don't make. you Brazilian or Haitian, you're still African from Africa black people in Brazil come from Africa black people in Haiti come from Africa this guy has absolutely no idea on what he just said.
Most Brazilians are proud of their Nigerian and Angolan heritage.They practice Candomble in Bahia.
fivefivevirgo facts he talking about a 2nd stop boy all them slaves came frm the same place stfu
fivefivevirgo idk what you mean but I was agreeing with you
Shikeereya Smith my bad, you said stfu, I thought that was for me.
anybody/child of the diaspora owes no one (definitely not any African who thinks otherwise) any explanation as it concerns our culture, heritage and lineage! the way we dress, cook, dance, sing, style our hair are remnants of OUR AFRICAN ancestors, we've always had the keys. unfortunately the spirit of Africa has been clouded here in the US but go to the Caribbean/Latin America, spirit of Africa is strong!
Truth. I am from Haiti, we don't have problems when it comes to our identity.
I agree!
tee rod we
Exactly.
There absolutely is a difference between Africans and African Americans, even down to the genetics. I am African, parents born and raised in guinea 🇬🇳 from the Fulani tribe. The reason why I say this because we most tribes in Africa only inter breed, to keep the gene pool the same. Fulani people have distinctive features, so do Igbo people, Hausa People, Tuareg and habesha people. We are different down to the genetics. The same way a Greek person looks differently than a Scottish or Armenian. African Americans are mixed with many different African tribes so they don’t have such distinctive features. Their gene pool isn’t from one tribe it’s mixed between many.
Sãdï Berry l'm a black american and l agree a 💯% on our difference especially when it comes to our culture an face features l think there's a big difference as a black american l can look at a African an know that he/she comes from africa...and l can look a black american an know they from America.
Linda Mccoy you actually can't tell if a person is from Africa we are the most diverse continent on earth,I'm indigenous African but I get mistaken for Indian,Arab you can find the lightest person with hazel eyes and blond hair and darkest person with light eyes and light hair
Love, Leila remember you from africa so you will always look african we black AA are not from africa so we have a big differences in our culture, music, food, clothers, features...etc trust an believe we are very different and most AA will also tell you that.
Linda Mccoy if you saw me on the street you wouldn't say I'm African till I tell you your statement is false if I saw a black American on the street I'd think they were African till they spoke ,black Americans are west African sooooo
true
This is depressing.
Watch the video. In America, we cant do ANYTHING without somebody getting mad, offended. Cant dress African even though our race is African. Cant do anything. Sheesh. Just tired.
Free you mind, this whole "race" thing is a very European concept from the jump. Just celebrate the straightforward cultural diversity that exists on the earth. This race stuff has us over complicating things. African Americans have their own unique culture and history just as the Igbo does. That doesn't mean we can't still go with ethnic Africans. We can love Asians, Latin Americans, and Europeans just as well. Race is bankrupt.
red foxx 313 lets be honest. Most black americans r so rude & disrespectful. I kind of u derstand what they have been through tho so i dont judge them for being that
MrJovon yea African American ancestors are from many peoples in Africa-.- but yea they also have their own thing like the Harlem Renaissance. I see African Americans as culture of arts (music, painting, etc) they also were the backbone of fighting oppression, Carribeans the culture of food (guess that'd include New Orleans lmao it's similar w/ carnival food), Africa and it's cultures in itself...for example Bantu have a wood culture with like the artistic figurines...and by God THE HUTU AND TUTSI ARE THE SAME PEOPLE no such thing as other 'races'. All are BANTU. ALL ARE BANTU. The way African people act with this not-being-bantu thing reminds me of Europeans trying to say Irish aren't white-.- it's very fuckin annoying! Anyway rant over...back to topic...Congo has an iron-rust culture(they actually might have invented casting iron), Nigeria has a wax-like thing I think(lost wax casting method), S. Africans have a pastoral culture, the Muslims up north are fond with mud cultures(awesome housing describing it in words doesn't give it justice) and ink dye, etc.The world's a big place.
Always improve do whatever you wanna do b/c theyre wearing your ish over there.
Most of the africans i know dont think aa are stealing. If anything, they get a sense of pride when they see that. They only kiss their teeth if you dont know where that particular style "might" have originated. Some things are uniquely part of a certain culture; other things i see in many diff parts of africa
As an older African American woman, I know I am African and I don't really think there is that much of a difference in the two cultures. To me as a 50 year old, i do completely respect the fact that Africans respect their parents and education is supreme!!! African Americans used to be that way!!! Things started to change when drugs were put into our neighborhoods.
The Nigerian young woman is disrespectful for saying she is not black. She most definitely is a black woman who is African. Everyone will see her as black for the rest of her life.
White is a color too and all white people refer to themselves as such. Do you think they say "I'm not white, I'm Irish"? No they don't. She makes it seem like being black is a derogatory thing.
As for the African American young man who is most definitely African American. Stop seeing that as a negative.
I do pray that in the next two generation the children of Africans new to America are still respectful to their parents and STILL put a premium on education.
As an AA, I hate the fact that we are born citizens and don't take advantage of our education system. As a teen, I went to Catholic school. During one of our winter breaks, I went to visit my friends in public school. I could not believe all the students who were skipping class (80%). I That was very sad to me even as a teen. All immigrants respect education. They understand that education levels the playing field. They all understand that they need to go for the best careers ( doctor, lawyer, engineer, nurse, pharmacist). Not careers that keep you poor. We get a FREE education and we don't use it to our advantage.
