Black in Africa VS Black in America #slavery #africa #ethnicity #blacklivesmatter #history

@aeafilmsuk

[cropsey]

Every Americans, no matter of skin color, will realize how american they are once they get outside of their country.

[lupine.spirit]

I was once called racist because I said that dividing people into “races” like they do in the US doesn’t make much sense in the rest of the world.

[Saint_Maurice_Clothing]

My Russian buddy said he didnt know he was "white" until he came to America. He said : "whatever "white" is I'm NOT that...but I am I guess". as an African that always made sense to me.

[sasousousa]

Exactly. That's the big difference between black american and black from outside of the usa. They think the skin color unites everyone but it's not true at all. You summed it up really well.

[BlastinRope]

moral of the story is that humans find ways to divide themselves no matter what

[giuseppecappelluti]

Claiming Black Africans are all the same is like claiming all Caucasians are all the same.

[giovannigiorgio]

What makes it worse is, in America, they group by skin color first, and often only that. Despite the fact that there are vastly different cultures within those groups, they expect everyone to think and behave the same way.

[gingerbread]

As a black American woman I do not like to be called African American. I was not born in Africa.

[vogelvogeltje]

You’re right, you weren’t separated by race, you were separated by tribe. Some African tribes sold others off because they didn’t see the other as “the same”. It wasn’t just one big happy African family, you had conflicts between the Xhosa and the zulus, the Zulu vs Ndwandwe war, Conflicts between Herero and the Nama peoples, Bantu peoples pushing out the Khoisan speaking peoples from their ancestral homes… etc.

Btw: before anyone thinks I’m some umlungu trying to sow discord, I’m Mexican indigenous. I just read a whole lot about geopolitics and history.

[TheOttomila]

As a European, I found quite weird to fill American forms that asked for my "race". I didn't even know what a Caucasian was

[eb]

Exactly! As an African this is my biggest obstacle in trying to understand African Americans and them funneling all identity down to race when we see it as a layered thing.

[StarOnTheWater]

It's similar in Europe. Here the primary factor to putting someone on a box is their language/accent/dialect.
Sadly many people still think "Africa" and "Asia" are countries though. 😒

[st]

But the same thing is in Europe too, especially in Eastern Europe. We do not see ourselves primarily as “ white “ either . I’m from south East Europe ( the Balkans) I live in NYC since 2015 . I always find it very annoying to be named as white all the time and every part of my identity is being reduced to “ whiteness “ .

[AdaptiveApeHybrid]

Shit, my Italian side of the family acts like other Italians from different towns in the same region are an alien species

[adamesd]

An African American friend of mine came back from a trip to Africa all upset. He said the locals viewed him as white because he was American.

[tutuadefolalu]

Thank you for breaking this down. As a Nigerian in the US, it’s hard to explain this at times.

[cosmo]

Moral of the story, it doesn’t matter how homogenous a society is, people will always find ways to differentiate themselves.

[alvodin]

"Differentiation is not separation" -Alan Watts.

[DinoSBlaise]

You don't have to arrive to Africa with the Black power mentality, we are all Black.

[medferhy]

Africa is the most ethnic diverse continent