We are not all the same. Just because we are black doesn't mean we are the same. I am a Black American and I'm dating a Haitian. He speaks Creole, English, and French. He was born in Haiti and he came to America when he was a kid. Our culture is different. We may be the same race but we have cultural differences. People don't understand race, ethnicity, and nationality. My man is black but he is not a Black American. He is a Haitian American.
food forthought1 lol right??? As far as you have a darker complexion you are African or have some time of African ancestry in you and that’s that 🙅🏾♀️🙅🏾♀️....... I want to go back to the time when everything was simple 😂😂all I knew was blacks, white and Asians and that was it!!! Things are just so complicated nowadays 😩😩
But those things only have something to do with where your from not your dna... This is why blacks can't unite because we think were better based on where were from
Elle D girl keep calm, ain't no Africans or carribean tryna take your reparations away from you. Did you see or hear anything about reparations in the video? Stop being defensive for nothing.
Those Africans don’t need to say they are African Americans they can pinpoint a specific country. African American by genetics ancestry are mixed with multiple African ethnic groups.
Elle D my DNA results showed 20% European the rest African but I still consider myself black it would be stupid to consider myself mixed just because of a small percentage of European DNA.
That's because they're mixed. There is no such thing as a non mixed light skin person. That's just something blacks have been saying to try to reconcile with the fact that many of the public figures they live vicariously through are in fact mixed, and not black. For example, BEYONCE.
N.W.A. Then you haven’t been to any part of Africa before 😂🤷🏾♀️🙅🏾♀️of course they aren’t light skinned like mixed people .... fair colored Africans have a complexions like that of Chinese people “yellow”..... eg most Somalian’s are of a lighter complexion but they are Africans......There’s a difference between Africans and African-Americans
oRuTRa45 My mom is Ghanaian.... Ashanti to be precise and she is light skinned, there are lots of light-skinned women in Africa who aren’t mixed by any means they are full on Africans .... I don’t know why people find it hard to believe
Black To Grace exactly light-skinned Africans aren’t mixed and their complexion doesn’t resemble like that of mixed people..... their skin tone is more on the yellowish side like some Chinese complexions
[from a black man] Weall under the umbrella of Black, but it breaks down further... African American, Afro Caribbean, Nigerian, Ghanaian, etc. The difference between us vs other ethnicities is globally we are discriminated on because of our African/Black ethnicity.
Our people are the Yahudeans aka copper colored Jews who ruled from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. And ruled all of Europe until 1350....
@Ashan /JUDAH De Leon but when they speak of themselves all of them arent European. Theyre irish, English, Spanish.....they use this subversiveness to not tell the truth. They are hypocrites to the highest degree and YhUh has already ordained he is going to punish the wicked Gentiles. They gave use a simultude of scripture..the grimiore called the bible. Extracted YhUhs name and title and inserted Gods to cause our people to continue to break his command. Thou shalt not worship no other deity but your ELohym. Gods of the bible and their names Amen a god is in the grimoire aka bible, cuz its not scripture! Who else? Oh Sophiyah Mariyahm Lucifer, the Queen of heaven and God here on earth. Oh y'all thought Satan was a he, even though it states she is the most beautiful angel YhUh ever created? Lol! Know the christians got it very wrong, as per their elders, the greeks and catholics/Latin. Let's see Lord Ba'al, aka BeliEL, belief and/or Be'elzubub the king of the demons aka the tricksters..definitely fits with beLIEf and beLIEvers cuz they get tricked everytime they go see white jesus the god...who else is in the grimoire aka bible? Cuz its not scripture, it's a mis-spell book! Oh yes one of my favorite spells has Yah causing chaos and destruction on those who call him this way..Jahovah..Ya' hovah..look it up! Hovah in hebrew means chaos nd destruction! Jesus son of Jehovah or Yhuhshua son of YhUh John 5:43 (KJV) I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. Soooo, whats Fathers name? And if one comes in his Fathers name, wouldn't that signify a jr.?
It's the same as any other race. But the u.s. uses classification as a tool. That's why I get mad at the term African American. All "Black" people are not from Africa.
@@Quamperfectum Listen. The continent that is now called Africa is FOR AFRICANS. I am well aware of tribes and territories that were stolen because of the Berlin Conference but until that continent is back in full ownership of us so we can rename it It will be African and we are Africans and I am Black. Save your damn semantics
Gabriel Armsted You can call YOURSELF whatever tf you want. If you AA then what country you from in Africa? All people on that continent aren’t all the same. Don’t let the white man confuse you... to late. Edit: With your perspective the white girl is African. Her family lives in Africa so she African. Right? There’s a difference between Ethnicity and Race.
