An American Negro

@Major_Atl @RealTimBlack “This is how Conservatives try to get you to hate against immigrants”. No, immigrants cause that themselves. And the ones that don’t do nothing to fighting things like this: latimes.com/business/story…

@RealTimBlack The Construction industry was never 60%-70% Black workers. Historically the highest Black worker percentage in the construction industry has been between 11%-13% This is how Conservatives try to get you to hate against immigrants; they lie‼️

The construction industry went from 60-70% Black workers to 10% Black in one generation. That didn't happen by accident. Black workers were pushed out. 🎯 #BlackConstruction #LaborRights #StayDangerous #ConstructionJobs

@PJenkins1931 @blackdetta @Puff_Iya Agreed. All Black Americans share the lineage and the founding blood. Ain’t trying to sound cheesy, but it’s true

@Techlite01 @blackdetta @Puff_Iya Black 🏳️‍🌈 are not a separate ethnic group from straight Black folk. Example: Drag balls, where the person with the most stylish strut wins a prize were held in the early 20th century They are a 🏳️‍🌈 version of the Cake Walk struts done by straight Black folk. The winner got a cake

All the dragging, shade, tea, clocking, and yasssssss-ing they do all day every day is from queer culture and should let you know just how close and integrated into black culture it is

You’ve proven them wrong on that term, although I’ve heard my older folks use kee kee in. I’ve also heard my older folks using terms like “dragging”. Dragging originally meant “dragging through the mud”, a colloquial term used as it is today, so they can’t claim that one either. Do you have any old references for clocking and shade?

@Techlite01 @blackdetta @Puff_Iya In the 1934 novel "Jonah's Gourd Vine" Zora Neale Hurston uses the phrase "kee-kee-in". "Kee-keeing" was an AAVE term before the 🏳️‍🌈 claimed it was a term they created.

@PJenkins1931 @blackdetta @Puff_Iya I was meaning for the sake of this particular discussion, can you reference the novels that demonstrate that the terms you spoke of are specific to Black Americans in general and not specific to lgbt?

@Techlite01 @blackdetta @Puff_Iya I have many of them. I have not read them all.

@PJenkins1931 @blackdetta @Puff_Iya Have you read all the books on this list?

@Techlite01 @blackdetta @Puff_Iya In 1996, American publisher W.W. Norton launched 'Old School Books', a series of African American pulp novels, all authored by African American men, that had formerly been published individually between the 1950s and the early 1970s.

@Nibiru1000 Wow man, what a damn shame!

And this why delineation is necessary 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

@PJenkins1931 @blackdetta @Puff_Iya Can you reference some of these novels so the family can know whenever this topic comes up?

@blackdetta @Puff_Iya Clocking, dragging and shade are Black Americans terms not specific to the LGBTQ. If you read old Black American novels you will find those terms being used.

@i_am_batguy @Soulful1865 Nah, those are Africans. But nice try troll.

@Techlite01 @Soulful1865 Those are black people. Disgusting creatures.

West African Cultural Foods. 2026.

Those things aren’t African. They’re Black. Wherever there are Black people you’ll likely to find these things. There are only so many ways you can style a Black person’s hair. Waves come naturally to any Black man who takes care of his hair. Twerking is actually a Caribbean import, you’ll find no examples of Black Americans doing that practice before large Caribbean arrivals post 1965. Carnival is why Caribbeans twerk. Not saying it’s a bad thing btw, but that’s not something our people just naturally started doing and is certainly not a carryover of our “African cultural continuity”. Besides, many non-African cultures have similar body movement practices. If Black American culture was significantly African, you wouldn’t have Africans coming to America saying we have no culture and disparaging the things they see us doing. Yet we have numerous examples of Africans coming to the US, and if they so much try to style their hair like us, they’re parents would freak out because they didn’t want them to be mistaken for a Black American. That seems a weird thing to do if it’s your cultural practice. And whatever continuities we do indeed have, they are adapted and modulated by our time here so that you can say it has “maybe” and African (partly) origin. For example our legend of “B’rer Rabbit” isn’t exactly African, but you can definitely see the similarities and how one could have come from the other. Yet they are different. You can see how Caribbeans cultures retained African elements, yet they or distinctly Caribbean, not African. Black American culture is also distinct and not some generic African culture. But I’m not gonna keep going back and forth about this. Keep doing what you’re doing and the diaspora conflict will continue. You can have the last word…..

