Told you the ADOS/FBA shit is a scam
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A minority within a minority: Being Generational African American at Princeton
“Where are you from?”This is a simple and unloaded question for most, but it registers differently for myself, as well as for others who are the descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States. Usually, when a Black person at Princeton asks you where you are from, they expect you to define your ethnicity. They want to know if you are Nigerian, Ghanian, Jamaican, etc. Unfortunately, Generational African American students don’t have a nation to claim aside from the United States. As far as we, GAAs, know, American is the only answer we know to give.
When I was first asked where I was from, I was taken aback. My response of “Englewood, New Jersey” did not suffice.
In the town I grew up in, almost all Black people were Generational African Americans — a term coined by Reverend Isaiah Webb, the grandfather of one of the founders of The Generational African American Students Association of Harvard University, Samantha O’Sullivan. According to O’Sullivan, Generational African American “implies descendants of enslaved people without having to have that in the name,” which is incredibly powerful.
Myself and my fellow Generational African Americans in Englewood all shared the common experience of having our heritage and direct connection to the continent of Africa be stolen from us, via the atrocity that is the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Because of this, we were all “just Black.” There was never a need to define ourselves further. We didn’t know how to define ourselves beyond our blackness.
Upon arriving at Princeton and immersing myself within the Black community, I quickly noticed how different it was from my community back home. In contrast with Englewood, the Black people at Princeton could define themselves beyond being “just Black.” They had direct ties to countries within the continent of Africa and to countries in the Caribbean. To supplement this dichotomy, the number of Generational African Americans at Princeton was much lower than the number back home — a trend identified in selective universities across the country. According to a 2007 study in the American Journal of Education published by three Princeton University professors, both present and former, 41 percent of Black first-year students attending Ivy League schools were immigrants or the children of immigrants. A leader of Princeton’s Black Alumni Association once told me that they estimate that there are around 12 Generational African Americans per class at Princeton.
Although the University does not have any official statistics regarding the ethnic breakdown of its Black classes, the limited studies available combined with anecdotal accounts offer an explanation for the feelings of isolation many Generational African Americans experience at Princeton.
We cannot fully be included in events that ask us to wear cultural attire. We don’t have a widely recognized flag or ethnic identity to lay claim to. We don’t even have a consensus on what we should call ourselves. All of these factors greatly contribute to a sense of isolation many feel from the broader Black Princeton community.
All of the reasons indicated above showcase why I wanted to create the Generational African American Students Association (GAASA) at Princeton. The mission of GAASA is to cultivate a sense of community among African-American students on Princeton’s campus, as well as to celebrate the beauty of African-American culture and identity.When the organization was first created, many people asked the question: Why do we need GAASA if we have a Black Student Union (BSU)? Claudacia Clemmons ’25, secretary of GAASA, summarized our sentiments perfectly: “I think the question itself is rooted in the stereotype Black people are a monolith, and we are far from it. We have so many rich and diverse cultures that are all worth celebrating and uplifting. By virtue of attending Princeton I have a unique opportunity that none of my enslaved ancestors were able to have. I am the voice for my ancestors and elders who fought so hard for me to be in this position, and I want to ensure that the African American experience and culture is heard, respected, and celebrated on campus and beyond.”
With GAASA, we hope not to promote disunity among the Black community at the University. Instead, we hope to uplift Generational African American students through a celebration of our rich history and culture. We will strive to do this in a way that encourages solidarity among all individuals of African descent on campus, which will allow us to conceptualize our shared struggles and joys.
While the institution of slavery has had drastic implications on the livelihoods of its descendants, the afterlife of slavery has also left behind a beautiful group of people who deserve the world and everything it has to offer. Generational African Americans deserve to take up space on Princeton’s campus, and GAASA is that space.
A minority within a minority: Being Generational African American at Princeton
“Generational African Americans deserve to take up space on Princeton’s campus, and the Generational African American Students Association (GAASA) is that space.”
www.dailyprincetonian.com
“We need this space”: Yalies establish Generational African American Student Association
The new association, called GAASA, aims to create space specifically for African American students descended from people who were enslaved.
