Side Effects of Diaspora Wars with Christina Brown | Small Doses Podcast 

This collab could be a regular thing. Y'all are the same speed, brilliant and funny. This episode was a close second to Dr. Raquel. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Watching this feels like I’m back in college, sitting in the cafe having this convo with classmates.

As an African American l got to say not everyone in the diaspora is at war. Some of us actually get along because we want to. I have never used being African American to belittle anyone within or outside the black diaspora and l am always disappointed when l meet black people who do no matter what their culture is. Some people struggle with this mindset because they want to feel superior over other black people within this system others are operating out of hurt for what they feel has been done to them. Whatever the reason it is all detrimental to black people as a whole. By all means celebrate and be proud of who you are but when you use who you are culturally to dehumanize other black people it's not pride that you have at all but the exact opposite. Great conversation.

Yes, we are the same. I had the pleasure of living a semester in Ghana as an exchange student, and every nuance, dance move, knitted brow, movement of the black-woman's hip etc. I had seen or heard in the diaspora, I saw its root in someone or something in Africa. I finally understood WHO I was.

Im loving this episode. This was a topic I didn’t know I needed. A few of my favorite pieces of Black American culture are, the food, film/TV/comedy, dancing, the music, AAVE, fashion, and haaaiiiir 😍

We’re the youngest group of the diaspora and we’re just trying to cope and create our own culture in American. Sometimes our efforts to be unapologetic Black and combat unconscious white washing may lead some of us to do things that may not always positively represent who we are, in the eyes of others in the diaspora, bc they have the privilege of rich culture and more refined ways of being.

This was a great conversation. I am a supporter of both your platforms to see you both together 👩🏽‍🍳🤌🏽. As a black American I have found myself intentionally reaching out to more people in the diaspora and having intentional conversations. Half my friends are black and from Africa and it has increased my desire to to engage with more people in the diaspora. Thank you for sharing 🤎

I would love to join in on the diaspora discussion as an AA with a Jamaican boyfriend. It’s insane how ignorant we are of history and how so many people have ignorant views of AAs

Bring her back! I love her energy.

Happy Born day to The Honorable El Malik Shabazz aka Malcolm X. Thank you queen for this episode. Big up!!!

Christina: “I just don’t like things that don’t make sense” Amanda: what’s your sign? C: Scorpio Me (internally as a Scorpio): I say that line DAILY.

This was such a great conversation and I really loved and appreciated the big sis/lil sis energy 💕 Shout out to Amanda supporting Christina's work and effort.

I’m only 13 mins in and the brooklyn argument on the st next to the taco truck with the cuba Jamaican was so ACCURATE!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 ugh loving the episode so far

I LOVE this entire channel. You give us knowledge, laughter, empowerment, and TRUTH! This episode was AMAZING! I am a “PK,” and at 41 years old I have really been struggling with my spirituality lately. I feel SO connected to everything that I’ve been taught is “demonic.”Thank you for shedding light on this. Keep going, we need this! Love you🫶🏽🖤

Perfect collaboration!!

i find myself continually coming back to this episode. this one was such a gem in all ways.

I follow Christina and I love this conversation. 💞

Love this discussion and love y’all! Def need another episode with you two! 🙏🏾 Also, side note, Jamaicans also make rice and peas with pigeon peas. However, we call it rice and “gungo” peas. I think that the rice and peas made with kidney beans have just been commercialized for Jamaica international, so everyone outside of Jamaica is only accustomed to that. Love from NY! ❤️ (I’m Jamaican though lol 🇯🇲)

One of my favorite things about Black American Culture is the known message of someone wearing a bonnet. They're either about to get there hair done, they're protecting their done hair for an occasion, or they don't think you need to see it 😂

Amanda your Trini sterotype of Christina was on point🇹🇹...and thank you giving her fair warning about Jamaican men 😄

I love this conversation. This series is hitting for me. For me, Southeast Asians and Asian indigenous people are erased from larger AAPI media and representation. So many nuanced experiences, colonization and genocide history yet lumped into “Asian”. The idea of measuring diversity against whiteness is so universal.

Amanda thank you so much for this episode, it was so informative and I've gotten into so many of the diaspora wars and did not realize that's what that was SMH

I love that my two favorite people found each other

I love this conversation but unfortunately the folks who need to hear it are not present.

The collab we needed!! ❤

Ran over from TikTok immediately 😭❤️ you guys have such fire chemistry! Loving this chat

Dope interview. Glad y’all connected.

