Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Coon of The Day
Posted by Bossip Staff
We know what you are thinking, it has got to be T-Pain right? No, the coon of the day is the iced out idiot to the right of him, Slave Boi:
Last week in Atlanta, in a interview with Soulja Boy Tell Em. A reporter asked him, “What historical figure do you most hate?” He was stumped. I said, “Others have said Hitler, bin Laden, the slave masters…” He said, “Oh wait! Hold up! Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we’d still be in Africa.”
“We wouldn’t be here,” he continued, to get this ice and tattoos.”
F*cking Sambo.
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FIRST!!
This is why we can’t get no where.
HE WAS JUST JOKING, GIVE HIM A BREAK!!
HES YOUNG..ITS COOL TO HAVE A LIL FUN…
This is why we are talked about all the time
damn thought I was first! He’s a fool!
2ND….IGNORANCE IS BLISS!
There getting paid to look a mess.
In the words of Red Foreman “He’s a dumb*****”
What do you call T Pain and Soulja Boy?
Two *****in clowns that need to be stifled…
WHat the Hell!!
TOP 10?????? LMAO….2 CLOWNS!
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
@ tg
this little ***** ain’t stopping *****odies progress.
@Myche
that ish ain’t funny.
To all the intelligent black people I challenge you to educated someone less fortunate like Soulja Boy. There are so many kids out there without a clue, give an hour to a boys and girls club, a church, just have a conversation with one, we have to do better. If you don’t know your history you are doomed to repeat it. Each one Teach one.
Hopefully he’ll be getting a call from Kayne, Ice T is probably feeling Soulja boy for the first time.
Ignorance at it’s finest…Soulja Boy, doesn’t it make you happy, that so many people went out to support him?? I’m certaintly glad I didn’t. It’s not hating on people or not wanting them to get out of the hood, but when the hood is sooooooo entrenched, you ‘ll find they are still enslaved anyway…NEXT!…
I just wish Soulja Boy would go away, and T-Pain just go back to his old style. PLEASE!!!
It’s just too much
There’s a whole generation of these types. Y’all know who they are- the ones who could’ve been prevented with a 25 cent condom…the type who makes you turn your ipod on louder and/or leave the subway car b/c of their stupid talk…the type that prides himself on speaking gutter English… the type that uses the word ***** in every other sentence…the type that has MLK and all his ancestors turning in their graves… the type that will hopefully SOON be bred out. The modern day slave.
We have had a very rough history and alot of people don’t want to admit it, but being bought to America was the best thing that could have happen to black folks, granted it could have been done by another means but that has what has made us stronger as a people, sometimes you have to think outside the box, come out of the black and white and lean toward the grey area.
He look like an idiot so I am not surprised. Coon of the day is definitely titled earn by this fool. Listen I am not an Ice T fan at all but I understood where he was coming from when he address this imbecile. Thank god his career is on the downside.
we definitely need to bring African American history to the inner city public schools
wowwwwwww….
SMH…
LiTERALLY….
As an African, living in Africa ( oh! yes, we have internet) the comment disgusts me. But it’s soulja boy, do you really expect anything of substance from this idiot?
What bugs me is that the African American culture is used as the standard for all black culture. The rest of the world defines all black people based on African American culture. That just *****es me off. Compared to Africa and South America, America has the smallest number of black people in the world. Just my country alone has more black people than America. And my country is just 1 out of 53 countries in Africa. Lagos alone has more black people than all the blacks in America. Same in some countries in South America. So it bugs me when people judge me based on African American culture
When I visit the U.S, people are always like, why do you dress like this? why is your accent so different? why do you do this? you are suppose to act this way. I feel like slapping them across the face. BEING BLACK DOESN’T AUTOMATICALLY MEAN I AM AFRICAN AMERICAN.
Outside America, blacks have their own cultures. In carribeans, they have their own distinct culture, different from the African American culture. Same as in Brazil, cuba, Europe and all the 53 countries of Africa.
@ Last$2
Im sure slavery was the best thing that happened to the Africans that were whipped, abused, raped and killed!!
thanks for making me see the light! *rolls eyes*
I can’t believe KRS ONE co signed this ignorant kid on BET’s Rap City awhile back- wtf?
