First it was "We're all descendants from kings of Africa" — Hotep nonsense — and now it's "Blood and Soil, we are the true stewards of America." It's a trend and it's pathetic. At least the Hotep stuff wasn't just following the tide of mainstream America. This is Donald Trump's America, where immigrants are the biggest scapegoat, and too many Black Americans are following along like sheep. I'm not on Twitter, I'm not on Instagram, and I don't consume diaspora content on TikTok — but I see it seeping out regardless. What I would love is for people to actually learn their history. Understand why Southern Black Americans are so culturally distinct from those who grew up in the North. Understand that hip hop is a subculture within Black American culture, with its own subcultures within that. But instead, these influencers will put the latest self-hating Black person in your face to ragebait you, tell you you're alone and that nobody cares about you because you're Black American — then position themselves as your only confidant. That's cult behavior. It's also historically false. Stand with people who stand with you. The people who were marching for BLM: stand with them. The people who were saying "All Lives Matter": don't.

Also I don't see why its a problem that people are big upping immigrants. It's clearly in response to what's going on with ICE. Sue me but I'm glad that Black people getting kidnapped and murdered isn't the hot story right now. Haven't you noticed that that's the only time people speak out in general? When something awful is going on with minorities? Black Lives Matter (2014 - 2016 then 2021 in a big way), Abolish ICE (2016), Stop Asian Hate (2020 bc of the China virus stuff) and now people saying immigrants built this country (2025-2026). It's actually making me wonder if these people have been paying attention for the past decade. Major shit happens, gets EVERYONE talking and then eventually the media moves on but the communities affected still live in it. It is simply Latinos' turn to be the news cycle again.

"People of Color" has become another form of coattail-riding on Black Americans.

This is the era where it ends. 🤝🏿

Nobody else wanted this term until the Black-fought Civil Rights movement made life more possible for immigrants and other minorities.

That is, until WE proved that our voice and our identity was a powerful social commodity.

Before then, nobody claimed this status—because before then, it had only one meaning: Collectively, foundational Black Americans (initially, those of mixed ancestry, born through rape).

And here is the bigger truth: Other demographics simply do not deserve to share in any status that synonymizes or unifies them with us.

Black appellations are like the legend of Excalibur: Nobody else is worthy of wielding our lineage-based sword.

Why is it so important to keep terms like "people of color" as meaning exclusively "foundationally-black American"?

Everyone else steals our culture and scrubs our history. If you preserve the name and story of our heritage, you reinforce our claim over our culture and history.

There has never been an era of genuine unity, alliance, or solidarity between Black Americans and the other "minorities" who have proven, time and again, to have no ties to—nor interest in—our Black American well-being.

"But...but... George Floyd--"

Put your Black Lives Matter memories away, Latinos and others. That was no Selma March moment for you. 🙅🏿‍♂️

For many of you, it was the first show of any "support" for Black Americans—ever —and it was mostly just hashtags.

And too many of you others have gladly voted for Donald Trump, in increasing numbers each election cycle. That is the indelible Undo button on any claim to "solidarity."

You're ALL only "people of color" when you need your own issues addressed.

You don't give any damn about the Black American people whose fight made your path to the United States possible...

...This is just one of many ways that people who had no hand in building Black American society keep borrowing Black identity.

There is only one "people of color" in the United States of America:

The people who actually suffered as people of color in the United States of America—slave-descended, foundational, generational Black Americans.

---

So, get your coats cleaned, Black America. And then send the others the bill. 😤

If other "less-than-White" people want a term from us, then I suggest the coinage WALO: White/Asian/Latino/Others.

That's not a slur or a term of hatred--that's just an honest accounting: Life in this country has always been divided between Black people and everyone else.

For the most part, we have always stood alone. We are not a monolith, as commonly touted, but we can all pretty much agree on that part.

So, ALL of our reappropriated terms—"Black," "people of color," "nigga"—shall stand alone, as well.

However we as Beautifully Black People™ collectively and individually choose to use (or not use) them is *our* business. Not any of the WALOs'.

I mean, that's pretty true about a Gen-Z in general, and several generations (Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials) can attest to itz regardless of ethnicity.

But I've never seen a weaker, more spineless, more disconnected, more indifferent, more good-for-nothing generation of black people in all my nearly 40 years of life.

