As Somalis, Do You Think African-American Culture Is Toxic?

[JudgeJoeGorilla]

What are your thoughts on this? I'm AA and while there are good aspects to our culture I'm in agreement that our culture has toxic elements in it. For example, the murder of Nipsey Hussle just to name on example. As nother is, glorifying gangsters and drug dealing.

How do you feel about this as a Somali?

 

[anon2]

AA culture is a product of White Southern (Anglo-Saxon) culture. A lot of Northern Blacks didn't have this culture until more Southern Blacks moved up North. You should watch this video when you get a chance.

 

[JudgeJoeGorilla]

AA culture is a product of White Southern (Anglo-Saxon) culture. A lot of Northern Blacks didn't have this culture until more Southern Blacks moved up North. You should watch this video when you get a chance.

Nice drop, I will watch thank you.

 

[3LetterzMM]

It’s like every other culture there’s good and bad to it

 

[World]

AA invented most of the population music genres, they have a lot of good and some bad in their culture. A lot of the bad is linked to the injustice done on them by white Americans like slavery, segregation, flooding their communities with drugs and laws targeting them.

 

[JudgeJoeGorilla]

AA invented most of the population music genres, they have a lot of good and some bad in their culture. A lot of the bad is linked to the injustice done on them by white Americans like slavery, segregation, flooding their communities with drugs and laws targeting them.

Especially, institutional and overt racism.

 

[Magan95]

What are your thoughts on this? I'm AA and while there are good aspects to our culture I'm in agreement that our culture has toxic elements in it. For example, the murder of Nipsey Hussle just to name on example. As nother is, glorifying gangsters and drug dealing.

How do you feel about this as a Somali?

I think every culture has its toxic components.

That's why I don't understand when some people have selective lens and try to only focus on the negatives of AA culture while ignoring the positives. Y'all are cool people and just like any group, there are good and bad.

 

[Hotchick12]

AA are not very selective, they accept everyone and because of that Latinos are going to dominate America

 

[World]

AA are not very selective, they accept everyone and because of that Latinos are going to dominate America

Latinos are gonna dominate because they have a land border with America where millions of their people are entering every year.

 

[repo]

It's no more toxic than any other culture. I consider AA culture to be one of the best in the world, it's poverty and government sabotage that has kept it from reaching its full potential.

 

[NordicSomali]

Somalis are elitists when it comes to other africans and blacks, that should tell you everything

 

[Mount23]

AA committing genocide on themselves with their high abortion rates, low marriage, and promoting gang culture and most dont even realize

The AA nuclear family has been broken down beyond recovering, Western Cadaans are next

 

[Magan95]

Somalis are elitists when it comes to other africans and blacks, that should tell you everything

Every group has its elitist, We're no more elitist than other people.

 

[Quickly]

Every group has its elitist, We're no more elitist than other people.

Exactly this, which is why I don’t understand when I see other Somalis self-tarnishing our name…

 

[ZBR]

Music is one of the things that destroyed AA, Music isn’t culture it’s a distraction, a distraction and distorter of reality. Is akin to drugs the sister of drugs

 

[Juliet]

Ngl, yes

Shit like gender wars, hatred of and masculinisation of female counterparts, disgusting direspectful male behaviour (referring to women as b1tches and h0es) is spilling into African diaspora communities via the morons who insist we're all the same "Black" people

I appreciate ADOS people advocating for a seperate identity for this reason

 

[Jiron]

I got nothing but love for African Americans, they are so welcoming and good hearted

 

[Calmone##]

The good aspect is that AAs made a culture that is internationally consumed (musical influence).
The bad part would be,as some users mentioned, gang culture.

 

[Prince of HS]

I actually like African Americans tbh. Judging from the few times I been to the states, they are good people from what I seen. All communities suffer with struggles and if you look at both near and far history, the system was designed for them to fail.

 

[Shk_ljh”630]

If I were to align and be cool with only one non East African group of people it would be easily be African Americans, are there maybe not the most favorable aspects of ados culture, maybe but who are we as Somalis to judge, you guys are an overall great group of people regardless of some of the views some of us hold on here about you guys, excuse the ignorance here because a lot of the Somalis here are actually brothers from across the pond who haven’t met a single aa in there life and yet will actively and happily consume and regurgitate white supremacist talking points in order to bash west Africans and there descendants funny enough