It’s not even an ethnicity it’s an area that people use an identity. My ethnicity is the Caribbean country I come from. Lol but I was taken back with that one. Just like when someone say I’m Puerto Rican and Black. what does that mean?
@6:11 it’s ironic that the term “African American” was created for American descendants of African slaves but now we aren’t “African” enough for the category. Most immigrants or first generation Africans still have a connection to their nation or country so it would make sense for them to identify as “Nigerian American” for example.
Exactly . They need to say we are the foundational Black African Americans or foundational Afro Americans , who nowadays go by Black American. We set the trend and designation for so many people.
Ive explained this 1000 times on twitter with ppl from the motherland they don't know the difference, africa is a continent not a country! Where in africa are you from?
That's what I'm saying cause there's a huge difference and alot of us arent even educated on our African roots so it's not even fair for us to be considered African Americans and I'm not sure if you've noticed but allot of African people don't look at African Americans as African we're just black to them
@@esedontworryabouttherest7482 Exactly! I mean I get that our ancestors are from Africa but I know almost nothing about Africa. White people who have ancestry from Europe but and born and raised in America are still considered Amercians (that's it) not European Americans. They never wanted us to feel like real Americans
@@brijaythesinger yess that's exactly right I agree alot if us have white or native we're kind of our own thing you're right that's our ancestors but even looking at our different features we look different it's crazy
Watching this from the UK, Americans really don't understand the concept of "ethnicity". In the UK majority of Africans are immigrants so most blacks identity with the country their parents originate from.
I'm from "the other side of the pond". Never been to the UK, but I understand so-called Black Brits to be in two distinct groups, so to speak: Afro-Caribbeans, descendants of formerly enslaved people from the former British colonies in the Caribbean/West Indies; and African Brits, usually from former British colonies (e.g. Nigeria) and other countries, and they identify with country of origin, much like Africans here in the US. As far as I can tell, Africans are more recent immigrants to the UK than Afro-Caribbeans. Am I correct in any of this?
How can you connect with something that’s not there. Descendants of American Slavery only have American slavery to connect to. There is no “ethnicity” to connect to. That part of our history was erased in the enslavement process.
From an American perspective, african American/black American. We are an ethnic group. It’s just that we use race and ethnicity interchangeably with Black. Growing up I never heard things like, “in our culture” more like “in our black community or in black households/families” to describe shared habits and etc.
I am BLACK. I have never been to Africa. I am tired of labels. It changes occurring to whatever somebody “ELSE” says I am. So I will just categorize myself.
Well, since the term "African American" has officially been hijacked by others who do not even consider themselves "black", I think that we American born decendants if slaves should call ourselves FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS OR ADOS, PERIOD! We are a special people with a unique history.❤
Yes we all seemed to have missed something. It turns out that the decendants of the Trans Atlantic slave trade experiencing various forms of racism and mistreatment in this Nation since its formation have a direct and critical relation to the Bible. The entire existence and detailed experience of servitude and racism was already documented more than 3,000 years ago. This low state and mistreatment was a foretold Judgement for not keeping the Laws of their God. Leviticus 17:26 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: 👉🏽THEY THAT HATE YOU SHALL REIGN OVER YOU”👈🏽; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. What this Nation and its institutions have Never done, was to truthfully tell these people who they truly are. Are they Negro or Colored? Are they Black or Afro-American. maybe we'll just settle on African-American. No other people on the planet have changed Nationalities from one generation to the next. An important fact is that These people were not and ARE NOT AFRICANS, as supremest doctrine teaches. Facts is Africans did not sell Africans. The history of these people does not begin with chains, cotton fields and Slave ships. Truth is the decendants of the slave trade in this country and through out the Western Hemisphere are indeed the children of Israel The only 👉🏽”SOLUTION”👈🏽 that will address any change for this people's will be when they awake to who they are and return to their God. The God of Israel Awake from your graves, you Children of the Captivity, and hear your ancient speak. Isaiah 51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God Zephaniah 2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O NATION NOT DESIRED; Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. We are NOT African-American. The South African Caucasian now living in America is an AFRICAN-AMERICAN. HERE IS BOTH OUR PROBLEM & SOLUTION: Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into EGYPT AGAIN WITH SHIPS,by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and THERE YE SHALL BE SOLD TO YOUR ENEMIES FOR BONDMEN AND BONDWOMEN, and no man shall buy you. HERE IS OUR SOLUTION: 1 Kings 8:47- Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither THEY WERE CARRIED CAPTIVES , AND REPENT and make supplication unto thee IN THE LAND OF THEM THAT CARRIED THEM CAPTIVES, saying, WE HAVE SINNED and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, IN THE LAND OF THEIR...."ENEMIES"....,, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:49Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, Zephaniah 11:4-5 4Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;5 WHOSE POSSESSORS SLAY THEM, AND HOLD THEMSELVES NOT GUILTY: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
This clip shows the importance of #ADOS. We are a unique group of Americans whose ancestors built this nation. We’ve been here since before America was even America #1619. We’ve fought in every war to secure her honor. ADOS are arguably the MOST American group in this great nation. #ADOS #LineageMatters
Lysa Jordan the second girl who of course is Nigerian said African Americans (ADOS) are technically not African but I bet she will be the first one crying saying how ADOS don’t except her. YOU just said we aren’t African like you, so don’t come to OUR country expecting open arms
The same could be said of Mexican Americans who have been here since the beggening of Statehood of Texas & New mexico . Our Ancestors are Native & Spainard and fought all Wars as well . Alot went against Mexico in the fight for freedom after it won the land back from Spain . African Americans are responsible for the south and Mexican Americans the West across to southern Texas .
