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All FBAs aren't the same. America is big as hell. A born and bred FBA from Philadelphia,  Mississippi is very different culturally, accent, etc, than a born and bred FBA If from Philadelphia, Pa.


The FBA from Philadelphia, Pa would have more in common with a non FBA from Philly than he would from the FBA brother from Philadelphia, Ms.


Because systemic and endemic racism is practiced all over America, they share an immediate bond. If both are in an all white area in Denver, they give each other the brotha nod, we all know well.


The SAME with the on code non FBAs. If you are a black person period, stopping at a gas station in an all white town in Arkansas, your car got California tags, another car has a Barbados bumper sticker and NY tags, you are giving each other the brotha nod. You are both 'behind enemy lines' and know that you are both equally at risk.


What bonds or should bond ALL blacks in America, especially black men is that systemic racism overtly and covertly is practiced nationally, 24/7 and it bonds us all.


One person may not share the ancestry of the killing fields of the south, but they share as hell share the reality of the present of being black in America.


This other stuff? Cultural this and that, etc, that can all work itself if everyone involved is fighting white supremacy.