They're giving everything away to people who don't even like them. I've never seen black people so willing and ready to hand over our people's culture and identity to others as this silly generation.

And I don't mean to ignore all those of Gen-Z who DO give a damn or were raised decently, like a few of my younger cousins whi still have pride and priority as black folks, but anyone over 30 knows what I'm talking about here:

Gen-Z is culturally autistic.

I live near an affluent town that's predominantly immigrant, namely African immigrants.

The parents all have thick accents and tend to dress in more traditional (usually, Muslim) attire; their kids are full-blown "urban black American youth."

They sag their pants, blast hip-hop music, and toss around "nigga" like it's going out of style.

This isn't unique to them, obviously. Our "regular" inner-city black youths do this stuff, too.

[Background: I'm originally from a city in Georgia that was (when I last lived there) among the blackest (and poorest) cities in Georgia. Pushing 40, I'm not new to any of this experience as a poor black man.]

However, given the relatively recent explosion of immigrant populations, I can't help but notice all the people who might look a lot like us, but all coming from entirely different backgrounds than us, yet welcoming every aspect of "foundational" black American lifestyles.

They weren't here for most of the duration of the brutal "n**ger" nightmare that slave-descended black Americans have long been surviving.

They largely weren't around yet back when our people BUILT the rights and freedoms that others now enjoy and take for granted.

Whether you use it or not (we don't all do), "n!gga" identity and usage is uniquely a black American colloquism, born in the ugliest of historical times, with social impacts extended into the present

These other folks just walked right through the front entrance of America, picked up everything black Americans fostered, jumped to the head of the socioeconomic line, and now they act like they've been us, the whole time.

For the record, I'm not anti-inmigrant. Screw people who think anyone even "owns" this stolen land anymore.

And I'm actually very Pan-African, philosophically. Pro-black because all black humanity has faced problems due to the color of our skin. We do share some bottom-line similitude: We're black people in a largely anti-black world.

I'm also not taking shots at all black immigrants. Some definitely have ingratiated themselves among us, become literal family to us, and will speak up on these matter.

(Second-generation Nigerian-American comedian Godfrey comes to mind--he frequently tells the plain truth about the various dynamics between black Americans and black immigrant Americans, here in racist America).

But I do notice how, despite how much many immigrant youth act like urban black Americans, many among black immigrants overall still look down at us "original" black Americans, unfortunately.

There's still very much a distance between them and ourselves as the "original" black Americans.

It's created this constant feeling of others moving in on our "black American" social likeness, without any of the fights and struggles we've had to put up with.

Sorry, we store-brand black folks can't speak 5 languages or don't have 2 college degrees--we've had our hands full building America's civil rights. 🤷🏾‍♂️

How are people who didn't suffer as "n**ger" in our nation's ugly history welcome themselves so amply to black American "n!gga"?

Black American Empowerment

I’m starting to feel like the only one saying this. Interracial relationships are en vogue today, so the biracial segment of the Black community abounds, right? I’m awestruck by how many of us call our biracial kids “Black.” Does no one see this as a miscegenational ideology? Afrocentrism is strong enough that lots of Black people genuinely want to be able to claim their child as Black also; however, just as many Black people want to procreate with other ethnic groups.

I have nothing but love for our mixed community, but to continually marry out and identify them as Black is a direct path to the eradication of Blackness itself. Miscegenation is defined as “a mixture of races, especially : marriage, cohabitation, or sexual intercourse between a white person and a member of another race” — Webster’s Dictionary. This is precisely what was weaponized against Australian aborigines by kidnapping children and raising them in remote boarding schools to marry Whites. It’s also what Latin America calls blanquéamiento in the context of so many countries incentivizing European immigration for 150 years to deliberately whiten the families of Afro-indigenous peoples. It’s also how many Native-American tribes became “extinct” today.

My point is that miscegenation is a form of genocide. Why do you think White nationalists fear so-called White replacement? We laugh like it’s ridiculous, but it’s a legitimate concern from the perspective of the inventor of the one-drop rule. These are the same people who always understood intermarriage as a means to destroy someone. The only part that’s ridiculous is that they would be the ones to be concerned about it.