It's shows the ignorance of our people, they are attending Penn State and don't even know their own nationality, all that studying and never coming to the knowledge of the truth.
Mixed race are not light skin they are mixed. ... Being biracial means that you have two parents of a different race. Being multiracial means you are mixed with more than 2 races. Light skinned means both parents are black but your skin tone is light.❤️❤️
@JIQUAN TURNER yes there is lol dont act like they dont exist. Everyone does t fit into a bubble and shouldnt be forced to claim one race when they arent
That guy that “had the darkest complexion”, I actually thought he was African American. He didn’t look “African“ to me. Maybe by non-black people the difference would be something as simple as the complexion as an identifier, but it’s really not.
5:54 No- We ARE African (by decent) American, YOU are NIGERIAN American. The difference is that YOU have a home country to identify with - our true roots were washed away during the middle passage. *You now have permission to check the ☒ Other box. We can't divorce our roots from our identity.
Saying someone is African-American is the same as saying someone is Afro-latino, Afro-Jamaican, etc. People hear the word "African" added and go up in arms. I'm African-American because that is my ancestry, literally. It's that simple. My lineage goes back to at least the 1700s in the US. Also if African-Americans aren't Africans then neither are white South Africans, since Afrikaan is basically Dutch creole and historically they separated themselves from Africans and still do to varies levels.
My mom is African-American and my dad is Gambian. I identify usually as “Gambian-American”. That’s the label people around me has given to me since birth. Some people don’t understand that I am NOT “mixed” ...I just have two different “ethnic backgrounds”, but I’m STILL BLACK!!
Why do people with one non black American parent always seem to dismiss their BA parent. Like Jackie Aina is both Nigerian and black American but she only identifies as Nigerian American. It comes off like you guys are ashamed.
Kay Dreams ...... you clearly don’t understand what I just said, but I’m not going to argue with you. Everyone interprets things different. I CLEARLY said “TWO ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS” 🙄
@@TewasaSonko I saw that but you also said that you usually say you are Gambian American. Not accusing you but haven't you noticed that? It doesn't matter if they were born in Africa or the Caribbeans. I met a girl from Ghana with one black American parent who only saw herself as Ghanian which at least made more sense but people who have never even been outside of the U.S. will mostly identify as Jamaican or Trini, Nigerian etc.
@@kaydreams6051 It COULD be a cultural thing. In Africa, children who are a product of parents from two different ethnic groups/tribes tend to take their paternal identity. That's the norm. I am guessing the same thing is a factor with the fella who posted the original comment!
@@swahiliwithdavid5910 It's not just Africans. Like if one parent is Jamaican they'll only identify as that. Not all but it's super common and they even go as far as acting like they relate to black Americans while living right in America. It can be a female child with a black American mom and she will act like she can't relate to black American women. As if she never met one. It comes off like every culture holds more weight. But it's also because although every body copies black American music or just enjoys it here its looked down upon to be black American.
I don't know anything, but I think the girls with Nigerian parents should call themselves Nigerian Americans. In the US, the word "African Americans" are for black people whose ancestors are from Africa but they can't pinpoint the exact place due to slavery. It gets realy confusing cos its "black or African Americans" that is currently officially recognized in the U.S.
@D Long I realised years ago that no-one gives a F@ck about the differences between Ijaws and igbos to the yoruba and hausa Nigerians we were all igbo even though we have nothing in common except large christian population and close proximity in the same vein Ghana and Nigeria has nothing in common except British colonisation but yet to all of Africa we are all Nigerians, why does this matter? No-one gives a f@ck not the Europeans, not the Asians about the ADOS or Nigerian American or Nigerian Nigerian or whether you call yourself black or African all that s#!+ only matters to you. To everybody else you are a Black man no matter what you address yourself as and you know what? They are right.
A lot of people are talking about this and I just need some clarification. What's wrong with specifying if he's from East or West India? No it wasn't necessary, but why does that make it wrong?
