Somali twitter making fun of the BLM xalimo

[VixR]

It seems Somalis have shaqolaan and intense self-identity issues with the word "Black" that announces itself not in quiet thoughts but loud clangings on the internet to the extend they feel the need to bully or cow anyone who identifies as such.

Ironically the darkest ones are the ones with this problem in spades

 

[Mohamud]

Ironically the darkest ones are the ones with this problem in spades

i'm glad someone said it

 

[Gibiin-Udug]

I thought these black lives matter xalimos run somali twitter? Has the day finally come to rid of these people?

They all turned against her.


@Knowthyself even knocked down couple of Korean lads just to get to the front line for dragging her.

 

[VixR]

i'm glad someone said it

Take VimtoMami, this girl, and the general Twitter pictures of the average so-called "BLM Somali" girls. They tend to be on the lighter end of the spectrum, and the ones countering them on Black identification tend to be dark af ironically. It's so odd.

What I don't get is why they even mingle. Can't Twitter have corners kkk. 'Aspiring' pseudoArabs here. 'Aspiring' Blacks here. Segregation needs to happen instead of this annoying, constant bickering about self-identity

 

[Mohamud]

Take VimtoMami, this girl, and the general Twitter pictures of the average so-called "BLM Somali" girls. They tend to be on the lighter end of the spectrum, and the ones countering them on Black identification tend to be dark af ironically. It's so odd.

What I don't get is why they even mingle. Can't Twitter have corners kkk. 'Aspiring' pseudoArabs here. 'Aspiring' Blacks here. Segregation needs to happen instead of this annoying, constant bickering about self-identity

nah let 'em mesh

i'm fine with people bullying each other over their views. besides the immaturity this is kinda how young people express themselves everywhere. especially considering we're a homogeneous, relatively small ethnic group. it makes sense people can't accept differing viewpoints. i don't believe we'll ever be a melting pot of ideas anytime soon so this calacaal is kinda understandable.

you can't have every identity under the sun when the person you're ing against might have at most a 5% divergence in genes, practices the same religion, heck might even be in your clan!

what i find incredible is that this never happens irl. i have yet to see a "kick the bantus out" type of kid irl or a "we wuz arabz" nigga. they just exist online for some absurd reason.

 

[nadia]

even though I deeply can't stand the girl there was absolutely no reason to humiliate her they could have easily just messaged her how they felt how low has our people gone.

 

[VixR]

nah let 'em mesh

i'm fine with people bullying each other over their views. besides the immaturity this is kinda how young people express themselves everywhere. especially considering we're a homogeneous, relatively small ethnic group. it makes sense people can't accept differing viewpoints. i don't believe we'll ever be a melting pot of ideas anytime soon so this calacaal is kinda understandable.

you can't have every identity under the sun when the person you're ing against might have at most a 5% divergence in genes, practices the same religion, heck might even be in your clan!

what i find incredible is that this never happens irl. i have yet to see a "kick the bantus out" type of kid irl or a "we wuz arabz" nigga. they just exist online for some absurd reason.

The fact of the matter is, Somalis are all over the place with their self-perceived identity, which is whatever. What remains to be studied is why they get their knickers in a twist and proactively announce their "otherness" by trolling the internet with White nationalist talking points with regards to "Madows" and drag anyone who identifies as "Black" in the context of a Western backdrop where we classify and are classified as Black all our lives. Can't they at least see the nuance enough not to stress their personal issues onto others?

 

[Mohamud]

The fact of the matter is, Somalis are all over the place with their self-perceived identity, which is whatever. What remains to be studied is why they get their knickers in a twist and proactively announce their "otherness" by trolling the internet with White nationalist talking points with regards to "Madows" and drag anyone who identifies as "Black" in the context of a Western backdrop where we classify and are classified as Black all our lives. Can't they at least see the nuance enough not to stress their personal issues onto others?

do you really think any of them have the done the research required to even comprehend the complexity of these identification tags?

heck i remember a lengthy debate between me and another dude not too long ago about this very topic. he threw everything he could from genetics to colonial racial classifications and made every assumption he could before he finally decided the reason he was really angry was because he simply preferred the African label and despised Western blacks. nothing he was debating mattered because of his own preconceptions.

this is how most somalis function. we're too married to our individual ideologies and can't see how fracturing that thought process is. but we're also too interconnected to disassociate ourselves from what we all think. it's why we seek each other out no matter where we are. we honestly can't help it.

may allah protect from hashtags, fam.

 

[VixR]

do you really think any of them have the done the research required to even comprehend the complexity of these identification tags?

heck i remember a lengthy debate between me and another dude not too long ago about this very topic. he threw everything he could from genetics to colonial racial classifications and made every assumption he could before he finally decided the reason he was really angry was because he simply preferred the African label and despised Western blacks. nothing he was debating mattered because of his own preconceptions.

this is how most somalis function. we're too married to our individual ideologies and can't see how fracturing that thought process is. but we're also too interconnected to disassociate ourselves from what we all think. it's why we seek each other out no matter where we are. we honestly can't help it.

may allah protect from hashtags, fam.

What it comes down to is viewing the "Black" label as monolithic and tarred, pun intended. I think it's really as simple as that and an attempt to run as far away from that as possible, combined with the thought that another Somali identifying as such actively makes them one too, one of whatever the other Somali see themselves as. It's cajib.