The kultural dumbing down of Hip Pop is self evident no more Chuck D’s allowed in the mainstream only the Flavor Flav’s and Flavor has more historical sense than this newbie ring tone rapper Soulja Boy.
The record label is his new slave ship and record label CEO his new slave owner ie “The Death Of Rhythm & Blues” by Nelson George- read it!!!
He is the PRIME reason, people CONTINUE to see as a non-equal ans NI***RS! I can’t believe WE (as a community) put money in his pocket for this COONERY! I am an college-degreed, educated, pretty laid back, hard-working individual who has remained pretty close to his community but GREW UP! Why is it that SOULJA BOY can live to be a representative for our community?
We really need to re-*****yze who we look up to! Let’s grow up, hell OBAMA is about to be PRESIDENT!
What an idiot…
@ last$2
You are the typical ignorant black man. Slavery was a by-product of colonization ( or the other way around, depending on how you want to look at it). Both elements are what led to the destruction of Africa. Slavery and colonization are complementary. If both didn’t happen, Africa would be a different place today.
Seriously…at first I was like why did Ice T tell Soulja Boy to “eat a *****?” Now I see. This is a f*cking idiot. Where do these dudes come from? And we actually buy records from these clowns and support their habits (ice, drugs, etc).
@ Bringthanoize
I’ll read that!!!
this is why no child should be left behind… he needs to take his ignorant @ss back to school for some higher learning… smh. his family must be so proud…
@ Obama supporters need to beat down hateful rednecks!
How can you even put that stupid a*s as your name, it is dumb a*s thinking like that which will always breed violence *thinking you are really bright right now*
@HOLLYWOOD B
you make me proud to be African of any sort with your very educated and articulated commentary…souljah boy, not so much…..
@ Hollywood BS
Not that other black countries are irrelevant, Black Americans are more visible in popular culture, Music, Journalism, Film than our brothers and sisters in the motherland and beyond. Don’t be bothered by it Black Americans have brought worldwide attention to many of the issues in Africa and beyond. This is a time for unity not division.
*****IN IDIOTS!!!… THE AFRO ASIATIC MAN… IS ABORIGINAL and INDIGENOUS TO EVERY PLACE ON THE EARTH!!!….. Thousands of years before the others existed… READ A BOOK READ A GOD DAMN BOOK
Did he even go to school? Out of all the great historical figures in African American history he couldn’t think of one person, so he chose the slave masters!!! There is simply no ignorance in the world greater than the brain dead, idiotic *****wipes in Rap.
thats because were not teaching these kids no history and they have no faith we really need to pull up our boots what a shame for something like that to fly out his ignorant mouth
@Hollywood BS
if you feel so strongly take your ***** to Africa, you can either cry over it or use it to be stronger P.S. I don’t have a *****.
@ Last$2
I think you need to seek some help
Of course this is what you would expect from someone who talks about supermanning a hoe. His intelligence is not very far fetched. HE’s just another puppet they use to make money off of and to inspire other teenage to be dumb like him.
Rappers are so pathetic and stupid and yet they are constantly running off at the mouth voicing their stupid ***** opinions. Please you *****in, retarded people in Rap *****ty so-called music, please, stop giving interviews. You are too stupid to breathe much less to talk!!! I hate these *****s.
@ blaq
I should be bothered by it because I am not African American. Your culture and lifestyle is completely different from mine. I actually find it ignorant for someone to consider me African American just because I am black.
For statement can black Americans are bringing worldwide attention to issues in African is debatable. There’s a difference between a publicity stunt (like Jay-z going to a village in Nigeria and building a water tap with MTV cameras chronicling every aspect of his attempt to “save africa”) and genuine help which is actually changing real lives. I should end here cos I really don’t want to get into politics. Roofs will blow off if I do.
Freddie
Did he even go to school? Out of all the great historical figures in African American history he couldn’t think of one person, so he chose the slave masters!!! There is simply no ignorance in the world greater than the brain dead, idiotic *****wipes in Rap.
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The question wasn’t “which great historical figure in African American history to you respect?” it was, what historical figure do you HATE??
Not saying that his comment was funny, but READ WHAT WAS SAID BEFOR YOU POP OFF ABOUT IGNORANCE.
