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Originally Posted by TheDogon

I must say that I totally disagree with that sentiment. In my experience as an American African, I have met those who were basically "White" in appearance, mixed, etc. but had a much deeper sense of an African community than those who were almost 100% African.

Culture is about what you are taught. Not what you are born with.

I could agree that some light skinned Afrikans and Afrikan-Americans are more "conscious" than those of us more biologically/genealogically Afrikan. I made a thread about that a long time ago as I made that observation while in college where the most active members of my University's Black Action Society or Africana Studies Department were often mixed or light skinned people. I sometimes wonder if they have somewhat of a complex where they feel the need to purvey Afrikan-ness more pronouncedly than other Afrikans given their skin color.

I don't deny that reality, but at the same time, especially on the Afrikan Continent, I can point to countless occurrences over the centuries (and even millenniums) where our people were enslaved by Arab or Indo-European half-breeds (no offense intended) who we thought were "like us". Here in the States, it is often the mixed Euro-African American used to extend the political, social, and economic exploitative controls over our people...and it has been that way perhaps since before the country's advent.

I am not saying mixed persons are in any way less than persons of predominant Afrikan genealogy. No matter what culture they grow up in, you simply cannot expect them to deny half of themselves. Some of them do I would agree, but it would be dangerously pathological for Afrikans to expect them to as we have been burned perhaps irreparably by that notion numerous times.