I love Christina's videos on TikTok. Her explanations are very common sense based & easily understood! This collab feels right and on the same wavelength.

YES WE ARE ALL COUSINS!

THE COLLAB WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!

Great episode! Love having these conversations

Loving this Collab!!!! ❤

I loved this conversation so much!

This episode was lovely. More, please🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

So many gems in this episode!

Oh I'm excited about this duo meeting up ❤

Excellent conversation!

Love this conversation!❤

2 of my favorites. Thank you❤

Great discussion, thanks ladies👏🏽👍🏽💪🏽🙏🏾🌺

Literally always said Christina is the new generation Amanda❤🔥 this is so dope!

I really enjoyed this episode! I'll be following Christina now!

EPIC EPISODE LOVED EVERY SECOND OF THIS

This was great ladies I throughly enjoyed this conversation and hope there is a part tew

This is such an intellectual conversation. I love it. Best Diaspora conversation

Love the commentary about Dominicans it’s so true about us 😂🇩🇴

I'm here for every part of this❤

I love her. Glad you had her on.

Ooohhhh. I share a lot of these religious comparisons during my tours in New Orleans. Voodoo is a major part of the conversation. All of this - food, music, dance, culture, phenotypes, etc. are major parts of my tours. I'm very much enjoying this conversation. Ooohhh!!! Amanda just said "Legacy" as I was typing and my company is called Legacy Tours. 🎉 I love this!

Really love this duo.

Well Done Queens ❤️❤️❤️

Thank You! 🇺🇸 ✊🏽 Christina!

❤❤❤❤❤ love both these ladies so much, then they drop a collab? I’m so happy 😊

I love this!!!!❤

🇭🇹 the DCMWG episode got my attention; this episode made me subscribe 🎉 We here now 💃🏾

I love following Christina and seeing how she reads people when they try to assume her ethnicity, this was a dope collab. Funny side story. My Haitian mother-in-law is very spiritual, as is her Trinidadian bestie. And we were playing Heads Up at a gathering, and his mother was the person with the phone. She flipped it up and it said “harry potter”, and her bestie shouted out “THAT DEMONIC MOVIE WITH THE CHILDREN AND THE WITCHCRAFT”…. And she got the answer right 😭😭

Another great and very educational discussion. Christina is very beautiful and intelligent sister.

I have been happily anticipating this episode!!!! Thank you for this conversation! My Dad is also an Aquarius. Ha! I have a genuine question if anyone cares to engage. If we as black Americans where African cloths (like kente), would that be considered cultural appropriation? I’m sure this may seem silly question to some folks. I just respect that things like that have origins that I cannot identify with and don’t want to be disrespectful.

I Watch and listen to Christina on her podcast with this guy she knows.. how cool she made it on the couch with Amanda!!! Go Christina!!!! Je te suis!!!!

Love it🔥🔥🔥

not voodoo, just magic in general which is why as an infant i instantly was freed from the white man's claws. "bible says magic is evil and i have to hate it? nope. not going to church anymore mama" my ancestral ties, memories and the orishas were too strong! always had an affinity, love and appreciation for magic so if i have to choose there is no choice. will always sing, dance, write and spellcast baby! magic comes from the motherland cause magic like music is LIFE.

Yal are both gorgeous 😍 great convo

Cmon sis, this why i fux with amanda seals!

As an Black American woman Black Americans have to defend ourselves when it comes to the disrespect,we always the topic of discussion and that discussion is always about us not supposedly having a culture and not supposedly knowing what we came from, and everyone in the world knows our culture because they mimicking/ cosplay and exploit as well, and a lot of Black Americans know where we came from, for instance I'm Cherokee and Muscogee Creek, these tribes are indigenous/ Aboriginals tribes in America and a lot of Black Americans are doing the research. Black Americans don't care what white people think its Carribeans and Africans that cares what white people think.

Another great episode, Amanda. This is why when many blacks in any part of the world profess "unity" of any kind I am slow to believe that it is genuine. Black Diaspora wars are a waste of time when you see other ethnic communities (immigrating to America, for example) running around proud to greet and automatically link up with their own anywhere they encounter them, whether they know them or not. When will we get there??? Who knows.

