I'm not black

[icecreamburger]

I refuse to be black, most of the stereotypes and stigmas people instantly get does not apply to us. Why are we putting ourselves in a disadvantage by lumping an entire continent as one group? its like saying chinese and indian are same race

 

[Shimbiris]

To be honest, I think most every day people, if you really speak to them, are able to understand nuance. For example, the average person will see me and my dark skin and curls--however loose--and categorize me as "Black" but if I sit down with them and discuss my ancestry they're able to understand a Somali is different from a Black-American. That we don't have a history of mass enslavement, that we're basically immigrants and refugees to the USA if we live there at all, that we're from a different side of the continent and so on. If we bother to even get into the weeds of the genetics with them like being half SSA-MENA mixes, most people--just based on our looks--will fully follow along in my experience. So what's honestly the problem?

There's no one who's going to insist you are identical to African-Americans, Nigerians, Ghanaians, Mozambicans or whatever other group after you've bothered to explain the nuance to them if they're interested in a serious discussion and getting to know you and your origins but otherwise... you're just asking people not to notice your complexion and, for simplicity's sake, not categorize you into a simple initial box like "cadaan", "madow" or whatever else and to fixate on such a thing, in my humble opinion, is silly and shows a complex.

 

[Yabal]

I know and i hate that term

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

To be honest, I think most every day people, if you really speak to them, are able to understand nuance. For example, the average person will see me and my dark skin and curls--however loose--and categorize me as "Black" but if I sit down with them and discuss my ancestry they're able to understand a Somali is different from a Black-American. That we don't have a history of mass enslavement, that we're basically immigrants and refugees to the USA if we live there at all, that we're from a different side of the continent and so on. If we bother to even get into the weeds of the genetics with them like being half SSA-MENA mixes, most people--just based on our looks--will fully follow along in my experience. So what's honestly the problem?

There's no one who's going to insist you are identical to African-Americans, Nigerians, Ghanaians, Mozambicans or whatever other group after you've bothered to explain the nuance to them if they're interested in a serious discussion and getting to know you and your origins but otherwise... you're just asking people not to notice your complexion and, for simplicity's sake, not categorize you into a simple initial box like "cadaan", "madow" or whatever else and to fixate on such a thing, in my humble opinion, is silly and shows a complex.

I just think people who lived around Somali Populations can instantly tell the Distinct Appearance we have against Bantus.

I don't think the complexion game really works with Somalis as you can easily distinguish them from a similarly coloured Bantu.

 

[Shimbiris]

I just think people who lived around Somali Populations can instantly tell the Distinct Appearance we have against Bantus.

I don't think the complexion game really works with Somalis as you can easily distinguish them from a similarly coloured Bantu.

This is true when people become acquainted with us, yes. But the average normie unfamiliar with us definitely puts us in that "madow" box initially.

 

[novanova]

This is a dead conversation, and I say that as a black person.

 

[Avalanche]

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[Barkhadle1520]

I refuse to be black, most of the stereotypes and stigmas people instantly get does not apply to us. Why are we putting ourselves in a disadvantage by lumping an entire continent as one group? its like saying chinese and indian are same race

Madow ban nahay

 

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Ha na sheegan

 

[Guure⁸]

Me no negro me somalian

 

[Espaa_]

Ha na sheegan

You said yourself your madow

 

[Barkhadle1520]

You said yourself your madow

Haa lakin Im brahmin and you're dalit, different shades of madow

 

[El Nino]

Your first and 2nd thread (which is this one) discuss the black identity.

Nin cadaan matahay by chance?

 

[icecreamburger]

Your first and 2nd thread (which is this one) discuss the black identity.

Are you a white man by chance?

I dont use this site often, and cadaans think we're madow why would I care about this if I was white

 

[Espaa_]

Haa lakin Im brahmin and you're dalit, different shades of madow

 

[Gracias]

please check OP’s previous posts before responding

 

[icecreamburger]

please check OP’s previous posts before responding

what is wrong with them?