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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: , New Jersey, USA
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10-05-06, 05:56 PM
Gmahogany wrote:
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Athaba is right. African consciousness, and race consciousness in general, developed more outside of Africa for Blacks. There is no reason to particularly identify as "Black", when everyone around you(the whole country or continent)is Black,it's only in the context of being in a land filled with white people who identify you as Black and mistreat you on that basis, that you began to have a racial identity, and are more likely to be passionate about it. It's all about context and relativity. When in Africa, someone from Nigeria may feel no connection to someone from Cameroon, but when they meet up in the WEST, they will feel they have plenty in common, because they both become the OTHER, to some extent.
Many CA's who could never understand why Blacks in America got so hyped up about racial issues and overly identify as "black", now TOTALLY understand where we're coming from, because of their own experiences living in predominantly white countries like England, France, etc. Before that experience, many of them seemed to think we were either making things up, or ranting and raving about race because we have nothing better to do,lol.
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ON POINT.........think sometime people take things for granted.....whereas perhaps a "zealous mixed race" or diasporan person cannot...... I've met tons of people from certain places who never felt compelled to know anything about race relations or even their history because it was taken for granted...and I've met those who were extremely aware and conscious of history from the same places
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Let's reach a general conclusion on this board....that for every behavior that is associated with any group of Black people....that it not exclusive to them..and that there are clear examples of Black people exhibiting the same patterns of behavior from EVERYWHERE...
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there are scholars, race (wo)men, race deny-ers, lowlifes, criminals., uneducated, buffoons, conscious, white -haters, white-lovers, etc...in EACH group........anybody who thinks otherwise is in denial or hasn't traveled much
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