The only “blacks” upon this planet Earth are the formerly enslaved (African) “Americans” of the “white” (European) Colonial nation known as the USA. There is no “black” culture outside of USA “white” culture. If you are not “black” but also from Africa, then you get to define yourself! Regardless what structural systemic Arab-European Colonial racism wants you to label yourselves as. Be you, in truth!
O I asked,
“Tsefan Josef, what’s the reason for calling someone black or white?”
A great question! Thank you. This “black” and “white” labeling is uniquely tied to the colonization of what Europeans named the “American” continents. According to North “American” Indigenous, this continent is Michilimackinac (“Turtle Island”, and for good reason). After the Europeans ran out of Indigenous slaves, they created the modern Transatlantic slave trade to replenish their enslaved ranks with Africans. By the 17th century, European “landowners”/slaveowners in the South of what would become the USA in later 1776 (through an insurrection against England over having to pay taxes to the King) had coined the phrase “white” as a definition for European and anyone not white as “black” (but specifically and especially their African bought slaves).
In original definition, “white” refers to English Protestant ancestry and culture. How “black” culture developed is from this enslavement to “white” people in the soon to be and after creation USA. Until the USA, there has never been a form of slavery on planet Earth that literally strips by force the identity of the enslaved, all to turn them into chattel (domesticated quasi-human animals). In other words, “blacks”, which included not just enslaved, shipped, and bought Africans, but still surviving Indigenous Peoples of “America” regardless of their skin color. For Africans freed from slavery, fully lacking any identity other than the European enslaver’s determined identity for them (language, religion, and status), this is where “black” comes from. It is the counter culture to “white” culture in the USA.
“Blacks” will tell you that they built the United States, with their very tortured blood and hands, and they are indeed right about this! What the “white” man claims is his achievements in the creation of the USA is bought off the expired and disenfranchised bodies of “black” people in the USA. Without “blacks”, “white” is meaningless. Again, “white” is European Protestant settler-occupiers of the USA, and “black” is their still struggling for equality formerly enslaved Africans.
This has morphed into anyone who aligns themselves to “white” culture, regardless of ancestry and skin color, as “white”, and anyone rejecting “white” culture as “black” (if brown) or anarchists (if not). If you’ve been taught to include Jews as Europeans (thus “white”), reject this notion now – we were the first Indigenous People enslaved by both European and Arab Colonizers of this world. We are the chameleons that come in every color, just too small in numbers to right these Colonial wrongs (crimes) against Indigenous humanity.
O I responds,
“Tsefan Josef, for me I see this racist labelling as a curse and ppl of African descent should stop calling themselves or allowing others to call them, I see no difference between nigger and black. The truth is the colour labelling of the races is a lie because Africans or African Americans aren’t black and Europeans aren’t white.”
Exactly! My Indigenous brother! May I make a post of this? With or without your name?
“I’ve now spent more of my life in the US than in Kenya. Some days, I feel more American than Kenyan. Other days, I feel like I’m straddling two worlds and will never fully belong to one or the other.
I’ve tried to choose the best of both cultures and blend them together. The result is someone who does not wholly identify with either society. It’s what makes immigrants like me unique….
After years of shying away from discussing race issues, I’m having those conversations more openly now with friends of all races, nationalities and backgrounds. I’m educating myself so I can feel empowered to answer my son’s questions.”
The reality is that USA “white” “black” racism is being exported more and more every year, since the invention of the internet. We have USA “blacks” pretending to be Africans, who are daily indoctrinating their online followers in the idea of “black” as a racial identifying label for all descendants of Africa.
Many of these online “Africans” are also pushing appropriations, history revisionisms, of other peoples’ cultures as “African black”. Especially, the racist idea that somehow all true Semites of North Africa and the Levant are originally “African blacks” who’ve been replaced by European “whites” pretending to be these cultures.
When you don’t know actual world history, these historical lies and appropriations being spread to you from the USA only further the Colonial USA racial divisioning of humanity into “whites” versus “blacks”. And this is a dangerous disease that’s being spread worldwide – yes, racism is a mental disease(!). For, as designed by the Christian Church Fathers, this racism taps directly into the first European-Arab invented racism, antisemitism, for its tropes and Colonial deceptions!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/16/us/race-nationality-immigrant-kenya-cec/index.html
I moved to the US from Kenya. I never fully realized I was Black until I had a son
By Faith Karimi, CNN
You all USA “white” and “black” don’t realize the size of your worldwide megaphone!
