Samurais and ninjas were actually black
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It must suck to have no great past that you can look to for inspiration. I can't imagine having to steal the heritage of others.
There are some cool things across Africa to pull from such as Mali, Dahomey, Zulus, and Aksum. But, you can't talk about them without mentioning slavery or genocide and African peoples were always good boys who dindu nuffin, so those all have to be ignored.
Except, most black Americans weren't from those groups; they were the ones conquered by those groups. That's how their ancestors ended up enslaved in the first place.
And even when you are descended from a valiant warrior culture, the glory of that loses it's edge when said group was still living in tribal villages while the rest of the world was seeing great civilizations rise and fall.
Eh I doubt there was any significant genetic distance between the Dahmoey and their neighbors. Slaves were the descendants of the losers of that week. Shit didn't last that long in sub-Saharan Africa.. well doesn't.
They did try to rewrite Dahomey, no one liked it.
That covers most of America if you go back even just a few centuries. It's why a lot of European countries get tourists [desperately] looking for some heritage when they travel over and claim to be actually Irish or Scottish or whatever. There are tv shows about this.
I don't see the comparison. The USA is a transplanted European culture that took root in North America. Those tourists really do have Irish or Scottish ancestry. Americans didn't just pop into existence, out of nowhere, in North America. Three hundred years ago, or often less, their ancestors really were in those lands and their descendants really do have (distant) relatives there.
That's quite different from baselessly claiming that your ancestors were the real inhabitants, and the current ones are just pretenders.
I think that it largely is due to how most black Americans (and Americans generally) are almost completely ignorant of African history. So they latch onto pop culture historical elements and try to claim them as their own. Like how they claim that the Egyptian pyramids were built by black people and that the pharaohs were black yet they don't even know what ziggurats are, let alone who built them and how they play into Egyptian history.
They're not just ignorant of history. They're ignorant in general. Because they're literally stupid. Average IQ of 80, and that's being generous.
Why though? My ancestors are from Eastern Europe, I do not look at Newton and think I'm somehow related tot him.
How in the world did he justify that?
Lol. Gotcha. Well that certainly convinced me!
Reminds me of the disillusionment everyone had about that "KKK conversion" guy Darryl Davis when Tim Pool interviewed him. Among other crazy things he said, he claimed the Romans were originally Black. Like not just darker than English - literally descended from negros. That's why they're "swarthy".
Naturally Ian agreed with him.