If YOU ARE A JAMAICAN, DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE AFRICAN?

It's pretty sad, Africans arrived in Jamaica only a couple of hundred years ago, it's not actually that long ago in human history. It was the slave masters who forced them to deny their African culture. Really, they should be claiming it back, but instead many get upset when you call them African. When you call Jamaicans Africans, many will reply that their grandfather was Scottish... and tell you in great (long a**) detail about every other nationality except the one that is most obvious and staring back at you in the face!. First, I can't imagine being proud of the blood of a slave master who raped my grandmother. I'm not even going to bring it up to defend my nationality. Secondly many of our grandparents were raped in Africa too, by the British, Portuguese & Arabs. Does that make us not African? Yes, Africa is a continent, but we did not create those wretched borders/ countries ourselves...Europeans did - to exploit us. Who else would come up with a derogatory names for a countries such as "Nig*eria" and "Nig*er". Many Africans in the Caribbean and Americas returned to Africa, including many Krio/Creoles. What does that make their descendants? We are the same people. It wasn't chains that made the slave, it was the stripping of identity and culture in order to mentally enslave Africans. The slavemasters couldn't control Africans who kept their culture and traditions, the only way they could enslave them was by brutally forcing them to deny their heritage and identity. When I see an African from the Caribbean doing this voluntarily...it's so distressing. I know it is not entirely their fault because slavery was highly engineered, and calculated - and TRAUMATISING - but for crying out loud - to deny one's ancestors, and all the horror they were put through, only makes their terrible suffering in vain. There's no excuse for denying them, not with all they went through. We should be honouring them. If not, then I'll have to agree with those who say they are not African. African's don't deny their ancestors. Slavery was so brutal because they had to do their very worst to Africans to break the pride we have for our ancestors. Fortunately I am surrounded by Jamaicans who do claim their African identity. It's very beautiful. May many, many more and more continue to do this. Love to my African family across the globe.

Why on earth would any of them want to feel African. Its a cesspit of culturally inferior values beaten only by the Muslim world.

this isn't very nice?

It's pretty sad, Africans arrived in Jamaica only a couple of hundred years ago, it's not actually that long ago in human history. It was the slave masters who forced them to deny their African culture. Really, they should be claiming it back, but instead many get upset when you call them African. When you call Jamaicans Africans, many will reply that their grandfather was Scottish... and tell you in great (long a**) detail about every other nationality except the one that is most obvious and staring back at you in the face!. First, I can't imagine being proud of the blood of a slave master who raped my grandmother. I'm not even going to bring it up to defend my nationality. Secondly many of our grandparents were raped in Africa too, by the British, Portuguese & Arabs. Does that make us not African? Yes, Africa is a continent, but we did not create those wretched borders/ countries ourselves...Europeans did - to exploit us. Who else would come up with a derogatory names for a countries such as "Nig*eria" and "Nig*er". Many Africans in the Caribbean and Americas returned to Africa, including many Krio/Creoles. What does that make their descendants? We are the same people. It wasn't chains that made the slave, it was the stripping of identity and culture in order to mentally enslave Africans. The slavemasters couldn't control Africans who kept their culture and traditions, the only way they could enslave them was by brutally forcing them to deny their heritage and identity. When I see an African from the Caribbean doing this voluntarily...it's so distressing. I know it is not entirely their fault because slavery was highly engineered, and calculated - and TRAUMATISING - but for crying out loud - to deny one's ancestors, and all the horror they were put through, only makes their terrible suffering in vain. There's no excuse for denying them, not with all they went through. We should be honouring them. If not, then I'll have to agree with those who say they are not African. African's don't deny their ancestors. Slavery was so brutal because they had to do their very worst to Africans to break the pride we have for our ancestors. Fortunately I am surrounded by Jamaicans who do claim their African identity. It's very beautiful. May many, many more and more continue to do this. Love to my African family across the globe.

What would you like me to say?

Although I am African, I hate when people seem to have an issue with people referring to themselves as Mixed or Creole.

I guess you could say my mother is 'black' but she's more Indo-African mixed and my fathers side is Asian/White.

People seem to get offended when I say I'm mixed even though the majority of people don't think I'm African at first and think I'm Asian. I don't hate Africa or black people.

I always seem to here this argument online -.-


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It's pretty sad, Africans arrived in Jamaica only a couple of hundred years ago, it's not actually that long ago in human history. It was the slave masters who forced them to deny their African culture. Really, they should be claiming it back, but instead many get upset when you call them African. When you call Jamaicans Africans, many will reply that their grandfather was Scottish... and tell you in great (long a**) detail about every other nationality except the one that is most obvious and staring back at you in the face!. First, I can't imagine being proud of the blood of a slave master who raped my grandmother. I'm not even going to bring it up to defend my nationality. Secondly many of our grandparents were raped in Africa too, by the British, Portuguese & Arabs. Does that make us not African? Yes, Africa is a continent, but we did not create those wretched borders/ countries ourselves...Europeans did - to exploit us. Who else would come up with a derogatory names for a countries such as "Nig*eria" and "Nig*er". Many Africans in the Caribbean and Americas returned to Africa, including many Krio/Creoles. What does that make their descendants? We are the same people. It wasn't chains that made the slave, it was the stripping of identity and culture in order to mentally enslave Africans. The slavemasters couldn't control Africans who kept their culture and traditions, the only way they could enslave them was by brutally forcing them to deny their heritage and identity. When I see an African from the Caribbean doing this voluntarily...it's so distressing. I know it is not entirely their fault because slavery was highly engineered, and calculated - and TRAUMATISING - but for crying out loud - to deny one's ancestors, and all the horror they were put through, only makes their terrible suffering in vain. There's no excuse for denying them, not with all they went through. We should be honouring them. If not, then I'll have to agree with those who say they are not African. African's don't deny their ancestors. Slavery was so brutal because they had to do their very worst to Africans to break the pride we have for our ancestors. Fortunately I am surrounded by Jamaicans who do claim their African identity. It's very beautiful. May many, many more and more continue to do this. Love to my African family across the globe.

we are mixed in the caribbean...simple

I am African, I'm not Africa not the Caribbean but ethnically I am mixed, as are most people from my country.


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basically....to hell with those that got a problem with sayin we are mixed

who is pure anyways lmao

Some people seem to think some races hold more strength than others or at least they act that way.


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we are mixed in the caribbean...simple

It's not simple. Adelante la raza, have you heard of it? There are people of pure or predominant descent from one race or another in the Caribbean .

lmfao i dont know who u are trying to teach but i wont even reply to the rest....looked like some basic history introduction lmao...and just like most folks who get into political/racial history...get so overwhelmed by the info...assume nobody else knows it...look at u runnin around the site tellin everybody about adelante la raza....man please...like a child who found out iphone was touchscreen

im just gonna say this.....it doesnt matter how white or 'pure' somebody seems in the caribbean....be sure they have negro or even middle eastern blood....its whites in the dr with black uncles who have white moms whose parents are this and that etc.....everybody is mixed

u can find a white guy with so called african features and vice versa

add that to your introductory history class kid

oh yea...people not feeling zoe saldana for AA roles is something totally different kid....looks like another class to sign up for

LMFAO

you must be some lil brit kid somewhere in london