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{ Team StarKid } I like African Americans that APPRECIATE (not appropriate) - ::QUEER HAIRY VAGINA::
I like African Americans that APPRECIATE (not appropriate)

fumblingtowardshappiness:

queerhairyvag:


fumblingtowardshappiness replied to your chat: I like African Americans that APPRECIATE (not appropriate)
not to nitpick but on this here: “Cries about ‘not getting anything’ due to slavery” I do not see anything wrong with being angry at system that has spent centuries making sure you and your family are economically stunted for generations to come.

Me neither. Let me explain:

Nobody. I repeat. Nobody is stupid to think that African Americans(AAs) aren’t supposed to be angry and fustrated at a system that robbed them of a chance to know their past. It is absolutely right for AAs to feel this way.

This is where they can learn/visit whatever countries they like in Africa and get to know one particular country they are interested in (or many cultures) and being cuirios and genuinely interested in getting to know a place so they can feel some connection, or just out of curiosity and enjoyment or a combination of both. whatever the reason, so long as  they respect a culture by learning/asking/knowing? they are appreciating a palce and not demanding instant love and aodration just because we all share the same skin color and ancestors. 

When you’re ignorant though, you just wear whatever you like from as many cultures as possible simply because ‘it looks cool and pretty and is African”. the belif that you can wear and do whatever you want just because it comes from an African culture and you haven’t even researched on it and you act as if you can do whatever just because your ancestors were from Africa creates a multitude of problems

1. it makes some people from africa dislike you. remember, no African has a problem with african americans. until you start to think that wearing their Gele or Ankhs without any interest apart from wanting to look african is not appreciating a culture. it’s appropriating. 

2. this reinforces outdated stereotypes about countries in Africa and the people there. 

3. This makes the ignorant A think that africas are arrognat/rude just because they are reacting to their culture being appropriated, not appreciated.

Yeah there was nothing wrong with those points you made (learn, if you have the time and resources to do that, about the cultures who’s symbols you’ve adopted, etc).

That particular sentence (“Cries about ‘not getting anything’ due to slavery”) rubbed me the wrong way, and it did not seem like it fit in the whole point you were making. I agree with everything else. I was caught off guard by that one sentence, which was something I see written by people who try to shame Black Americans for talking about slavery.

Thanks for clarifying for me. I was worried there! lol

No problem. Im sure there some people from african countries who mock AAs about their fustration with the results of slavery just for the sake of mocking them.

 but I know many people from africa who say stuff like this because of the fustration they feel from watching AAs mock and appropriate different cultures from Africa and not giving a damn. It’s offensive. it hurts and it’s irritating.  and because of these reactions felt by many africans, AAs think africans are arrogant or ‘don’t care enough about how slavery worked’ when that’s completely not true.

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Posted on Friday, 24 February
Reblogged from: fumblingtowardshappiness
Posted by: queerhairyvag