Over the summer, Christian Bailey ’25 and KaLa Keaton ’25 formed the Generational African American Student Association, Yale’s first organization for African Americans whose families come from a line of enslavement.
Bailey said that the majority of the University’s Black community consists of international and first-generation African students, causing many generational African Americans to feel “unfamiliar” with the Black community at Yale.
At the University, Bailey feels that the events at the Afro-American Cultural Center and Black Student Alliance at Yale “often cater” to Black international culture.
“There wasn’t really a space for [generational] African American students,” Bailey told the News.
Bailey, inspired by a friend studying at Harvard University who told her about the concept of a Generational African American Association, decided to assemble a managing board for a GAASA organization at Yale. Other Ivy League schools such as Harvard University, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania have similar organizations, according to Bailey.
Keaton told the News that the GAASA aims to create a new space for generational African American students.
“The whole point is to add an additional space on Yale’s campus [to] accommodate the growing diversity of the Black community,” Keaton said.
Keaton added that other Ivy League GAASAs have offered “major support” in their efforts to establish a GAASA at Yale.
The development of the new group — the only campus organization directed toward generational African American students — has elevated new discussions regarding culture and Blackness, according to Bailey, who said that people tend to “conflate” Blackness with the generational African American experience.
Bailey, who has spoken to GAASA leaders from other Ivy League institutions, told the News that GAASA organizations at these schools have received backlash from within the Black community for being divisive and exclusive in their purpose.
Despite concerns of tension within the Black community at Yale, Bailey said that people have been “so receptive and so helpful,” with leaders of the Black Students Alliance at Yale — a campus racial advocacy group that organizes around issues facing Black Yale affiliates — lending support to the board throughout their planning process.
The goal of the group is not to separate generational African Americans from the Black diaspora, Keaton said, but rather to educate the Yale student body on the generational African American experience, while acknowledging that it is “challenging” for generational African American students to navigate Black cultural spaces.
While generational African American face unique challenges, Keaton added that they still share common experiences with the larger Black community.
“The way that you are perceived when you are unambiguously Black is a universal experience, regardless of your ethnicity,” Keaton said.
For first-year students, GAASA serves as an opportunity for those who are generational African American to come together in a common space, exchange ideas and relate through culture and experience. First-year liaison for GAASA Miles Kirkpatrick ’27 said that it can be a significant transition to move from a generational African American space to Yale’s potentially “unfamiliar” Black community.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn race-conscious university admissions, GAASA internal community projects chair Vyann Eteme ’25 told the News that there has been a “push” to keep generational African Americans out of institutions of prestige and power.
Eteme said she believes that GAASA will facilitate dialogue that questions “who is being admitted and excluded from institutions like Yale.”
GAASA is not eligible to receive University funding until at least after November, when the Office of Student Affairs opens funding applications for the academic year, per Bailey and Keaton. Despite this, Keaton said that the “sky is the limit” for this semester.
In the coming months, Keaton said the group hopes to form relationships with GAASA organizations at other Ivy League schools. In November, the GAASA board plans to collaborate with Harvard’s GAASA and host events during the week of the Yale-Harvard game.
Keaton added that the GAASA board intends to launch more intensive event planning going into next year if successful in their application for official funding.
GAASA leaders started planning the group’s formation in June.
“We need this space”: Yalies establish Generational African American Student Association
The new association, called GAASA, aims to create space specifically for African American students descended from people who were enslaved.
yaledailynews.com
This thread is about Africa.
Why are u talking about Eurasia?
We don’t care nor live there nor have a lineage from Europe
Deflection is crazy
Whataboutism is crazy
Creating jobs at home? You're not even a human being and stop calling this place your home. You don't see the 14-year-olds working in food and car manufacturing plants? When you see a story like that, are you thinking to yourself, “Man I would love to work overnight at a food processing plant.” Is that how your mind works?
They outsource your jobs because your salary is too high for the executives to stomach. I wouldn't want to see the kind of manufacturing you guys want because it means low wages and a total degregation of the area. But why would middle school dropouts know about environmental waste?
