This Is Why Africans And Black Americans Will Never Get Along

Why Africans and Black Americans Will Never Get Along; and not just Black Americans and Africans, but all “Black” and “Brown” or otherwise-called colored people. We will NEVER get along and unify unless it is by biblical proportions. It is all explained why below!

Before we get into it, we wish to make it known and very clear that we are very much in love with all people no matter their skin color or ethnic group. However, our stance is based on the political, biblical, historical, and social factors that will be presented below. Again, we are very much in love with all people, but we cannot be unified until we address these very important ideals.

Let me begin with a story. When I was growing up on the north side of Chicago, there were plenty of instances where black men and boys would fight against each other. They would fight so aggressively against their fellow black man and boys. I learned that they formed groups and they called them gangs, and they would fight against each other. The fighting led to a term I learned from the media called Black-on-Black crime or Black-on-Black violence.

I was astonished.

Being Nigerian, I wasn’t aware of the internal fighting crimes and violence my native country experienced. When I learned that they, Nigeria, too were aggressive and violent towards each other, I began to scratch my head. The violence towards one another in Nigeria or Africa was given a different name; tribal warfare. These can be very bloody as well.

It made me think through my adolescent years why these things were the case. Follow me…

Every once in a while in elementary or middle school, my American tone would escape my tongue and my Nigerian accent would break free, disclosing itself to those around me. And when it did, those around me would ask, “Are you African?”

I’d have to tell them the truth.

Yes, I am.

This was sometimes followed by admiration, “That’s so cool, I didn’t know that about you.”

But also, often, it was followed by indifference or even a slight letdown by my African American peers.

Why the frown, I would ask?

They would respond, and I paraphrase, “You did us dirty, selling us to white slave masters here in America. Furthermore, you never came back to get us, then you come over here stankin’, and receiving more benefits than me in this country, my ancestors slaved for. Then you have the nerve to raise your nose at me and my people and think you are different from us. You ain’t nothing but an African booty scratcher!”

Even at that age, I was astonished and a bit appalled.

I’d gasp, and give my best rich white woman response, with my hand over my mouth…

“I have never been so insulted in my entire life!”

Depending on who said all of this to me, I’d conjure a response.

For the insulters…

“All you black Americans (yes, it went from African Americans to black Americans), over here are lazy and need to humble yourself, stop being angry, stop blaming everyone, and learn to work, work hard. Drive a cab, educate yourself, do something besides being angry at everyone.”

After a shouting bash full of stereotypes, needless to say, we would stop talking. We would stop our communications and allow this misunderstanding to create a huge void between us. Yes, a huge void would be created between people who are certainly somewhat related to each other in some way. And it was and is a shame then and today for this to continue in society.

I truly related to the “Black American” growing up. Those who did not call me an “African-Booty-Scratcher” in a hostile way, we became friends. I loved Black Americans; I felt they were me and I was them. Then my father taught me that we were indeed family, separated by hostile events and the great pond, the Atlantic Ocean.

However, the way some historical events were taught in our school system, I began to understand why some Black Americans responded with hostile ABS (African Booty Scratcher) remarks. It was taught that some Africans sold other Africans to the white man for trinkets as trivial as a looking glass. That is a mirror. I remember the Shaka Zulu movie clip that he loved the hair dye to remain youthful in appearance, and traded for that, according to the film.

“It was Africans selling Africans,” our “white” teacher would share, almost as if she were relieving herself of a burden.

This next part of my story wasn’t the case to my full recollection, but for some reason to my fuzzy recollection, she appeared to say this with a glare. A glare like she was almost hoping some angry black boy would get enraged and throw a chair over my head. She would get a two-for-one. I almost would rather that than the looks I received from students, and not just the black students. The black students looks were tense; “We should beat your a**!”

The whites and other nonblack nationalities appeared to either laugh or shake their heads in disappointment. I felt like a repentant KKK Klansman over at his black friend’s house that all of a sudden turned into a meeting of Black Panthers. They began watching a lynching of a poor helpless black boy. My underarms felt like Samuel Eto’o and Stephen Curry’s underarms after one-quarter of play.

This feeling alone is why I often sympathize and always empathize with this generation’s white youth who often say they were not the perpetrators of their ancestor’s past’s heinous crimes and events.

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But I took all the jokes, anger, and disappointed looks and remarks on the chin. But I ran home and asked my dad how could he! How could he, knowing all this history move us to the heart of the black community in America knowing our ancestors sold our brothers into channel slavery for a fake necklace or tea from England? That’s when he educated me; he sat me down like Dr. John Henrik Clarke or Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., and ran the drill to me.

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But it made me think, why do we, the so-called Blacks, Africans, or whatever., why do we dislike each other? Why is there a disconnect between Black people and African people? Well, check this out. The mere asking of this question led me on a research journey that has answered the questions for me. Check this out, consider this: if we think about it, Black people are not even unified in America. Likewise, Nigerians, let alone Africans, are not remotely close to being unified in Nigeria or Africa.

Every African nation within themselves is divided to some degree, tribally, ethnically, and so forth. They are just like Black Americans in the West, America, England, France, and so forth, politically and religiously divided. Let’s not even get into sports teams, music, and food.

The question then is, if we cannot merge and unite in our distinct nations, how do we unite across the pond, the Atlantic Ocean?

This is a deeper issue.

Let’s look at it scripturally for a moment. Upon the vast research that links the Bible to both Africans and African Americans (and others in the African diaspora), we cannot help but share why we know ‘why Africans and Black Americans will never get along’ and unify without biblical proportions.

Here is why:

Unbeknownst to many people, these sons in the Bible inhabited East Africa; Kush (Cush), Mizraim, Phut, and Kanaan (Canaan). While these sons in the Bible inhabited West Africa; Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Stay with me if you are swaying like a skyscraper on a windy day.