I don't think there's anything wrong with sticking to the African/Somali label. That's the one I'm most comfortable with myself. But I'm not going to blow a gasket because X on twitter prefers the 'larger' "Black" label, or bc Y prefers identifying with Arabs and Arab culture, because they're both widespread realities of Somali self-perception, and I can understand where it all comes from. These Twitter freaks are the equivalent of a toddler jumping up and down and sticking their fingers in their ears.

 

[Mohamud]

What it comes down to is viewing the "Black" label as monolithic and tarred, pun intended. I think it's really as simple as that. And the thought that another Somali identifying as such actively makes them one too, one of whatever the others see themselves as. It's cajib.

I don't think there's anything wrong with sticking to the African/Somali label. That's the one I'm most comfortable with myself. But I'm not going to blow a gasket because X on twitter prefers the larger "Black" label, or bc Y prefers identifying with Arabs and Arab culture, because they're both widespread realities of Somali self-perception, and I can understand where it comes from.

well arab is a flimsy ethnic label at best. it's virtually worthless if we're being completely honest because it has no set qualifiers. it's tethered to a region and a language we have a relatively recent history with. it's also a ridiculously new identity for most countries. it's highly contested because it kinda doesn't stack up to the other identities we have.

but yeah that is the reasoning. if one somali identifies as something you're going to question it to some extent because we can - all things aside - relate to one another because of how close we are in culture and rationale. to scandinavian people it's probably strange to see such a bevy of peoples of african descent gathering around one umbrella label here in North America. so it's kinda understandable that they'd lash out. the idea is if THEY were living here they might just have the exact same views and to some people that's frightening.

we're also kinda busted as a group. relatively poor and disassociated to the country our parents fled. our primary identity source is getting bombed daily and there's very little we can do about it. it just germinates the problem.

 

[Lord Flacko]

@VixR

It's over compensation really. You're not white enough to be white (except Shaun King), but you really not "black" either, which causes an identity issue and often results in being vocal about blackness to counter what you yourself perceive as you not being "(physically) black enough"

One of the biggest public BLM advocates is NFL player Colin Kaepernick, a biracial guy who was adopted by a white family.
The most radical public black person was a mixed race guy, Malcom X.
One of the biggest "conscious" rappers at the moment is J.Cole, a mixed race guy who was raised by his white mother.
The guy first listed as a key person for BLM on Wikipedia is this guy

He identifies as black too



But still this identity issue shouldn't be that widespread when we already have two dominant ethnic and religious identities. And some got a qabiil identity too so that makes it three. Add an African/East African identity and you have four, though the last identity kinda implies blackness to the ignorant mind, which leads back to what I first said.

 

[VixR]

@VixR

It's over compensation really. You're not white enough to be white (except Shaun King), but you really not "black" either, which causes an identity issue and often results in being vocal about blackness to counter what you yourself perceive as you not being "(physically) black enough"

One of the biggest public BLM advocates is NFL player Colin Kaepernick, a biracial guy who was adopted by a white family.
The most radical public black person was a mixed race guy, Malcom X.
One of the biggest "conscious" rappers at the moment is J.Cole, a mixed race guy who was raised by his white mother.
The guy first listed as a key person for BLM on Wikipedia is this guy
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He identifies as black too



But still this identity issue shouldn't be that widespread when we already have two dominant ethnic and religious identities. And some got a qabiil identity too so that makes it three. Add an African/East African identity and you have four, though the last identity kinda implies blackness to the ignorant mind, which leads back to what I first said.

The darkest ones are the ones most averse to the term "Black", because their skin bespeaks their identity in the eyes of outsiders in a way that most often isn't the case for the lightest of us, hence they heavily lean on features like thin noses and loose hair to stand out from the "Madows".

Meanwhile, light people among us are often called mongrels and always characterized as Arabesque by other, more darker Somalis, and so they're less likely to shy away from identifying as what they view as "Asl", something otherwise denied them.

The darkest, blackest ones are the ones who have a complex about daring to be called Black, but for a few. And when it comes to the darker female population who are naturally more affected by the switch favoritism, being more harshly judged against societal physical parameters for beauty than her male counterpart, so that they tend to be inclined to breed so her children do not suffer the same fate, therefore actively or subconsciously electing for lighter or Whiter mates, something dark males are also prone to but at a lesser percentage, or can otherwise be masked due to the normative backdrop of an already existing affinity for light-skin females.

 

[Mudug-Madman]

@VixR @Mohamud In this case, they're not roasting her because she identifies as black, they're roasting her because she criticized Jerome Jarre for the egregious act of raising money and awareness of the drought while being white.

 

[VixR]

@VixR @Mohamud In this case, they're not roasting her because she identifies as black, they're roasting her because she criticized Jerome Jarre for the egregious act of raising money and awareness of the drought while being white.

Extreme afrocentrism is a , but the reason she's being dragged is primarily due to that afrocentrist slant. If it was coming from purely ethnocentric, Somali perspective, it wouldn't garner this attention bc its normative. In fact, an anti-foreigners/gaal perspective is almost quintessentially Somali. Her mistake was rolling in it an afrocentric shroud they don't appreciate.

 

[Codeine]

She actually mother fucking triggered me. Every time I get on her twitter feed, it pisses me off even more. I'm a twitter pacifist and even I joined in. Inkaar a ku dhacdo qumayada and all those dense cunts defending her.
Trynna get a last kick in