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Originally posted by Jells
Do we still have beef with each other? Why can we not get along?
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This is on a person-to-person basis. I get annoyed when Africans make generalizations of African Americans and vice versa. Some Africans and African Americans get along very well. I feel a kinship with everyone from the African Diaspora. We're the same people, just some of us our ancesters were picked up and dropped off at different continents.
I know quite a bit about Africa, have family members and close acquaintances who are African, and my name is Swahili (I know not every African country speaks Swahili). Yet, without fail, Africans often meet me and automatically start to give me an "African tutorial." That's as insulting as my meeting Africans and treating them like they just arrived in America yesterday and/or haven't learned English.