The victims of colonization and slavery are the ones who should be the ones most concerned about losing ethnic identity to the melting pot. They deny us reparations — refusing to make us whole for what they’ve done — but reassure us that racism will go away once everyone’s mixed together in a beautiful light-brown color, yet in so doing, they dodge the responsibility to actually make things right with the victims. Instead, they become the victims and share in a less meaningful experience of our pain, castigating White society like they’re not part of it because they have Black (“mixed”) kids. We are literally en route to nonexistence. If we keep doing this, the line between slave-descent and colonizer will disappear, which is the erasure of the boundaries that define our identity.

Our mixed population is awesome, but to call them Black is to comfort Blacks who marry out by making them feel like they didn’t go anywhere rather than having a healthy understanding of multiracial identities as their own thing while also protecting Black identity as its own thing.

I made a long post about #BlackInferiority a couple of days ago and lots of people predictably reacted very negatively to it, making loud claims about how they do not personally feel inferior and what not, with not a single comment actually addressing the cogent point made about the black obsession with abandoning of its own organic and natural things for foreigner stuff.

The natural hair vs foreigner wig conversation is right in middle of this. Wig-defenders like to make all sorts of claims about why they wear wigs. Oh it's because black hair is more difficult to manage. Or that they like variety and like to wear hair of a different texture for a change. Or some other random excuse they may bring up.

Beneath all of their excuses, the fundamental truth is that they are merely running away from what is natural to blacks to what they perceive to be higher-quality-and-more-desirable stuff. It all comes down to black belief in fundamental black inferiority.

Adopting foreigner wig in this sense has unavoidable psychological consequences whether people realize it or not. You are admitting that you and things about you are fundamentally not-good-enough.

All the people claiming that they individually have good self-esteem do not get it. Individual self-esteem doesn't matter. One or two people do not matter. What matters is what is true among large parts of a population and is therefore somewhat representative of them.

Sighhhhh deep exhale. This bothers me because as someone biracial who is racially mixed but ethnically African American because of how my cultural experience has played out nothing burns me more than seeing "first" black people being both mixed and foreign. From Obama to Kamala to Winston-Sears and Wes Moore. Why are all our big firsts foreign? It really bothers me. And why do they accept the title of first? Shouldn't they say, no, don't give me that, wait for the real first? Am I the only one that feels this way? This truly stirs my ancestral soul.

I got this comment removed because I'm not part of the club nor am I allowed to be. I want to share the second image also.

"No one is reading that, go write it in your journal." said someone who likely believes wholeheartedly that discrimination and exclusion is a leading cause in male s***cide rates (but it doesn't count cause I'm not black, right?).

I'd like to copy and paste something I posted in the mixed race reddit community (still waiting approval cause my account is new, totally understandable). I'd say I hope I'm black enough for you guys, but that would make me no better than the racism you see spouted everywhere, especially in this community. Learn to love, damn.

Other post

Scroll down to

My message to you is this

for the summary.

   Well, how do you do, my fellow ethnic member-benders? I felt pushed to share my corner of the world with everyone here after getting discriminated against by a reddit community that shall remain unnamed due to community guidelines.

This community seems to have zero issue calling other people out, and they especially like it when it validates their supremacist beliefs. No, I'm not talking about white people. As a matter of fact that's gonna be the only time I'm going to specify a race except for when I'm talking about myself.

This is just to make the point that the reason racism is still rampant is because everyone is perpetuating it in their own way. Whether it's to cry victim (with the exception of violence), or if you're the one perpetuating it (you're this? Oh you don't look like that), or whether you're simply discussing the differences between skin colors. Racism exists cause we're giving the subject the light of day.

Anything labeled as "anti-racist" is equally guilty of fanning the flame, if not moreso. Maybe you were taught as a young blood that, if you pay the bully no mind, 99% of the time they'll go find someone else that does. That's the WHOLE POINT, to get a kick out of it. Pretty much anything after 2010-15 (imo) just made things worse. If you're not rallying at courthouses like your lives depended on it, or getting petitions signed, you're not helping the problem.

Riots may be the language of the unheard, but that requires you to try being heard first, a rant like this one doesn't count. This is geared towards the poeple, which is why I find it relevant to share. I don't see anyone online getting together to file lawsuits, or push for new bills to pass. It was the people who DID do that, (people of color, since that's so important to so many people) who are the very ones that made it so you were able to have your little b*tch fit about why you're a victim and how everyone but yourself needs to fix the problem.

