Pouche...when you make statements cheapening the severity of very real medical conditions that claim lives and destroy families world wide you aren't insulting me.....you are insulting those living with those conditions and the survivors of those who lost love ones to them. I don't expect you to agree with me. I will say other people in this thread have found ways to let me know that they don't agree with my viewpoints without sinking to the kind of lows that seem to be common to you. There is no excuse for you to be making those kind of comments....and deep down I think you know it. I don't want or need an apology or an excuse form you, but next time please think before you post.
Those disgusting portuguese and french slave masters are also your ancestors. Apple didn't fall far from the tree?
I don't understand. You are multi-cultural because your parents and their parents were from different countries? Aren't those countries false social constructs Not sure how I can be any clearer but I will try. As I said in that post, the majority of all of my ancestors and family members in those various nations are Africans (blacks) I don't accept social constructs like "African-American" or "Afro-Trinidadian".....however multiple posters continue to say that I am an "African-American". I explained in that post why I reject that term......but I'll sum it up again. I don't subscribe to those social constructs......however if you wish to refer to me by such constructs than do so correctly. I am not an "African-American" or a "Black-American". If you wish to define my heritage based on the birthplaces of my parents and my relatives in the Western Hemisphere then you must include all of the countries I've listed. That is the kind of home I was raised in......I experienced the culture of African people from the U.S , African people from Trinidad and Tobago (which has a HEAVY Yourba influence) and the culture of African people from Grenada. Take home message...if you wish to use these kind of constructs "African-American" doesn't get it done. It is disrespectful to my family.....particularly my mother who has ALWAYS rejected the idea that she or her children are "African-Americans". You guys need to learn to look at the world from outside your community. but the "African American" label doesn't try to categorize you in anyway beyond what it states. You are an African-American whether you want to be or not. Yes it does and I've explained why. You have more in common with a white person in America than you do with a black person in Nigeria. What are you basing this assumption on?
I've explained this in another thread.......when I use the term "ancestor" or "elder" I use it as a term of endearment. "Ancestor" is a title that is earn in my book. They are nothing more than disgusting rapists who saw women in general, but especially African and First Nation women, are objects for their perverted sexual fantasies. I don't view women as objects.....I view them as people with real thoughts and real feelings......unlike those savages who forced their way into my family, saddling us with their baggage and disgusting genetic material. I don't respect rapists...never have and never will. Few crimes are more disgusting. Don't you agree?
No, it was an honest typo. There is no need for me to result to name calling in an attempt to "bring him down". He has chosen to wallow in that gutter himself.
I do not. I used that term for the benefit of those I was responding to. I explained that in the post....it is in parenthesis. My father, like me, is an African. It took me a few years to get him to admit that, but he finally acknowledge that a year or two ago. That was a big step...because in his generation being called an African was grounds to fight the other person.
You have wasted two posts clutching to your mock outrage at this term like a life-raft, thinking it allows you to prattle on without drowning in the sewage of your bigoted and sub-literate reasoning in this thread.
You did also state that your parents raised you to consider yourself an African. With that said, your father raised you to consider yourself an African not an African American but it took him until 2 years ago to consider himself an African not an African American?
You are 1. Born in the US and are a citizen. 2. Serve in the US Army, according to your bio. 3. Speak English as a first langauge, and don't belong to any tribe in Nigeria, nor do you speak a West Arfican tribal language. 4. Live in Texas, and presumably you're from Houston and grew up there like most of us if you are a Rockets fan. 5. Ignorant of the politics and culture of the world's second largest continent, and claim to speak for it and the 55 nations there, of which you have visited 0. Your nationality is not something you can choose unless you want to emigrate. It's a legal definition, not a cultural one. The fact that some of your family are Carribean islanders doesn't change the fact that you are a US citizen. Pouhe owes you no apology. If anyone should be offended it's him. I had to google the term "fig newton" because I wasn't famliar with it...and I found it on an Aryan Nation website. Presumably that's where you get your information on Zionism as well. They also really dig the term "European-American" by the way. From your own posts, your ideologly seems to be black separatism more than anything else. You're entitled to your opinions but don't expect any educated person to agree with them, especially when your worldview is premised faliciously by outdated Victorian constructs of race and a fantasy of some utopian pre-Colonial Africa that never existed.
Conversely enough I was called the "opposite" term all through junior high, by white classmates. Not that I would have needed anything else to carp about, but impressive research, to say nothing of your other insights on Africa.
I can call myself a penguin. It doesn't mean I am a penguin...but who cares! It's fun to make stuff up and not live in reality.
Doubtful. My father is the kind of man who speaks his mind....he doesn't take ***** off of anybody. He gets it from his father.....that's another story though
