Is Kamala Black?

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I was never going to write this post until I saw someone I follow, Sabby Sabs, start making a mess of it. I hate wasting my time on the spectacle, the nonsense, the kind of trash that is of no substance to our liberation. Next up will be P-Diddy. I had no idea being Black was the prize. Here at AHS our prize is being a human being, and part of being a human being is embracing your identity and respecting that of others.

It is dangerously insensitive and divisive all at once. And I think it is a lower-class debate rooted in ignorance. I have no idea how when every major group on Earth moves to solidify their identity around something significant we have conscious folks solidifying it around a color that doesn’t even represent their phenotype.

Our people have an identity issue, even those that do good work. And you can look at them and tell their identities are broken. But that is where AHS comes to the rescue. You already know our opinion on Blackness. And it is telling and confirming our complaint when you see how a Negro would fight over a black identity. That is the entire purpose of it. Can someone NOT be Black because their dad is from Jamaica and an African-Jamaican? Do I like Kamala? No, do I like Obama? No. Do I like Powell? No. That has no bearing on someone’s identity. There are a lot of Africans I do not like. Identity is not who we like.

I can confirm her father looks like a brown skin African Jamaican. We can see videos of him speaking on TV. So that is confirmed. Her mom is Southeast East Asian. I think that makes her of African heritage. And being of African heritage has no other attachments than that. You could be Tippu Tip or Malcolm X.

You could be Richie Torres or Cornel West. An identity is just an identity. Like being German-born, it just means being born in Germany. Being German might mean more than that. Either way, it is an identity that holds no ethical values beyond that.

BLACK SO WHAT?

The lesser of two evils is the one who assisted the genocide. Was she in another room?

What is the point of being “black” when none of your concerns reflect those of the majority of us? Us being the conscious people. We don’t vote race, we vote ethics.  The Jill Stein and Butch package may never win, but it will set a precedent for the future.

WHAT MAKES YOU BLACK?

What makes you black is your mental enslavement. Because why would you define yourself officially as a Black American? Where do these Black Americans come from? Where do Palestinian Americans come from? Where do Irish Americans and Italian Americans come from? So who is the odd one out in this identity discussion? The so-called White Americans are very clear that they are from Europe: Make no mistake about it.

What did Malcolm X say about our identity? Yet according to ADOS ideology to be “black” means being from slavery, being poor, and eating pig feet and grits (I do not know but that sounds like where they going with it). What is ADOS’s position on Pan-Africanism? Then is that our friend or our enemy?

Being from poverty is the definition of an identity. Talk about some serious self-hate. So how far is this from the definition that blackness is walking with a limp and speaking bad English? Who on Earth defines their ethnicity via a sub-culture? An economic cross-examination of African Americans shows that not all of them came out of slavery poor. Sometimes it is almost like we want to be defined against how screwed up we are. An identity from negation. This reminds me of someone in the UK who said

“Some cannot not really black because if they read books, listen to Jazz, and scuba dive”

And in South Africa someone said

” They behave like a white man because they keep time, and want to organize us”

SLAVERY IS NOT UNIQUE TO AMERICA

If you thought slavery in America was bad you did not want to see slavery in Barbados or Jamaica. But I fear the average Black American (the correct term for their mental state) is so local that they forget we all came on the same boat. I ask do you know what slavery in Barbados was like? Then read Trevor Marshal or Hillary Beckles and let me know where they got to sit on a beach and drink rum punch all day and smoke joints.

AFRICAN HERITAGE

The correct question is does Harris have African heritage? Yes. Return to our article on African identity for a refresher. Does your economic background affect your African identity? Hell no. How could it? Does being from slavery affect your identity? How could it? What we all have is the same slave ship taking us from Africa to the New World.

WE ARE ONE PEOPLE

Divisive politics teach us to hate people in Ghana, and for people in South Africa to hate people in Zimbabwe. People in Ethiopia are taught to hate people in Eritrea, and people in Sudan are taught to hate people in the South of Sudan. We are told to hate the Somalis because they, like Ethiopians, do not want to be black. Add me to that list. This is anti-Pan-Africanism and it has gotten us nowhere.

Actually, I misspoke, it has gotten us somewhere. It got us at the bottom of those freaking boats. And what have we learned?