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Discussion: White smudging runs deep
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Let me break it down sis !!! As simple as I can unless you wanna go there sis !!!!!!! We can go but 
The reason there is a Haarp program instilled and a global warming agenda being pushed is to implicitly and explicitly try to stop the inevitable. We cannot overpower the sun. It is the reason there's any life here on earth. Melanin protects us, the sun goes through cycles naturally. It will warm up and those with lack of melanin are less likely to outlast that. That's just one aspect. AlsO Africa's natural resources could feed the world, but without this economic structure the greedy elite groups of people wouldn't have the power to try to save their race. This stuff goes deep. Research the Kazaars and the Dravidian groups. I be holding back sometimes but sometimes **** just piss me off so much I start spilling lol.
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I mean it's cool and all to feel connected to your roots and **** but I don't really worry or care anymore tbh we really need to be focused on the future in schools. History is great but I would rather be focused on the future.  But that's just me. I don't think there is a enough time in class though to learn about African culture though because if we do that then Japanese, Indians, Hispanics, Chinese, Middle Eastern people would want their past to be known to so idk. There really isn't enough time sis. I care about history but the future is more important to most people my age. If they should be adding anything to schools it should be forward thinking classes.
But that's just my opinion.
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But the Japanese, Native Americans, Indians, Hispanics, Chinese, and Middle Eastern people DO know their history. It's African and black history that has been literally ERASED from the annals of time. While Europeans were still living in caves our people were developing language and medicine and metallurgy, but you would never know. And "they" never intended for you to find out.
In the Akan language of Ghana, there is the word "Sankofa", which translates into English as "to reach back and get it." I understand where you're coming from, but there is no hope for the future of black culture if we don't reclaim and learn from our past.
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do yall know about Assata Shakur ???she is fighting a system that wishes to not only avenge her showing her power as a black woman and rebelling against oppression, they do not need a true authentic black panther arising. It would be mayhem but then again the agenda is marshall law.
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This may be true tbh. In my World History class my teacher said we could skip African history because it wasn't too important.
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But the Japanese, Native Americans, Indians, Hispanics, Chinese, and Middle Eastern people DO know their history. It's African and black history that has been literally ERASED from the annals of time. While Europeans were still living in caves our people were developing language and medicine and metallurgy, but you would never know. And "they" never intended for you to find out.
In the Akan language of Ghana, there is the word "Sankofa", which translates into English as "to reach back and get it." I understand where you're coming from, but there is no hope for the future of black culture if we don't reclaim and learn from our past.
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Graceful clock you BETTA let bulldog know
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Graceful clock you BETTA let bulldog know
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I mean, I'm all for "POC solidarity" and stuff but let's not act like blacks are not at the bottom of the totem pole. It's solely up to us to uplift and empower ourselves and our communities.
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Wearing clothes from other culture would be fine if people from the actual culture themselves didn't face repercussions and discrimination for the same things.
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i think there is a fine line tbh. i think its good to appreciate and being inspired by different cultures and to share cultures but at the same time you dont want cultures to be smudged and misused and appropriated. so its difficult topic.
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I mean, I'm all for "POC solidarity" and stuff but let's not act like blacks are not at the bottom of the totem pole. It's solely up to us to uplift and empower ourselves and our communities.
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YESSSS but we have to teach out selfs it we won't learn
It makes me think about Denzel Washington and him describing a role that he was offered early in his career. When he described it, he said "I got a part in a movie in 1986. I call it the “N****r They Couldn’t Kill.” [The character] He raped a white woman; they tried to electrocute him but it didn’t work and he became a cult hero. Then they tried to hang him. There were some Jewish people in the audition room who said “it is funny.” And I said to them “yeah, it’s like you bring some Jewish people into a room and they think it is a shower but it is gas. And they said “right!” And I said “Right! That ain’t funny!” So to me it was not funny to put a rope around my MFing neck and I made a point. I called Sidney (Portier) and told him “man they are offering me $600,000 to play the “N****r They Couldn’t Kill.” And he told me, “I’m not going to tell you what to do. But I will tell you this, the first, two, three or four films you do in this business will dictate how you are perceived."
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Originally posted by Rihhyonce
But the Japanese, Native Americans, Indians, Hispanics, Chinese, and Middle Eastern people DO know their history. It's African and black history that has been literally ERASED from the annals of time. While Europeans were still living in caves our people were developing language and medicine and metallurgy, but you would never know. And "they" never intended for you to find out.
In the Akan language of Ghana, there is the word "Sankofa", which translates into English as "to reach back and get it." I understand where you're coming from, but there is no hope for the future of black culture if we don't reclaim and learn from our past.
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The first part I meant learning IN school. If people wanted to know about there past they should just have a class that teaches that tbh.
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I understand where you're coming from, but there is no hope for the future of black culture if we don't reclaim and learn from our past.
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Explain the second part in detail please.
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Originally posted by Scandal & Media
Wearing clothes from other culture would be fine if people from the actual culture themselves didn't face repercussions and discrimination for the same things.
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I would wear this tbh.
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Originally posted by Bulldog
The first part I meant learning IN school. If people wanted to know about there past they should just have a class that teaches that tbh.[/
Explain the second part in detail please.
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It's kind of an abstract thing to put into words for me, but basically my point is that you can't solve a problem without tackling the source. The black community suffers from SO many sociocultural problems, and without understanding or acknowledging the root of the issue the best you can hope for is a quick fix.
It's like placing a Band-Aid over a gunshot wound. It might stop the bleeding, but the bullet is still there.
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Originally posted by Rihhyonce
But the Japanese, Native Americans, Indians, Hispanics, Chinese, and Middle Eastern people DO know their history. It's African and black history that has been literally ERASED from the annals of time. While Europeans were still living in caves our people were developing language and medicine and metallurgy, but you would never know. And "they" never intended for you to find out.
In the Akan language of Ghana, there is the word "Sankofa", which translates into English as "to reach back and get it." I understand where you're coming from, but there is no hope for the future of black culture if we don't reclaim and learn from our past.
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beautiful explanation. 
i used to speak akan and they have a lot of amazing folklore
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At first I thought all this was bs but then I realised, we didn't learn **** about African history in school, it's basically like it didn't exist (and doesn't exist, unless we're talking about ebola, slavery or starving children). It's really disgusting. I don't agree with the whole Iggy thing though
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And white media conceals white trash.
There's this grand illusion white people and a lot of black people have of "white people".
To put it simply for every black ghetto there's 10 trailer parks full of poor uneducated white people with drug dealers and welfare queens.
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beautiful explanation.
i used to speak akan and they have a lot of amazing folklore |
When I was younger I had a book of African fables and fairtyales. I need to go digging and find it! It had Anansi the Spider and all that good stuff.
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Originally posted by its_britney_bitch
At first I thought all this was bs but then I realised, we didn't learn **** about African history in school, it's basically like it didn't exist (and doesn't exist, unless we're talking about ebola, slavery or starving children). It's really disgusting. I don't agree with the whole Iggy thing though
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The conversation about black history literally starts at slavery and ends at the Civil Rights Movement. Beyond that there is no discussion of the thousands of years of black history that existed before the Diaspora. It's sad.
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And the worst part is that so many African cultures are steeped in oral traditon, so vast chunks of our history were hardly recorded in writing and essentially lost forever.
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