@Techlite01 @madeyawook

Why do you believe your own grandma is lying to? 🫵🏾

We’re of African descent. Not African, and there is a difference. And there are very few cultural continuities, and those continuities aren’t “African”, they are from specific regions and tribes in Africa, not the continent as a whole. Africa isn’t culturally or genetically homogeneous. In addition Black American culture, even with the few cultural continuities is neither pure nor even predominately of African origin. It’s a composite of different cultures, and a new culture was born out of that composite and that culture stands on its own. The DNA argument is also problematic. DNA doesn’t make you African, it means you’re related to Africans, and have common ancestors. Most of my ancestors were from Africa, because of that I’m related to people in Africa. I’m not African though. And the average African on the continent would never embrace me as one which is in part, why this diaspora conflict exists in the first place. If the average African treated us as their “fellow African”, Ados and Fba would never have originated as an identification. Furthermore, African American is a term of erasure that wipes away the very unique and specific experience of our lineage. “African American”, is a term we didn’t choose and that neither my parents or my grandparents accepted. It is a term that immigrants both black and not have been able to use to attach themselves to our history, and claim benefits that were meant to address the horrible conditions our families have endured. When you call us African Americans, at least those of us who reject that term, you disrespect us, and that lack of respect is why you now have things like Ados and FBA, and you are saying in effect that we have no culture and no history unique and distinct of our own that deserves to be acknowledged. You’re saying that when I acknowledge my lineage and history, I have to include everyone in it, which is not something required of Haitians, Jamaicans, any other Caribbean. It also says that I am a guest in the US, which dishonors the fact that my family built the foundational wealth of the US and has been here since the beginning. So I’m asking you not to call me African or African American. Simply say I’m predominately descended from Africans.

@Techlite01 @madeyawook I wouldn’t say they aren’t African though. Still African American cause of the DNA and the African cultural continuities regardless of them being in American for a few hundred years

@DarkClovero_o @GzzUp_ You guys what? My family has never been to Mexico

Black American streamer TBVNKS 🇺🇸 Had to give a Mexican a warning about the usage of the N word

@orleansway Kavanaugh by Coyote and the Unicorn. I love the song though.

A Love Of Your Own

@TemooTitan Should men be worried about other men minding their business not bothering nobody?

Should men be taking pics of food?

I not trying to be disrespectful, but you see it the way you do because you’re an immigrant. Notice how you mention “white america”. As an immigrant, it makes sense that you center white america’s expectations. For us, this is the land we’ve built and have been in for centuries. White america’s views don’t change the fact that we’ve been here longer than most of them and that our families built the nation. If I’m in my house, do I care if someone in my house doesn’t like me? Of course not. As an immigrant, even if you don’t realize it, you will never see America as intrinsically belonging to you. But if you were in Africa and somebody in Africa didn’t like you, that wouldn’t stop what ever region you were in from being your home, and you feeling an ownership over it. As far as we’re concerned, regardless of how we’re treated in our home, it’s our home. The disconnect comes from the fact that you see us as guests here, just like white people do. We aren’t guests. This belongs to us. It’s that simple. You mention America has never accepted us. That’s incorrect. We ARE America. “White America” has never accepted us. Fuck how they feel. We aren’t guests!

I get Raven but the obsession with being American in a country with a history known for never fully accepting you, is the weird part for me. Especially knowing you have African lineage and wanting to deny that history because “your family worked hard and pays taxes.” White America doesn’t care that you’re American. You’re still African American because it’s a specific culture. 🤷🏽‍♀️

@NonHumanMedia1 DBZ and Bleach were the shit

Apparently I'm the only who had a different experience bc 30 years ago nearly every Black male my age liked X-Men, Batman, Spiderman, watched DBZ on Toonami and played Mortal Kombat 20 years ago it was Halo, Madden, still DBZ, Naruto, Bleach and other Adult Swim animes

@trader4christ @Neutral_OC Amen, praise God, and Amen

@Neutral_OC God bless this child and his family.. that’s my pray for today

Father encouraging his son with a limb disability to keep trying until he finally learns to feed himself. 🥺❤️‍🩹

@TopStrikaaaa @Eve_Barlow Or, one day there will be a black rapper 🤪🤪🤪

@Eve_Barlow This is like saying hopefully one day a black person can win MVP in the NBA

Timothee Chalemet will win years from now when it’s ok to give awards to Jews

@JefferyAMcLean @Ayoelesho Cause he’s a damn hypocrite. Busy worried about everyone else rather than himself. That’s why his homeland is f*ck’d up

@Ayoelesho Then why do you value your Diana award so much? It was named after a descendant of oppressors from a country of colonizers by your logic. You're a hypocrite.

A black man dying for a country that enslaved his ancestors for centuries will never make sense to me.