Before I get to what I really want to write to you about this month I have to take this short detour . . .
I noticed this story about the pending creation of an advisory council on the African Diaspora and I thanked God that at least the perverts in charge of The Regime have a sense of humor. It’s hard to laugh these days but at least someone in The Regime is looking out for our funny bones.
The council was formally announced on December 13, by our purportedly black, Hindu-Quebecois daughter of British slave holders, the one and only, Kamala Harris. When a clown is involved you know the skit is supposed to be funny.
I’ll briefly summarize three of my more serious thoughts for you.
Dispersion Doesn’t Equal Diaspora
Black people of America: quit trying to make this African diaspora thing work.
Jews have a diaspora that began when they were forcibly re-settled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century B.C. The Jews have been repatriated and scattered again since. All the while, they kept their language, their religion, and their names. Their cultural lines have never been broken. Just ask the great black Canadian rapper, Drake. He was Bar Mitzvah’ed at age 13 notwithstanding his American black father’s heritage. Drake even re-Bar Mitzvah’ed himself at the age of 31. That is the tightness of a real social bond. It has survived 27 generations of dispersion.
Japanese can claim a diaspora to the western United States. The Issei begat the Nissei who begat the Sansei. That is merely three generations but it still tops the cultural longevity enslaved Africans were able to maintain upon contact with British America and then the United States.
We (American blacks) don’t have that. The culture that binds us is hand me down Scotts-Irish mixed with southwestern England sprinkled with a little German. We retained the hair and certain other phenotypic characteristics but not much else from our African forbears, such was the steamroller of American chattel slavery.
And many of us don’t even have a very strong phenotypic relationship with sub-Saharan west Africa. 23&Me us and you’ll soon be in the Scottish highlands or an English country village. You know what the Africans called Langston Hughes when he visited west Africa? White man.
Imagine what they called this guy when he visited.
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