@@KayGee_yt It's simple... West Indian isn't a race, therefore west indian + black does not make a person biracial. In fact many West Indian are black in and of themselves.
@Derek Chauvin she's not tho, im west indian, majority of us are black, west indian and caribbean/antilles for the islands only are the same thing, so if your parent is black from the islands and other parents is black from american, than you are black therefore not racially mixed
@Derek Chauvin listen, every afro descendant have other ancestries. Caribbean people are not 100% black, Afro American are not 100% black Black is a phenotype and a race, if you look black then you are black, bc race is based on how people see you. West indian and black doesnt exist as a mix, bc that's literally black caribbean and black american lmao. If both are black, biraciality doesnt apply
All those Africans are identifying themselves as African American and the Nigerian female says that the African Americans shouldn't be African American because they are not African. They all enrolled as African Americans.
The Nigerian female said that because many continental Africans regard Black Americans as not being pure because we are mixed with something else. It was a slip up
This professor is making the case for #ADOS and why linage is important and why FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS need ppl speaking for us in govt not African or Caribbean immigrants or their children.
Mr Colemore I disagree. I stopped saying African American in college because a white college professor of mine told me that his children were able to apply for the same scholarships as me because he (and them) were from South Africa and were also “African American”. Even though the scholarships were supposed to be for black Americans, because of the African American designation, they also qualified.
Wet Don They force us to use Black as our ethnicity but I’ve been choosing Native American for years now. The military gave me a hard time when I switched my ethnicity. My argument was I didn’t have to prove I’m AA but you expect me to prove I’m NA. Eventually my records reflected NA.
I'm a Haitian descendant and have never tried to pretend to be African American because I respect African Americans and know their culture is not the same as mines. I never want to pretend to be something that I am not. African Americans are a strong spiritual people. I hope you guys understand that God is an essential part of your identity and survival in America.
African-Americans have American culture and not African. I can guarantee you that not one single "African American", can say with certainty which country his ancestor came from. Secondly, I can also guarantee you that not one single "African American", has never been to Africa and if offered the chance to live there, would not, simply because life is so easy in the USA. Furthermore, of the 4.4 million black people at the time of the offer to go to Liberia to retrace their roots and live, only 0.37% of the black population or 16,000 chose to leave the USA. That tells you all you need to know.
I was in Africa. The only way I knew that the people there were African is that I was in Africa. The only way they knew I was American is when I spoke. Sudan is a different story. But the color spectrum is the same in most African countries as in the Americas.
Because she is American. I think his objective is to see if others blacks “claim” African-American for social status or if they can pass as us... I’m a black American btw.
American born descendants of slaves must be a protected and acknowledged class of ppl who actually stand apart from these non American Blacks who’s parents choose to have them in US soil yet their lineage is not who built this country with free labor bearing the mark of US Slavery
Yeah... I agree. But you must understand that only 5% of Africans actually came to the States. 95% were sent to the Caribbean and Brazil. The 5 and 95 were transported back and forth for centuries for "training", dehumanization, and to keep families apart. From a slave brought to the States, their descendants could have been born, raised and forced to work all over the Americas. Many of "foreign born slaves" fought beside those born in the States. I'm Haitian and consider myself an ADOS. The Americas includes the north, central, and South.
Kim All Naturelle You night consider yourself ADOS but unless your lineage was forced here n forced to give free labor to America n denied rights and benefits then you’re not ADOS or Foundational Blacks even tho you’re born here.
@@purpledynasty6343 Hello. You should use the term United States to specify which country. Many people in central and south America also consider themselves American.
To be an immigrant (second generation) and come to our country and claim our ethnicity but tell us we really shouldn't be going by it is problematic and very telling...
I've always found it strange when a black person says they're African american. But they're not FROM africa. Their ancestors are, of course. My ancestors are from Europe. Ireland and Germany. But I dont claim to be german american, or Irish american, or even European american. I was born in america, so I'm american. That's basically the standard for white people. So why do black people say they're African american if they've never been to africa and weren't born there?
@@wetdon591 and the only way I know where my ancestors are from was from asking my older relatives where their parents and grandparents etc etc...are from. Eventually, I got an answer. Makes sense after doing research. Black people can easily learn their heritage too. Just takes some time and research.
Tan T I have also discovered in my international travels that many people don’t think I’m American because associate Americans with being white. I have had to tell people yes in fact I, my parents and grandparents are all US born. I think it’s because that is mainly who they see in movies and tv.
