FBA s*** is just acknowledging the black Americans who were the direct descendants of slavery. That’s not being divisive.

I’m not gonna act like some of them don’t use it to push xenophobia but the idea of recognizing black Americans descended from slavery as its own ethnic group isn’t a bad thing. And at the end of the day that’s all the FBA s*** is

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

It's also insane to me to site Nigerians and South Africans s***ting on Black Americans as if they speak for all Africans lmao African is a continent consisting of what? 50-55 other countries? And you're worrying about what Nigerians and South Africans saying on Twitter?

They get s*** on all the time by other Africans for saying and doing dumb s*** by all the f***in time

Many Nigerian immigrants are very anti African American

I went to school with a lot of 2nd gen Nigerians whose parents/grandparents didn’t like Americans but they themselves moved past that mindset

It's also insane to me to cite Nigerians and South Africans s***ting on Black Americans as if they speak for all Africans

Like we got Ghana, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Senegal opening up citizenship opportunity programs for African Americans who are descendants of slaves as a means to further build/bridge the connection between African Americans and Africans, and y'all worrying about South Africans who have had their country ransacked by cacs and Nigerians who get shat on throughout the continent because they talk bad about Black Americans...

Tighten up bruh.

Where did I say they speak for all Africans? Those are just two examples that I gave and you’re extrapolating that to be like he’s talking about all Africans. You’re fighting ghosts. I even say it’s primarily from them

Like I try to take it easy on South Africans because Apartheid was crazy. But I feel like that's part of the reason why you got them s***ting on Black Americans. That whiteness took over that country and created so much hatred for all things Black or of the African diaspora.

And I see the similarities of that with Black Americans who adhere to FBA xenophobic rhetoric. Kill that colonizer in your mind.

Nothing wrong with seeking your own identity, you all lose me when you try to cut off ancestral ties to Africa. Seen some of y’all go as far to claim European ancestry like Dominicans do.

If that was the simple distinction, why does FBA have so much smoke for Caribbeans? Again there is power in asserting an identity, but most of the animosity and vitriol is directed at people who look just like you.

The white authorities won’t make national distinction between the black skin they pull over. They won’t pick and choose between the black skin of a Nigerian or a Georgian, between who’s “black” and who’s African. That accent won’t make a damn difference. Honestly, this is the only sincere way I feel about it

Because Caribbeans often have the same attitude towards Americans. Saying this as someone who is half Jamaican

This is such a bullshit narrative. Y’all are spouting white nationalist talking points to your own detriment.

When people started saying “akata” meant the N word, is when all this s*** started falling apart

Growing up and hearing the use of that word by my parents, uncles and aunts, I’ve always associated to simply mean “Black American”. No negative connotation to it. Just simply Black - but not continental African. The literal translation is supposedly “wild cat”, but colloquially its use didn’t define that to me at least.

The funny thing? You actually visit Nigeria and ask them what “Akata” means, majority of people have no clue what the word even is. So it’s like who is telling people these things? It literally doesn’t even make sense. I’d be willing to bet there is no equivalent word in a west African language period that translate directly to the N word, in meaning and all. You have to really think about these things man.

How is that a white nationalist talking point lol. White nationalists don’t give a s*** about this diaspora war stuff. Me saying Nigerian immigrants are often anti black American isn’t white nationalist and saying it is, is such a cop out

If you can’t even be honest with yourself about many (not all) Nigerian immigrants being anti black American than you simply aren’t interested in having an honest discussion

White nationalist are directly invested in the fracturing of the black disapora.

The notion that Nigerians by and large are anti African American is news to me. I definitely saw a lot of dumbass Nigerian Trump supporters during the election. Nigerians (those born and raised there) are living in a religious psychosis. I could rant on them fools too. F*** all them who are anti African American, I say that whole heartedly as a descendant of Nigerians.

A lot of them are. And I’m not saying it doesn’t go both ways either. At the end of the day I love all black people and it’s a shame that it has to be like this sometimes

So you’d say if you come across a Nigerian, your predisposition would be they’re Anti-Black American?

The rep Nigerians seem to be getting, and it’s the Kenyans that are gonna sell you out everytime.

From my understanding of "akata" apparently it means lost child or stray kitten. And it gets used by older generation Nigerians towards Black Americans, Black Caribbeans, and even Nigerians who are not in Nigeria or Africa.

I can understand some taking it as a derogatory because they can perceive it as "You forgot yourself", and maybe it can even be used as a derogatory from Nigerians. But I feel like it's really no different than something like "yardie" and Jamaicans aren't using that as a means to s*** on Jamaicans in America or the UK, or anywhere outside of Jamaica lol

Trinidad, Haiti, Puerto Rico, etc all have their own kinda term or slang to refer to people from their island who are living abroad and it's not meant disrespectfully. In some ways I take it as meaning like...cousin or some s***

Definitely not

To me it was like “Oyinbo”. That’s the word for foreigner/white people. It’s not derogatory by itself. That’s how I would associate “akata”. I don’t dispute or discount someone telling me the word was used on them in a derogatory manner but, it’s just comes across weird to me. It’s like turning the word “black” itself into a slur to me almost.

Cousin is a great way to look at it. I always lowkey wondered as a shorty why the 2 were separate distinctions. Oyinbo/akata, but if I look at it like that it makes all the sense in the world to me.

Not for nothing, but the other s*** that's spawned from those FBA niggas is how they try to act like they know where you come from.

I've seen those weirdos try to say they can tell when someone is not Black American based on how they look

Nigga said I'm not Black American because I'm too dark and have dreads