So I say to all African and African Americans. Take the good traits of each culture as your own. Come together in respect. You are not better than us and we are not better than you.
Blessings
ROSLYN JONES our education definitely isn't free, we do pay taxes! since some of us have to pay for private school because the public schools are so poor. we used to have beautiful black neighborhoods but your generation allowed drugs to tear them down. the younger generation is just trying to pick up the pieces and piece together what we have left. this generation is more educated then the generation prior but no one cares. it's really sad
Their is over 2000 different cultures in Africa so where did you get "two cultures" from ????
That's a very good point and comment, and that's the only one I'm replying to of all the comment here.
Thanx for noticing ;Yeah we as "Black Americans" are under some intense mind control
ROSLYN JONES actually we do that in Europe. Me and my European friends get called white all the time in USA and I say I'm Finnish and my friends say they're Bosnian.
Cindyrella OG I’m unsubscribing. What should offend you is how your own people were kidnapped, enslaved and stripped of their native culture, and because of that WE DON’T KNOW.
Right,they have zero understanding of that.She acted just like how the Europeans act when slavery is brought up.They love to bypass their role in the most inhumane act commited on the NATION of Yahs people.
They all lost such a shame this discussion can be so interesting but they sleep they don't know what's going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some of the Africans on the panel don’t realize that African Americans have had a presence in America for four hundred years - 250 years of slavery + 100 years of a civil rights struggle and still racism - 50 years. Our ancestors didn’t come here free or willingly so they don’t seem to have much of an understanding of our struggle and how our struggles have benefited them as immigrants here and that is sad. So when African Americans are talking about whites we are not talking about all whites it is just a reference to the historical trauma that African American people have experienced for centuries due to whites in this country and because of that, we are very attuned to racism. There is a disconnect there. If they are so concerned about our understanding of African clothing before wearing it maybe we should ask them to learn a little about our history here in America before making generalizations about us. Additionally, we are a mix of several different west African tribes - and we are largely descendants of west African slaves who stripped of their culture and histories. Today we will interpret and express our Africanness in different ways and that's ok. If I want to wear Fulani earrings today or cook some Jollof tomorrow or do nothing at all - it shouldn't matter. It is our decision to determine how we will intepret and express our Africaness after the horros of the transatlantic slave trade. Just love us for who we are. Wanting to know about Africa has never been a fad. Many African Americans have been curious about Africa for generations - especially since the movie Roots came out in 1977. From this conversation, I am feeling a lot of disconnect between the Africans and African Americans. With so much disconnect at least I can just value being an African American - we have a very beautiful and rich culture right here in America.
Slaves were shipped from West Africa but kidnapped from countries as far North as Sudan...
Africans welcome any Diaspora that want to reclaim...I don't even think there's a word for all that was stolen from them
MA'AM THE MAJORITY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE ENSLAVED . MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY THESE ARE FACTS.THEY TALK AS IF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WAS INVENTED YESTERDAY.AND THEY HAVE AN OBSESSION WITH BEING INCARCERATED.
@@atuanyaalpheusthememeparod1605 and what do you call the majority of Africans colonized minds,clean house before trying to clean mines
@@Loveamericasave go talk to them because I don't clean houses but I will own a business one day .
As a Nigerian American and maybe one day in the words of nino Brown.
When this conversation is done "you can come work for me"😉 and clean mines lol.
@@atuanyaalpheusthememeparod1605 why don't you take your ignorant,displaced butt back to your country,build that dump up
"If you are black you are a child of Africa".. I felt that ✊
And yet these african people in that room would be offended if you wanted to call yourself african.......... How that make since either im a child of africa or not make up you damn mind!!!!!
Justin Wallace why you soo presses the truth is us africans are very diffrent from yall african americans tbh but yes it shouldnt be bad for yall to say yall are african
@@ashleywildeman796 only diffrence is culture and where we was born. But when it comes to culture we did not choose to walk away from our african ancestors culture it was forced out of us. So sorry our ancestors chose to live so i could say this to you today and i dont want you to think im saying this from a place of hate. But this is truly why we forever run towards africa or want to be connected with it unlike most people in the diaspora.
Justin Wallace okay i get your point but my thing also is why do us africans have to learn about yalls history but yall dont know about our history like yall dont know the kho khoi or even Chief Ndlambe only Nelson mandela
@@ashleywildeman796 i get where you are going with that statement. The issue is we spend most of our entire time learning american history with egypt being the only huge section from africa. By the time we are 20 only thing left to do is make sure you are not addicted to drugs and can make it out in the world on your own. Must of us are responsible for families before we even get to the age of 20. I will agree that we must learn the history of where our ancestors came from( especially those who have found the origins or part of it in africa). I myself through being matched with an african relative found out im part igbo nigerian. However i have been told and i have watched videos that no matter how much we learn your history and cultures. Alot of west africans still look at us with disdain and treat us as if we are less than them. We are also huge targets of being set up for scams when we try to go over there. That also makes us AAs a little hesitant to understand you but alot of us still try.
