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[myfriendandrea]

I know these are muddy waters, but is anyone else wondering why we can’t have an understanding that descendants of slaves in the US is a different and distinct group from Black America generally?

I ask because I realize the ADOS movement is xenophobic, and heavily criticized for it, so much so that I can’t find an article on my feed that doesn’t laugh off the concept as a bad movement that divides Black America, essentially as bad as Russian trolls. 

However, most of the discrimination I’ve received from white people is because they associate my darkness with descendants of slaves, not Africa. I’ve had African immigrant friends who did not want to be associated with Black Americans because they noticed it would tarnish their reputation with white peers. I’ve been told by white men that Africans can be just as good as “everyone else” but that descendants of slaves are inherently worse, either because of our culture, generational poverty, or the idea that slavery lowered the IQ of our population. They hate not just Blackness, but us in particular. Most positive Black representation I’ve seen is steeped in Pan-African positivity- think about the hype Wakanda got with it’s African excellence and bitter ADOS villain, and the Back to Africa movement birthed so much of “Black is Beautiful”. I didn’t see stories about how influential Black American culture is by itself until Trevor Noah, didn’t hear that freedmen were given the opportunity to go back to Africa and collectively said no until maybe 2 years ago. 

I don’t think nativism or xenophobia is at all acceptable and wouldn’t want that associated with this thought. However, I think it’s worthwhile to actually talk about this. It’s not divisive to talk about colorism, because we need to reckon with that to heal our community. It’s also not divisive to talk about how this experience needs to be addressed (sometimes in conversations about colorism! I’ve seen descendants of slaves called privileged (seen people pick out an ADOS individual and say they’re tired of seeing “this” as representation) for being “brown skinned” as opposed to dark skinned, as if the sexual violence and generational trauma of slavery disqualifies them from speaking on the Black experience?)

Is there a way we can talk about this openly? I feel like every conversation I’ve seen around this is either immediately shut down or pretty toxic, but there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to acknowledge this as openly as we do colorism.

[efabuloushb]

Greensboro Sit-In - Black History - HISTORY.com

The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. Though many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist policies...#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in

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[bayouinfused]

Dear #FellowBlackKings 👑, Please #Focus your #Energy away from the #BlackLBGT #Community if you find #US offensive. We are both #DescendantsOfSlaves. #Reparations is a #BetterFocus #BayouInfused (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B82ae4IJyM6/?igshid=17piyiafnc0hq

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[onergp]

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[bayouinfused]

Dear #FellowBlackKings 👑, Please #Focus your #Energy away from the #BlackLBGT #Community if you find #US offensive. We are both #DescendantsOfSlaves. #Reparations is a #BetterFocus #BayouInfused (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8sl6DSJQ6d/?igshid=1inw45y6ijxbc

[efabuloushb]

The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was adopted into the U.S. Constitution in 1870. Despite the amendment, by the late 1870s discriminatory practices were used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote, especially in the South. It wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that legal barriers were outlawed at the state and local levels if they denied blacks their right to vote under the 15th Amendment....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget...

[efabuloushb]

Fannie Lou Hamer - Black History - HISTORY.com

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was a civil rights activist whose passionate depiction of her own suffering in a racist society helped focus attention on the plight of African-Americans throughout the South. In 1964, working with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Hamer helped organize the 1964 Freedom Summer African-American voter registration drive in her native Mississippi. At the Democratic National Convention later that year, she was part of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an integrated group of activists who openly challenged the legality of Mississippi’s all-white, segregated delegation....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fannie-lou-hamer

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[efabuloushb]

The Green Book: The Black Travelers’ Guide to Jim Crow America

During the height of segregation and Jim Crow, many African Americans owned copies of the “Negro Motorist Green Book,” a guide that informed travelers of the safest places to eat, sleep or get a haircut when on the open road. The book was first published in 1936 by a Harlem postal worker, and it continued to be released in updated and expanded editions until the mid-1960s and the passage of the Civil Rights Act....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/news/the-green-book-the-black-travelers-guide-to-jim-crow-america

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[efabuloushb]

Booker T. Washington - Black History - HISTORY.com

Born a slave on a Virginia farm, Washington (1856-1915) rose to become one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the late 19th century. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute, a black school in Alabama devoted to training teachers. Washington was also behind the formation of the National Negro Business League 20 years later, and he served as an adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/booker-t-washington

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[efabuloushb]

Alex Haley - Black History - HISTORY.com

Author Alex Haley (1921-1992) was best known for works depicting the struggles of African Americans. Raised in Henning, Tennessee, he began writing to help pass the time during his two decades with the U.S. Coast Guard. After conducting interviews with Malcolm X for Playboy magazine, he turned the material into his first book, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” (1965). Haley’s subsequent novel, “Roots” (1976), was a fictionalized account of his own family’s history, traced through seven generations. It was adapted into a 1977 miniseries that became the most-watched broadcast in TV history, a record it would hold for years....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/alex-haley

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[bayouinfused]

Dear #FellowBlackKings 👑,

Please #Focus your #Energy away from the #BlackLBGT #Community if you find #US offensive.

We are both #DescendantsOfSlaves.

#Reparations is a #BetterFocus

#BayouInfused

[bayouinfused]

Dear #FellowBlackKings 👑,

Please #Focus your #Energy away from the #BlackLBGT #Community if you find #US offensive.

We are both #DescendantsOfSlaves.

#Reparations is a #BetterFocus

#BayouInfused

[bayouinfused]

Dear #FellowBlackKings 👑,

Please #Focus your #Energy away from the #BlackLBGT #Community if you find #US offensive.

We are both #DescendantsOfSlaves.

#Reparations is a #BetterFocus

#BayouInfused