hey alll u AFRICAN Anerican...mi no memba who tell

[evanovitch]

mi dis,.but him seh a upwardly mobile black went as a delegation recently to Nigeria, i believe di country was...

wen di Immigration Officer ask him nationality, him answer AFRICAN -American...

di Immigration Officer tell him seh naw, him is American....

[kia027]

Re: hey alll u AFRICAN Anerican...mi no memba who tell

[Tulip]

Re: hey alll u AFRICAN Anerican...mi no memba who tell

The immigration officer; he is an American. What country named Africa America?

[evanovitch]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tulip</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The immigration officer; he is an American. What country named Africa America? </div></div>

naw di immigration is a Nigerian n him ask di arriving passenger wat him nationality is...di man seh him was a AFRICAN American...di AFRICAN mek him know dat him is juss an American...nothing African bout him...

i have been talking with a couple around here...n wen i ask about whether it is true they dont see us as being Africans, some go on to explain y..they dont....diffrant nations dem come from on the Continent have some curious reasons...i might write a book on it given dat Peter sang that as long as u r a black man u r an African......

[barosa]

Re: hey alll u AFRICAN Anerican...mi no memba who tell

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tulip</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The immigration officer; he is an American. What country named Africa America? </div></div>

naw di immigration is a Nigerian n him ask di arriving passenger wat him nationality is...di man seh him was a AFRICAN American...di AFRICAN mek him know dat him is juss an American...nothing African bout him...

i have been talking with a couple around here...n wen i ask about whether it is true they dont see us as being Africans, some go on to explain y..they dont....diffrant nations dem come from on the Continent have some curious reasons...i might write a book on it given dat Peter sang that as long as u r a black man u r an African...... </div></div>

Evan, the Nigerian is right and was just showing the stupid black American how stupid he really is... He must have thought that by calling himself &quot;African American&quot; he would be considered like a brother...

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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown...

[Tulip]

Re: hey alll u AFRICAN Anerican...mi no memba who tell

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">naw di immigration is a Nigerian n him ask di arriving passenger wat him nationality is...di man seh him was a AFRICAN American...di AFRICAN mek him know dat him is juss an American...nothing African bout him...

i have been talking with a couple around here...n wen i ask about whether it is true they dont see us as being Africans, some go on to explain y..they dont....diffrant nations dem come from on the Continent have some curious reasons...i might write a book on it given dat Peter sang that as long as u r a black man u r an African...... </div></div>

I realize it was intended to be slap in the face to the American, but the Nigerian was right. I'm kind of bent out of shape with the American for answering the question of his nationality with &quot;African American&quot; in the first place. The man didn't ask him his race.

Regardless of your race/ethnicity, if you are a citizen of The United States of America, then your nationality is American. If you have dual citizenship, then I guess you say whatever best suits the purpose of the question.

As for race, I say I am Black American. I cut out the African American thing years ago after working with a white co-worker who immigrated here from Africa. She is technically an African American, and I am not.

<span style="font-style: italic">I too have had discussions, some heated, with Africans about their feelings toward us. Thar could be a whole new thread lol. I guess this man got a quick lesson.</span>

[jah_yout]

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Originally Posted By: Tulip
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The immigration officer; he is an American. What country named Africa America? </div></div>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">naw di immigration is a Nigerian n him ask di arriving passenger wat him nationality is...di man seh him was a AFRICAN American...di AFRICAN mek him know dat him is juss an American...nothing African bout him...</div></div>

i agree with tulip...you can only have one nationality- as in the place you were born or naturalized in...he didn't ask him his ethnicity or race, he asked him nationality, which is american regardless of ethnicity...
not to mention, why do we even as jamaicans still call people of chinese descent &quot;chinese&quot; and people of syrian descent &quot;syrian&quot;?
would you also say there is nothing chinese or syrian about them?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have been talking with a couple around here...n wen i ask about whether it is true they dont see us as being Africans, some go on to explain y..they dont.</div></div>...

this is not true...
you are labeling a whole continent as 'they' and exclaiming to know how those billion people think as one?
it does not matter how anyone sees it...so-called black jamaicans &amp; americans are people of african descent...end of story