Being black means culture, melanin popping, Haters coming from this way and that, kinky hair, full lips, black struggle, Being black is a gift cherish it
Kudos.
PERIOD!!!!!!!!
the blackest 1 say he dnt knw he frm Africa
Wait I'm crying. 😂
LOL yo.
OaklandCalifornia Hebrew Rene’s literally Indians darker than everyone at the table it’s not about color you dip shit
Correct !!! it's mind control
are you stupid or trolling?
I’m a Ghanaian I live in Ghana, born and raised. I can’t say I know to a full extent what it feels like to be African. Cos I haven’t been to any other African Country before. Not even Togo which is a few hours drive away from Ghana. And even as a Ghanaian I only know what it feels like to live in Accra (greater Accra) and Akosombo (eastern region) because out of the 10 regions in Ghana I’ve only been to and live in these 2(a 23 year old woman) and even in accra when I visit some places like Nima some people don’t really accept me as Ghanaian cos I grew up in East legon (kind of an upper class community in Accra). The point I’m trying to make is what does it mean to say you know what it feels to be African or Black. Yes we might relate to some of the same things like our modern dances and music. But to be honest Africa is a place with a very diverse ways of living and understandings. Every country ,region , town village differs. And to be honest the only thing that brings Modern Africans together is the internet. Until the invention of social media I didn’t know Nigerians also ate fufu and jollof rice. I didn’t even know that jollof was from Senegal. What I’m trying to say is the way the world sees Africa as one one group of united people with similar ways of life etc. is very far from the reality Africa is big and has changed so much in Ghana we have lost most of our cultures (I’ve never even been to a festival before) due to the introduction of Christianity and Islam. Right now the culture of Ghanaians is to make money by working, have an education, go to church or the mosque, buy expensive cars and build expensive houses.. we don’t care about going to the festivals and wearing traditional clothings and believing in our ancestors etc those things are quickly dying if not dead yet. This is the reality. Don’t get me wrong I’m proud to be a Ghanaian.
Karen okine well put from a proud Ghanaian
Hi My Friend ! Your statement is written with deep thought tnx for being so clever
Karen okine Great comment
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Karen okine agree for the most but disagree on the lost culture part. The fact that majority of Ghanaians speak Twi is proof that they’re still holding onto their culture. You grew up in East Legon, you can’t compare your experiences to another who grew up in less “D-bee” community. You probably cannot speak any Ghanaian language. If you put in a little bit of research you will realize there are a lot of cultural things still going on. Funerals, outdoorings, engagements, festivals just to name few all display the rich Ghanaian culture
This video is so bias in the Africans prospective. It would have helped to have African Americans on the panel that were more outspoken and voiced their opinion just as well as the Africans on this panel.
It was very disheartening to see. One girl legit seemed like a yes person. The other American black woman seemed kind of disappointed in the conversation as well and like she just decided to keep quiet.
Right
MakeMeRich101 yah bc they rlly didn’t throw their opinions out there or nothin
yea nigga
Why are there no Africans from Africa on the panel??
👀👀👀good question
This had potential but sadly it was mostly one sided. Seemed as though this space was created for Africans to air their grievances against AA (Not referring to us as black Americans, y'all can stay mad idc). Now get the panel right and this convo can be progressive as well as entertaining. Both perspectives need to be equally represented so that understanding on both sides can take place.
Also, girl with head wrap, let that hurt go, sis. You being there goes to show just how lopsided and biased this "panel" was.
Feyi Joseph The "mediator" wasn't neutral so it was more like 4 v 3. The whole discussion was leaning in a direction that was favorable towards one group thus leaving the audience with one perspective instead of that of both groups. Chalk that up to the questions, panel or whatever. Watching it seemed to me that unification may have been the objective but it turned into a space for them to air their grievances against AA.
Also, racism and bullying is not the same. Further, by holding on to that hurt she is hindering the process to unify. She's shutting out ppl that didn't bully her and taking her anger out on all AA. She need to let it go perhaps consider therapy. And maybe I could let racism go if it were a thing of the past but me and my ppl are affected by it everyday.
@@debrawilson08 The African American representatives should have done some research the to get a better understanding of how to approach the topic in a more intelligent and knowledgeable way.
Shari No amount of research or preparedness on their part could have changed the way this so-called progressive discussion went. If everyone doesn't leave their biases at the door, come into it with open minds and with intent to understand then this is the way it'll turn out.
Or worse. Imagine if the panel consisted of AAs who were as bias and were boldy outspoken about it like the rest of the panel. The ones there sat through it and didn't become hostile or combative. Yet you critize them and blame the regressive, lopsided, bias nature of this discussion on them and their "lack of knowledge and research". Girl. Please do inform me on what they needed to research and become more knowledgeable about. They know their experiences and obviously was willing to learn about the experiences of others as well. So what are you talking about?
No you’re right Africans talk mad shit about African Americans they’re only showing us how much shit they talk about us I’ve attended one of these so called bridge the gap events and all the Africans talk about is how much we call them ugly and it’s sad because only the ugly ones complain as if they never said so dumb ignorant things to each other as kids please grow up just like I Said whoever invented this bridging the gap club are some African American haters period.
