Sudanse Girl talks about her Racist Experience in the Middle East

[Jjero]

Sorry boo, but you are black whether you like it or not. Race is how people perceive you. Not how you perceive yourself. If you look black, then you are black. Period.

Aborginals look black but they aren't?

 

[supz]

People have been incessantly calling out the racism of the lebanese in particular. Is the intensity of racist sentiments in the country greater than normal?

 

[Loriox]

Did I say all sudanese ppl were arab? I'm not wrong when I say that they have some next level racial tension going on there

99% of them are the same race tho?

 

[dhegdheer]

99% of them are the same race tho?

Maybe racial tension is the wrong word but they feel some type of way about their blackness even tho most are black I feel like colorism is too simplistic, its much deeper

 

[dhegdheer]

Aborginals look black but they aren't?

Pretty sure some of them call themselves black, I swear australians even called them back in the day

 

[DuctTape]

Maybe racial tension is the wrong word but they feel some type of way about their blackness even tho most are black I feel like colorism is too simplistic, its much deeper

The racial tension is mostly between Northerners and Southerners, and between the more Arabised ones and the more "African" ones.
I think the former is much more pronounced and serious than the latter one, but they both still exist.

 

[Jjero]

Pretty sure some of them call themselves black, I swear australians even called them back in the day

They are apart of the australoid race, they aren't considered black.

 

[DuctTape]

They are apart of the australoid race, they aren't considered black.

"Australoid" is a pretty outdated term, it's like referring to us as "Caucasoid".
They are extremely distinct from Africans though, calling them black purely on the basis of skin colour doesn't seem right at all.

 

[dhegdheer]

They are apart of the australoid race, they aren't considered black.

ahh I thought you were talking about perception rather than genetics.

The racial tension is mostly between Northerners and Southerners, and between the more Arabised ones and the more "African" ones.
I think the former is much more pronounced and serious than the latter one, but they both still exist.

Yes it got so bad that south sudan had to secede, they still aren't left alone to this day smh

 

[DuctTape]

Yes it got so bad that south sudan had to secede, they still aren't left alone to this day smh

Countries in Northeast Africa tend to have discrimination against sub-saharan (for lack of a better word) rampant throughout their cultures.
If you look at the history of Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Sudan, every single one has racial dynamics that are very similar to that of the Middle East. Slavery of Bantu/Nilotic Africans for hundreds of years, followed up by heavy discrimination in the modern era.
It's shameful tbh

 

[Loriox]

Yes it got so bad that south sudan had to secede, they still aren't left alone to this day smh

Are you on acid? They're killing and raping eachother.

 

[Merca]

It's not uncommon with anti-blackness in the middle east. Funny thing though, is that these people cry about how racist whites are and at the same time call black people racist names. Isn't there also like huge Lebanese communities in West Africa?

 

[dhegdheer]

Countries in Northeast Africa tend to have discrimination against sub-saharan (for lack of a better word) rampant throughout their cultures.
If you look at the history of Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Sudan, every single one has racial dynamics that are very similar to that of the Middle East. Slavery of Bantu/Nilotic Africans for hundreds of years, followed up by heavy discrimination in the modern era.
It's shameful tbh

One would hope, that we as a people, would move past that but I guess not... No chance of that tbh not after what I've seen on this forum

Are you on acid? They're killing and raping eachother.

No shit,there's practically a civil war going on there

 

[Loriox]

One would hope, that we as a people, would move past that but I guess not... No chance of that tbh not after what I've seen on this forum


No shit,there's practically a civil war going on there

"They still aren't left alone" implies the former is still messing with them.

 

[dhegdheer]

"They still aren't left alone" implies the former is still messing with them.

ah I wrote something else out beforehand and didn't see. I miss half the things i write when im on my phone lol

 

[DuctTape]

One would hope, that we as a people, would move past that but I guess not... No chance of that tbh not after what I've seen on this forum

Difficult to move past well over a thousand years of slavery
Even America still has plenty of traces of its terrible past in the views that some people have and the racial slurs people use. I imagine it'd be even harder for Somalis to move past an ingrained cultural viewpoint like that when it's had a millennium to take hold of people's minds.