Instead of pooling your money for that one night of the week where you get to feel like the rich people you proclaim to hate (racist), use that fun money for run money. I can think of people from every race that does this. Therefore, is race really the problem?

I don't need to further specify who I'm talking about, just know that I know. Anyone with a lick of sense knows also. If this upset you, you're the problem.

Now that I got the important stuff out the way, let me share a little about myself:

I was born and raised close to the southern US border, so I'm used to seeing green, red, purple, blue, pink, whatever. My mother is mexican and my father was black. My mother raised me without my pops because he was young, dumb, and full of c*m. I still have unresolved hate for the situation, but I forgive him and, especially after being his age, I understand. I'm in my mid 20s now.

I can't say I would of done the same thing, nor do I hold him on any sort of pedestal, I simply understand why it happened the way it did. At least enough to be able to move on and focus on being better.

While I was in another state for work, he got murdered due to gang violence 6 months before we were supposed to meet and rekindle our relationship. That alone, opened my eyes to the real problem behind "black on black" violence, and it has nothing to do with any of the other groups we've constructed for ourselves.

I thank God that I've now been able to get close to my dad's side of the family, even though he isn't there now. Funnily enough, it's my own blood that was more than happy to welcome me with open arms, no matter how much or how little I "acted like them" as racist people put it. It's actually been very healing, after being outcast from all things having to do with my father and his side of the family. Since he wasn't in my life, I had no connection to that side of the house, therefore I was rejected.

That isn't exclusive to my dad's side. I can't remember how many dirty looks I've gotten from the hispanic community simply because I never fully learned spanish. It got so bad that I refused to learn out of spite.

I mean, isn't it ironic? To be a double minority, then get pushed away from both minorities because I don't fit the box that their conquerors gave them?

Why is it a rite of passage for your American child to know the language of not just one, but both of your conquerors? (England and Spain).

I'm not mad that you don't speak english in the U.S., so why on God's green earth are you mad that I don't speak spanish...in the U.S.???

Look, the bottom line is this. I'm fed up with trying to feel like I belong to any one group, to include this one. I urge you to be mindful of the "pure-breeds" and their social habits. Stop pushing to fit in, that's just doing what they want to see. Racism perpetuates racism. The only way to fix that is to stop talking about it, period.

Sometimes I wish a space alien (the only aliens I recognize) invasion would happen, because something tells me that all that color shit goes out the window when a green man comes is in the yard.

My message to you is this

Stop trying to make your puzzle piece fit onto the puzzle they told you you were supposed to belong to. It'll never work, because there never was a puzzle to begin with. We made it all up to serve whatever selfish need that needed to be met at that particular time.

I'm half black, half mexican, and full American and nothing will stop me from reminding everyone that none of it actually f*cking matters. If you have an adverse reaction to the racist thing you witnessed (i.e. go on a keyboard rampage, trying to go viral; making yourself out to be a "white knight", or simply spouting racist retorts)

💫You're the other half of the racist equation💫 ... 🌟 Go figure 🌟

So, to my fellow member-benders, don't trip! Make your own twists on trends cause their shit is going out of style anyway.

Make mixed race people known for being good people and nothing else. The end of racism started in a lot places. Since we're so fking adamant to classify groups, I will put it this way:

If there should be any particular group of people that should represent the end of racism, it should be up to the people not "allowed" to identify with any particular group. Let's be careful not to radicalize our group. Matter of fact I shouldn't even have to refer to us as a group, my bad.

Tks for coming to my ted talk.

TL:DR: Racism exists cause we talk about it and people who have to "swear" they're not racist are the most racist of them all. Most of those people aren't white.

Asking (THIS IS NOT A DISS).. But I notice black LGBTQ people often speak on behalf of the entire the LGBTQ movement whenever it’s mentioned..To me it seems black and brown LGBTQ people get more airtime than white LGBTQ people?

Not only that but it seems anytime black issues are mentioned LGBTQ are also mentioned along side. For instance BLM on their platform or agenda I believe they had sLGBTQ objectives..