Two great books that I think provide a different kind of insight on this topic are: 1. "Homegoing" written by Yaa Gyasi (Ghanaian - American) and 2. "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian)
Africa is not a country, it is a continent.From Morocco to Egypt.From Algeria to South Africa,Nigeria, Kenya,Somalia,Gambia Weast Africa, East Africa...there's no such a thing like African culture, there are different african cultures, with different languages, traditions, religions and history.Even in one country you can find diversity.And the media keeps simplifying it.Our continent is so diverse and amazing.Remember this!
Love from Morocco
Your continent is so sonquered by white supremacy and chinese whitesidekickemacy!
2:59 what drift? Our culture was beaten out of us
Exactly...I wish someone would have caught that...
And yet y’all are looking down on Africans like they ain’t shit how about you keep your hip hop culture we don’t need you too insult Africans and look down on us we aren’t the onces that enslaved your ancestors..
I think you AA should worry about stop killing each other like it’s an warzone.
@@dannicakes6837 Nigga who said allat? Nobody.
UltimateFireCracker Stop dividing
@@ultimatefirecracker1486 AA is not looking down on Africans. Africans are looking down on us, thinking they are better because they know where they come from and we don’t
I think that we have created our own identity off of our own experiences in the Americas. I personally have stopped being on the African American tip. Im American . We have a very large part in the creation of America.
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Facts
You guys are really young and may not be aware that 2009 wasn't when AA's started to embrace Africa. We would have to start as early as the 60's, 70's to the 80's and 90's until now. This isn't new. What's new is the internet and how we're all able to see each other and connect on a level that we weren't able to connect before. I have relatives who are in their 80's and 90's who've been doing what this younger generation is doing when it comes to connecting with their African roots. This is not new but I appreciate how we are able to connect now. Another thing, African Americans have not adapted white Amaican culture. We created our own and it was frowned upon by whites because it wasn't their norm. We created our own language, names, food and style of dress. Our natural hair was called unprofessional and ugly so much so that laws were passed to make us conform. Now look at them, doing everything they criticized us for doing. We never wanted to be like them. We just wanted the same rights as them. Without us, America would be soulless
That dark African American guy looks like one of a Senegalese brothers or one of a South Sudanese brothers.
Is there a difference between the White Americans who have lived apart from the Europeans for 500 years? Why are black people debating this?.
You really don't get it...
UUmmm . There is. Even if there wasn't don't mean Black people can't discuss this topic. The first wave of Black people and white people first came to the Americas under vastly different circumstances.
Black people are debating this because some Africans and blacks don't accept each other. Blacks in America are making sure they learn more about their cultures learning about their lost origin.
Bebu Sander yes!!! Nobody debates this but us nor does anyone denounce their own but us.
Bebu Sander No difference.
Im african and proud
Same so proud of my continent all the countries in it 👏🏾
@@ultimatefirecracker1486 why?
@@chilesennogada4860 why what? Because I’m African duh 😒
@@ultimatefirecracker1486 why? U proud? Africa ain’t ruling nothing and pride comes before destruction u shouldnt be proud
@@ultimatefirecracker1486 the lord hates pride
I think you mean Africans vs Black Americans
We Africans have traditions & culture and AA more into their culture..... Same Roots but different mind set. Hopefully we all have togetherness in the future ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
One ☝🏾 thing that always stopped me and my friends from moving to Africa and starting a family there Is it seems like African women only open to dating non black foreigners and we’ve always been told that African women don’t date African American men
@@fidelcastro236 that's just not true
@@advocatejoel2924 Rhodesia died
@@Loyal2.RickOwensWayne Not Zim?
@@advocatejoel2924 Zim is still here. Rhodesia died with the removal of ian smith and Rhodesia itself. Then put in a coffin when Mugabe died. Rhodesia is far in the past. New chapter
Black people in america are of African decent we are mixed up also like people from Africa. We do carry out african culture we just speak in a different language. Whats the point of saying we are diffrent as if africa doesn't have different types of africans with different cultures and religions sounds like a lack of knowledge.
extremedude1234 Africa has "white africans" i wonder why hmmm?
extremedude1234 The problem is you don't speak on what you know. You speak about what you don't know instead of asking questions. Its okay to be wrong and not know everything. You need to do research.... Alll African americans are not from Louisiana. And a majority of our culture did not come from there. We reside in different states we speak differently, eat differently, and have different upbringings. You learned the white people version of American history which is the reason you think the way you do. African Americans and Native American Families hold the True stories. Why must you listen to the dictators story and be so one sided. The slave ports were in Virginia and South Carolina. You prove you no nothing. Like i said look up Gullah Geechi of South Carolina. They can go to the Caribbean and Africa and communicate in African Creole if they wanted to. Your in denial that's up to you lol.... Africa was colonized to. For example Today, Nigeria is about 50% Muslim and 40% Christian, with about 10% embracing traditional or indigenous beliefs. I actually know Igbo Family's that religiously go to African American Christan churches. Africans dont eat moi moi? That has black eyed peas, some east africans eat collard greens, some east african eat ugali which is an unfried version of hot water corn bread, West Africans don't eat Okra, Africans dont have there on variations of jolof rice??? Are variation is jambalaya ..... Your extreemly ignorant
extremedude1234
The Gullah are a distinctive group of Black Americans from South Carolina and Georgia in the southeastern United States. They live in small farming and fishing communities along the Atlantic coastal plain and on the chain of Sea Islands which runs parallel to the coast. Because of their geographical isolation and strong community life, the Gullah have been able to preserve more of their African cultural heritage than any other group of Black Americans. They speak a creole language similar to Sierra Leone Krio, use African names, tell African folktales, make African-style handicrafts such as baskets and carved walking sticks, and enjoy a rich cuisine based primarily on rice.