@ Obama supporters need to beat down hateful rednecks
Just be sure you go out and Vote!
I agree Hollywood BS…..I am from Monrovia, Liberia and an American Citizen but, I embarrace my heritage because it’s who I am. I certainly wasn’t brought here by slave owners….LOL!!!. Infact my country was founded by freed slaves…(read African/American History people.) Vote for Obama so that we can compete globally in education. This is a key example of how America’s education is failing!!!
ahh please he’s 17 , what the hell dose a 17 year old know, why even make it news
@ Hollywood BS
whether you are black african, or african american we are all of the same blood!
Unfortunately people will sterotype and I think that you correcting those who *****ume what you are is the first step ahead to educate those who don’t know any better!!
@ last$2
I happen to live in Africa ok? and it’s a pretty damn good life over here.
Please don’t give Soulja boy more credit than he deserves. He’s what 18, in my opinion he is a product of his parents, his community, and his record label. A soulja boy will get a deal before a Lupe Fiasco, support underground hip hop, true hip hop. Now when a child says something ignorant is the responsibility of his elders to correct him, everyone who supported his ***** should check his *****, and I don’t feel they were wrong in their support old ***** Ice was dead wrong for his comments, so he got checked by the hip hop community, it’s Soulja boy’s turn now.
@blaq
how you gonna talk about teaching kids and yet calling that kid the N word in the same comment? I’m so tired of this double standard, complaining about others using the N word yet we keep using it ourselves. We want to ban the word yet we’re the ones who keep popularizing its usage. So it’s alright to use it because we black?
Coon of The Day
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i cannot beleive that bossip use that word
and ppl on this site, here i think most black ppl
visit – is actually agreeing w/you
cant stand that ***** SMDH – but when she use that
word everybody gets on her – blacks folks are funny no wonder white folk treat y’all like that
y’all just dont stand for nothing uh – i guess y’all will fall for anything
@ last$2
I already voted. I’ll be working as an election judge this tuesday!!
how you like them apples?
Oh boy. Here goes the infighting again. This could have been the PERFECT post to get some educated talk going. You know– to share ideas and remedies for the disease called Afro-American ignorance. But instead, what do we do? We scrap the subject altogether and fight amongst eachother!
Typical Black behavior. Had it not been for positive Blacks in the U.S. like Obama and Michelle, I would’ve handed in my black card like yesterday. We are truly embar*****ing.
And I am glad you do, I just feel like there is always moaning and groaning about Africa this and that damn I am in the US the entertainers you see on tv in front of the camera’s in Africa always come back to the US, I just feel like stop complaining if Africa is where you want to be go to Africa, but can we please move on, I think there is a way to appreciate your past while still moving on, it is what it is…I have never been to Africa nor do I have the desire to go, does that make me ignorant and unlearned, sorry.
**DL HUGHLEY IS THE COON OF THE DECADE!
The skit he did about Obama term in office was embarrarsing. . .
@ Obama supporters need to beat down hateful rednecks!
I am denying that African Americans and Africans are not of the same blood. I’m just saying that we are different people.
When I was doing my study abroad in America, most African Americans I encountered won’t even talk to me. They will go around school telling people that I was gay because I didn’t dress or act or talk like them. Suffice to say, I rarely interacted with them. I am not saying all African Americans are like that, I am just giving an example. I did meet a few African Americans who were very welcoming and knew alot about the rest of the world. We might be of the same blood but we are different people. Thus, it is ignorant to consider me an African American because I am black. We speak different languages, we come from different backgrounds, we have different values, accents and cultures.
Point made? hope so.
@ Obama supporters need to beat down hateful rednecks
Well good for you and Yes We Can!
These fools make it hard for the rest of us to make it. Clowns like this don’t help our rep.
I am not denying *
@ Macaroni and sleaze
Healthy debate is good for the soul boo boo.
@ Hollywood BS
now isn’t that a coincedence? Because the Africans I meet dont like being around African Americans!! they would rather live in white neighborhoods, go to white schools, put down and look down African Americans (even the educated and well paid ones) Oh!! and bleach their skin!!
But i KNOW that your not one of them…right?