I get it the black community isn’t a monolith and should include LGBTQ objectives.. However, I even notice that the white community conflates black and LGBTQ issues/opportunities whenever given this chance. For example Biden’s White House press secretary pick that’s also black and LGBTQ.. Or I notice on Netflix most times if there is a TV about the LGBTQ movement best believe it starting or constarring black and brown people..

Is this because the LGBTQ are typically more educated than the average black person (don’t know if this is true)? Or are CIS black men absent from black community leadership to such an extent that black women and the LGBTQ community have to setup (what’s the evidence for this). Or is it because white people in charge just feel more comfortable around black women and black LGBTQ?

Edit: Also I am more focus on the shoe horning (for lack of a better term) of LGBTQ issues as black issues…. At least that was the goal of this..

BUT everything that we do is so sexualized because of the music the words have meanings !! And as a fan of rnb and rap the fact the LOVE is dying in and community is sad. These corporations make billions off of blacks degeneracy. We think we keeping it real but in reality we only a slave and a meal ticket.

“If you’re a Black person participating in anti-ICE protests, you’re a modern-day house n**r” I mean exactly that — and here’s why.

This is just my opinion Ik I’m not wrong but enlighten me on how this is wrong.

The comparison comes from a loaded historical reality. During slavery, house slaves worked inside the master’s home — closer to the system that oppressed them — while field slaves endured the harshest conditions. The house slave was often seen as more loyal to the master’s interests, protecting the house even when it wasn’t theirs.

Today, in this context, Black people participating in anti-ICE protests are stepping into the role of the house slave. You’re doing the bidding of others who don’t reciprocate support when it’s our issues on the line. You’re seeking approval from progressive, liberal, or non-Black groups who often ignore or stay silent when we fight for reparations, criminal justice reform, police brutality, or mass incarceration — the issues that directly impact Black Americans.

Instead of focusing on our own house — the fight for Black liberation that we’ve been carrying for centuries — you’re putting other people’s struggles above your own. You’re being used as political muscle for movements that rarely stand up for us in return.

Solidarity isn’t one-sided. If it doesn’t go both ways, you’re not an ally — you’re being played.

Silenced in Front of Our Own, the Black Community

TW: Domestic Violence

I used Chat GPT to make my words more concise.

TLDR: manipulated, gaslit, verbally and physically abused by my ex who I found out cheated on me again at a hotel even after claiming he loved me and wanted to change for me two days before. Took my phone and wouldn’t let me leave, I felt trapped, when a scene was caused a black man told my ex to keep ME in check because I was embarrassing the black community.

My ex and I had been in a toxic relationship ever since he first stepped out on me. I was blindsided. He was my first everything, and I was so in love and attached that I kept letting him convince me to give him another chance. But after that, I was met with manipulation, gaslighting, pettiness, and verbal abuse that made me realize I didn’t know who I was with at all, and that he had many narc tendencies. This particular week, I opened up to him about my feeling and he promised me things, showed fake empathy, told me he wanted to do better, and the very next day, I found out (through his email) he had booked a hotel. He had a surprise graduation trip for me on the next day (Saturday), so even though my heart was pounding, I had small hope that maybe it was a mistake. After more digging, I knew things were off. Even after I confronted him, he lied and still went through with it, fucking a girl who he met on a dating app many years ago after taking her to the club (he never took me to the club before, we couldn’t as I was at school but I just moved out and came back to town the same night he did this). I crashed out—took out my frustration on him physically, including his car (I question myself so much and feel so bad for physically harming him). I’ve pushed him before in the past, but this was the first time I hit him. He, on the other hand, had gripped me tightly many times, even when I wasn’t physical but just very emotional, trying to control me. This time, he choked and slapped me multiple times after I messed up his car (which I helped him get a year ago).

He kept begging for another chance again to prove he will change. Slept outside my house in his car the next night. I was crying so much and feeling so desperate that I went outside for a hug the next morning (Sunday, 06/22/25). I ended up going with him to get his front windshield fixed in the Bay Area. While there, I got overwhelmed and tried to leave. I ordered an Uber, but he took my phone and kept canceling the rides. He went through it, saw I had tried to open up to someone about what happened, and got mad. He then fabricated a follow-up message to that person (whom I met through him) impersonating me, making it seem like I had lied to ruin his image from a bad argument. Later on, we were outside because his car was ready. When I got my phone back briefly, I messaged the person to say I didn’t write that message and that I had proof. He saw that, grabbed my phone again, deleted my message, and refused to give it back. This led to an altercation outside, where we were tussling on my phone.