extremedude1234 The Gullah people are directly descended from the slaves who labored on the rice plantations, and their language reflects significant influences from Sierra Leone and the surrounding area. The Gullahs’ English-based creole language is strikingly similar to Sierra Leone Krio and contains such identical expressions as bigyai (greedy), pantap (on top of), ohltu (both), tif (steal), yeys (ear), and swit (delicious). But, in addition to words derived from English, the Gullah creole also contains several thousand words and personal names derived from African languages-and a large proportion of these (about 25%) are from languages spoken in Sierra Leone. The Gullah use such masculine names as Sorie, Tamba, Sanie, Vandi, and Ndapi, and such feminine names as Kadiatu, Fatimata, Hawa, and Isata-all common in Sierra Leone. As late as the 1940s, a Black American linguist found Gullahs in rural South Carolina and Georgia who could recite songs and fragments of stories in Mende and Vai, and who could do simple counting in the Guinea/Sierra Leone dialect of Fula. In fact, all of the African texts that Gullah people have preserved are in languages spoken within Sierra Leone and along its borders.
extremedude1234 by the way you are typing i don't even Believe you are African or African American. Because you keep saying them as if you are an outsider... You sound like an outsider.. A trolll
I love this!! Crazy I'm a Haitian American. I'm very prideful of my roots. And my love for Africa, my God!!!! I love us!!! We are one. Divided...different stop points but I am an Haitian born American who originated from Africa!!!!!
Deva Diaries Haiti is a part of the Americas
I’m so annoyed. Why do Africans think that they being made fun of as children is something only true to them? I’m African American, Black, Negro, or whatever you want to call it and i too was made fun of by other black american kids growing up. I wasn’t born in Africa. I’m not first generation second or 3rd. I’ve been called African booty scratcher, poop crayon, charcoal, tar black and every thing else. And i was popular ....The sooner y’all realize that it wasn’t “African” thing but a being in american as a black persons thing the better. Like the guy said let it go. I’m not walking around mad at every black person i see because i was teased as a child for my skin tone. Just like you may have been embarrassed or not as proud as you are to be who you are it’s the same for everyone with this skin living in America ! Because here we are taught to hate ourself and anyone that look like us. In a system that for some reason African don’t understand or chose to have some sort of cognitive dissonance about the fact of the situation. Not to mention we aren’t even taught 1. The truth about ourself 2. The truth about Africa civilization or 3. African people. let alone that there are different countries with different tribes and customs of each own. Everything we learn we probably learned on our own without any help of our education system unless you went to a HBCU and even that is 17, 18 years into life. So please not enough credit is given to the African American (blacks) in the US By those Africans who are closer tide to Africa. And for the record our (black Americans) ancestors fought and died for us to have the name African American and i would not dare be stripped of it. And to the Africans who are born here 1st generation and so on ..how long does it take for you to consider yourself “African American” with the rest of us? Nigerian American tuh there is no such thing here girl 🙄
@ 36:18 the girl with the head rap sounds stupid, she said because the way she was treated by, kids kids kids in school when she was younger, is what make's her fill some type away about all black people here in the USA, and she is now treating us the same way because of how kids in school, treated her, she has a lot of growing up to do
Alexandro Aldama What she was called in school is not anyone else's problem except for the stupid kids who bullied her. I sympathize with her but I'm not about to feel guilty for something that she went through.
the first thing we need to do is stop judging understand that we have been separated from each other for over 400 years those of us who were stolen from the country our language are Village our culture was stolen and we have had to develop a culture and a hostile environment for hundreds of years forgive us where we error but understand that we have been spoon-fed lies about our native country and its people as well as our native country has been spoon-fed lies about us so let us just let go of the lies and start afresh and learn of each other and embrace each other and grow and knowledge of our struggles in this country and the mother country and all the other countries where we were forcibly deposited
I live in London and I'm from Africa. When I hear people say I'm African American I don't see the difference just because you live in America or born there doesn't mean you're initially from there. Im not going against anyone's nationality or opinion, but this is mine. You're black because your from the Caribbean or Africa
Cultural differrence only
Monique Loftman truth
aero34100 Majority of African Americans that aren't mixed have about 60 to 70% African DNA in them. Their European DNA is a whole lot less than that, so it's not just a little...
aero34100 yh but you have more African DNA than Europe
Joey Cash I took my ancestry I have 90% African DNA
for black american that claim not to african.i got a question.if you take lion from africa and bring to american zoo for generations do you call american lion ?
Mercas ED Nope! Still an African lion lol and I'm a lost African that happens to be born in America🤷🏾♀️
Mercas ED the fact that your on this video proves that u whites are basically obsessed with us Americans.
excuse me girl i am from AFRICA mother from cape verd daddy from mozambique e falo creol e portugues so who you are calling white
thank you...
this video say africans so i can be involve in the debate
Another thing contrary to popular belief, many blacks never permed their hair. I have seen Africans say oh now you all want to have natural hair.... Excuse me but my hair has always been natural and really long not to brag. My mother, grandmother, and great grandmother never permed and long hair is in our DNA no chemical. Nobody is going to tell me what to do or that I'm copying them when I've been doing me. Also if I wanted to wear African clothing I will and I don't care who likes it or not.