I'm cringing. With all due respect but please why give the white kid the mic to decipher where black people are from when most of the time they disregard the North, East, South and West of Africa. And don't further try to explain being Afro-Latina/Latino...that would just whiplash the heck out of them. They only know the minimal factor of Africa being a continent.....if that. They don't know how to differentiate between hair types, hues, features, bone structures, groups; Nigerian for example are three. Plus, I'm Black. I don't have any direct lineage to Africa nor would my DNA place me distinctively to one group. So I'm Black American. I've been asked if I'm East African; Ethiopian, Eritrean or Somalian and few in between Afro-Latina. Other than that Black. I guess it's a start but just have a map handy so that you can zoom in and point out what is missed. The kid is blissfully ignorant because he just simply does not know. He knows nothing more than a shade of a crayon however, that's also where he's wilfully ignorant because he's probably never made the effort.
Aou are a African my dear. Your parents came from Africa. How they got to America does not change their root. How I wish every African in America root be traced someday.
For me I see it as African-American means you and some of your immediate family members (6+ generations down the line) are born in the USA but you have African heritage. Your earlier grandparents are from a specific African country, no other island or continent. You don’t really carry any culture from Africa because the most recent generations are American born. If you are Nigerian or Ghanaian I would identify as African, that’s it. Your parents and grandparents bloodline, no America mixed into it until you (first generation American) conceive a child in America, then the child is Nigerian-American if the parents or grandparents are from Nigeria. It sounds complex, but blacks are unique humans. However if you and your immediate family are from the Caribbean you are westindian/Afro-Carribean..American. For me my mother is Jamaican (West Indian/Caribbean) and my Father is Guyanese (Caribbean) their Caribbean blood line is over 5 generations (I’m first generation American born, so I’m Afro-Caribbean American. Technically we all date back to Africa, the entire existence of Man does. However where my bloodline runs the strongest it is from the Caribbean islands verses the continent of Africa. But do I still come from Black African descendants?? OF COURSE!!! 😇
Dajia Star my early grandparents are still from the US..but we’re slaves..I traced back my ancestry and I have to go extremely far back.. like the slave trade back to find Africans
Point blank and period. My ancestors on both sides are from the US. That’s all i need to know. We have a new ethnicity and culture the same way Carribeans have a new culture they created. You explained it perfectly.
Thank you. African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans)[4] are an ethnic groupof Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.[5][6] The term typically refers to descendants of enslaved black people who are from the United States. African Americans constitute the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States (after White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans).[10]Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved peoples within the boundaries of the present United States.[11][12] On average, African Americans are of West/Central African and European descent, and some also have Native American ancestry.[13]According to U.S. Census Bureau data, African immigrants generally do not self-identify as African American. The overwhelming majority of African immigrants identify instead with their own respective ethnicities (≈95%).[14] Immigrants from some Caribbean, Central American and South Americannations and their descendants may or may not also self-identify with the term.[9] African-American history starts in the 16th century, with peoples from West Africa forcibly taken as slaves to Spanish America, and in the 17th century with West African slaves taken to English colonies in North America. After the founding of the United States, black people continued to be enslaved, and the last four million black slaves were only liberatedafter the Civil War in 1865.[15] Due to notions of white supremacy, they were treated as second-class citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U.S. citizenship to whites only, and only white men of property could vote.[16][17] These circumstances were changed by Reconstruction, development of the black community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United States, the elimination of racial segregation, and the civil rights movement which sought political and social freedom. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
This is why I'm glad I'm from New York City. We understand Black, Caribbean, African and even Afro Latino. That doesn't mean we get along, but at least we know who each other is. My friend from grade school is Puerto Rican, he pledged Omega at a New York college. My roommates in D.C where Que's when they saw a picture of my friend, they wanted to know who the white boy was. I told then he was Puerto Rican they looked at me like I had three heads. I explained Puerto Rico is a island in the Caribbean. They yelled at me "he ain't Jamaican!!!" I said no he's Puerto Rican, long story short they had no idea what I was talking about because in Ohio and Kansas their where no Puerto Ricans. Sad we don't know basic geography.
America has a weird way of grouping people together. White Americans from Portugal to Russia to Turkey when they come to America Identify as just Americans. On the other hand people of African decent have to identify with their skin color or country of origin 🤔
I’m American. I think all three groups are diverse looking but we are all subject to stereotypes. A lot of people assume I’m from a Spanish country in either the Caribbean or Central America. I have to tell people I’m not Hispanic while this girl is arguing that she is.
We have to stop this casual disrespect of African Americans, they define themselves of African American so that's what they are. No one group of black people owns the identity - if you're black you are African and can legitimately identify as such. You're standing on American soil benefitting from a struggle so many African Americans died for and you feel like it's ok to be this condescending?
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They need to update terms. "Black" and "White" are their own cultures in the U.S. now... long standing. African-American should refer to recently immigrated families, just like European-Americans does. I don't know what to tell Asians and Hispanics/Latinos though...different history.