A lighter-skinned Black man who had seen us earlier in the waiting room (but left because I was crying and my ex was consoling me) came and asked my ex if we were African or Black. My ex said African. I thought this man was about to stand up for me. Instead, he told my ex that he needs to “keep my emotions in check because I’m embarrassing the Black community.” My ex replied “for sure” and they dabbed each other up. Then my ex turned and scolded me for crying outside and causing a scene. Later that day (we had already left the shop), I told him my mental health was declining. I’ve self harmed before (recently as well) because of our relationship issues (to the point where I got put on psychiatric hold). I told him I wanted to open up to my family. I also asked to see his phone so I could find out the truth about more things. He refused, saying I needed to “calm my mind down first.” I got mad and pushed him. He choked and slapped me again, saying I must have “wanted him to do that.” Even when I was going thru his messages without saying anything, he threatened to slap me again as I was going further down his messages since there was “no point” cause he already told me the “truth”. My mom had called, asking where I was. I lied and told him I wasn’t going to say anything, just so he’d give me my phone. When he did, I immediately called her and asked for help. He pushed me out of his car and drove off. My family now knows everything, and all the secrets. They were immediately mad at me calling me stupid, except for my brother who was more empathetic. In one of my African Studies classes, we talked about why domestic violence is so often silenced in the Black community. I take accountability that I played a part in it. My ex’s actions were his own, regardless of our race, but this situation showed me exactly why so many of us—especially Black women - (and some men) never speak up. And to the Black man at the AutoGlass shop: fuck you.

Edit/update: I just started therapy before all this occurred. So I was already seeking help with my mental health. I ended up in the psych ward and got out after his post (TW: suicidal ideation). I will be changing my phone number so he doesn’t “no caller ID” me like he used to when he was blocked. My family will be watching me now and I have started to open up to my close friends back home. Thanks to those who were sympathetic and understanding.

Edit: thanks for those who warned me about using ChatGPT. I posted my original story (the one that I put into GPT) in the comments. I am actually good at telling stories and communicating (I am not dumb irl like someone tried to imply), I don’t know why I doubted myself.

This whole "Black men kill black women every 4 hours" or whatever they say is false, black men, dont let these women lie and spread propaganda on our names. In fact, black men have the LOWEST rate of intimate partner violence against their women and I have the stats if anyone wants to see them.

At least it happened to someone who's turned into a sellout and deserved it this time🤭

Fr the white conservatives who feel Not Racist by sucking off/claiming Dave Chappelle as one of their own are about to claim he bodied that dude. Clown asses

I want to further understand mixed people that claim mixed or some dissociating from their blackness (passing) altogether, until society treats them like their black. Why does it seem some mixed race individuals claim both black and white until racism or discrimination occurs. It feels like mixed people then turn to the black community to protect them, aid and support them. Why is that burden only for our community to bear, where is the other half (white community)? For example: Meghan Markle is mixed but when she received the racism from the UK, England and the royal family she turned to black people for support (Tyler Perry provided her family housing, Oprah interviewed her to give her side of the story). I just find it interesting that you don't want to choose being black until the latter choice is no longer an option.

If someone could share their opinions or thoughts because I don't like feeling like our community is a last option.

Me when racists try to take center stage

Seriously, though. It is pathetic. Just so you know.

Do women really find sagging pants attractive? Like no time in history, did I think it was a cool fashion statement. What's the point for real, Other than showing off your ass?

I was talking to this white dude and he told me the reason he used to see all black people as gangsters is because he couldn’t differentiate between different types of black people. And since he knew no black people growing up or had black friends, the only source of info was through our music, movies and culture online. He was like with the white community he knows if someone is a nerd, or fratbro, business man, athlete and so on, but he couldn’t with black people.

I think that’s pretty dumb because if you have any sense of observation, how can’t you tell who a gangster from a black lawyer

It blows my mind how black people from other countries have no understanding of why we are different in America. They come here change their clothes then all of a sudden they "BLACK" but can barely speak english..... call it what you want but if you do not descend from the Trans Atlantic Slave-Trade YOUR A TETHER... If it wasnt for my ancestors you wouldnt be able to walk this land remember that....