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Caribbean Immigrant Joins Tariq Nasheed's Twitter Space, Gets Put In A Pack
One thing I notice about off code non FBAs and FBAs is this.
I'll start with the FBAs. They leave the black community physically and mentally and never come back. Thomas Sowell is from Harlem. Larry Elder went to Crenshaw HS in south Central and if you are in Cali you know that school from winning multiple state titles in b-ball. Ice Tee went there. My first gf in LA was a grad. Anyway, these guys leave the community first chance they got and never returned nor do they ever live in any community with a sizeable black population. So, their selling out has no consequence on their home life. They don't have many black friends. The sell out blacks I have known if you look at their FB the only blacks they have are family members, other sell outs or someone from childhood they have a history with.
With the non FBA sell outs, I notice something. You get fooled thinking that the ones that talk without a foreign accent have black friends. They don't. They don't have many black American friends. No way blacks are going to put up with someone who says their community are below them. Just stands to reason. They might have to live in a black community because of their finances but their circle is from their own lineage. The Ethiopian chick that keeps calling up Tariq, I guarantee you we can count the black American close friends with one hand. She only hangs with people from her community, and if she has an American accent or if she's British, she hangs with the same 2nd generation Ethiopians. Somalis are the same. They have a mixture of Somali friends who speak with no accent or someone that still does. They borrow black American slang but only use it among themselves.
They can sell out because they were never part of the larger black community.
Finally, its generational. The non American blacks that came up prior to the 90s were almost all Caribbean. In NYC and the northeast they fit in very easily with FBA for the most part. Patrick Ewing is from Boston. Early hip hop had a lot of Caribbean rappers (Special Ed, Phife from Tribe Called Quest, a couple of the Fat Boys, Biggie Smalls, Slick Rick) notice that you never rarely ever heard them mention their lineage? And if so it was never in a condescending way. They were similar to others who grew up with and among FBAs and moved as one. They repped their neighborhood or projects over anything else, including their lineage. Not that they weren't proud but in the same way as someone whose family was from Alabama originally in NYC would tell you that Jesse Owens, Hank Aaron were from Alabama. Not better than your spot but just shouting out what your parents or grandparents spot had some notable folks.
Reggae back then was very pan African. Bob Marley talked about Buffalo Soldiers (..in the heart of America). There is a reggae song way back in the day, 70s called Black Star Liner about Marcus Garvey bringing blacks from the Americas back to Africa.
When there were racial fights in those days, everyone black backed everyone black, didn't matter lineage. The white supremacists figured this out and started making immigration more invasive. They screened for coons in the '90s and forward. The Caribbean and Africans immigrants or persons descended from who were anti FBA only had friends from that community almost exclusively. The blacks they knew from HS were associates, they didn't hang with them while in school much and certainly once HS was over. They went to Bajan, Yardie parties. The Africans who came up were far more cliquish. I know some Nigerians but I'm the only non Nigerian they f*ck with and its only because one was a coworker and I knew a lot about soccer and knew their top players (Kanu on here's screen name is one of them).
Basically there is a pattern. The off code non FBAs don't f*ck with anyone outside their community, by and large. There is a few that straddle both communities. Nikki Minaj is like that. Rihanna is like that to a lesser extent. Those are the ones that are the most dangerous in my book. You know the real get down when its time to put in work and support the fight against white supremacy.
An example of one who is like the old school is Godfrey. Rare for a Nigerian. But he grew up with homies from the hood. I got stopped by cops and harassed with my boys and alone the same as my boys. I got followed around stores the same as my homies. I got the same racist azz teachers. Got called N bombs by the Irish and Italian kids same as my homies, we slept over each others house, macked to girls as teenagers together. When I heard black American history it was 'my' history (if you get my context). Same as when I heard what Mansa Musa did, etc, its all my history. The Haitain Revolution was my history. Directly or tangentially. When I, when we, debate any history with white folks we don't distinguish the Egyptians, from Mansa Musa, from the Haitains, from Harriet Tubman. A white boy with Irish background has no ehtnic connection to the Greeks or Cleopatra but will argue their being white as if they are greek or egypitian.
The surprise to me is that FBAs who grew up with non FBAs homies either don't see it or do, but would rather pretend it isn't and lump all non FBAs into the same group. Same with non FBAs I know who act like they didn't face the same white supremacy as FBAs but act like its not their fight. I actually understand, I should say. Some people need to feel superior because of where they are in life. So, any available group to look down on is done. Somalis whose family came from small towns with no indoor toilets get a chance for the first time to feel superior over someone. FBAs who are in a dead end job, life sucks, nothing going on, get a chance to feel superior over someone.