Yes, Africans care about what white people think as well. It's the law here, and people abide by it.
African American Culture is beautiful, we have the Gullah Geechees of the Carolina Coast, France Creole people of New Orleans. The Civil rights Movement, African American by far have the strongest impact on the earth then any blacks
I'm sorry but Africans have something that you don't have respectfully they have the mother continent AFRICA where all humans originated from and all the history they left behind for humanity
@@millennialpopculture669 imagine the world without African-American stop lights, refrigerator, open heart surgery, peanuts" chips, lets like talk entertainment please
Afro-American Culture
Our languages and dialects:Louisiana Creole, Gullah Geechee, and Ebonics.
Our music: Rap, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Rhythm, Blues, Disco, Hip hop, Hard bop, Electro, Swing, Gospel, etc.
Our Food: Soul Food, Creole, and Low country food, Southern food in general.
Our clothing and jewelry : Zoot Suits, Street clothes, Pimp clothing, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s clothing to present.
Our Hair styles: 70s Afro(Fro) High top, Fade, Sponge Twists, Various braid styles such as cornrows etc.
Our Dances: Break dance, Tap dancing style, Pop lock, Group Dances.
Our Movie and live action Genres: Blaxploitation, and Black Comedy.
Religion and spirituality: Baptist Christian, Islam, Voodoo, and Hoodoo.
Our Political history: Civil rights, Black power, Black Lives matter, etc.
Our warriors: Black panther party, Deacons for defense, etc
Our revolutionary inventions: The Traffic light, The modern day PC, Gemayel Electric cell for Phones, video games consoles and Cartridges, Microphone, The hot comb, Various African hair products, The 3D Glasses, Lingo programs (Graphics, animation, web design),Train cart gears, omelets, various peanut uses, super soaker, Heating Furnace, shoe inventing machine, multiplex Telegraph, The filament for the lightbulb, mailbox, The basic for cars before the white peoples version, UV Telescope, Vertical coin counting tool, The electric guitar, Home security system, Etc, Etc, etc....
Wow thats a lot. But voodoo and hoodoo came from benin in africa. Thats wat i heard.
@@Monaedeezy ohk thnx😁
Please STATE real facts and no lies!.... Hair Styles such as Afro's or Cornrows have been wore by multiple Africans tribes before colonization of African continent. Omlets has it's origin from Ancient Persia. Beside Music and Dance i don't see anything else so much as "afro american culture". Islam? Voodoo? COME ONE STOP BEING RIDICULOUS!!! .......... The 3D Glasses was invented by a british, i could go on and on at the things you have mentioned are absolute NOT true at all.
@@YujiroHanmaaaa OK CAPTAIN OBVIOUS. WANT A COOKIE?
@@Monaedeezy Why you angry at the truth? Go drink some milk, little kid
Why does the guy in the blue almost keep denying that he has African in him saying he's Brazilian or something ?💀
I'm Ireland his stupid let him go check Brazilian history.
Brazilian are from Africa
Did he said that.??
The rest of the world isn't trapped in the one drop rule mentality like Americans are. People in those colonized countries are very mixed even if they have dark skin.
Correct. Many people lack knowledge and are not aware that Brazil is one of the Blackest countries besides Haiti. A large number of African Slaves were sent to Brazil from Angola. It amazes me that our people know more about European culture, than the history of Africa. Again, I agree with you Ms. Ireland.
Maybe you should travel, learn and understand OTHER people's culture. Not everyone sees the world like Black Americans do. The rest of the world has a DIFFERENT HISTORY regardless of how it started.
I enjoyed the conversation because I feel this topic is constantly ignored yet I felt like the fact that everyone played nice and no one thought to mention the 300+ years of slavery, rape, brutality, Jim Crow and all the other injustices “Black America” has endured and are still envolving from was ridiculous. I would like to see this conversation updated and with a group of people that are willing to truly converse about uncomfortable content and opinions.
K LOVE your pretty
They just trying to tell you they love you. They really want to know you. With all that pain and turmoil in your lives, we understand. Black man behind bars, drugs, police brutality. A system designed to make sure you go nowhere. Your great, great, great mother's are just speaking through your soul. They will take the abuse from you as long as you get over the hurt. We love you...if the pain is too much always know you are being watched. We're a people of deep spirituality.
Reinventing ourselves everyday , that is our Culture... The AA experience " Don't stop, Won't stop"!!!!
As a Black person in America, you're still African. We just have cultural amnesia due to our history being beat out of us over generations. You wouldn't tell someone straight from Africa who had been hit on the head that they weren't African anymore because they have amnesia and don't remember. Same thing with us. As African Americans, we've been beat over the head so to speak over hundreds of years and have cultural amnesia, but that doesn't make us any less African because we don't remember.
No as Black American's we are a mixture of many African tribes, mainly on the west coast of Africa but most of us also have European ancestry as well.