@@quirkyt_T I agree with 99% of what you said, but the culture of "descendents from multiple countries in Africa" who have been here in the U.S. for generations is completely unique. Taking that beautiful and intricate culture and simplifying it to culture of "Stolen Americans" just doesn't sound right. That's why I appreciate the term "Black" and "Blackness." It's developed a very powerful meaning in the U.S. over generations of claiming it. I'm down for a title switch, but a "Stolen American" is not what my mother, and her mother, and her mother and her mother were. I am no longer a stolen person... misplaced at times, but not stolen. I get what you are saying though.
African American are those of African descent from the lines of slavery in America. African-American are those of African descent who were born in Africa and migrated to America as well as their children and so forth.
The thing is Non Black and White people in the US are mostly "recent immigrants" whereas black and white people can be differentiated by colonial era and post colonial era (decolonization/last century) immigrants. (I know slavs don't count as immigrants but you get the point)
@@mandyads Who are you to say what we Foundational blacks should be called ? We were called African American because we DESCENT from Africa wether we or Africans like it or not. At the time the term was coined the black immigrant population was small asf.
@@JM-vr6ii , first of all, stfu! Secondly, it's "you're", not your. Lastly, you are no one to talk to me about MY ancestors, you should focus on your own people, watch Sabido Gigante or something.
People like to get on Black Americans for identifying as American or not “knowing where we are from” but so do White Americans. White Americans are all immigrants. They don’t go around saying I’m Irish or Italian when they have been removed for several generations too. Asking my white friends where are their ancestors from and they answer “idk” just like Black Americans so Black Americans don’t have to be pressed to get ancestry tests done. Nigerians need to identify as Nigerian American not African American because that term has been used already. No need to add more confusion to an already complex thing. If you have African Parents you had a totally different experience than my two very proud American parents.
Afro-Latinos are still routinely left out of the Diaspora conversation more often than not by folks from inside and outside of the Diaspora alike. I attribute that mostly to whoever colonized us. There unfortunately language and cultural barriers that separate that aren't even our fault. I think the gap will continue to close the more visible and vocal Afro-Latinos become.
@@banana8hannah650 I believe the poster was referring specifically to the Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands, since when people talk about the Caribbean, they rarely include them.
They don't want to replace nobody. Because they are black in America they either with us or against us so they choose to be with black Americans. Look at new york almost everybody there are West Indian or African .Many are 1st generation 2 generation and are born in Bronx or Queens and that is all they know, some have never been in their parents home countries so they're all see them self as African Americans
African American is a term ALREADY established for those who can't trace to a specific African country. Its not up first grabs. It can not be taken by Johnny come latelys...they can identify by the nation their parents are from. Glad people are questioning lineage now.
No African has the power to tell An African American that they are not African. I will say it again I do not Care how long your family has been in Africa. Y'all don't have the power to literally change a people's race. Their African identity is written all on their skin and trapped in their hair. We truly are a unique group of people that are easily identifiable
Most "african Americans" are actually not african descendants....we have only been african American since 1988.....smh they paper genocided us...our racial status has been changed more times then any other race....covert oppression
One thing that pisses me off is when people thinl Africans are dark. Im from Kenya and yes im dark skin. But im dark skin cause my family is dark skin. My childhood best friend is literally light skin. Like she looks mixed. This stereotype actually annoys me
@@ivieta9634 Most people i know from Kenya are actually lighter than me. And it also depends which country someone is from. So dark skin in Africa is not common knowledge.
It is common knowledge. Just because you’re not educated about this doesn’t mean that it isn’t common knowledge. Also, most Kenyans are very dark in skin tone (regardless of the Kenyans you may know) it’s just a fact. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Wtf was this? When I went to Nigeria the people assumed I was Nigerian.... I don’t get the point. It’s not about being “born” somewhere because the people from elsewhere can still add “American” at the end of what they are.... There’s no country of black.... So why just say “black American?” I’m African American period.
im tryna figure out tht professor's point but what i got from the video is the the african diaspora can not be defined. doesnt matter where you from or what you look like. so i would appreciate us coming together cause we got bigger issues to deal w.
Black comes in many shapes,sizes,frequencies, and cultures….not all black is the same black and minimizing an entire group of people into one word like “black” is stupid and ignorant. Stop denying culture.
@@YoungEli9 Well said- how are you going to ignore someone's culture/ethnicity and tell them 'you're just Black'- it's like a humbling technique borne out of insecurity.
All of them except the South African young lady are all Africans by heritage and Africa Americans by ethnicity within America. They are America by nationality. Being African American is ethnicity within the race groups in America,not nationalities. Every one except the Caucasian lady are Africans. While the South African is European, not African. South African by nationality, European by race. Ghanaian American or Nigerian America is reflection of dual nationalities,not ethnicities.
