Difference in dating Black american men and other black men?

I seem to have slightly misunderstood what you meant, fair enough.

Still completely disagree with the differentiation though.

 

Over the years Black-Americans had changed their classification to bring pride in the race. They are a tribe made up of many tribes from Africa. The classification of African-Americans belong in my opinion to the Kenyans,Gambians,Egyptians,South Africans,Namibians,Nigerians etc. This race has a holiday named Kwanzaa. No other African country has that holiday except in America and it too made up of many African related traditions. So in conclusion I hope the leaders of Jackson,Sharpton,and others bring back the name Black-America. I won't hold my breath.

 

This is what its all about....no one is saying that Africans can't be black...they are...but if someone is trying to differentiate between the two...its easier to say black...and African....anyone with African ancestry could say they are African-American (even if their parents were born in the Gambia)....but if you are from Africa....you know exactly where you come from...so you could use black, African American...Gambian-American etc....if your ancestors were slaves and you don't know exactly where they came from....you have to say black or African-American...because you can't get any more specific than that.

 

No one is trying to be divisive and I'm quite surprised that people here think I am being that way. Being divisive can be dangerous...but misunderstanding a fairly simple message can be troublesome as well.

 

The way the leaders change classifications of our race can be confusing. Also,the leaders have not said a lot about Liberia. It was the country that Marcus Garvey suggested most Black-Americans settle. Sadly,most do not want to live there since the tragedies of 1980-2003.

 

I understand what you guys are saying.

Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton however have never been leaders in my view although they have done some good.


On the African American - Black American thing, I remember in school that we used African for those from Africa and those of us who were born here were always black and those from the Islands [Mostly the US Virgin Islands] were called VI or Jamaican ect. I don't think anyone thought much about it.

 

I think Afro-American is the correct term.

 

'got to answer to it

The computer ran mad so here 's an extremly cool version of my previous hotter answers .To sum it up Let's say Forget about the past .Come in the 21st century that we'll gradually build .Kaay?We all have a worldwide culture.A world culture
Hope it would help

 

My current love interest is Jamaican. He is very different from ANY other man that I have dated(black, white or latino) in a positive way(inclduing my ex-husband). I don't know if it is him as a person, his culture or what. I think that it is tought to generalize

 

it's not hard or difficult togeneralize bosoxlady.You're living on a this planet then....you're a human being .All that comes after is about what u are within...just that.Don't make it too much complicate Life the easiest thing you can imagine because ,just breathing does not demande a learning .It 's spontaneous and natural.Be spontaneous and natural inyour meeting with the others

 

Well all I can say is

Black,African,Afro-american all of our ancestors arrive from the continent of Africa.

while caucasian,white,european came from Europe. Yes there are some cultural differences and ways if life but that's it.

We all bleed red.

lets just meet and have beautiful Interracial relationships.

BTW did I mention we are all Human? lol :lol:

 

some people preferred to be called black...

others preferred to be called african-american...

the rest just like to be called "people"

 

Nice Jarell 2006 you percieved it as I did
Thanks for sharing this :idea:
:wink:

 

:smt023

 

well perhaps its because english is not our first language so we seem to think if you say i love you when you just me a woman she will magically fall for you.As of me i dont tell a woman i love her until after 2 months i just tell her i like her and that works for me.My ex who was white american was approached by so many men when she was here{ Africa} and she said no to all of them because their approach was just the same {telling her how beautiful she is and how much they wanna marry,and since i came with a different kind of aproach i got her number and later on took things further.

 

African men differ from Black American men

Im African man from Southern Africa,I have lived in the USA for 8yrs now. There are several ways in which we (Africans) differ from American black men.The areas in which we differ are as follows:

• the way women are treated
  their dressing, b a m
  Academics,
  love
  sex endurance
  The care for the woman
  Hard working

 

African men saying I love you

When an African says "I love you" It means that he likes you.If you go to Africa that is a common way to declare your interest in a woman.Please women here give a brother a chance when he speaks those words,do not be frightened.Ask what he means you will be okay.

 

Re: African men differ from Black American men

:roll:

 

Re: African men differ from Black American men

Yeah ok buddy, I have heard some women talk about how they were treated by Africans. So we all have the same faults, remember black people built America yeah I said we built America.

 

Re: African men differ from Black American men

Yeah, Chiko is getting ahead of himself.