Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
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I got an early taste when I discovered that Ethiopians don't really mix well with other blacks in America - different aesthetics.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 6:39am
I got to know difference in sub-cultures just working in NY with Americans with Caribbean background, if you got friendly enough with same they would give off to you that they consider themselves quite different in culture than people of southern U.S. heritage even though also descended from slaves. And for chrissakes why wouldn't they be? No one would be so idiotic as to think someone with white skin descended from Caribbean parents would grow up with the same culture as someone with white skin from Mississippi!
Now I've got a sister-in-law that is an immigrant from Africa and via marriage she's got herself a half "Afro-American" grownup stepdaughter, my niece. You betcha I hear about the cultural differences!
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 7:04am
This seems like an ultimately healthy discussion
There were discussions about whether Obama was black. A majority of whites said “No”. A majority of blacks said “Yes”. Is there something that makes blacks who were not descended from enslaved people more acceptable to whites?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/04/14/is-barack-obam...
From the Philly.com article regarding ethnic purity of enslaved people:
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Some black Americans want to redefine themselves as an "American Descendant of Slavery," or ADOS, rather than African American.
Antonio Moore, a lawyer in California, and Yvette Carnell, a former journalist and congressional aide, appear to be leading the charge. The two make regular YouTube videos arguing that people whose ancestors were enslaved have a "justice claim" that black immigrants don't.
"We have been doing 'people of color' politics, but if you want to talk about what people who have been identified as African Americans need and what we are owed, then we have to change that definition." Carnell said.
On her videos, she has often criticized former President Barack Obama for saying this is a nation of immigrants. "We were not immigrants. We were property, we were chattel slaves. That's a difference.
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From the Philly.com article regarding African immigrants:
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Michelle Saahene's voice was heard around the world when she spoke in April at the Center City Starbucks where a manager called the police on two black American men because they asked to use the bathroom without placing an order.
"They didn't do anything," Saahene, of Philadelphia, said in the viral video of the incident.
Raised in Central Pennsylvania, Saahene, now 32, said it was difficult for her to negotiate her racial identity as the daughter of immigrants growing up in Palmyra, a predominantly white town near Lebanon. Her teachers treated her well because she excelled in school. But at Pennsylvania State University and other places, she felt she got the cold shoulder from African American students
Since those times, she has traveled back to Ghana. At Elmina Castle, where captured Africans were held before being taken on ships destined for the Americas, she wept.
"I … imagined what it was like to experience the torture, the rape and murder, and I looked out on the ocean and imagined being on a boat, sailing away, and I got sick to my stomach. When I got back to America, it was impossible for me to look at all African Americans and not see them as my possible brothers and sisters, neighbors and family and friends in Africa.
"To me, this feud between Africans and African Americans, it's terrible and it needs to stop."
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Benin apologized for its role in slavery
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-05-01-0005010158-story.html
Ghana apologized for slavery
https://www.modernghana.com/news/102692/1/ghana-apologizes-to-slaves-des...
The apologizes open the door to further discussion between African Americans and African immigrants.
Slavery created divisions and its lasting impacts have never been fully addressed. There were different experiences in Africa, the Caribbean experience, and the experience in the United States which can make blacks in the diaspora strangers to each other. This is not a skin color or DNA discussion, it is a genealogy and culture discussion..
Along similar lines, the actor Dwayne Johnson for portraying a dark skinned fictional hero, John Henry in a Netflix movie.
I think it’s healthy to get these issues out in the open rather than keep them bottled up.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 9:15am
African immigrants may, over time, find more in common with blacks born in the United States. We have the murder of Amadeus Diablo by the NYPD in 1999.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-05/how-legacy-amadou-diallo-lives-ne...
There was the death of Alfred Olango in California. He was mentally ill.
http://time.com/4531836/black-immigrants/
Bontham Shem Jean was killed in his own apartment. He had marijuana
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/14/dallas-pol...
The brother of a Facebook executive was tased to death in California. He was mentally ill
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/16/san-francisco-sheriff-ta...
Skin color does not mean that culture and genealogy are identical. Black skin color can increase certain societal risks. Hypertension is more common in Blacks in the United States than those in Jamaica and Nigeria.
When looking at birth rates, we find chilling data.
Experts wondered if the high rates of infant death in black women, understood to be related to small, preterm babies, had a genetic component. Were black women passing along a defect that was affecting their offspring? But science has refuted that theory too: A 1997 study published by two Chicago neonatologists, Richard David and James Collins, in The New England Journal of Medicine found that babies born to new immigrants from impoverished West African nations weighed more than their black American-born counterparts and were similar in size to white babies. In other words, they were more likely to be born full term, which lowers the risk of death. In 2002, the same researchers made a further discovery: The daughters of African and Caribbean immigrants who grew up in the United States went on to have babies who were smaller than their mothers had been at birth, while the grandchildren of white European women actually weighed more than their mothers had at birth. It took just one generation for the American black-white disparity to manifest
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-m...
There are risks for all black people that comes with living in the United States.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 11:43am