African Americans or blacks that ancestors went through slavery in North America are Hebrews from the tribe of Judah. The other of the 12 tribes are distributed across the globe and are black. We are still related.
What are they teaching people these days - all my life black people whether dark or light skinned or albino were called Negroids. White people whether American or European were Caucasians, then Asians - Mongoloids but can't remember the other one. Since then people just say whatever. In Nigeria there are so many ethnic groups - my grandmum refused to identify as igbo because she spoke a completely different language from the delta waterside of Bayelsa but people constantly class her as Igbo. Some Igbo refused to be called Nigeriansand say they are from Biafra. We humans constantly fight for things not important. What is important is food, shelter and good health and peace of mind. You get nowhere bickering about where you are from. Before humans multiplied you just pitch a tent or sleep under the stars or cave. Since borders have been drawn and passports issued we fight. People trying to conquer each other and kill one another for things no one will ever carry to the grave. When you die you become part of the earth and you are soon forgotten. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I was born in America and I am a descendant of former slaves of THIS COUNTRY. (for clarification). But I am of African Descent in America. WE ALL ARE. And i dont need some weird professor to explain that shit to me. Period
When the boat left the African continent,which by the way was blessed by the Catholic Church they were only captives from the all around the African continent. They wasn’t discriminating no one, now to devide them they trying to highlight there differences, people always falling for it...
This is how they confuse and pit us against each other... a lot of us are the same people. Especially those who are descendants of slaves. They scattered us everywhere they could literally be standing on the stage with their direct family... you don’t know!!!
Most black people can tell different groups of black people apart, but in this case we can’t because everyone up there has West African roots(similar backgrounds) many slaves came from Nigeria and Ghana that was sent to the USA and the Caribbean.
Deuteronomy 28:37 [37]And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. Psalms 44:14-15 [14]Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. [15]My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
African-Americans are Americans(born ) of African(heritage) decent. If you know specifically where in Africa you are born, it would make sense to call your self Nigerian(heritage)-American(born), Kenyan(heritage)-American(born), etc.. I think what makes the difference in all this is PRIDE..Pride in one’s home country so much to not accept where you were actually born(the place where you are born) and the people who’s shoulders you stand on for you to be to go to school, work, and have success in America. On another note, I am proud to be an American of African decent. I am proud of where my parents are from(South Carolina). I am proud of my family who are and have done amazing things personally and professionally. I am proud of the millions of africans who survived the middle passage, slavery, civil rights, etc. Who created jazz, hip-hop, etc...Slavery is apart of the story but it is not my origin. If it were not for those slaves, no one besides white people would be able to thrive here in America because the work that was put in....
Trinidadians are very a diverse people and gets confusing as hell. Our population is mainly people of Indian and Africans decent. I am Trini Indian and Trini Afro-Venezuelan mixed. I identify as a mixed race person, but look very indian. I am American, my parents from Trinidad so when I used to say I am black people would say but you look indian! But my mom is considered black to most Americans even though she is a light-skinned afro-latina. So I dunno...I just say mixed so I don't offend or confuse people.
The African American term is used to identify blacks as decendents Africans who were enslaved and we are those decendents. Africans who come here typically don't consider themselves that however, there children do consider themselves African American 🤔 😳. They are not decendents of enslaved Africans that were brought to the U.S. so Im confused 😕..
I guess that's what happens when we are soo focused on labels, when there is something that doesn't have a box we try to fit in an already made one that doesn't describe us. I can understand that girl's thought process tho. My sister was born in America, so she is a citizen but our parents have West Indian culture and nationalities, so I could understand she calling herself "West Indian-American" or "Caribbean-American", just like the girl who is a citizen of America but that is not where her parents are from
But the guy with the dark skin is Afro-Caribbean. From the Islands he is made up from his ancestry is African decent. In the same way the white lady is European by way of South African which was colonized by the Dutch. The lady who claims African-American but has 2 Caribbean mixed parents; one Afro and White the other Indian and Afro would be considered mixed in the Caribbean but systemically black, therefore Afro-Caribbean. Ultimately race is a social construct. The lecturer is merging his argument; either it is a conversation regarding your nationality, or ethnicity. Interesting topic, but poor execution resulting in mixed messaging.
This professor is so cringy. How is he getting paid for this bull 😡? Race, nationality and ethnicity are really not that difficult to understand. Why do people make things more complicated than it needs to be?
