Started by throwintheTAL, September 30, 2015, 12:18:57 PM
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Quote from: MΛΥDΛΥ on September 30, 2015, 09:06:59 PMQuote from: Young on September 30, 2015, 07:11:35 PMQuote from: Herb. on September 30, 2015, 06:57:34 PMQuote from: Young on September 30, 2015, 06:30:06 PMI'm crying Not everyone is gonna careYeah, but that doesn't mean that I'll judge them.I mean last year I really didn't care enough to look into it.Didn't mean I was an idiot, just means I wasn't curious. lol.Nothing wrong with identifying yourself as "just black"But I think the harm comes from insulting others who actually care about their roots....by telling them they're "just black". Or looking down on those who aren't yet curious to find out where they come from. Some people, in my opinion, are just irreversibly miserable in some way, and can find the negative in anything put before them. That's something they'd need to address on their own time, and it's a process which is way more tedious and revealing than any DNA test. Good luckSee I agree that we shouldn't judge themBut the term "Black" is so generic and it's a new term.I think that sad part is that it's a name given to us."black" literally doesn't point us back to anything (for us here in the U.S) . Just that we have ancestors that were slaves and now we're here in the U.S. There's no richness or beauty in that tbh. Or at least IMO.And I really didn't understand that until i started traveling and people identify themselves with their origins. Whether it's from multiple places or just one. For example people from Hawaii don't say "I'm Hawaiian" if they're not original Hawaiians. They say "I'm half Filipino , and part Japanese and German " for example.That's their identity. That's beautiful because it depicts a picture."black" just gives me ????And I use to tell people When they'd ask that I was black. Just black. And then they would say okay but I could tell it didn't really ANSWER the question for them. And then I started realizing that I could trace ancestors from Japan (and even my Irish and Indian relatives) . My " black" just stopped with America. And it kinda saddened me. We have such a deeper and richer history and we need to trace that. And tbh sis YOU also helped me realize that. So thank you.We are SO much more than just "Black". And I won't tell people that anymore....once I do my DNA teaYES SIS!!! This post just gave me everlasting LIFE!Ugh, I love you!
Quote from: Young on September 30, 2015, 07:11:35 PMQuote from: Herb. on September 30, 2015, 06:57:34 PMQuote from: Young on September 30, 2015, 06:30:06 PMI'm crying Not everyone is gonna careYeah, but that doesn't mean that I'll judge them.I mean last year I really didn't care enough to look into it.Didn't mean I was an idiot, just means I wasn't curious. lol.Nothing wrong with identifying yourself as "just black"But I think the harm comes from insulting others who actually care about their roots....by telling them they're "just black". Or looking down on those who aren't yet curious to find out where they come from. Some people, in my opinion, are just irreversibly miserable in some way, and can find the negative in anything put before them. That's something they'd need to address on their own time, and it's a process which is way more tedious and revealing than any DNA test. Good luckSee I agree that we shouldn't judge themBut the term "Black" is so generic and it's a new term.I think that sad part is that it's a name given to us."black" literally doesn't point us back to anything (for us here in the U.S) . Just that we have ancestors that were slaves and now we're here in the U.S. There's no richness or beauty in that tbh. Or at least IMO.And I really didn't understand that until i started traveling and people identify themselves with their origins. Whether it's from multiple places or just one. For example people from Hawaii don't say "I'm Hawaiian" if they're not original Hawaiians. They say "I'm half Filipino , and part Japanese and German " for example.That's their identity. That's beautiful because it depicts a picture."black" just gives me ????And I use to tell people When they'd ask that I was black. Just black. And then they would say okay but I could tell it didn't really ANSWER the question for them. And then I started realizing that I could trace ancestors from Japan (and even my Irish and Indian relatives) . My " black" just stopped with America. And it kinda saddened me. We have such a deeper and richer history and we need to trace that. And tbh sis YOU also helped me realize that. So thank you.We are SO much more than just "Black". And I won't tell people that anymore....once I do my DNA tea
Quote from: Herb. on September 30, 2015, 06:57:34 PMQuote from: Young on September 30, 2015, 06:30:06 PMI'm crying Not everyone is gonna careYeah, but that doesn't mean that I'll judge them.I mean last year I really didn't care enough to look into it.Didn't mean I was an idiot, just means I wasn't curious. lol.Nothing wrong with identifying yourself as "just black"But I think the harm comes from insulting others who actually care about their roots....by telling them they're "just black". Or looking down on those who aren't yet curious to find out where they come from. Some people, in my opinion, are just irreversibly miserable in some way, and can find the negative in anything put before them. That's something they'd need to address on their own time, and it's a process which is way more tedious and revealing than any DNA test. Good luck
Quote from: Young on September 30, 2015, 06:30:06 PMI'm crying Not everyone is gonna care
Quote from: Stewie on September 30, 2015, 10:08:35 PMim kinda cruious about youngs dna results...if theres japanese in there then i'll know the test is kinda reliable
Quote from: Kurama on September 30, 2015, 10:29:24 PMIt's just so fuckin ironic and rich to hear people who were just condeming Black people for their behaviors while undermining the struggles they face in America a FEW months ago, try to lecture or harp on other's about what they feel it means to be Black or the importance of the word/ethnicity.
Quote from: L0NZ. on September 30, 2015, 11:05:23 PMQuote from: Kurama on September 30, 2015, 10:31:30 PMAnd yeah thx, where Lonz go what's up?Not an experience being a fuckin reduction while a nationality isn't
Quote from: Kurama on September 30, 2015, 10:31:30 PMAnd yeah thx, where Lonz go what's up?Not an experience being a fuckin reduction while a nationality isn't
Quote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 07:03:08 PMQuote from: RED on September 30, 2015, 07:01:32 PMQuote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 06:58:17 PMQuote from: RED on September 30, 2015, 06:56:30 PMQuote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 06:54:55 PMLiberian Jellof Rice>>>> Nigerian Jellof Rice (filled with tomato paste) ok?!?im sorry but Nigerian food looks atrocious and tasteless we actually add meats and vegetables in our jellof ricehhhhhjjThey use POWERED EVERTHINGBitch powered tomatoes?!?From where?!?Oh ok \im hollering!!!
Quote from: RED on September 30, 2015, 07:01:32 PMQuote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 06:58:17 PMQuote from: RED on September 30, 2015, 06:56:30 PMQuote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 06:54:55 PMLiberian Jellof Rice>>>> Nigerian Jellof Rice (filled with tomato paste) ok?!?im sorry but Nigerian food looks atrocious and tasteless we actually add meats and vegetables in our jellof ricehhhhhjjThey use POWERED EVERTHINGBitch powered tomatoes?!?From where?!?Oh ok
Quote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 06:58:17 PMQuote from: RED on September 30, 2015, 06:56:30 PMQuote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 06:54:55 PMLiberian Jellof Rice>>>> Nigerian Jellof Rice (filled with tomato paste) ok?!?im sorry but Nigerian food looks atrocious and tasteless we actually add meats and vegetables in our jellof rice
Quote from: RED on September 30, 2015, 06:56:30 PMQuote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 06:54:55 PMLiberian Jellof Rice>>>> Nigerian Jellof Rice (filled with tomato paste) ok?!?
Quote from: Hugo on September 30, 2015, 06:54:55 PMLiberian Jellof Rice>>>> Nigerian Jellof Rice (filled with tomato paste)
Quote from: Cartier on October 01, 2015, 07:27:19 AMAll this GODgeria dragging, are y'all fckin ok? And Jayds luv, I didn't know you were fucking a Naija man, get it sis.
