13th Series: What Comes Between Us: Black Immigrants and 'Foundational Black Americans'

“The Black Community” is not a monolith. In fact, there are many Black communities. Each community has had its own journey into US racial dynamics of assimilation, negotiation, or accommodation. All Black communities, whether US born or not, have a relationship with the United States that is shaped through a group history that can span from an experience of welcome, safety, and opportunity to generations of enslavement and racial discrimination. As part of that relationship, each community has received and internalized stereotypes and different types of anti-Black and/or anti-immigrant rhetoric.

[@marlenegnene9779]

Being a Baby Boomer, I grew up in a community with black people from the Islands and most of my friends, mother or father were from different places in the Caribbean. My stepfather was from St. Kitts. We were together, It was when we had to move out of the neighborhood due to a housing development being constructed in our neighborhood, we all scattered to the Bronx, Brooklyn, and upper Manhattan. Our parents used to get together once a year at a dance. But as they died off all of that stopped. But now we must come together as Diasporans. Love you all conversation. We had a lot of skills when we came here and sharpened them when we got where. A lot of inventions, that made life more comfortable here were made by Foundational Black Americans. Love You All

[@wayneblack4085]

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[@baltimoreracialjusticeaction]

We love that you love our conversation and hope you will be back! If you want to join us in real time for our June 13th of the Month, visit our Eventbrite page for more information: www.eventbrite.com/cc/13th-of-the-month-320869?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb. Thank you for watching.

[@movingtowardswellness6675]

Non-Black Folk of Color? What do you mean? B1

[@CokeJilesMacLeod]

0:15 No Person rather Judicial, Administrative, Corporate or Natural nor it’s agents have the legal and lawful authority to enforce Racial Integrity Laws for influence and or profit.
To be Anti Racist and Anti Black is to be Pro the rule of Law.
De Facto Racism is Systemic Racism.
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CEASE AND DESIST. 5 U.S. Code § 3331, 28 U.S. Code § 453, PUBLIC LAW 93-638, Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 (ICRA), 25 U.S.C.§§ 1301-1304 (ICRA).
NOTICE TO AGENT NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL. FINAL PUBLIC NOTICE _________________________________________
5 U.S. Code § 3331, 28 U.S. Code § 453, PUBLIC LAW 93-638, Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 (ICRA), 25 U.S.C.§§ 1301-1304 (ICRA).
NOTICE TO: AGENT NOTICE TO:, APPOINTED, JURISTIC PERSONS, FOR PROFIT AND NON FOR PROFIT CORPORATE PERSONS, Fraternal organizations, and ALL OTHER NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS and contracted Domestic and Foreign Agents AS WELL AS ALL LEGAL FOR PROFIT AS WELL AS ALL NOT FOR PROFIT NON GOVERNMENTAL CORPORATIONS ASSIGNED AN EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER/TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMERCE ON LANDS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES. THIS NOTICE ALSO INCLUDES ALL PUBLICLY TRADED CORPORATIONS, ELECTED, APPOINTED, JURISTIC PERSONS, Fraternal organizations and contracted any and all Domestic and Foreign Agents of those Persons UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Cease and Desist the classification and intentional misidentification of Americans of American Indian and Colonial European Descent as: BLACKS, BLACK AMERICANS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, MINORITIES, COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, THE UNDERSERVED, FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS (FBA), BLACK HEBREW ISRAELITES, OR ANY OTHER BY WORD OR MARKETING TERM AND OR SLOGAN.
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5 U.S. Code § 3331, 28 U.S. Code § 453, PUBLIC LAW 93-638, Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 (ICRA), 25 U.S.C.§§ 1301-1304 (ICRA). __________________________________________American Indian or Alaska Native:
A person having ORIGINS in any of the ORIGINAL PEOPLES of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal afiliation or community attachment.
White: A person having ORIGINS in any of the ORIGINAL PEOPLES of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
AMER'ICAN: noun A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.
BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICAN: A person having ORIGINS in any of the “black” RACIAL “groups” of Africa.
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By perpetuating the false belief in race and imposing the identity of "Black" or "African American" on Americans these individuals like you, organizations like yours, and corporations you partner with, their partners, affiliates, and agent continue the promotion and projection of a origin and caste system identity that is because both are untrue are undermining the principles of liberty and justice for all upon which the United States of America was founded. No matter our various skin tones, We the People are the grandchildren of those Americans of American Indian and Colonial European merchants, soldiers, sailors, clergy, administrators, indentured servants, exiles, and undesirables who intermixed to form the union of the fifty states. We are Americans by definition.Therefore, we demand that all social media companies, elected officials, public servants, public corporations, and their agents and partners, commentators, reporters, influencers, Social Media immediately remove any and all content in any media of any length, cease the production of, the recruitment of individuals, cease and desist from the funding of, marketing of, publishing of, or the causing of funding, marketing or publishing in any form of understood media any Public advertisement campaign, Public Political Campaign, PUBLIC POLICY, STATUTE, CODE, BILL, LAW or educational textbooks that rely on its revising the era of Racial Integrity Laws by using terms such as FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS OR FBA, THE BLACKS, BLACKS, BLACK VOTERS, AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTERS, MINORITY VOTERS, NEGROS, Black, Afro-American, African Americans, minorities, people of color, communities of color, AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES OR ADOS, or any other marketing slogan or racist term to describe and determine the identity of Americans of American Indian and colonial European descent with ruddy, tawny, brunette, fair, swarthy, and dark skin tones as "Black" or "African American." in the cause of Public Policy, Law, Codes, Statues, educational information, funding, marketing or publishing in any form of understood media, all Advertisement campaign, Public Political individual or Party Campaign, De Facto Racism, Is Systemic Racism. No Person rather Judicial, Administrative, Corporate or Natural nor it’s agents have the legal and lawful authority to enforce Racial Integrity Laws for influence and or profit.
To be Anti Racist and Anti Black is to be Pro the rule of Law.
De Facto Racism is Systemic Racism.

[@CokeJilesMacLeod]

Grow up

[@Nickelniner09]

Right we done with that people of color mess it lumps multiple groups into one ignoring cultural differences as a foundational black american I dont want to be lumped in because it erases our struggle and ascribes it to people who have nothing to do with our history on this soil

[@baltimoreracialjusticeaction]

@@Nickelniner09 Absolutely. People of Color does lump people with different histories into one group. Knowing that no one group is a monolith, this is why we shared this 13th of the Month session so that we could engage in the different stories of our respective groups. We are looking forward to continuing the conversation in the future and hope you will join.

[@bwanahaguziki307]

Where is the real Caribbean man on this panel to tell the truth and dispel the nonesense im hearing about black Caribbean immigrants.

[@baltimoreracialjusticeaction]

This is a gendered comment which implies that only certain genders can tell the stories of their people. Such a comment is not consistent with liberation. However, to each his - or her - or their - own.