@ hollywood
don’t be afraid to talk politics, I doubt if you have anything that will blow my roof off. Publicity or not, they still got a water pump no? What about Oprah’s school, yeah it got publicity but how many girls are getting educations. You have the right to be proud of your culture, I’m proud of my culture too, but Black Americans’ global recognition should not take anything from you, and is not responsible for the ignorance of thinking any race is all the same. Just like all spanish speaking hispanics are not from mexico. All asians are not from China, but the Chinese are more prominent than many other Asian cultures. Again our cultures probably have more in common than you care to acknowledge. God is very prominent in both of our cultures so is family, I’m sure your mama braided your hair before you went to school just like mine did.
***** them young punks. They don’t stand for the rest of us. When they run out money and fame, they will want to join the ranks of other Blacks. Let’s leave they ***** right over there. Them rednecks can say all they want but, we are here to stay. Yes, we may be over here for that reason, but I guarantee you this with Obama coming. They hate they brought us over now. And yea, you got a former desendent of a slave as your commander and chief. Sleep on that *****.
agreed everything with what Blaq said.
Its seems that the bad seeds of every race and culture seem to represent that race or culture. While those who actually make a difference goes ignored. now why is that?
@ Obama supporters need to beat down hateful rednecks
and have you wondered why they won’t hang around with African Americans? food for thought.
skin bleaching? nice try. We don’t wear weaves for starters ( alek wek anyone?), and we are very proud of traditional clothes and culture, marrying a white woman is actually an offense to black women in most African cultures etc etc
Who is more white-washed? you decide!!
Did battyboy really say that LOL, that is some ignorant as ***** that belongs in the west indies.
Facts are the ice and the money comes truly from 3rd world countries, if we were left in peace from the slave masters, they would still be cramming it out in potato land Britain, and we would have had all the riches, our land, and the native Americans would be roaming their land in peace in its natural organic state.
@ Double Standard
I don’t have a problem with the word *****, I feel like we have earned the right to use it how we see fit. If you are offended by it sorry. I also have Aunt Jemima posters in my house and so forth, I don’t try to pretend like our past didn’t happen. The word ***** has been used as a term of endearment in the black community for centuries. Just like two homosexuals will call each other *****got, two women will call each other *****, and I’ve heard mexicans call each other wet back and so on. Many black ppl choose not to use the word, they find it hurtful, I can feel them as well. But education is education, this boy has no idea what slavery was about or the devastation it did to our people and
Africa. So out of all the positive things I said, you want to disregard my statement because I used the word *****. My friend you can’t see the forest for the trees.
@ Hollywood BS
Africans don’t wear weaves? Ha!
Two college cl*****mates of mine were African! One from Uganda the other from Ghana.
4 years as friends and I have NEVER saw their natural hair!!
they wear those weaves as braids!! same thing my friend
nice try
@ Hollywood BS
what country do you come from? maybe that will explain the difference of cultures in African countries alone!!!
I went to a party last month given by an *****ociation of African and Arab students. The Africans invited Black American women to come but they didn’t want the Black American males there. An African male Engineering student told me that he was afraid of Black men in America and that they behaved badly.
@ Hollywood BS
and since you mentioned it, why exactly do Africans not hang (at least your pals) around African Americans?
Because the Africans I knew were friendly and lovely people who related more to African Americans than they did to Becky
There is a difference between a Black man and a ***** like Soulja Boy and most of the ignorant, badly raised Rappers. He should have learn about history even before he was in his teens. My sons did. But unfortunately, Rappers are allergic to education. I wish every dumb ***** nigg like Soulja Boy would die tonight, so that tomorrow Black people can start rebuilding our communities and reputations.
I’m sure he wasn’t serious but come on…of all things to say….”shout out to the slave masters”?? I mean WTF!!!!!!…but the saddeset thing is that he probably doesn’t even realize that he is still a slave
@ Hollywood and Obama
One is not better than the other. Hollywood your culture is not better than ours, and possibly not that different, and within America all black culture is not the same depending on the region you are from there are definite differences. You both are judging the m*****es by the actions of a few. If you want to know how slavery and colonization came about because of the the fighting among different tribes the Europeans were able to take advantage of warring prisoners of war were sold into slavery and often traded to Europeans for weapons to keep fighting each other, while the white man ran off with the gold, diamonds, took ownership of the land and stole the people. Unity not Divison
STOP
THE
INFIGHTING!!!
