Family Values?

[Pioneer1]

Whaddup Fam.........

I know it's been a minute.
Martin Lawrence used to say:  How yall feel !


So much has been going on, now you got this situation with Trump that I might stop by here and get into this weekend, I'm sure yall have covered it like gravy already.

But on a similar topic, the Republican National Convention is going on this week and there's been a lot of talk of "family values", which is one of the main political tenets  that Republicans CLAIM to support.
We know it's a damn lie, but so many people around the nation...including people of color...believe it.

At my job as well as elsewhere around the city, I've met so many Africans and Latinos who said they were supporting Trump because they believe that the Republican party believes in "family values" like they do.  They favor a more traditional culture and feel the Democrats don't represent that.
At first I was arguing with them over this, but the more I studied both groups.....Africans and Latinos....the more I began to realize how much they really DID have in common with the Republican Party and the so-called right-wing of the United States!

What do I mean?

To put it plainly....ALL THREE groups tend to support cultures and values rooted in both RACISM and SEXISM.

 

 

 

SEXISM

Many Latinos and Africans come from cultures where the women are expected to be obedient, subservient to the men, not practice birth control, no access to abortions.
Women are generally not allowed to get divorced from their men or leave them despite the physical and emotional abuse they may be enduring.

These are the family "traditions" of old America that the Republicans want to bring back, and these are the "traditions" that can be found in too many communities in both Latin America and the continent of Africa.

 

RACISM

Many Latinos and Africans come from cultures where Black people and just having darker skin places you at the bottom of society and lighter skin and white skin is often admired and sought after.  In many Latino cultures people are encouraged to mate with White people and have babies with them to "improve" their families.  Yes...this is true!
I was surprised at how racist many BLACK African nations are towards other Black people, including Black Americans.
That's an entire story in and of itself.

All, right in line with the racist beliefs of the Republicans.


An old saying is, with all thine getting....get understanding.
It's one thing to have superficial knowledge about these different "minority" groups that we as AfroAmericans have helped get into this nation and have welcomed in assuming that they were going to be our "allies" against White racism.....but it's another thing to have a proper UNDERSTANDING of just who these people were and what they really believed despite their color.
 

[ProfD]

@Pioneer1, always glad to have you all i.e. fam drop in and let us know you're still among us.

 

To answer the question "How yall feel !"...all is well on my end.

 

No surprise that those other groups pf people admire white folks. Colonization is different from slavery and institutionalized racism.

 

Republicans may be talking about "family values" but it's not to benefit or support or acknowledge other groups of people. They want to roll America back 100 years.

 

I wouldn't spend an ounce of energy studying or admiring Africans and Latinos.  These people fled their homelands for greener pastures under white supremacy.

 

As I've mentioned before, these people have a whole country to which they can return and build up. Instead they flee and never look back.

 

As Dr.  John Henrik Clarke brilliantly stated, "AfroAmericans have no friends and if you really need a friend...look in the mirror."

 

Both political parties are courting other minority groups in order to marginalize the Black  vote. Those groups don't bear the legacy of slavery either. 

 

As long as those minorities don't ask for too much of anything they'll be treated with benign neglect under white supremacy. 

 

Ask Senator Tim Scott how much it benefits him belonging to ths GOP.

[Pioneer1]

ProfD

 

My brutha.....

 

To be honest with you, I thought things may have changed with the younger (under 60) generations who grew up AFTER the Malcolm and MLK era.
Especially the Africans.

 

I know most of the world isn't as technologically advanced as the United States but they do have schools and libraries and teachers all through out Africa and the internet has been there for atleast 20 years.  
How can they STILL harbor such a deep love and infatuation for White folks with all of the information on history that is available to them?

 

 

 

I wouldn't spend an ounce of energy studying or admiring Africans and Latinos.

 

I wouldn't...if it weren't for the women, lol.

For the past 20 years or so I've been seeing some VERY attractive African women.
I'm not talking about the light-skinned mixed ones of North and East Africa, but those from Nigeria, Congo, Zulus, and other parts as well.
It's hard for me to just let them go and let White men snatch them up when as AfroAmerican men I know we have so much swag and culture to offer.

Not just for me at my age, but I don't want to see these younger brothers be at a lost because of cultural misunderstandings.

 

 

Both political parties are courting other minority groups in order to marginalize the Black  vote. Those groups don't bear the legacy of slavery either. 
 

While this is true, most of them have been colonized and COLORISM is rife in Latino and most African communities.
Why they don't look at AfroAmerica as a symbol of hope against colorism atleast, I don't understand.

Also, I don't understand why Black and Brown skinned Latinos aren't breaking down the doors trying to learn about Malcolm X and other  AfroAmerican leaders and heroes with the amount of hell so many of them catch in their own racist communities from the other lighter skinned Latinos.
 

[ProfD]

On 7/20/2024 at 2:34 PM, Pioneer1 said:

How can they STILL harbor such a deep love and infatuation for White folks with all of the information on history that is available to them?

They don't see white folks as the devil. Quite the opposite. 

On 7/20/2024 at 2:34 PM, Pioneer1 said:

I wouldn't...if it weren't for the women, lol.

For the past 20 years or so I've been seeing some VERY attractive African women.
I'm not talking about the light-skinned mixed ones of North and East Africa, but those from Nigeria, Congo, Zulus, and other parts as well.
It's hard for me to just let them go and let White men snatch them up when as AfroAmerican men I know we have so much swag and culture to offer.

Most African women are only interested in non-African men for two reasons...to ride the 1st thing smoking out of their failed country and/or to get citizenship elsewhere. 

On 7/20/2024 at 2:34 PM, Pioneer1 said:

Not just for me at my age, but I don't want to see these younger brothers be at a lost because of cultural misunderstandings.

Young brothas won't be at a lost because culturally...most Africans still don't really get down with us unless there's a benefit to them. 

On 7/20/2024 at 2:34 PM, Pioneer1 said:

While this is true, most of them have been colonized and COLORISM is rife in Latino and most African communities.
Why they don't look at AfroAmerica as a symbol of hope against colorism atleast, I don't understand.

AfroAmericans aren't white enough to sway them.

On 7/20/2024 at 2:34 PM, Pioneer1 said:

Also, I don't understand why Black and Brown skinned Latinos aren't breaking down the doors trying to learn about Malcolm X and other  AfroAmerican leaders and heroes with the amount of hell so many of them catch in their own racist communities from the other lighter skinned Latinos.

That's a smoke screen. They're not genuinely interested in AfroAmerican history. They're doing Intel in order to know more about AfroAmericans than they know about themselves. Latinos will use it against AfroAmericans in one way or another.