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19-02-07, 09:20 PM
Gmahogany. wrote:
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amononi wrote:
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No one needs white people to tell them their black. You can clearly see if you are black in contrast to someone who is white. No one can't tell the difference between many different African tribes. I can't point out someone who is Ashanti, Ewe, Hausa, etc..... However, I can tell the difference between a Scandinavian and someone who is Wolof. One is white and the other is black. White people didn't introduce this. This logic has been going on for a long time. Egyptians was able to tell themselves apart from outsiders. Sorry, white people didn't introduce this. This phenomenon can be seen with the naked eye with or without white people.
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No disagreement here. I'm referring to something more, however, than just knowing that u look different than a Scandanavian. I'm talking about a COLLECTIVE BLACK IDENTITY/WORLDVIEW. Black folks didn't have that UNTIL white folks FORCED THEM to have it. Some Black folks STILL don't have it,in spite of having white folks run roughshod over them for centuries. Sidney Poiter descirbed it best when explaining to Oprah the culture shock he experienced when coming from the Carribean to the U.S, as a young man. He said: "I knew I was Black in the sense that I didn't look like the white tourists I'd seen on my island, but I didn't know I was BLACK(meaning 2nd class citizenship/inferiority the main defining thing about u), until I got to America"
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Okay I get. You are speaking of "class" in the U.S..
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