Do you, as a black person, love America?
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P-Dogg77
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Easy question. Do you love America? Do you consider this place to be your country and would you fight for America?
Have you ever felt proud to be American if you now consider yourself such?
Have you ever felt proud to be American if you now consider yourself such?
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Hell no, I don't love America. I don't even celebrate the Fourth of July. But my Black ass lives here, so it is what it is. *shrugs*
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Love America? No. Consider this my country? Yes, since my ancestors built it. Would I fight for it? No. Proud to be an American? No. Not ashamed either. It's one of those things that just 'is'.
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i do and i do consider it home.
any black person outside of africa can not really say the country they are born in is home.it is what they have come to know as home.
we are all behind enemy lines.
do i like how it racist it is,no
but that is not something you can escape anywhere...even in africa -
I have lived in both America and Canada, and I love neither one of those ? countries.
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Yes to all of the above
Not above myself and my own self interests tho -
How do you love a landmass?
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1800skypager wrote: »How do you love a landmass?
How do you stay stupid enough to not be able to understand that the question pertains to the love of America as a nation, not a land? -
The piece of land or the mfs who stole it and enslaved my ancestors?
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1800skypager wrote: »How do you love a landmass?
How do you stay stupid enough to not be able to understand that the question pertains to the love of America as a nation, not a land?
You said the word place in the op... so obviously you are talking about a location on the globe, a landmass...
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This one of those threads that get ? put on watchlists.
That said i lovethe ? outta murica -
@ on us far too long to make me say I love it like that.
This country has its positives. But when it comes to the treatment of black people, I find it hard give positive comments. We're in a state of regression in this country. Efforts our ancestors sacrificed for us, just to live equally are currently being erased. So how can we expect to love a country, that shows lil love for us? -
I've lived uk, canada, and now the usa I couldn't find employment in the later two countries so I pretty much sacrificed free healthcare and free quality education for a well paying job and cheap cost of living so although i do not have an ounce of patriotism towards this country I love where I'm at and I don't believe I'd have the same standard of living in the other countries.
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Seeing that the African-American culture is pretty unique and different from most general African cultures, there is no point in claiming Africa as our countries anymore now that we have no more ties with Africa other than our skin tones.
If you ever served overseas in the military and had white friends/coworkers, did you self-identify as American too, as having a shared common nationality with them when being abroad?
Do you consider institutionalized racism as a fair exchange for freedom and more vast range of limits compared to living in other black countries?
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^^^Couldn't have said it any better myself.mryounggun wrote: »Love America? No. Consider this my country? Yes, since my ancestors built it. Would I fight for it? No. Proud to be an American? No. Not ashamed either. It's one of those things that just 'is'. -
ReppinTime wrote: »This one of those threads that get ? put on watchlists.
That said i lovethe ? outta murica
The powers that be don't even care about America anymore. They're allowing all of this madness to go in in this country and on top of that a black man is in charge (not really)? They stopped caring about this place a long time ago so I doubt anyone is watching you because you hate America. -
Love dont live here
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That ? gonna touch a lot of soulsSeeing that the African-American culture is pretty unique and different from most general African cultures, there is no point in claiming Africa as our countries anymore now that we have no more ties with Africa other than our skin tones.
If you ever served overseas in the military and had white friends/coworkers, did you self-identify as American too, as having a shared common nationality with them when being abroad?
Do you consider institutionalized racism as a fair exchange for freedom and more vast range of limits compared to living in other black countries?
TS should thank this ? for his soon to be diamond thread......
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One of the most honest corrupt countries in the world
I've grown to admire it
But b4 my "country" I love myself, my fam and ?
That whole die for your country ? is for the birds that feed into political ? who tell u who your enemy is today
Then finding out next week they aren't the enemy
I've never been cool with the idea of going to war for my country when half the time u really dont know the true reason y u r fighting until its too late and u already have killed an innocent group
War is just old men wit power sending young men to die for THEIR cause
All in all its pretty good compared to the rest of the world -
In another thread I said American blacks and Africans are totally different and I got stoned to death.
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BigBallsNoWorries wrote: »
All in all its pretty good compared to the rest of the world -
Nope. I'm happy to live here but I don't love this ? .
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Nope. I'm happy to live here but I don't love this ? .
Why one and not the other? If it's a happy place to be why not like it? -
the concept of being loyal to a nation that exist only as a nation-state is outdated.
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That ? gonna touch a lot of soulsSeeing that the African-American culture is pretty unique and different from most general African cultures, there is no point in claiming Africa as our countries anymore now that we have no more ties with Africa other than our skin tones.
If you ever served overseas in the military and had white friends/coworkers, did you self-identify as American too, as having a shared common nationality with them when being abroad?
Do you consider institutionalized racism as a fair exchange for freedom and more vast range of limits compared to living in other black countries?
TS should thank this ? for his soon to be diamond thread......
wait... he is the threadstarter isn't he?
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OR IS HE?
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1800skypager wrote: »True. I said blacks in America have no connection to Africans and I got stoned to death.
It's true. Notwithstanding that the highest forms of art and music today stems from slaves who brought their influences from Africa, but other than being influenced by a few Africanisms that the slavers spent 400 years trying to suppress, what else is there that is typical African about Black Americans?
We don't speak a language anywhere near reminiscent of any African language, we have very very few African traditions left. We have English names and have lived life the American way ever since.
