TheOne, she’s like Meghan Markel, Quincy Jones’ daughters, or even you, in some respects. But of course you can still sport your Afro, while your sisters might be culturally propelled towards hair relaxers. I see kids who look like the young woman above all the time in the schools, who sometimes find ways to ensure I realize they have Black roots. In the United States, the Mexican and Latin American kids face the same dilemma, of Eurocentric framing, which attempts to coral them into espousing themselves as Caucasian. The term Caucasian itself is loaded, because true Caucasians are the mixed people of the Black Sea area, e.g. Turkey, etc. who are revealed as the descendants of Ham when one does the index finger scan from Gen. 10:6 - 15. The Hittites of the Bible are the Turkish people today. The video is on point in revealing that the Arabs and earliest people in North Africa were Black, but Europeans have exploited the situation through cultural pressure, in the framing, to coax light-skinned Arabs and Middle Easterners to go along with the status quo, thus mitigating the Black origins of the region.
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Re: Algerian Woman Confronts Algerians For Racist Remarks & Disrespecting Her Black Grandmother(video)
Thanks theone, I know precious little about Algiers other that the great movie about its people waging war against the French. And thanks for all your posts about the many countries about which i know so little. Your international perspective is greatly appreciated.
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TheOne, she’s like Meghan Markel, Quincy Jones’ daughters, or even you, in some respects. But of course you can still sport your Afro, while your sisters might be culturally propelled towards hair relaxers. I see kids who look like the young woman above all the time in the schools, who sometimes find ways to ensure I realize they have Black roots. In the United States, the Mexican and Latin American kids face the same dilemma, of Eurocentric framing, which attempts to coral them into espousing themselves as Caucasian. The term Caucasian itself is loaded, because true Caucasians are the mixed people of the Black Sea area, e.g. Turkey, etc. who are revealed as the descendants of Ham when one does the index finger scan from Gen. 10:6 - 15. The Hittites of the Bible are the Turkish people today. The video is on point in revealing that the Arabs and earliest people in North Africa were Black, but Europeans have exploited the situation through cultural pressure, in the framing, to coax light-skinned Arabs and Middle Easterners to go along with the status quo, thus mitigating the Black origins of the region.
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