Check his posts from the last few days . He does make some interesting points . Come to think about it , the orignal term “ Africa “ was associated pale skin Berbers of North Africa . The original Africa was North Africa .
And this is exactly the kind of argument he gets annoyed with . What the hell is “ look African “? African is a Eurocentric social construction . The original term comes from the Roman term for what was known as “ Libya” , which means Africa in antiquity described people who were most likely much lighter or the same shade as him. The continent has always been populated with people of many different phenotypes and features .This habesha looks straight out of yemen or some shit
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@Amun I have noticed that a lot of habesha outliers often do not look like they’re african whatsoever.
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Clearly, there is little agreement on the sources and original meanings of the word Africa. The foreignness of the name once prompted Wole Soyinka to demand that it be dropped, and as an act of self-definition he proposed the adoption of terms for Africa and African rooted in an indigenous language, preferably Abibirim and Abibiman from Akan. It appears the term Africa was used widely from Roman times to refer initially to North Africa, originally called by the Greek or Egyptian word Libya, before it was extended to the whole continent from the end of the first century of the common era. The Arabic term Ifriqiya most probably represents a transliteration of the word Africa. In this sense, then, Africa was a European construct—as much as Europe itself was a construct inflicted by the idea of Africa (and Asia)—whose cartographic application was both gradual and contradictory in that as the name embraced the rest of the continent it increasingly came to be divorced from its original North African coding and became increasingly confined to the regions referred to in Eurocentric and sometimes Afrocentric conceptual mapping as "sub-Saharan Africa," seen as the pristine locus of the "real" Africa or what the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) called "Africa proper."
The divorce of North Africa may have started with the Arab invasions of the region in the seventh century, but got its epistemic and ideological imprimatur with the emergence of Eurocentricism following the rise of modern Europe, which for Africa entailed, initially and destructively, the Atlantic slave trade, out of which came the forced migration—the largest in human history—of millions of Africans and the formation of African diasporas in the Americas, diasporas that appropriated and popularized the name Africa and through whom Africa became increasingly racialized. For example, the adoption of "black" as the preferred name of African-Americans from the 1960s, in place of "Negro," simply reinforced the relabeling of Africa as "black," a tag that simultaneously rejected and reinscribed the old pejorative appellation of the "dark continent." For the French, Afrique noire served to distinguish the west and central African colonies from the fictive overseas provinces of metropolitan France in North Africa, especially Algeria.
Far less clear is when the appropriation of Africa, as a self-defining identity, occurred in the various regions and among the innumerable societies that make up this vast continent, the second largest in the world. Such an archaeological project has not been undertaken, partly because it is a daunting task to untangle the interpellations and intersections of political and cultural identities for Africa's peoples—ethnic, national, continental, and global—and partly because African intellectuals, whether nationalist or postcolonial, have been preoccupied with denouncing or deconstructing Eurocentrism.
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This habesha looks straight out of yemen or some shit
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@Amun I have noticed that a lot of habesha outliers often do not look like they’re african whatsoever.
Are you going to pay nikah to him ? Why are you guys fixated on the fellows looks as opposed to his intellectual arguments ? Furthermore, Who are you to deny his heritage because it doesn’t conform to your racial stereotypes ? You guys are falling in the traps of Eurocentrics and Wakamdites !Who is this man trying to fool? He is not habesha.
He looks straight out of jordan nothing vaguely horner about his featuresThere is a spectrum of looks, but this guy clearly falls out of the normal Habesha spectrum. Doesn't look it at all.
Forgetting his looks for a minute , the fellow does represent some interesting rebuttals against the Wakandites . Thanks to the BLM movement, White guilt and films like Wakanda , the (a)historical narratives of a fringe group of hoteps are now becoming mainstream .Some of them are part Italian, you never know. If someone doesn't look like his or her ethnicity I tend to remain skeptical.
I also agree with this. Not all black people in Africa were enslaved. These stories are suspicious.Forgetting his looks for a minute , the fellow does represent some interesting rebuttals against the Wakandites . Thanks to the BLM movement, White guilt and films like Wakanda , the (a)historical narratives of a fringe group of hoteps are now becoming mainstream .
Most Somalis in the diaspora 30 years from now will adhere to this philosophy .The other day I asked my nephew what he learnt at school . The kid turned around and said “ I did history and they taught us the white people enslaved us black people “. They want to create a European Union of monolithic black African thought which is centred around the idea of victim hood and slavery vis a vis other cultures .
If you believe this guy is habesha then I have a horse to sell to you
It also holds them back too . I’ve worked with some of their youth in the UK and they do carry the baggage of “ it is the system , the schools , teachers “ who are responsibile for my son acting like a sub-human . Such thinking gets filtered down into the psyche of the children and it affects their interactions with school , law , etc .In the West, the muh victimhood card is an asset. Especially for African Americans who live in the world's richest country that fucked them over. It is only natural that they will seek out this strategy to shake down whitey.
It also holds them back too . I’ve worked with some of their youth in the UK and they do carry the baggage of “ it is the system , the schools , teachers “ who are responsibile for my son acting like a sub-human . Such thinking gets filtered down into the psyche of the children and it affects their interactions with school , law , etc .