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The city proper of Boston is more diverse ethnically by all races, but outside that 48 sq mi DC runs away with it.
DC used to have one of the biggest carnivals on the East Coast actually til the early 2010's....It was cancelled due to shootings and stabbings happening too much...It's now been broken up into smaller festivals scattered in either the city or metro. Where are Boston's happenings for African events, or night life?
Theres mad african stuff especially in Lowell and Worcester. Those cities (2nd and 4th largest in the state) are predominately African-black communities. Liberian Nigerian and Ghanaian. Some Sudanese. Boston is more West Indian Cape Verdean and Somalian.
Boston would never cancel the carnival there were 4 shootings and 2 stabbings this ear and murder and it will go on. Its a non-starter to cancel.
Boston African nightlife is just in clubs, and stuff all over new england. I see their ads all the time.
Thank you! This is getting silly right about now…People need to knock it off.
It's ridiculous. As with so many other topics and facets of life, the social media era and the advancement/evolution of technology has led to so much "main character" syndrome----->everybody is their own doctor, lawyer, CEO, etc...
For so many black people, the internet has turned into this battleground for diaspora wars that just didn't exist to the same degree prior. That's bad enough, and I also am not a fan that we have these discussions on predominately white boards anyway. These are people who, by and large, pull their stereotypes and perceptions of who we are from media (social media included) anyway, some of this **** can be kept in house. The fact these diaspora wars are so prevalent among a segment of us is annoying enough, allowing nonblacks front row seats to this stuff is a bit more than annoying for me...
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Originally Posted by MDAllstar
Nobody said they weren’t. The question started because someone said not to include Morocco and Egypt. How can the Cape Verdean country be counted if Morocco and Egypt aren’t counted?
The most puzzling part is how you quoted 7 posts and still managed to miss the first post that started the entire exchange:
Dudes will go out of their way to throw out the phrase "mixed", yes, they were dividing blackness...
I saw the first part of that exchange, it wasn't relevant to what I posted...
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Originally Posted by Chicagoland60426
I found a 3rd or 4th cousin on Ancestry whose results show 100% West/Central African. He's African American of colonial Virginia stock, like myself. It's super rare to see, but that lets me know African-Americans like that do exist. I do see plenty who are in the 90s just with my matches.
Because of Jim crow, and the hyper-segregation(residence, schools, etc) that continues to persist in this country, African Americans remain some of the most African(ancestry wise) in the diaspora. I saw one study putting us very close to Jamaicans in terms of African ancestry averages.
When it comes to Cape Verdeans and other very admixed groups, if they want to claim being black then that's fine with me. If they want to say they're not black, then that's fine too. They have that fluidity. Conversely, the census pretty much group them with black people, via Cape Verde being listed as a Sub-Saharan African country, so there's that. However, I do have a cutoff point with certain people I don't include in the black population at all, such as if their last black relative/ancestor was a great-grandparent, or a grandparent. At that degree, I think claiming them as black leads to misrepresentation that can hurt more visibly black people in the long run.
Cape Verdeans for a large portion of the population have strong ties to unequivocally black country that is Senegal, at least. Morrocco and Egypt, to a lesser extent, are more related to West Asians than are to Africans south of the Sahara.
I'm on both Ancestry and 23andme, I've never encountered anyone at 100% black, though I've seen a handful of 90s. I've been on these sites going back a decade. So if those 100 percenters exist, which is possible, we're talking probably 1% of us at best (~450,000). Probably well short of 1% of us are 100% black, I don't actually think there can be 450,000 Black Americans who are 100% black...
The point though, is we are obviously a heavily "mixed" ethnic group, that miscegenation is over 400 years old here. It's ridiculous for cats to call other black people "mixed" if you're black and grew up here. These "purity" tests are idiotic. The diaspora has historically been the unifier as evidenced by shared experiences and tastes regardless of which stop on the ride we were deposited, regardless of which European language and customs we were forced to adapt to, and instead within the recent decade or so the diaspora is being weaponized to grade who is blacker than who...
At home too many of us are debating who is even black at all...
It's stupid and I make it a point to avoid this conversation online, I'm going to try really hard to limit my engagement within this thread too...
No no no, gotta make sure we point out how they aren't really black, they're mixed...
I really, really, really hate this topic moving online the way it has...
They can identify anyway they want, but have you heard of the one drop rule? That is playing out here and another lingering symptom of slavery. The fact that if a Cape Verdean wanted to identify as something other than Black and you are mad about it is the entire problem.
Please explain how they would be wrong to identify as White? That’s the point of being mixed, they have the option of choosing how they want to identify.
No no no, gotta make sure we point out how they aren't really black, they're mixed...
I really, really, really hate this topic moving online the way it has...
Is this sarcasm.
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