People of African genetic ancestry are not monolithic in their ideology, culture, politics, and values. Despite what the popular media erroneously presents, the black diaspora is not defined by stereotypes or the African American experience. With all due respect to African Americans, they are not the ambassadors for all the world's black people. Racism -- Fact, Race -- Fiction Please join me in my struggle to dismantle the paradigm and remove the word “race” from our vernacular. In some European countries, “race” is a non-existent category, and even saying or using the word “race” or racial statistics is offensive and racist, due to the term’s association with Nazi Germany. Do you remember the Nuremberg Laws of 1935? These laws embodied many of the racial theories underpinning Nazi ideology. If you must label or describe a person, use the word “phenotype”, not race. Phenotype refers to a person’s observable physical characteristics or appearance. Alternatively, using the phrase “genetic ancestry” acknowledges DNA or overwhelming scientific (anthropological, archaeological, genetic) evidence. Phenotype: human variation, observable physical characteristics, truth, physical traits, outward appearance, genetic skin colour, hue, pigment, shape of nose, shape of lips, height, hair texture, facial details, shape of eyes Race: scientific racism, fallacy, arbitrary, substitute for science, archaic mindset, harmful, surrogate for biology, lie, non-existent, fiction, illusion, erroneous, unscientific, social construct, political construct, oppressive, divisive, inaccurate, biased, justifies slavery, upholds discrimination, legitimizes segregation, validates supremacy, reinforces stereotypes, human invention, Hitler’s goal, eugenic fantasy, myth, false reality, arbitrary, upholds the bastion of privilege, cancer, mental illness, obsessive-compulsive disorder, harmful, denies and contradicts equality, science fiction, manmade, delusion, medieval, detriment, exclusivity, used as a proxy for inequality and oppression In 1950, UNESCO issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that "race" is not a biological reality but a myth. Substantial research from anthropologists, biologists, geneticists, and other scientists have proven over and over that there is no such thing as human biological races. Some Resources in Support of Race Being a Myth Is Race Science Making a Comeback? Superior: The Return of Race Science - by Angela Saini Ms. Saini discusses a general, scientific analysis of historical racism. Alternatively, you might want to listen to an NPR podcast related to the same topic. www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/07/10/416496218/is-race-science-making-a-comeback Everyone is African -How Science Explodes the Myth of Race by Daniel Fairbanks The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert W. Sussman (Harvard University Press) Race - The Power of an Illusion at PBS.org Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color, by Nina G. Jablonski (she also does a Ted Talk) www.ted.com/talks/nina_jablonski_breaks_the_illusion_of_skin_color Ted Talk by Dr. Dorothy Roberts: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine www.ted.com/talks/dorothy_roberts_the_problem_with_race_based_medicine Angélica Dass's photography challenges how we think about skin colour and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her pursuit to document humanity's true colours rather than the untrue white, red, black and yellow associated with race. www.ted.com/talks/angelica_dass_the_beauty_of_human_skin_in_every_color A study of diverse African groups by geneticists has identified new genetic variants associated with skin pigmentation. The findings help explain the vast range of skin colour on the African continent, shed light on human evolution and inform an understanding of the genetic risk factors for conditions such as skin cancer. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012143324.htm There is no such thing as the 'white race' - or any other race, says historian www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-september-17-2017-1.4291332/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-white-race-or-any-other-race-says-historian-1.4291372 Race Is Real, but not in the way Many People Think Busting the myth of biological race www.psychologytoday.com/blog/busting-myths-about-human-nature/201204/race-is-real-not-in-the-way-many-people-think Working Toward Whiteness - How America’s Immigrants became White - David R. Roediger Working Toward Whiteness is about the Southern and Eastern European migration that brought 13 million people to the United States between 1886 and 1925 - and how this population, which definitely arrived as “non-White,” became White within the span of few decades. I Am NOT Black, You Are Not White ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q0qD2K2RWkc.html In this video, spoken word artist Prince Ea challenges us to ask ourselves the question, “Who would you be if the world never gave you a label?” www.huffingtonpost.ca/amitha-kalaichandran/race-based-medicine_b_9219784.html "Race medicine promotes the false belief not only that human beings are naturally divided into races but also that racial inequality is caused by innate racial differences we must accept rather than social inequities we must change. Race is not a biological category that produces health disparities because of genetic differences, but racism has negative biological effects on people's bodies." www.ted.com/talks/dorothy_roberts_the_problem_with_race_based_medicine/discussion?sid=QtTD55 The Problem with Race-Based Medicine soundcloud.com/royal-institution/what-science-tells-us-about-race-and-racism An evidence-based discussion of the controversial topic of race, as science sees it. "It would seem better to define everyone as simply human beings, not with non-scientific or socially-constructed labels of superiority and inferiority, and accord them rights, duties and freedoms based solely upon their existence, rather than upon their state of pigmentation, genetic makeup, or presumed continental origin of their ancestors." (Author Unknown)
