I don't disagree with this. I especially take issue with the caricatures with exaggerated lips, noses, bulging eyes, excessive darkening of the skin and other racist imagery that would be expected of white racists, that is instead coming from black people who share these same features. People who are basically extended family because they either were left behind or dropped off at a different slave port. Anyone who doesn't agree with their rhetoric is labeled a "tether" regardless of birth. As Black Americans who are descendants of slaves, we should know better than ANYBODY what atrocities dehumanizing rhetoric leads to. Half these folk don't even want to claim African ancestry, though. They are convinced they are Native American, but that wavy hair isn't because they have Indian in their family, it's usually because of a white ancestor, often as a result of rape.
We have long time members who have immigrant backgrounds who contribute to this board and is part of the culture of BGOL.
@playahaitian used to do Black Women of the Day and Black man of the Day threads, highlighting the achievements and excellence of Black Americans and Black peoples from all backgrounds. I don't think it's too much to ask to not have their entire ancestry, denigrated because a few knuckleheads decided it was a way to either grift, get view and clicks, or channel anger at someone they can get to because they can't or refuse to take on the white power structure that is really putting up obstacles. Their ancestry is our ancestry in some cases, but we were stolen from our land. Their knowing their roots isn't a threat to us though.
Now I'm old enough to recall when rhetoric from Black Men Vent and Tired Black Men Black made it to BGOL where we basically had Black men denigrating Black American women who were being called "ankles" because we were so "low" and Black men were being told to seek out foreign born Black women because they knew how to cater and take care of their men, while us Western women were uncontrollable heathens. If they didn't speak English, it was a plus. My, how times have changed.