THIS
IS
EXACTLY
WHAT
BOSSIP
WANTS!
THERE IS NOTHING WITH EDUCATED CONVO BUT IT STARTS WITH ENLIGHTENED IDEAS!
NUPES stand UP!
@ Obama supporters need to beat down hateful rednecks
I Africans that related more to you are probably the ones who are trying to hide their culture and pretend to be African Americans. Most of the time, their accents betray them.
Africa has 53 countries so wouldn’t you think we would have different cultures? just in my country alone we speak over 300 languages and none of them sound like African Americans speak.
@ obama supporters
i dont know what last$2 was saying,she/he is confused and doesnt really see the logic here. I understand what hollywood BS is saying about Blacks/africans and its true and that comment comming from soulja boy just shows that he’s not smart and clearly didnt know how to answer that question.
i wont elaborate anymore further but this is not about black,white,slavery..its just that one statement soulja boy made as an individual
Iam glad he calls himself BOY
@ blaq
Again, I am not trying to be divisive. I am just stating facts. So I should nod and respond to someone who calls me an African American? I am not. We have different cultures, lifestyles and we speak different languages. That’s all I’m saying.
@ Hollywood BS
I think this is the same arrogant behavior that is being spoke of. I find that “Africans” always think they are more intellectual and have some kind of superior gain on Arican American’s. And alot of them look down on American woman becuase of independent ways. With that being said I only speak of the ones that I have met.
Who was the idiot responsible for giving editing this story at Bossip… Yall effers do not know how to (1) Use quotation marks appropriately and (2) be consistent in your narrative. Is it first- person on a third person point of view? Review, re-write and re-release this shyt so I can comment on the story instead of your dumb a$$ editorial errs!!!
Ok Ok………… just wait a min!! anyone of you been to Africa, never mind the history, no one is forgetting that.
Try living in Africa not places like kenya where its a bit more built. Live in a mud hut or a ram shackled house.
Again, anyone been to africa?
@ Hollywood
Well you should not be offended by someone calling you African American, and if were in America at the time it is probably an honest mistake. I am not offended is someone was to call me African, it’s like and Ethiopian getting angry for someone thinking they were Eritrean if you are neither you may not know the difference.
I am deeply embarr*****ed……….
‘more intellectual’Wiithout question.
Silly ***** young *****s nowadays really aggravate me. Pick up a book sometimes and no not a xxl a real book.
Obama 08
Ignorant people will never be free.. Thomas Jefferson
@ last$2
thats because they are,africans in some cases and in general are intellectual than most african AMERICAN,im not saying that they should use that and think they can be superior,but african tend to think and prossess things before they make a decision.
In general african/blacks are smart people and thats a fact regardless,the dumbs ones are just dumb because of their own personal conclusion to things.
Enough with the bullsh*t. Soulja Boy is a f*cking waste of time and money, and he needs to restart from kindergarten and actually finish high school (G.E.D not acceptable). As a black woman who proudly earned her way into 3 honor societies during my higher (meaning post high school) education, I am embar*****ed that Soulja Boy is black. I teach and my first graders make me more proud spelling compound words than this dumb f*ck ever will.
As for you last$2, I weep. Don’t you see that Soulja Boy and your ideas about Africa and Africans are the reason why African and Carribean blacks don’t want to be African American? It goes deeper than just having their own cultural identity. Uncle Tom Sambo shuckin’ and jivin’ ***** coon.
ohmigod! ya’ll now he’s the future of our nation right? He probably vote for McCain, if he vote at all….
my oh my
A Mess! Even at that age, I wouldn’t have said anything that stupid. Parents talk to your kids, please. They need it.
And let me say by free.. meaning the mind
just look some people sit in the projects for years I mean generations and they feel thats the way of
life. The Mentality is so backwards nowadays people shouting I’m so hood WHATS GOOD ABOUT BEING HOOD!!!
wake up work hard and leave the projects get into the middle cl***** thats the American way. work from the bottom up. OBAMA Speaks of it all the time.
