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Originally posted by jose168
All over this thread I'm seeing Americans this Americans that to dismiss the feelings of Black people and it's pretty transparent actually
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How dense can you be? Europe and every other country in the world does not and should not be expected to know all the knowledge of societal constructs within the United States. Most of the black people living in Europe are from the African continent directly and thus are part of families that were not subject to the treatment African
Americans lived through.
Europeans know the word solely as a product of rap songs as radio stations will play explicit versions of songs because they are all in English. Many have no knowledge of the words basis and do not understand why the word is so negative when they casually hear it in a rap song. Stop trying to project American feelings onto the rest of the world.