I can tell the difference between a Virginian, a North Carolinian, a South Carolinian, a Georgian, and a Floridian within one sentence. And it ain't the accent either.
How then?
bitch! this thread aint about Africa, so go talk to him about "tribes" & the rest of the same ol fba ados boolshit he typed ! foh
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Hey faggit
Are u with the border jumper calling us Black Americans lazy or are u with the Black Woman who is telling the truth.
No word other than yes or no
Yes are u with us
No are u with them?
And u dumb bitch
ADOS and FBA can NOT be found in Eurasia
The thread title has Africa lineage in it
U can ask all those questions in a MAGA thread
This is about BLACK Americans only.
Black People from Chicago should be looking for that dude to whip his ass within an inch of his life.
Who the fuck are you ?
Bitch!! FBA ADOS say they thankfully want nothing to with Africa n wanna hopefully delineate ! So why the fuck u keep pulling Africa into it fuckery? Concentrate on ur FBA ADOS issues loser
i didn't put Africa in my post. I put a fucking Taco Maker in my post
You either with the taco maker and agree that FBA is lazy OR u are fighting with the elder Freedman into getting what’s owed to us.
Are we LAZY???? NO MORE MONEY FOR US?
OR
BLACK POWER?
DO U WANT TO SEE THAT YOUNG BLACK GIRL GO BACK TO TRACK PRACTICE
OR CONTINUE TO SEE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TAKE OVER BLACK COMMUNITIES?
DO YOU AGREE
YES OR NO
ARE U WITH US OR AGAINST US
This is warfare
fuck you ! the governor of ur state & the republicans "kidnapping" immmigrants r who u should focus n bitch !! I dont owe u shit !
This isn’t my state
This is Boston
The Immigrants over here are breaking into bandos and moving furniture in.
Once again
Are you with us or against us
this was why they labelled him "tether' or "tether lover" & threatened his life , his kids etc Talib was one of the first public figures to publicly expose them was Jess Aiyuwor
Understanding ADOS PDF — Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor
www.jamaiwuyor.com
the genesis of her xenophobic diatribe is becos an actress with Nigerian background (Ayo Edibiri) dared to be successful in America and gave her monologue during her SNL appearance & that triggered ur ADOS boss to begin looking for ways to denigrate her moment ,
its that ridiculous that she felt Edibiri shouldn't be able to mock Haley for her "civil war /slavery" fukkery comments becos somehow she's a child of black immigrants(Wht else would she be that angry at Ayo?!
imagine Ayo made Haley looked exposed & stupid sitting next to what u call (ADOS/FBA) actor
but somehow ure anger is aimed at Ayo!
so start from the top
SNL monologue
imagine Ayo made Haley looked exposed & stupid sitting next to what u call (ADOS/FBA) actor
but somehow ure anger is aimed at Ayo!
god forbid an American of recent black immigrant background has an opinion
but we know there was no smoke for Keenan Thompson who sat there & giggled, the black writers in SNL, but somehow some random account screenshot tweet is the be all and end all!
if Ayo cosigned Haley u complain ,
if Ayo gave smoke to Haley for her fucked up comments yall still complain,
its beginning to seem like yall just want to find a reason hate them!
and I see u didn't say shit about the Jessica Aiwuyor video
and also who cares what Yvette Carnell believes but her ADOS minion? who has she helped ?what has she done but spread xenophobia online in the name of "ethnic advocacy" and why is this #delineation taking so long anyway !?
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an ADOS acolyte
the grifter mark Carter
the grifter mark Carter
I pretty much came to this conclusion a while ago.
All this talk is GOP using Black mouthpiece to attack Black immigrants so they don't look like the obvious racist.
They got everyone onboard with the reparations talk then changed direction to attacking Black immigrants.
ding ding !! Ualreadyknow!!
The immigrants in here heavy with the coonery.
Trying to undermine ADOS with each post like they can become white.. I sincerely hope after a night's worth of typing & trolling on here, yall look down and
Trying to undermine ADOS with each post like they can become white.. I sincerely hope after a night's worth of typing & trolling on here, yall look down and
DELINEATE!!!