My hope and my belief is that over time, those of us who are on code and seeing ANY melanated person fighting as a brother or sister. Its the only way we can win as a people.
I'll start with the FBAs. They leave the black community physically and mentally and never come back. Thomas Sowell is from Harlem. Larry Elder went to Crenshaw HS in south Central and if you are in Cali you know that school from winning multiple state titles in b-ball. Ice Tee went there. My first gf in LA was a grad. Anyway, these guys leave the community first chance they got and never returned nor do they ever live in any community with a sizeable black population. So, their selling out has no consequence on their home life. They don't have many black friends. The sell out blacks I have known if you look at their FB the only blacks they have are family members, other sell outs or someone from childhood they have a history with.
With the non FBA sell outs, I notice something. You get fooled thinking that the ones that talk without a foreign accent have black friends. They don't. They don't have many black American friends. No way blacks are going to put up with someone who says their community are below them. Just stands to reason. They might have to live in a black community because of their finances but their circle is from their own lineage. The Ethiopian chick that keeps calling up Tariq, I guarantee you we can count the black American close friends with one hand. She only hangs with people from her community, and if she has an American accent or if she's British, she hangs with the same 2nd generation Ethiopians. Somalis are the same. They have a mixture of Somali friends who speak with no accent or someone that still does. They borrow black American slang but only use it among themselves.
They can sell out because they were never part of the larger black community.
Finally, its generational. The non American blacks that came up prior to the 90s were almost all Caribbean. In NYC and the northeast they fit in very easily with FBA for the most part. Patrick Ewing is from Boston. Early hip hop had a lot of Caribbean rappers (Special Ed, Phife from Tribe Called Quest, a couple of the Fat Boys, Biggie Smalls, Slick Rick) notice that you never rarely ever heard them mention their lineage? And if so it was never in a condescending way. They were similar to others who grew up with and among FBAs and moved as one. They repped their neighborhood or projects over anything else, including their lineage. Not that they weren't proud but in the same way as someone whose family was from Alabama originally in NYC would tell you that Jesse Owens, Hank Aaron were from Alabama. Not better than your spot but just shouting out what your parents or grandparents spot had some notable folks.
Reggae back then was very pan African. Bob Marley talked about Buffalo Soldiers (..in the heart of America). There is a reggae song way back in the day, 70s called Black Star Liner about Marcus Garvey bringing blacks from the Americas back to Africa.
When there were racial fights in those days, everyone black backed everyone black, didn't matter lineage. The white supremacists figured this out and started making immigration more invasive. They screened for coons in the '90s and forward. The Caribbean and Africans immigrants or persons descended from who were anti FBA only had friends from that community almost exclusively. The blacks they knew from HS were associates, they didn't hang with them while in school much and certainly once HS was over. They went to Bajan, Yardie parties. The Africans who came up were far more cliquish. I know some Nigerians but I'm the only non Nigerian they f*ck with and its only because one was a coworker and I knew a lot about soccer and knew their top players (Kanu on here's screen name is one of them).
Basically there is a pattern. The off code non FBAs don't f*ck with anyone outside their community, by and large. There is a few that straddle both communities. Nikki Minaj is like that. Rihanna is like that to a lesser extent. Those are the ones that are the most dangerous in my book. You know the real get down when its time to put in work and support the fight against white supremacy.
An example of one who is like the old school is Godfrey. Rare for a Nigerian. But he grew up with homies from the hood. I got stopped by cops and harassed with my boys and alone the same as my boys. I got followed around stores the same as my homies. I got the same racist azz teachers. Got called N bombs by the Irish and Italian kids same as my homies, we slept over each others house, macked to girls as teenagers together. When I heard black American history it was 'my' history (if you get my context). Same as when I heard what Mansa Musa did, etc, its all my history. The Haitain Revolution was my history. Directly or tangentially. When I, when we, debate any history with white folks we don't distinguish the Egyptians, from Mansa Musa, from the Haitains, from Harriet Tubman. A white boy with Irish background has no ehtnic connection to the Greeks or Cleopatra but will argue their being white as if they are greek or egypitian.
The surprise to me is that FBAs who grew up with non FBAs homies either don't see it or do, but would rather pretend it isn't and lump all non FBAs into the same group. Same with non FBAs I know who act like they didn't face the same white supremacy as FBAs but act like its not their fight. I actually understand, I should say. Some people need to feel superior because of where they are in life. So, any available group to look down on is done. Somalis whose family came from small towns with no indoor toilets get a chance for the first time to feel superior over someone. FBAs who are in a dead end job, life sucks, nothing going on, get a chance to feel superior over someone.
My hope and my belief is that over time, those of us who are on code and seeing ANY melanated person fighting as a brother or sister. Its the only way we can win as a people.