I think that there is a gap between the European blacks and the Blacks of the Americas

LouisianaDave · (#1 (**permalink**))

We have had very different experiences. We had our cultureassualted. If we practiced it there was the fear of death. Our method of communicating in our natural language was the first thing attacked. Without that you can imagine the damage it did to our progressing and coming together as a people.

I converse with whites quite often and one of the racist's main remark today is that we should appreciate that slavery got us out of Africa or else we would be starving and trying to escape being killed by another tribe. I never allow them to get me into the mode of assuming anything. You loose focus then and he gets you to imagine the pictures he will paint for you. You then become angry and he then says that is why you can not make it in this society. I often fell for this until my consciousness or who I am and that no one can define me but me.

Now I turn the table on him if he persist in tomfoolery. When they ever get close to raising my dander I ask if they ever heard of Nat Turner or Denmark Vessey? That will usually send the conversation to another level.

I am discovering that many of the old things did remain with the old people. It was hidden and not spoken of in the open to just anyone. There were many of us who went the way of snitchery (uncle toms). The old people had to be careful.

Not many years ago we still had the basic concept of the villiage. We valued being from a certain villiage and knew of our kinship. This knowledge was passed on from generation to generation. Don'tget me wrong, I am all for progress. But it has it's draw backs. Tribalism has it's bad points obviously, just look at the motherland, but it also had some things that are very usefull to the soul of men.

Life is a lot different when you have a history in a villiage that goes back over a 100 years or more. Certainly not all is good, but the good out weight the bad. It can be magical when you understand it and apply it to where you are. A look back often makes one appreciate the present and strive more earnestly for the future.

Happiness · (#2 (**permalink**))

well many here will tell you that the term "European Black" is an oxymoron!!!

Burning Spear · (#3 (**permalink**))

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LD,

Why did the Jags take so long to pay Coach Pete?

Back on topic.Remember most "Blacks" in Europe immigrated there within the last fifty years or so.Thus they'll socialization is very different from us.

AmeriJamCan · (#4 (**permalink**))

Good post. While we are different, we have many similarities - positive as well as negative. African culture is diverse so it should come as no surprise that Blacks throughout the diaspora have various cultures. If we could only learn to respect our differences and cherish our similarities instead of trying to argue that one set of Blacks are better than others.

invisiblemoses · (#5 (**permalink**))

Menelik wrote:

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I've heard this before many times. White people as a group get on my last nerves which is why I tried to avoid dealing with them one way or the other. Many Africans are living just fine, and those same White people who 'point out' how gratefull diasporan Blacks should be because of what a homogenous hell hole Africa is conveniently leave out that much ( not all ) of Africa's and an entire world of people of color's problems can be traced back to the structure of White supremacy set up by European colonialists and imperialists, ALL people of color are affected by this ( no one finds it 'strange' or unsettling that Europeans have colonised EVERY continent, with the exception of Antarctica, and EVERY place people of color reside, Africa, Asia, North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Australia, EVERYWHERE ).

Truth.