For context “As humans, we are obsessed with race,” Elba continued. “And that obsession can really hinder people’s aspirations, hinder people’s growth. Racism should be a topic for discussion, sure. Racism is very real. But from my perspective, it’s only as powerful as you allow it to be. I stopped describing myself as a Black actor when I realized it put me in a box. We’ve got to grow. We’ve got to. Our skin is no more than that: it’s just skin. Rant over.”-Idris Elba I don't think he ever said he wasn't black. I think he just wants to be an actor who happens to be black. I don't think Denzel walks around and says "I'm a black actor." I think people just label him an actor.

Yesss as a Virgo You're right Amanda when she said 'I don't like things that dint make sense'..I thought for sure she was a Virgo too, I always tell people Virgos and Scorpios have much in common there is a reason our symbols are quite similar ♍️♏️

Whaaaaat?! I will be here!

Omg I follow her on TikTok. As a person who’s also been marked as “ethnically ambiguous” I’ve always had to “prove” I’m Black American, it’s annoying as hell lmao. But anyway, this collab was something I didn’t expect but DEFINITELY needed🙌🏾.

I didn’t know Christina wrote on Medium! I need to check her out over there.

The way I've been terrorized as a Black American from Caribbeans and Africans when I'm focused on being Pan-African and trying to unite us. This video was very healing!

BIG UP TRINI PPL❤🇹🇹

I love this conversation, I'm with ya'll. Ok, on the durag, actually Negus Menelik wore it in like 1910.

Y’all teaching me! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 love this channel

I just think from my own experience, Black Americans who aren’t immigrants are an ethnic group. And our identity being erased. Many can associate themselves as Black Americans when they’re Black immigrants or descendants of immigrants. So there’s so many Black immigrants who identify as both which erases our identity. Yet at the same time they distinguish themselves to bond based on the country they descend from, and play a role, knowing and unknowing that they are actively erasing our identity. So many Black immigrant doctors have disrespected me and disregarded my health problems as a disabled Black American. So our advocacy is being lost as well because of so much xenophobic immigrants.

🇹🇹 Tobago birth and Boston (America) my part of the diaspora..

It would be awesome for y’all to make a Part 2 and include Jouelzy. She has done some amazing videos on Diaspora wars

I'm from Shreveport too and I think everyone believes new Orleans is the only place that exists in Louisiana. Never heard of blood and spaghetti until I moved to the Midwest

I am Reppin it all we are 1 in the same I love us from the Mother land to the Islands to America wherever we are we should be United ❤️

This convo definitely makes me want to learn more and to do something instead of watching shit happen over and over.

Omg Christina from the place that we worked at to big time with miss Amanda. Tina your going to do well FR FR. Although we went down separate paths I pray and wish the best for you. Your going to go so far… if your ever in LBc hit me up. We should get lunch. Amanda shout out to you too and everything you do :-)

Listen I'm a ex Christian and I'm Spiritual now. And ATR is to be respected it is Not Of the Devil.. Know where u come from. Ase.. ✨️✨️

14:20 it’s a julibee video about black people and African people views on racism ❤️❤️

When I saw this on TikTok, I just knew this episode was gonna be great

Diaspora wars are completely wrong and unnecessary.

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I’d say 4a for Amanda and 3a for Chis

I do think it's important to piece a part race, ethnicity, and nationality. Black America is a nation within a nation - but comprises a myriad of ethnic groups. Those who descend from folks from and of the United States are African American. There are also Haitian-Americans, Trinidadian-Americans, and so on. It's powerful to uphold and recognize that we exist in a mosaic - rather than conflate all. A person being born in America does not make them ethnically African American - for example - and that is okay.

I’ve followed you for years Amanda. Love where you’re taking Small Doses. Thank you both for this discussion. 🇸🇴🫶🏾

the way they both sighed 😂 21:40

We need more woke Amanda seal’s conversation like this

6:01 Amanda, where is your beautiful guest from? Heritage?

I ❤️ me some EDUCATED BLACK WOMEN😘💯💋

20:32 I heard jollof🇳🇬🇬🇭🇸🇳🇸🇱

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

The hair chart was for us but you know other people wanted to join the bandwagon

When she said she's a Scorpio... that made sense😂

Christina is even doing Le t'chip. Black people are the same across the planet!

A lot of Black ppl are starting to say that we’re native but what they really mean is that some(a few) are aboriginal to America. They migrated here from Africa but key word is migrated and that doesn’t mean that slavery didn’t happen. Both can be true but the majority of us were brought here as slaves.

General respect would be great on both sides. Also, ppl need to stop generalizing other groups based off of their personal experience. Peace and love Black folks, I hope none of y'all get pulled over. Also, is it me or does Christina look like Bruno Mars?🤩😍