Their "way or life" was African slave trade lmao
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You know, if you actually knew anything about African history, you could find interesting tales. Instead, you won't just stop making bullshit up.
I think I have a copy (and was forced to read by University) of one of the first novels written in English in Nigeria, by a Nigerian author.
It was very popular in Nigeria, but unfortunately for upper-middle class American blacks, it was non-western, and tribal. It focused very heavily around Patriarchs struggling to live up to their responsibilities; social obligations to family, society, and faith; and is a bit confusing at times because you are expected to basically unwind entire communal and social networks by memory (such that it's hard for atomized westerners to keep track of).
It wasn't a super compelling story, kind of a weird mix between slice of life and adventure, but at least it was done by people who actually care to understand their history; not just "Wakanda-ize" it.
This sounds extremely familiar to me. Is it the one where yams are their main crop and currency and it ends with the main character committed suicide because he couldnt take it anymore. And some British explorer looked on and was essentially thinking "how quaint" over all of their customs?
Either way, your main point about actual African culture being incompatible with the Black Liberation types in the US and UK is solid. Its the same problem I have whenever games and movies gender and race swap characters in historical settings when there are plenty of stories they could go to that havent even been tapped yet.
Just as an example, I still get steamed under the collar about Battlefield 5 erasing the Norwegian commandos at Telemark and replacing them with some absolute rando mother/daughter team. Meanwhile, I havent really seen anything except a Sabaton song about Milunka Savić, who is the single most decorated female soldier in history and was so good at what she did that she was put into one the elite Serbian assault units, and avoided discharge after her identity was discovered on the grounds of "But she is one of our best soldiers..."
I entirely forgot about the yams, but you are 100% right.
I don't even think they were real yams. I think they were something that the Africans called yams, but weren't.
That's because Pan Africanism is Leftist bullshit that caused the bloodiest war in African history.
Amazing how everywhere Leftism is tried, it starts a regional, continental, or world war.
Yeah, and the incredible importation of American racialism on Black French troops in Battlefield 1. I still can't fucking believe that shit. American blacks refused to come back to the US because France was so much more welcoming to them than Mississippi was.
They just completely defamed the French.
They have no idea that the English and French didn't even understand why Americans were segregating people by race. It wasn't even a concept to them. The Algerians were just normal, and highly respected, Colonial troops.
I found the name of it by the way, because it was bugging me. Its called Things Fall Apart. And I also reread the synopsis to refresh my memory. It was definitely a curious read, but your average SJW type would be horrified by it. You want some real toxic masculinity? How does three wives and thinking that you have to always fight when challenged (and refusing to fight makes you a coward and therefore dishonorable) sound? But obviously, that is how it is over there with the actual culture of a location, rather than the Leftist demand for the Universal Man.
Not only that. I remember seeing some training videos that were shown to US soldiers going over to the UK during the war where it was an older British woman inviting a black soldier over for tea, and the white soldier had to explain to the audience "You may not like it, but that is how it is over there."
And when you look at African-American troops in WW1 (like the Harlem Hellfighters), the reason they always have French gear is because the Americans army refused to equip them.
But all white people are totally the same, and every white country has had the same race relations that the US has. And the US was totally universal in its race relations as well, so we must hold everyone to the same standard.
Yup, that's it.
I like the part where they were like, "You can beat your wife, but only for so long, and as a disciplinary measure. Sure, if she didn't make you dinner, a corrective slap is in order. But you, you crazy fuck, beat her up so bad she fled for her life by climbing over a wall and you pulled her back down! WORSE: you beat her up ON A HOLIDAY! What kind of fucking savage beats their wife on a holiday dedicated to the god of the home!"
Western sensibilities: "Wait, hang on. There's some priorities amiss here."
W.E.B. DuBouis has a scathing article where he was leaked a copy of instruction by the French Army, to French Soldiers, explaining why Americans were so obsessive about Race, and that the Americans had explicitly demanded that French soldiers stop treating American blacks like everyone else.
All sorts of crazy shit like "American blacks aren't like Algerians, they are savages who were taught civilization through slavery", and "American negros can't be trusted because they are animalistic", and "No American white will tolerate interacting with a Negro".
It's just amazing to me that the French were like, "We know what black people are. Look: Algerians!" And the Americans were just REEEEE-ing like crazy screaming "NO IT'S DIFFERENT!"
Valkyria Chronicles 4 apparently has a character who is suspiciously similar, if not directly references her. (Concealed sex, taking the place of a conscripted brother, etc.)