@ hollywood BS
once you land in this country whether you’re chinese,african,spanish,german,once you get in this country!you’re being considered an american
AFRICAN-american
CHINESE-american
SPANISH-american
its like a basket of apples,there are different type of apples BUT they are all apples. Thats their problem if they want to cl***** you as an african-american., but its your right to let them know the different
dumb*****es…
What in the Sam hell foolary is this kids problem. Somebody get this kid some books to read
@ all of your *****es that don’t want to identified with African Americans screw you guys, I live the life everyday and while I am not shouting out to a slave master, not a one of us knows if life would have been better or worse had it not been for the slave master, but the fact is we have come this far, so save your tears babe don’t weep for me, weep for the parents that have kids being taught by someone as closed minded and judgmental as yourself..
“And have you wondered why they won’t hang around with African Americans? food for thought.”
African Americans don’t really have an interest in hanging out with Africans so what are you implying by “food for thought”? Possibly because there are tons negative images about Africa fed to us by the media. I’d say the same for us as it relates to the African media. However, you can’t deny that African American’s are the most visible Africans on earth. Visible because our history, culture, vast accomplishments, etc. All within a relatively short period of time. 300 years. Africa has been colonized for a much longer period. You shouldn’t be mad at that because as someone already said, our gains have helped Africa tremendously. If it wasn’t for the Civil Rights movement and other prolific African American trail brazers, Apartheid would likely still be the norm in South Africa. Discrimination would be the norm throughout Africa. African Americans lobbied hard for the Immigration Act which opened the doors for millions of Africans living in poverty to seek better lives abroad in the United States. I can go on and on. Anyway, it seems like many Africans here are ungrateful. Were it not for our sacrifices that included death, Africa as a whole would be worse off. And, Skin Bleaching is very profitable in Africa. I’ve seen Africans in weaves, nike’s and jeans walking around in Africa so don’t embellish the truth Hollywood. As far as white washing, we are not the ones who wash our skin with bleach.
I’ve been to Africa quite a few times. Africa is a collection of different nations with different people, so it’s embarr*****ing whenever I see attempting to generalize about the people of a continent just because it’s so overwhelmingly black. I’ve been to neighborhoods in West Africa where EVERYONE lives on a compound, no one lives in a home with less than 5 bedrooms, everyone has a Benz AND a Range, and the kids get Beamers for their 16th birthdays. I’ve also been to the village where the electricity goes out every other day and people have to go fetch their own water. I love both. There is nothing like being in a NATION of black people, where so many people are so proud of the fact that they are free and amongst one another.
I’m NYC born and raised, and that will never change, but judging from some comments that I see on this site, Soulja Boy isn’t the only one who needs to be educated.
Soulja Boy is a buffoon so I don’t know why anyone is surprised at his dumb a**.
Hrrrmmmm… . define Sambo
o well .. he got a point… alot of good came out of slavery just as alot of horrific tragedies did.. once blacks became radicalized and fought against whites, we’ve been moving up ever since… no thank you slavery for oppressing us as a people… but thank you slavery for the powerful figures in black history …
WOW SHOULDA STAYED IN SCHOOL
LOST THE 2% RESPECT i HAD FOR HIM
http://www.my*****e.com/thagrindaholic
NEW TRACK UP “NEVA DROWN”
……..correction it was GOD who gave African Americans the ability to overcome such tremendous odds so to GOD be the glory. As I re-read my post I gave us too much credit as we wouldn’t have survived or been able to fight against slavery, discrimination, Jim Crow etc without the Almighty.
what is wrong with our youth?????? there is nothing wrong with having your own opinion. but does he not know that you must think before you speak,,,,,i don’t care how old he is, he can do better!!
@ last$2
We have had a very rough history and alot of people don’t want to admit it, but being bought to America was the best thing that could have happen to black folks, granted it could have been done by another means but that has what has made us stronger as a people, sometimes you have to think outside the box, come out of the black and white and lean toward the grey area.
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Actually Africa was one of the richest countries at one time due to their natural oil. Africa put mathematics on the map and therefore can be argued as one of the smartest. Please read a book.
EXCATLY WHY HIS DUMB ***** WILL BE BROKE IN 5 YEARS!
But then again what do we expect from a kid influenced by hood/hip hop culture.