We Indigenous Peoples of this world feel your pain, victims of USA Colonial racism. Especially, “black” victims! We see you. But! We only have one request from you, because we Indigenous Peoples of this world are population density *significantly smaller* than you! Please,…
“Achi, I know your pain is real. We are only asking you not to import this uniquely USA “white” “black” racism into the world outside of the USA – whether you are “white” or “black”! We don’t want your USA racism infecting our already deeply marginalized existence as Indigenous Peoples under systemic Arab-European Colonial racism.”
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I admit that I get called a “racist” quite a lot by commenters online for my inherited worldview, also known as my upbringing. But I also know that there really is no such thing as *reverse racism*! Those who call me a “racist” online are of three Colonial persuasions: Arabs, Europeans, and their colonized (often “Blacks” and Hispanics/Latinos). They call me such because they – being successfully colonized – cannot conceive of a world still not yet colonized by Arab-European Colonial religions (Christianity and Islam and, now, Marxism), language (Colonial Arabic, Spanish, English, French, and Dutch, etc!), and inherited social supremacist “culture” way of life. Our worldviews are outside of their understanding of this world, this planet, that all humans must live upon. What do I mean?
My childhood forming years were inculcated in a social world separated from structural Colonial systemic racism. My first years of life were a nomadic experience of being the “other” in an Asian world. When my father and mother settled down, my next experience of being the “other” was in a haole gentrified ghetto of islander life – wherein my brothers and I were the poor renting “others” in a world of undesirable Asian and Polynesian *others*, upon an island obsessed over by European “American” and Asian racist supremacists with *money* to spend for economic, political, and physical possession of our islands.
I grew up not knowing a thing about structural systemic Colonial racism! Not knowing a thing about skin color supremacy as a *lived* experience. My experience in life with “racism” was strictly *situational*. My best friends, my gangs, were Filipino and Samoan. When gentrification of our ghetto was not getting the worst out of us, I was Filipino and Samoan, like my braddahs, only kosher! When gang wars between we European “American” structured social undesirables erupted, I and my brothers were either Filipino *or* Samoan. We all, regardless of ethnicity and skin color, saw haole (white) and popolo (black) from da mainland (the USA) as supremacist effs tryin to take our islands from us.
It’s da USA *attitude* brah, of all USA feeling *entitled* visitors to da islands – both the slavers and their formerly enslaved! From the disenfranchised social bottom to the privileged social top, you’re all the same to us when you think and behave as USA Colonizers. This kind of islander “racism” is different from structural systemic Colonial racism. It’s all based on behavior and attitude. Because, there is no such thing as reverse racism! You all, whether white or black or brown or yellow, have already won the human supremacy game. This is why Islanders, regardless of ethnicity and skin color, treat “racistly” all supremacist entitled foreigners the same when they are upon the islands. Especially, the first Colonizers of the land, da haole.
So, where am I going with this “racist” rant?
My first direct experience with systemic structural Colonial Arab-European supremacist established racism was in the moving from da islands onto “da mainland” (da USA). I remember hearing from childhood that the USA is the “melting pot” of the world, meaning that diverse cultures and ethnicities come together in the USA to form the “rich fabric” of “American” society. What a f–cking lie this is! Especially, for an islander from one of the ghettos – who knows a *true* “melting pot” of cultures and ethnicities – when finally reaching over to the appropriated land of “America”! Every ethnicity has its own village in the USA, and only white people rule and non-whites pretend to rule/have-influence. What a disappointment!
I could give you my lament about how confused I was when I got my first driver’s license on “da mainland” – how I wrote on the form my inherited “race” and watched the non-white clerk scratch it out, and write the word “white” in its place. (I still had no clue about skin color privilege yet!) I could give you my lament about how I know firsthand, from island life, what it is like to be pulled over for an expired tag, pulled forcibly from the vehicle, treated on sight as if I must be a criminal, beaten down painfully and cuffed, then thrown into jail – as my car gets ransacked (torn apart) by da cops aftas, looking fo any reason fo hold me in jail longer than a tag violation. But, who in da USA is going to listen to us?
You know,… The rest of the world, who don’t fit the Arab-European Colonizers’ understanding of this world and world events, as recorded down in their educational books and court ledgers. I know already, we non-colonized minorities are the least believed and the least heard. And when we punch up to this social erasure, the inherent automatic reaction is to place us into the Colonial Arab-European categories of human beings and human experiences *and* to question our expressions (honestly given) (to question unintentionally, but systemically) as to whether our words are honest and up front, authenticity.