Myisha most of us do not have European ancestry naturally. That’s that bullshit they keep telling you. If we were as mixed as they claim then we would all be light skin and have lose textured hair as well. Yes some of us are mixed but not all of us.
Speak for yourself I’m mixed with 4 things and darkskin
Everybody is always talking about African Americans need to learn African history. If we are talking about unity, why no one talks about Africans learning African/Black American history?
Do Americans have culture? 🙄
I will take it a step further how come not one of the 54 countries in africa tried to reunify African Americans with the continent. The answer is simple they don't want us.
is not the African American experience.. the Black American experience?
Gabrielle Graham What's a black American? ???
We black people of America are black Americans period you know the people who ancestors were slaves in America then had children who then created jazz, their own style of dress and dance I just wish you people would stop hating on us this is who we identify as period wtf is an African please tell me because Africa wasn’t called that until slavery happened so step off
@@jamiewgsul8588 you dont know nommm
I'm black african from west africa love ya'll
+Kabir Mohammed what the hell do you mean you are a black African? 😕 smh. what is a black African? please drop "African" and just call yourself black, you will make more sense
+Skynet Production they are European imposters or settlers, born and raised in Africa. let's keep it 100% thrill
besides what natural born African goes around calling himself "black African"? that's internet nonsense
U are Israelite you not hamite
@Skynet Production
The Whites who came to Africa only continued what their ancestors had always done to blacks, native americans and others. It's not the same, they will never equate themselves to the black africans, so there will always be a difference. Just stating the truth.
+Alluring Bliss thank you for telling it like it is. the internet got African people becoming stupid all in the name of social acceptance. "black African" my foot
The guy on the left is FINE
Africans vs African Americans?Black Americans don't have to immigrate to be successful, we create success in our own country no need to leave it and go to someone else's
Lmao you do know that there are other 1st world countries where black immigrants go for opportunities, such as Canada, the UK or even France ( let's not forget that there are many Africans that speak French because of colonisation). America is not the only place to have a successful good life because of the opportunities . And as an African who was born and raised in America, the arrogance that a lot of Americans have, its doesn't even matter if your black or white, it speaks for itself.
The experience of Africans in the UK and Africans in the US etc is different but I get what the first guy (I didn't catch his name, the Congolese one) was saying about how the African "fire" is spreading and gaining popularity
Because its too many immigrants
mobile.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/nyregion/more-africans-enter-us-than-in-days-of-slavery.html
As an African woman i feel deeply saddened when I scrolled through the comments because we have been generalized based on a few Africans that live in the US. I for one have been thought for most of my high school and primary life about African American history and I would not say I know all about it but I know a big part of it. In my opinion we are not jealous (Africans) or untitled well most of us aren’t in fact we are proud at most because of what African American have accomplished for themselves (which is what they did) because they were not thinking about Africans but themselves and we Africans are just reaping the benefits in sort. And Africans chose to live in the US because it offers better opportunities then most African countries. I hope what I said is not misunderstood
only rich africans live abroad? being a foreigner want to know
@@albertoc3189 not only rich Africans... It's all about opportunity
You should also include the "Afro-Latino's" and Caribbean nations as well. After all every black person living in the Americas came from Africa and the only thing that separated us was a boat stop.
I work with an African that is really concerned with what White people think of him. So that's not true. It's all according to the person! I'm a new subscriber. Thanks for your video.
All afro people have their origins in the continent of Africa. Africa is vast. I think there's too many negative stereotypical attitudes about the continent by african Americans.
I think as African Americans we still have a very rich and beautiful culture and history here in America. Four hundred years of struggle and pain but there is also a very beautiful and rich heritage and culture that emerged here and we should be proud of that.
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This is late in coming I just ran across this video. I do not mean to spark anger or anything but this is my perspective as a black person born and bred in America. I will not answer to African American regardless of where my ancestors came from. When white people gave us that label it was meant to let us know that we were not apart of their America. The only people they do that to is to Asians, Latinos, blacks, and any other brown ethnic group. I happen to be an American who is black the end. I was not born in Africa, did not migrate to America, have no affinity toward Africa other than they are people from another region just like any other people from other regions of the plant. Now I love hearing about my African roots but that will not make me claim to African American, just like knowing I have native American ancestors will not make me claim to be Indian anymore than the white ancestors I have would make me claim to be white. I am black that was born in America therefore I am a proud black American. Enough with the divisiveness.
I think it's funny how they say us Black Americans still their culture yet they do our dances listen to our music and talk our slang come on now lol.
I'm Nigerian American as well but I was raised completely on American terms and traditions. I'm just recently learning about my Nigerian side
Black Americans and African Americans will never be the same. We're different. Simple. Black Americans are welcome to embrace different African cultures but they will always do it as outsiders. Culture is something in your blood that you can trace, something you're raised in, and taught. It's at the core of who you are and is the base on which you form your identity. It is your moral starting line. Black Americans have been disconnected from their cultural roots in Africa. Unfortunate as that may be y'all have built your OWN culture (a super dope and widely influential one at that) with it's own philosophies, political views, leaders, struggles, clothing styles, history, music, poetry, and literature. Own it.
