How Africans Exploit “Blackness" | Diaspora Theory

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]But for some reason, somehow someway, what y'all just can't get through your thick skull is that in the context of American society, that word has doubled as an ethnic group and a racial identifier. And before we came in, I'm putting myself in there, too. Before immigrants came in that happened to have melanin before everybody else came in, it was redundant and irrelevant to make any distinctions between racialized black groups because black Americans were the only ones here. So uh s sorry that is so hard for you to comprehend I comprehend so hard for you to comprehend that it's fundamentally contradictory >> that yes black is a race but it has always doubled as an ethnic identifier that technicality is what y'all always try to exploit as though you walk around this earth saying you black. You do not do that.

[00:00:45]>> And during the few moments that we have left we want to have just an offthe cuff chat between you and me.

[00:00:53]>> These people are uh skin walkers. Um um I follow a young lady in the um UK and she she um she was saying you know they're Caribbean and black Brit saying black British is um eras is an eraser of their people and they and they and they're um Caribbean. They like being saying that they're Caribbean West Indian and it's the Africans that's arguing them down over I know WE THE SAME BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE ARE IRRELEVANT. Africans are irrelevant.

[00:01:21]They are bastards to the world. They are work. They go places and co-op and want to become the people that was there because they don't have no motion.

[00:01:31]They had when they said jazz was in from the Congo and I know Louis Armstrong went to Africa playing jazz and and them um them and they with they little banana leaves that they had on their privacies was looking at him like he was crazy.

[00:01:46]Oh, now y'all report me. Y'all haters.

[00:01:48]I'll be back, sis. I'mma go down in the comments and >> Oh, yeah. There's there's hating.

[00:01:54]Request backup. They was hating though.

[00:01:56]Um they they someone reported her, y'all. Someone reported her. There's hating. But what she said isn't what she said isn't a lie. What she said isn't a lie. Personally, I don't I don't really have much sympathy for what's going on in the UK as far as as far as Africans who are, you know, trying to take West Indian spot. What she's saying is true, though. When you look at what people are trying to call black British culture, 99.9% of it is West Indian culture, 99.9% of it is West Indian culture. And even when you look into that, a vast majority of it is Jamaican culture, right? That's a whole another topic. But I don't really have much sympathy because I said this a little earlier. I tried to warn my people. I said there is such a thing as cultural boundaries. And you y'all are not only you're practicing none. But y'all spent the last decade, holding hands, skipping and holding arms, pointing and laughing at black Americans saying, "Oh, y'all have no culture. We're the only ones with culture." Did they or did they not do that? We're talking about UK uh West Indians and Africans specifically. They not right in the head over there. I'm going just say that. A lot of them per capita are not right in the head over there. Remember when y'all discovered Scottish, black Scottish people, how they acted? Remember how the UK people including West Indians, it don't matter what's happening with them now, that they getting snuffed out by the Africans cuz they done they sold their birthight to them. They spent the last 10 uh years, the last decade or so, skipping and holding hands. And it was all fun and games then. It was all fun and games then. Now, now y'all got Now y'all feeling a type of way. Hm. What's going on? Uh, Africans are trying to be us.

[00:03:37]Africans are trying to steal us.

[00:03:39]Africans are trying to do that. I us know you know, you know, since you know what it boils down to, you know, we just got to be honest about it. Um, you know, without without us, you know, allowing Africans to connect themselves to us, they have nothing. Like, nobody cares about them, you know, like nobody wants to be African. This is a fact. Nobody cares to be African. You know what you just said is very important. I think what you just said is very important.

[00:04:09]You don't want to be African. That's the point. You don't want to be African.

[00:04:12]>> People go to Africa. People go to Africa when they want to when they want to look at lions and, you know, and animals like that, you know, when they want when they want cheap living, a cheap cost of living, you know, where you can you can you can use $5 to to live in on a month a month's worth of food and stuff. Why people go to Africa? People don't go to Africa for no other reason.

[00:04:37]>> FBA Nate, if you're in the room, request backup.

[00:04:40]>> This is why they This is why they try to connect themselves to us cuz like I said, they they they have no culture.

[00:04:46]They have nobody cares about them, you know, at the end of the day.

[00:04:50]>> Yeah. It's unfortunate. And you know, no one wants to have to say stuff like that, but at some point you have to start accepting reality for what it is.

[00:05:01]Cuz what FBA Nate was up here talking about is not a lie. Okay? Their entire comeup is pretend, especially coming here to America, their entire comeup is pretending to be everyone they're not.

[00:05:13]They came into this country saying they're Jamaican, saying they're St. Lucian, saying they're Antiguin. Okay?

[00:05:20]They came into this country pretending to be us. So then on top of that, they want to talk about how they was bullied.

[00:05:25]How do we know you was even bullied for being African when you was walking around here calling yourself Jamaican?

[00:05:30]That's a whole another topic. I And I just find the excuse of oh well, you know, we didn't we just wanted to fit in or we didn't want to stick out or whatever. I don't even I don't even buy that cuz all you're telling me is that you have low esteem because right now on Flatbush, matter of fact, in the middle of winter, you could see a Jamaican with a fishnet tank top with some subwoofers playing Barz Hammond and Buju Bontton, okay? and some combat boots and some jean shorts from from the East Bay catalog in early 2000s. Okay. I'm I'm not buying.

[00:06:01]>> What does that have to do with being Jamaican?