This Colonial racism, regardless of skin color – white, black, brown, yellow – is unintentional, of course! It is the by-product of systemic Colonial Arab-European (and Asian and Persian and etc!) structural racism that *needs* to be (still yet) addressed (by humanity, in full!). Systemic structural Colonial Arab-European racism and division of society is a *very real* thing in this world – that is preventing worldwide peace! We need to end it! How? Stop capitulating to the dividers of humans, to the ways of Colonial Allah-Christ-Marx dominionism upon this planet Earth! It’s too easy, the answer – but near all humans want to work within *their* colonized system for a continued *colonized* solution(!).
Scholars who visit my posts (if you actually do!), we Indigenous lay people are tired of fearing this human world – because of systemic human Colonial Allah-Christ-Marx greed and need for dominionism. Can you not be for the Indigenous, for real, and for an actual “plurality” in this world?!
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Am I crazy, folks! Please, if so, someone tell me to my face! (I will shut up, if you prove justified!)
This is what the USA has taught me (in my few short decades here): The world is the USA. The world existing beyond the boundaries of the USA is a just a microcosm of the USA. All things about the world must fit within the binary white-black worldview of the USA. If words presented challenge this narrative, it must be questioned (challenged) or taken as a personal slight. Because this is the way of the USA! …
I don’t know how to break this Colonial supremacist bubble. The USA is the present ultimate Arab-European Colonizer of this planet Earth, for Colonial justification for its crimes against Indigenous humanity. All other Arab-European nations follow suit in relational degree of supremacy, having been themselves superceded by the USA. And both the Colonizers and their successfully colonized support this USA worldview from birth.
Because the solution – the only appropriate, legal solution – to the human world’s problems must lie somewhere within changing the structural social governing systems *within* the Colonial established systems. The definition of “insanity”, anyone, of “keep ’em divided”? Anyone who disagrees, says otherwise, or offers another path is … (fill in the blank)….
It doesn’t matter if you’re an Ilhan (Arab) or a Candice (Christian), we the world ‘still not successfully colonized’ cannot tell the difference! Seriously. … And we will in our insular ways survive you, generation to generation. Why? Because our words matter, too, on this planet Earth! … This is all I have to say.
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I’m saying it with all words, my own words and words of others. Why is it so hard for humanity to embrace? Unless we ain’t evolved enough to not erase?!
Biracial rappers be few in the industry, like an Indigenous minority in a colorized society.
But these brothers and sisters of “black” “white” nativity, live knowingly a Jewish reality.
There is no easy social fit for us to engage, we can only be ourselves whether dissed or called brave.
Racism on both sides of the structural inherited cage, we are the infusion middle ground that will not behave.
(Note, if you understand these six tracks shared here below, then you understand me.)
Logic – 5AM (Prod. C-Sick)
Logic – Man I Is
Logic – Now (’cause…
Ain’t kidding, you all, even we Jews can rap – regardless of our presenting skin color.
Kosha Dillz – Death Con 3
Westside Gravy – I Wish You Would
I’m a Jew by every father before me, and our bloodline originates in the Levant. My brother Noah Shufutinsky is born Jewish, too, like me. His brother walked the same island as me, before making aliyah! It’s not the Jewish people’s fault that you all non-Jews don’t know our Indigenous Judean-orignating halacha (tribal nation laws) on who is Jewish in this world and who is not. There are 46 million “black” “Americans” in the USA, and only 15.2 million Jews in this world – worldwide – with half defending our ancestral land from Arab-European Colonialism! Before WWII, there were 19 million Jews in this world, both on the Arab-European occupied land of Israel and in the Arab, European, African, Chinese, and “American” diasporas.
When we minorities under the socially constructed minorities “punch up”, perhaps you should listen to us!
Westside Gravy – Diaspora
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The reason for my freestyle rhyme dropped before,
’cause understanding our common history cannot be ignored. We need to find a way to break the racist cloud, that divides humanity between minority silenced and majority loud.
Obama, Nerds & Haters: Logic and Ari Melber get real on rap, race & growth
May 9, 2023 #Logic #Rap #TheBeat
Rapper Logic opens up about mental health in this candid conversation with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, and discusses his struggle to be accepted within the hip hop community. Logic also reflects on his rap idols like RZA, Black Thought and Eminem and learning to embrace his inner “nerd.” Plus, see a special behind the scenes moment where Logic and Melber collaborate on a new beat in the latest installment of “Mavericks with Ari Melber,” a series of interviews with artists, musicians and cultural icons. See more conversations at msnbc.com/mavericks.
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