Between these nine grandsons of Noa, dozens, even hundreds, and thousands of families were created on the continent. Stay with the idea for a moment.

Every family had a written record; every family had civilization, a lifestyle, and codes of conduct they lived by. Egypt, we know about them, Canaan, it is written was a civilization even before Egypt. And Cush was perhaps the first civilization after the “flood.” They all had a written language and civilization with records.

It just so happened that the family of Arphaxad had and has the most recognized and popular written record today. Today that record is called the Holy Bible, and the offspring of Arphaxad whom we are all familiar with is the man and character, Abram (known erroneously as Abraham in the scripture).

Abram is the forefather to the children of Akobe (known as Jacob in the scriptures). Their records were confiscated when the white race colonizers overran all of the continent of Africa.

They took records from all the families of Africa, all of this according to their (Roman and Caucasian European) records and historians. However, they put to use the records from the kingdom of Juda as their records. And then they turned these records into the Bible, adding and subtracting details as they saw fit.

Before we lose the focus, biblically speaking, the continent of Africa is laced with thousands of families, all part of nine sons from the biblical patriarch, Noa. Throughout the years, they’ve become smaller units of families, living according to their individual family customs, ways, and ideologies. They also had their individual belief systems and deity or deities, otherwise known as gods.

Make sense?

Now, let’s again look at this from a secular view. With all these families scattered in Africa, but still linked by a similar language, how unified can we expect them to be?

Language is the bedrock of an ethnic group or culture. African languages are categorized into five major language families: Afroasiatic, Austronesian, Indo-European, Niger–Congo (Bantu and non-Bantu), and Nilo-Saharan languages.

Here are some of the origins of these languages:

Afroasiatic

This language family originated from early immigrants who migrated from Western Asia to settle in Africa, mostly in the Northern region and parts of Eastern Africa. Languages include Arabic, Hausa, Amharic, Somali, Berber, and Oromo.

Bantu

Swahili is a Bantu language that originated in the coastal regions of Kenya and Tanzania and gradually spread westwards. Zulu is another Bantu language native to South Africa. There are more, smaller Bantu or even Semi-Bantu languages, like the Ibibio language of Southwest Nigeria.

Language holds people together. At the same time, language can also rip people apart. Let’s side step language and talk about dialects and accents.

In America, if a man speaks with you with a dialect or accent from NYC (New York City), you do not have to ask him where he is from. That is if you are astute or aware of linguistics. You can hear it. You can hear a Texan in his speech. Further, a man from New York City can probably hear the dialect specific to each borough in New York, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, etc., whereas an outsider could not.

Africans can do the same.

Even in the dispersion of continental captivity, an African can tell the dialect of another African and connect it to the family or tribe. Even if they have been dispersed through the continent and forcibly stripped of their mother tongue, they still can tell the native dialect or accent, the Afroasiatic from the Bantu, etc.

Division is the adversary’s major weapon.

With all the African families divided and with the colonizer (and please, the use of this term, “colonizer” is purely for identification of the actions taken against the African and African Americans), orchestrating further divisions by stirring conflict, it would be just short of a miracle for anyone of the African and African Diaspora to fully unite.

For example, in the Nigerian landmass, there were kingdoms there before they were colonized. Before Nigeria became Nigeria, there were Kingdoms there. The Benin Kingdom, Borgu Kingdom, Hausa Kingdom, Kebbi Kingdom, Kwararafa Kingdom, Ibibio Kingdom, Nupe Kingdom, Songhai, Juda Kingdom, and the Warri Kingdom.

The White Europeans came and colonized landmasses. When the Europeans were pushed to the limits, and the kingdoms wanted independence, the White Europeans left clumping kingdoms together. During the independence movement, the colonizer placed a random kingdom (now called a tribe) as the governing body of the land. They did this by pitting one “tribe” over another tribe or tribes.

This new order of tribes set up as a governing body by the colonizer was done for the colonizer’s best interest. However, it would cause much chaos and infighting by the tribes as previous lands and resources would be swallowed up by other tribes, and even worse, by the very colonizer himself.

The result is in-fighting and mild terrorism.

Tribal Warfare and black-on-black crime are the result, much like White Europeans did during their struggle for supremacy over Europe from 1453 to the present (as told by Brendan Simms). Tribal warfare or “White-on-White crime took place during their struggle for supremacy in South America, North America, World War 1, and World War 2. They were all from the same European family, but resources were at stake.

The same is being done with multiple tribes, to the eye, “Black and Brown” families, but now with historical comprehension, these are multiple families. These are multiple “African” families with their own cultures, ideologies, rules and codes, and religions. The white Russia is not the same as the white Englishmen. Giving them limited options and placing one above the other in a governing role would only lead to war, as history has proven.

How is this fixed in the interim and for the long haul?

Truth and revelation have to be the bedrock. Africans should no longer identify as merely Africans or even by their colonial names such as Nigerians (which to some degree is a glorified way of saying the “N” word). Instead, they should go by their kingdom’s name or original family names.

The same should be orchestrated for African Americans, and those of the African Diaspora spread throughout the world. Through historical research and genetic DNA testing, it is very plausible to find out, almost with precision, where every enslaved African American and diasporan is from. This is regardless of whether they believe they are indigenously from Africa or the Americas. Thus a starting point would be a total makeover of the educational process, secularly and spiritually.

This is what our project, Africa is the Land of Shem, is about. This information allows us to know exactly why Africans and Africans of the Diaspora would find it extremely difficult to unify. It is because we are from one of thousands of families, which are part of hundreds of kingdoms, which are from one of the 9 sons of Noa (mentioned earlier). Thus coming together is one of biblical proportions.

To begin…

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