yeah we should really worry less about all this shit!
growing in berlin, surrounded by many friends in french school from tunesia, ghana, mali, botswana, congo, ...i never ever had the chance to even just play with racist thoughts. i was that much more surprised to find out that separated status for "colored" people in SA ... since africans around me here come from various regions of africa, you have a multitude of skin tones ... from the darkest central african to light skinned north africans, so we rather ask where they come from.
if u tell me i'm "african" then i'll be asking "yeah, but where from" ...
i keep myself from asking that question with so called "african americans", another term i never use as a general description. i see that pretty much like brick.
"african american" is just some kind of polite "n*gger" to me ... "americans whose grand-grand-grand-grand-parents were taken to the US as slaves" ... that's what its supposed to be saying and subliminally requesting that i feel bad about it.
surely if your father came to USA for studies & stayed there then u're an african american ...
only few people though know about their actual african culture, they just all know slavery, garvey & malcom X, rodney king and the other cla**ic clichés ... i think african history is a bit older than that!
also i met lots of black people from new york and i figured out that from what they pay for the rent alone in NY, i could live a month in berlin including everything .... a lot of them seem to live better than i do ... and the average living standart in usa for blacks seems way better than in their "motherland". and its quite often a culture clash when they actually fly over ... or just a money issue? i heard RZA isn't comming to CT cause he tried to raise his income per gig from 8000 dollars to even more, and then cancelled the tour ... so much for the love for his "motherland" ...
another thing is: most "german blacks" have mixed up roots anyway ... i have a good friend originally from ghana which has a german pa**port for over 30 years now ... and it's her white russian friend which has all the trouble with the bureaucracy and the prejudice of some people ...
i think the only issues in between blacks here is about those in the footsteps of michael .... the "bleach issue" ...
i also always wonder why people in the usa still make such a deal about the "motherland" .... my grandma is tunesian, her family lived there for many generations ... so i always had a smile on my lips when US folks rap about the motherland.
at some point in school, we learned that africa is probably the birthplace of mankind anyway ... that is the only motherland i know! and that's valuable for us all .... so basically translated into the modern hitech gene-controlled world: we are all a bit african ...
my family roots are actually german, french, tunesian, polish, jewish, catholic, ... it goes in all directions!
so for americans: i'm a judo-christian african franco-german!
ha! reading (or hearing) such a term would just make me laugh straight away and make me say: does it hurt? just be YOU and you'll be fine!
nowadays people have just too much attitude and are always lookin to blame someone else ... countries have been working as labels for a long time but a positive multicultural evolution is providing this. so nowadays its religion & race that people use as labels again ... and thats a big bullshit!
everyone just has to cool down a bit, think a bit more about the views of other people and find more ways for compromises .... with every bit of peace and stability and less money spent for weapons, life for everyone can become a little better step by step ... but instead we gonna start war for a comic, with christians who pray that all their mistakes will be forgiven once again and muslim political/religious leaders that have a too hard time accepting own mistakes and just pointing the finger at others, and in between the jews that wont do much to help a peace process ... and all those guys trying to stick a joystick in our a** are just behind the money at the end ... behind that nice dollar dollar bill. yooooo .... that is actually printed in an uncontrolled ammount (usa doesnt publish any information about the ammount of notes they print) so you actually dont know what ur dollar is really worth .... obviously less than what the down jones says ...
we should all f***in paint ourselves blue or green!
f*** the old milleniums! lets create a new cool race
anyone else feelin blue?