[00:06:02]>> I'm not I'm not buying. You had you had you were so concerned about sticking out because every other group demographic came in this country not caring what they bringing their wearing what they brought from home. Okay. Y'all don't walk around in no Klo. Y'all don't walk around your traditional garments. I could find a Jamaican right now wearing a reggae a reggae fish tank top in in New York City. Okay. I could see what's the Indian wearing what they wear back home right now. So I don't even buy this. Oh well, you know, we just wanted to fit in. Y'all literally said you was Jamaican. You didn't just not dress like Africans. You said you was a whole another ethnic group. Okay.

[00:06:38]Tyler, you're not wearing traditional garments either, though. A whole South African came on a worldwide stage saying she wants to be Rihanna 2.0. A whole Beijian. Y'all want to be everyone you're not. Shabuzzi got a Shabuzi doing a whole black American genre. He not even doing Afro beats. And then when y'all do Afro beats that is heavily influenced by black Americans anyway. As quiet as it's kept. Y'all like to play like you don't y'all don't know that Afro beats exist because black Americans do. Hello fell and you exist because Africans exist. Y'all already told on yourselves, oh we we used to idolize black Americans. We watch them all the time. Afro beats is inspired by Y. We already got the tea. We already got the tea. Even just because Africans exist.

[00:07:19]Even when y'all do Afro beats, you dress head to toe like a black American in the early 2000s who robbed the who who who who got just ordered everything off of East Bay magazine. You ordered everything off of East Bay magazine. We in 2026. If even when y'all do, you dress head to toe in a East Bay catalog magazine from the early 2000s. Okay.

[00:07:40]>> Yeah. Look at Remma's drip. Let me see your daddy that dress like that. Let me see your uncle that dress like that. Let me see let me see your grandfather that dress like that. Zero zil. Nobody knew.

[00:07:49]Y'all know exactly who you copying.

[00:07:51]Okay? Y'all know exactly who you copying. Nobody from where you at dress like that. Okay? So, even when y'all do your own stuff, you somehow someway got to appear as someone you're not. Uh, who else?

[00:08:03]>> I had a I had a I had an African I had an African u woman tell me the truth one time, you know, about African dudes and the difference between black American men and African men. saying she said she said >> she said she said that >> Yeah. She said that you know African men don't have no swag. Like black American men just are the way we walk and talk is just all swagger. You know what I mean?

[00:08:29]And and and these guys they don't have it. They just don't have it.

[00:08:33]>> True.

[00:08:34]>> They don't have blood. What makes you black is your African ancestry.

[00:08:39]>> African ancestry.

[00:08:41]Jason respond to this cuz y'all like to play hopscotch around this word black. You like to exploit this word black. Okay. A any person who happens to have melanin could go any place on the planet right now. Russia.

[00:08:55]>> That's not what I said.

[00:08:56]>> Russia. Hold on. Hold on. Russia, China, India, anyone. They're going to be like, if you a male, they're going to be like Jay-Z. Jay-Z. If you a female, they're gonna be like, "Bye, Beyonce." They not gonna say no African name. Okay? Y'all try to act like just because you've been racialized as black. Just because you've been put under this classifi classification as black that y'all somehow some have this relationship to black are the face of black. Have cultivated an identity around black.

[00:09:22]Y'all not the face of black. You haven't cultivated around the word black. And the first thing y'all say when you come in here is this is the first day I learned I was black. Okay? So y'all try to weaponize this word black when it's not even your card to play. It's not you don't have that card to play cuz y'all walk around the earth saying you're African or you're your country and it's only till you migrate out of it that you even learn you're black.

[00:09:45]>> Show me. Show me. Show me.

[00:09:46]>> So black is a racial category. Black doesn't exist.

[00:09:50]>> Black doesn't exist, right?

[00:09:54]Black is a racial category. But for some reason, somehow someway, what y'all just can't get through your thick skull is that in the context of American society, that word has doubled as an ethnic group and a racial identifier. And before we came in, I'm putting myself in there, too. Before immigrants came in that happened to have melanin before everybody else came in, it was redundant and irrelevant to make any distinctions between racialized black groups because black Americans were the only ones here.

[00:10:22]So uh s sorry that is so hard for you to comprehend I comprehend so hard for you to comprehend that it's fundamentally contradictory >> that yes black is a race but it has always doubled as an ethnic identifier but it's fundamental that technicality is what y'all always try to exploit as though you walk around this earth saying you black you do not do that you know you know you know you know you know you just had an issue had an issue with black British people calling it black history month in Britain when you just realize that it's a racial category you have no problem with them calling it black history you know, you know, I love this one. He said, "It's no issue with calling it Black History Month in the UK because in the UK it's a racial category." That's so funny because if all of y'all go to Google right now, every single government form application, whatever you have to sign, there's no racial categorization of any person in the UK. Go to Google right now. It's all based on ethnicity. all based on ethnicity because uh categorizing by race can lead to discriminatory practices and we know that you know in America those are the problem countries so it's not gain anytime sooner but he's trying he's trying to say that it's it's race is not used in the UK that does not mean black history month in the UK because it's a classification there's no upon category there's no societal construct there's nothing in the UK that forces any of them to identify as black.

[00:11:51]Literally, there is nothing that forces them to identify as black. It is literally to the tea an ethnic category.

[00:12:00]If you go to on an application, that junk is going to say black, >> West Indian, Jamaican. That even if you are biracial, that junk is going to say you are a white and black biracial. You are a Asian and white biracial.

[00:12:16]literally two. Okay. So, did he or chat did he or not? Did he or not?

[00:12:23]>> Did he say that Black History Month is appropriate to call it Black History Month because it is a racial categorization in the UK? Yes or no, chat?

[00:12:32]>> I said that. I said it.

[00:12:33]>> Yes, he did. Yes, he did. racial category.