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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]

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[bayouinfused]

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[efabuloushb]

Emmett Till is murdered - Aug 28, 1955 - HISTORY.com

While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. In her dying days, the white woman revealed that she had lied. Her lie was the catalyst that caused a 14yr old Black American child to be murdered....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till

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Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Black History - HISTORY.com

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act

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[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...

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Stokely Carmichael - Black History - HISTORY.com

Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. civil-rights activist who in the 1960s originated the black nationalism rallying slogan, “black power.” Born in Trinidad, he immigrated to New York City in 1952. While attending Howard University, he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was jailed for his work with Freedom Riders. He moved away from MLK Jr’s nonviolence approach to self-defense....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/stokely-carmichael

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Sojourner Truth - Black History - HISTORY.com

Sojourner Truth was a prominent abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born a slave in New York State, she had at least three of her children sold away from her. After escaping slavery, Truth embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth

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[efabuloushb]

Slave Rebellions - Black History - HISTORY.com

Slave rebellions were a continuous source of fear in the American South, especially since black slaves accounted for more than one-third of the region’s population in the 18th century. Laws dictating when, where and how slaves could congregate were enacted to prevent insurrection and quell white paranoia. It’s estimated there were at least 250 slave rebellions in America before slavery was abolished in 1865....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery-iv-slave-rebellions

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[efabuloushb]

The ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ Performed Shocking Experiments on Slaves

Sims’ research was conducted on enslaved black women without anesthesia, medical ethicists, historians and others have called for those monuments to be removed—or for them to be reconfigured as tributes to the enslaved women known to have endured his experiments....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaves

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[efabuloushb]

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 - Black History - HISTORY.com

On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths. His death, and the police’s refusal to arrest the white man whom eyewitnesses identified as causing it, sparked a week of rioting between gangs of black and white Chicagoans, concentrated on the South Side neighborhood surrounding the stockyards. When the riots ended on August 3, 15 whites and 23 blacks had been killed and more than 500 people injured; an additional 1,000 black families had lost their homes when they were torched by rioters....#BlackAmerican #BlackWomen #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #DescendantsOfSlaves #BlackAmerica #BlackPeople #History #Culture #Melanin #MelaninMagic #EfabulousHB #MommyFab #FabWorld #NeverForget... http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/chicago-race-riot-of-1919

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