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">diffrant nations dem come from on the Continent have some curious reasons...i might write a book on it given dat Peter sang that as long as u r a black man u r an African......</div></div>

absolute truth...just shenanigans makes us think any different...
they call people of apparent asian descent asians, they don't call them yellows or browns...we didn't drop out of the sky- we have a history

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tulip</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The immigration officer; he is an American. What country named Africa America? </div></div>

naw di immigration is a Nigerian n him ask di arriving passenger wat him nationality is...di man seh him was a AFRICAN American...di AFRICAN mek him know dat him is juss an American...nothing African bout him...

i have been talking with a couple around here...n wen i ask about whether it is true they dont see us as being Africans, some go on to explain y..they dont....diffrant nations dem come from on the Continent have some curious reasons...i might write a book on it given dat Peter sang that as long as u r a black man u r an African...... </div></div>

Evan, the Nigerian is right and was just showing the stupid black American how stupid he really is... He must have thought that by calling himself &quot;African American&quot; he would be considered like a brother...

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i wouldn't say he was stupid...

would we call a japanese person stupid for saying they are asian-american?
i never hear them classified as yellow americans...or indians as brown americans...
so-called 'white' people are european-americans...labeling is a big tool for tricknologists

how many people are really white or black in color?

[Seveen]

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and the divisiveness continues - for what purpose?

i am proud of my black american culture and heritage along with the culture and heritage of my cousins of the diaspora - a lot has been accomplished

as i've stated before - i know i am the strongest of the strongest survive - my ancestors made it through the middle passage, were enslaved, fought the civil rights movement, helped eliminate apartheid in south africa

i visited ports of departure bringing the enslaved to the new world - and there was no boats with names on them saying - you're going to jamaica, you're headed to belize, you're headed to brazil, and we're sending you to america - that was mostly controlled by the financiers of the slave trade

someone accused me of wanting to be a wannabee jamaica - there is no way i would turn my back on frederick douglas, charles drew, the tuskegee airmen, malcolm x, martin luther king jr, zora neale hurston - just to name a few

i can embrace my heritage and respect the heritage of my ancestors that traveled in a different direction

[evanovitch]

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funny enuff i hesitate wen asked my nationality....i find myself having to ask the immigration officers just wat dem mean....cause to me , my nationality is n will always be Jcan (to me)...my current citizenship is American....

[Seveen]

Re: hey alll u AFRICAN Anerican...mi no memba who tell

and africans know that black americans descented from africa - they are not ignorant of that fact

but how we grew is different from how they grew - or so we think

too many foods, too many sayings, too many ways have been passed down from our african ancestors and are still being passed on

now i don't profess to having met all the africans on the continent and surveying them statiscally

i can say - the few i have met - have embraced me - and together we connected the bridge that the enslavers never wanted to see connected

but just like the willie lynch letter (which may be fake) some folks still work to divide us - black and white - plenty of black people that hate themselves

my son abu was passed over for adoption by other couples because he was &quot;too black&quot; - smdh

this holiday season we are excited to go to visit our garifuna brothers and sisters, dance punta and explore our connections and my pre-vacation research shows there are many

[Seveen]

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and i proudly write USA because that is where i was born - AFRICA is in my heart - along with all the descendants spread out across the world - i walk with love for our shared history of being &quot;deported&quot;

[Blackstar*]

Re: hey alll u AFRICAN Anerican...mi no memba who tell

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tulip</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As for race, I say I am Black American. I cut out the African American thing years ago after working with a white co-worker who immigrated here from Africa. She is technically an African American, and I am not.</div></div>She seems more European-[insert name of country here] to me, i.e. Euro-Kenyan, etc.

General questions (not necessarily directed at you, Tuilip):

Why do we not have a problem calling someone Chinese when they are XX generations removed from that country, but balk at the use of African denote our origins?

Also, not all black people are African, e.g. Melanesians, Aborigenes, New Guineans, southern Indians, etc.

[Seveen]

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the human migration out of africa started 40,000 years ago and included india, the pacific isles and australia . . . and just about anywhere else

[Seveen]

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this is really cool - shows the human migration since the beginning of time - interactively

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/