Black woman on TikTok says Somalis are not black

[Empress of Hawiye]

Yeah but do the somalis in the uk go to their protest?

they do

 

[Gacanka Cadmeed]

Yeah but do the somalis in the uk go to their protest?

Not much, in the blm protest most somalis attended Shukri Abdi's protests and George Floyd's not when a Caribbean died. Like in 2011 somalis never rioted a lot.

 

[Gacanka Cadmeed]

they do

This time was the first one. Before George floyd we never participated when Caribbean's protest.

 

[Username]

I don't understand why people are proud to identify as a colour.

It makes sense for AA's but we have our ethnicity so "black" should mean nothing to us.

 

[Magan95]

I understand her sentiment, but she should push for the United States to recognize a separate ethnicity for Black Americans. I've heard some use the term Foundational Black American (FBA) or American Descendant of Slaves (ADOS). It should be a protected ethnicity so that when they do get reparations, only the FBA will get it and no one else, not even the Caribbean. If I were a FBA, I would be spending this time getting documents to prove that their ancestors were enslaved in the United States.

Regardless, she's a bit ignorant on the Somali one she mentioned. "Somalian" is a nationality, but "Somali" is an ethnicity. The fact the she brought that up and grouped it with "Nigerian" makes me wonder whether she's aware that Somali can be ethnicity and a nationality.

 

[greyhound stone]

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I understand her sentiment, but she should push for the United States to recognize a separate ethnicity for Black Americans. I've heard some use the term Foundational Black American (FBA) or American Descendant of Slaves (ADOS). It should be a protected ethnicity so that when they do get reparations, only the FBA will get it and no one else, not even the Caribbean. If I were a FBA, I would be spending this time getting documents to prove that their ancestors were enslaved in the United States.

Regardless, she's a bit ignorant on the Somali one she mentioned. "Somalian" is a nationality, but "Somali" is an ethnicity. The fact the she brought that up and grouped it with "Nigerian" makes me wonder whether she's aware that Somali can be ethnicity and a nationality.

Probably not but she's right isn't she. Why claim someone else's identity when u have your ownm