We would have been fried online omg this is nuts they really get so much leeway lemme guess they'll start a round of discourse but make it general about 'Africans'while if it was us it would be somalis
Othering / Ajnabis dictating our identity
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Honestly if someone is that busy spreading hate it shows where their heart is at. They’re struggling or lacking something in their own lives. Don’t take them seriously who walks around speaking like that in real life? If they do people categorise them as mentally insane. I got too many people to live in my life to be hating anyone online that lol and I got bills pilling up.
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Dont let it fly over your head. Even tho they accomplish certain cultural capital whats that worth for being still called an N word ? Nothing to get excited overHonestly, the way you're going out of your way to hype up Jamaicans makes me question if you're even Somali, you sound more like someone defending their own background than giving an objective take.
Let’s get something straight hip hop is African American culture, full stop. It came out of the lived experiences of Black Americans in the U.S., not from Jamaica. Just because a couple of rappers had Jamaican roots doesn’t mean Jamaicans created or defined hip hop. If that logic held, then we’d have to credit everyone with ancestry in hip hop, including white artists like Eminem and Beastie Boys and we both know that doesn’t fly, even though Eminem and Beastie Boys are legendary and played major roles in hip hop’s mainstream success and cultural expansion. Having Jamaican heritage doesn’t make someone a Jamaican rapper or turn hip hop into Jamaican culture. They were guests in a space built by African Americans.
Also, the whole idea that Jamaicans earned "respect" because of dominance in the prison system is wild. That’s not respect that’s a stereotype. And trying to turn criminal presence into cultural capital is honestly backwards.
Just because Jamaicans were part of the earlier Black presence in the UK doesn’t automatically mean white Brits feel more affinity with them. That has more to do with familiarity than any actual deeper connection. It’s about who was visible in music, sports, and the media earlier. That doesn’t make them more respected, just more known.
You’re trying to spin cultural visibility into superiority, but that doesn’t hold up. Somalis, and plenty of other Africans, bring different strengths and contributions. Just because they didn’t come through the UK music or street scene doesn’t make them less influential. That sounds like your personal bias talking more than anything rooted in facts.
So again, if you’re Somali, cool, but the way you're riding for Jamaicans like it’s your job makes me doubt it. Either way, your argument doesn’t hold.
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Notice the difference in energy when an Eritrean/ethiopians says something antiblack versus when a Somali says something anti black. They are being so miskeen towards the Eritrean girl but like you said if it was a Somali this would be going viral and we would be getting a shit ton of abuse thrown at us.
