Speaking for myself personally, I try to be more patient with black people than with anyone else. If there is an issue, I want to sit and discuss it because I feel like it’s a family issue. I know a lot of other black people feel similarly. Some of you have said as much. But like… when Africans are talking about legitimate issues they have with the problematic ways in which members of the diaspora engage with African cultures and they’re attacked, tone-policed, told they are anti-Black (which seems to mean ‘anti-narrow subset of black Americans’ now but ok…), basically told that their concerns don’t matter in comparison to black American pain (as if they were not at all affected by European imperialism either) so they can fuck off. I see all of that and that’s not family behaviour. That’s the playbook of white people getting called on their racism and privilege. The dynamics are obviously not the same but the behaviour is ripped straight from their textbook.

Oh my god, there are black Americans calling Africans anti-Black on my dash. WHY? What is wrong with you? KILL IT WITH FIRE.

liquornspice:

The middle child in me wants to find points of similarity. I want to learn about loss felt on the continent. What did colonization do? What did the Arab slave trade do? To be Black anywhere is to be anti-human. Loss of subjectivity and control of what’s OURS is something we share. I wanna hear more about loss from an African perspective. For ME, that’s the only way I can hold myself together in these conversations…

And it’s like, I don’t want to distract from this whole diaspora/continental African discussion on my dash bc that’s really important and it needs to happen but I’m so bored of this idea that one can only ever have one natl identity at a time. That just doesn’t work for me. And I’m also so bored of black Americans trying to tell me I’m not part of the group, when my family has been here just as long as theirs. What I mean to say is that being mixed with other stuff does not negate my black American-ness. I’m just really bored of black Americans trying to dictate blackness in every context ever. Get out of here, you have no right.

Tell me why some anon is in my ask box with ‘you aren’t black American.’

Bitch, gtfo. We been done discussed this! Black American. Black Brazilian. SIMULTANEOUSLY. This is not fucking rocket science.

eclecticspectrum:

antesdachuva:

eclecticspectrum:

antesdachuva:

This is honestly all about American entitlement. We think we have a right to everything but we don’t. This is so simple.

People think that their phenotype makes them entitled?

How can you say I respect the culture but you don’t listen to valid complaints and feelings? Which is why I said master has taught you well. I won’t tolerate that behavior from anybody white or black. 

I’m agreeing with you. I’ve always thought that the ways in which some people in the diaspora relate to Africa, cherry-picking from various cultures and homogenising the entire continent into one mass, it’s really problematic. But as a black American and black Brazilian, I didn’t feel it’s my place to say this, which is why I’m glad to see, cosmicyoruba, theveiledwarrior et al, saying these thing.

Too many people think that if they put on an ankh and a dashiki that they are respecting African peoples. If they stop using a relaxer suddenly they are just connected.

Those things are START. It doesn’t end at the clothing. People are still living and growing. Respect them. Respect their voices. Stop treating what belongs to them as little trinkets to satiate your feelings and curiosity. If folks can’t understand that they can go to hell.

(Source: queerhairyvag)

eclecticspectrum:

antesdachuva:

This is honestly all about American entitlement. We think we have a right to everything but we don’t. This is so simple.

People think that their phenotype makes them entitled?

How can you say I respect the culture but you don’t listen to valid complaints and feelings? Which is why I said master has taught you well. I won’t tolerate that behavior from anybody white or black. 

I’m agreeing with you. I’ve always thought that the ways in which some people in the diaspora relate to Africa, cherry-picking from various cultures and homogenising the entire continent into one mass, it’s really problematic. But as a black American and black Brazilian, I didn’t feel it’s my place to say this, which is why I’m glad to see, cosmicyoruba, theveiledwarrior et al, saying these thing.

(Source: queerhairyvag)

daniellemertina:

queerhairyvag:

There is heat in the kitchen because everyone is used to hearing the perspectives of blackness and origin from Black Americans and Carribeans and no one asked for Black Africans’ perspective on it.

Man, the stereotype of Africans being ignorant and desperate for westerners to speak for them is not a lie.  

This stereotype is what I fight against in real life.

I would rather white people weren’t involved in this debate.  This is between black people. 

That’s literally it. Black Americans are used to dominating the discussion on *everything* to do with blackness. I guess it’s that American sense of entitlement that even white Americans have but specified within the black community.

I mean people are talking about their “feelings” right now

when I thought it was well established on tumblr that feelings/ intent < impact

but that all goes out the window when it behooves black Americans and it’s embarrassing as a black American to watch this.

This is honestly all about American entitlement. We think we have a right to everything but we don’t. This is so simple.

18brumaire:

you know how kreayshawn has that stupid ‘white girl mob’, i think sami has designated me, ethan and ian ‘british boy mob’

OH GOD

PERFECT