/siberia/ - Off-topic

a lot of it was larpy and reactionary

Meeting actual Africans

>>740094
Was it really ever a thing? I'm sure more Black Americans are moving back to Africa now then in the 20th century.

If you're asking about it as an aesthetic, and like the native tongues movement, and all that kind of Afrikkka stuff, I don't think it really ever was that popular, but also as gangster rap rose in popularity, all positive, non-violent kind of Black culture was increasingly called "corny." Back in the 2000s you still had like Common, Talib Kwali, Yasim Bey, and all that. I guess you have Kendrick as the woke rapper of today, but he really postures himself more and more as a gangster rapper himself with each passing year. His biggest hit of last year was talking about how he's going to sic his gangster buddies on that rapper from Disney's Degrassi.

I think more and more Black Americans are defining their entire culture as hood culture, or more so criminal culture. No Black church culture, no Black intellectual culture, just fucking ebonics and gangbanging, pimping, and drug-dealing.

Besides getting called corny, I'm going to get all the White boys from the suburbs of Idaho calling me an uncle Tom for saying anything bad about their favorite minstrel music.

>>740100
>If you're asking about it as an aesthetic, and like the native tongues movement, and all that kind of Afrikkka stuff, I don't think it really ever was that popular, but also as gangster rap rose in popularity, all positive, non-violent kind of Black culture was increasingly called "corny." Back in the 2000s you still had like Common, Talib Kwali, Yasim Bey, and all that. I guess you have Kendrick as the woke rapper of today, but he really postures himself more and more as a gangster rapper himself with each passing year. His biggest hit of last year was talking about how he's going to sic his gangster buddies on that rapper from Disney's Degrassi.
I was talking more about this stuff, the association with Africa. Black passport bros going to Africa seem to see themselves as foreigners from a different culture.

>>740100
Also "Black" Americans typically have the same racist views of America as a whole. A lot of "Black" Americans are even majority White genetically. I remember hearing an interview with Meechy Darko and he was talking about how the Black kids at school used to bully him calling him for his dark skin calling him "African booty-scratcher." Dark skin = African, African = primitive savages.

>>740103
Lol I looked up the term "African booty scratcher" and someone made a movie by that title in 2016(this was after the interview I mentioned and well after Meechy was a kid, so looks like the term might be going strong still)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5930452/
>Meet Ayo. He just wants to fit in. His parents are making it hard. Created by one of the writers of black-ish, "African Booty Scratcher" is a comedy series about a family of Nigerian immigrants and their struggle to balance wanting a better life for their son with wanting him to maintain their traditional values and cultural identity.

>>740106
>african booty scratcher
My first exposure to that term was Ghost from TCR when he came back for Trump's campaign

>>740108
The 2016 one I mean

>>740101
>>740103
>>740106
You know, I think a lot of it probably has to do with the fact their are a lot more 1st generation Black immigrants in America now as well. Seeing from direct exposure that Africans are probably more culturally similar to Asians than Black Americans(or more the predominant Black American culture of modern times, the hoodlum culture like I was saying) probably changed the Kunte Kinte fantasies. TBH I think the Black Americans who do the Afrikan aesthetic LARP are like the ones who are anti-African, it's just that they think living and huts and doing magic rituals to the spirits is cool. It's more about the primitivist fantasy like with the Native Americans.

It probably died out because even though black people suffer from systemic racism and police brutality in America they still at least have electricity. Pretty much the only people who have it good in Africa are corrupt politicians and Afrikaner-Kulaks

>>740151
I think this kind of simplistic understanding of history and the world that Americans have is the explanation for most everything about them.

>Africans sold Black people into slavery (doesn't even make sense on the face of it. What are Black people? Are they also Africans, so they did it to themselves?)
>We were kings and queens!

Most Americans are not capable of reading information and forming understandings more complex than a Disney narrative.

>>740164
LMAO that's you. If you're not actually American, it's really funny how Americanized you are.

>>740170
You are the joke.