A DNA test cannot tell someone that they belong where they do not. If the test tells you you're from Kenya or Ethiopia or something, so tf what? What does that mean? "Nations" in Africa, though we accept it as that now, are a European creation and a result of colonization. Before that, ethnic groups, kingdoms, and tribes were the political landscape in Africa with their own plethora of languages and cultures, many of which are preserved today. So your DNA is Nigerian? Are you Yoruba? Fula? Ebo? Hausa? Oh you're DNA test makes you a Ghanaian? Okay. What kind of Ghanaian are you? Are you Asante? Ewe? Ga? Are you a Northerner? Kwahu perhaps? Did you know Hausas could be found in other parts of Africa? That there are Akans in in Ghana, Ivory Coast, and elsewhere as well? What exactly does that DNA test give you claim to? Just be you. You're part of the African Diaspora just like blacks in Europe, in Asia, Caribbean blacks, and Afro-Latins. Black Americans need to own their culture instead of running back to something that has been diluted and disconnected from their heritage. Wearing Dashikis, and getting ankh tattoos does not make one African. Any tourist could do that.
M Dot I don't think you should be discouraging black people from finding out where they're from and more about who they are. Having AA culture is beautiful, but there is something powerful in knowing where you come from. I am blessed to know my roots and understand more about who I am and why I look a certain way. I encourage you to explore that if you haven't.
And by the way there are DNA tests that can trace you to your tribe.
+Morgan Mitchell First off, I know my roots. I'm a Ghanaian, raised Ghanaian, can't be anything else but that, and with a full knowledge and pride my ethnic heritage. A DNA test was not needed for that.
2nd With the migration, emergence, eradication, and mixture of ethnic groups having taken place as early as 2 centuries ago and been going on for thousands of years, I question the accuracy and relevance of any testing program that claims they can track one's tribal history lol. The anthropological studies in Africa aren't often narrowly focused enough for a confirmed factual tracking of the ethnic migration patterns of tribes to exist within any one database. And especially not one that can be mass marketed to "connect ppl to their roots."
Also even if such a database existed, culture is deeper than that. Like I said before, culture is something you're raised in, and taught. It's at the core of who you are and is the base on which you form your identity. It is your moral starting line. It's not just something you can just claim. Academically, culture is held together by general knowledge, common practices and beliefs, and acceptance.
The only thing that makes Black American culture less powerful and united than an African American might have is that Black Americans themselves do not believe in it, don't embrace it. They are constantly running from it. Everyone spends all their time trying to claim that they're this percent Native American, or that percent White, trying to use DNA tests to be something they're not, or marrying into another race or culture, not because of love, but so that their kids don't have to claim full Black American.
I know my roots too, they started right here in America, when the Africans ancestors where pulled off the boat and merged with others on this American soil. I may not know of the various tribes, but I'm proud all the same! God bless Africa and May God bless the diaspora! From coast to coast, I'm am proud.i know that
there is power within my veins from Various tribes. Also, Black Americans from every state have their own subcultures that has impacted America.
Its IGBO,
M Dot What's a black American?
As much as Africans want AA to embrace Africa and its culture they don’t treat us as Africans. They keep saying we are the same but don’t accept us at the same time. Which one is it?
There no difference except for how the cultures are a lil diff
Brooke Melton a little?
You can say that about every race
i had on my head phones so i could hear just fine i appreciate the topic and discussion presented. I'm alway trying to learn about Africa as a whole. This ruffled some feathers and sifted the wheat nice video!
+lona Bennette thank you! 💕
Cindyrella OG I think you all are very bias from what I have seen the African american majority they win African continent they won congratulations...I guess
I don’t like being called African American only because I don’t connect with African roots and I don’t have the same culture in a way. I like what the girl said as how we had to make our own culture cause we don’t completely follow African or white culture.
I love this conversation but there a few things that are contradicting. I don’t understand how we should identify as the same but it’s appropriation when Blacks wear clothing of African culture.
It’s not technically appropriation from Black people, it’s just the lack of knowing the background of the clothing is offensive not appropriation
Nye Core then you are appropriating American culture if you wear blue jeans
We have our own as HEBREW people! we don't need to wear THEIR cultural clothing!
Yahlisheba Mayyamin YehuwdaYahweh delusional
We are. All the negativity being said shows the CONSTANT ignorance. I had an African woman tell me that she didn’t approve of me being with her son, because I was African-American and the reason YOU listed... I asked his simple question, and she COULD NOT answer me: “If you feel that way, why don’t you teach me about my heritage then? You all were raised under our native culture, I WASNT and that’s not my fault- So why not teach... Instead of being a butt about it!?” Exactly. Because you are like many... You want to call something, that you yourself don’t wanna help to change... So you miss everyone else with it. African-American culture is our own that we had to adapt because we didn’t have that connection to our native being.
Fact: culture may be different we are all african
몽니 at least with a very brief writing, you have written some sense .🤣😎
Totally agree 💯
I appreciate everyone in this video. Watching you all made me very proud. To see people of my own color have a civilized conversation about such a very important topic in this way was very Educating. A conversation with structure, respect, where everyone didnt raise their voice nor talk over any one. Respectfully, everyone could bring their point over, explain their thoughts, accept differences, stick to the question and apart from the sound issue, a very constructive podcast. Please keep up educating and having more of this. We need this.
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Im African American and I love Africa, especially Ghana. I had so much fun in Accra. Beautiful country. Cant wait to go back.