Why do think West Africans sold their people into slavery for trinkets like watches and silverware? I think some African Americans have mixed views of West Africans because on one hand they were once strong and intelligent/genetically we are quite similar, however once they got in bed with the white man they selfishly altered the lives of many, many people and they have paid and are still paying dearly for that mistake. Food for thought!
what’s going on in the world today?
I don’t pay idiots like him no mind.
I love how idiots post and rationalize their way into providing some sort of fake a$$ historical discourse. There were African nations in existence well before the Civil Rights movement even began. There were leaders of the Civil Rights movement who named themselves and their children after Pan African leaders, and vice versa. So how can you cite South Africa as an example, as if the change in South Africa somehow legitimized the freedom on the continent that so many already possessed?
You’re right there with Soulja Boy and you don’t even know it. Throughout the 20th and and even 19th century there was a steady dialogue across the Atlantic. And one side cannot insult the other without insulting itself.
@ STEFANY
Don’t blame that ***** on hip hop or the hood, you will find some of the greatest black historian in the hood and in hip hop, this boy is a product of the media and the American education system. When they teach about Africa it’s about apartheid, famine, colonization and slavery, which they teach us was not that bad. Anyone who has a real view of the black experience they got it from their parents for private research.
I’m Nigerian too (though london-based) and not wanting to be called African-American doesn’t necessarily mean that Africans look down on y’all, there’s just a need to clarify our identity. For instance, I hate people mis*****ouncing my name as i know it has a meaning and though someone’s name might actually be *****ounced the way mine was mis*****ounced, i still prefer the *****unciation of my one, that ain’t to say i feel more superior in any way. D’you get? All i know is if God asked me what i’d like to keep from my current life into a new one or some’, it’ll be the colour of my skin, cos that pretty much sums up me and everything i’m about. @soulja embryos comment, he clearly speaks out of his ***** a lot. He’s old enough to reason and speak rationally but he made an extremely stupid/narrow-minded comment there. I’m not too surprised though cos his butler friends clearly substitute his parents.
I would like to applaud the intelligent commentary of:
OBAMA
1MORPLEEZ
AKIRA
READ YOUR HISTORY
BRINGTHANOIZE
Just goes to show the intelligence outweights the ignorance. Your types are the only reason I come on this blog, once you wade through the insults I delight in the conversation of the educated, and that does mean the amount of degree’s you have but the amount of understanding.
Might as well just kill him now, before he starts talking about cuttin off Barack’s nuts.
@ Teju
I believe we got up at arms about hollywoods comment because she said she was bugged and bothered by it, because her culture was so different. But really if you are black in america people are going to think you are a black american, why would that bother someone, If I were in her country walking down the street, would she be able to pick me out and say she’s American. And she made no comment of the difference like the were regarding these stupid comments made my Soulja Boy. I have a Muslim surname I am not offended when ppl ask me where I am from, because most black people who are from America do not have Muslim surnames. What’s the big deal, if you are unique you may have to explain yourself more often. But I would be bothered if someone thought I was an idiot, or w*****, or an atheist because that is somethings I find deplorable.
A reporter asked him, “What historical figure do you most hate?” He was stumped. I said, “Others have said Hitler, bin Laden, the slave masters…” He said, “Oh wait! Hold up! Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we’d still be in Africa.”
“We wouldn’t be here,” he continued, to get this ice and tattoos.”
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Sorry Soulja Clown we would have been here without slavery. There is an invention called the BOAT and lets not forget that we had cities and everything before slavery. And since we invented so many thing that we use everyday, Africa would be a world power instead of the USA.
And I would like to ignore him, but I work in the school system and Soulja Boy’s coonery is NOTHING compared to what I see from US. I did a black history board and contest for my school. I did the contest. PLEASE TELL MY WHY THE HISPANIC KIDS KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR RACE THAN US???
How do our kids not know who BILL COSBY is?
Don’t blame that ***** on hip hop or the hood, you will find some of the greatest black historian in the hood and in hip hop, this boy is a product of the media and the American education system. When they teach about Africa it’s about apartheid, famine, colonization and slavery, which they teach us was not that bad.
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What black history in school??? Aside from Martin and company, you don’t get much and when you try to add more. The kids don’t care.
Unless it’s rap, sports, jail, fighting, drugs or sex our kids don’t care. And we won’t talk about parents.
when I was 17, i wasnt dumb enough to think that slave masters did me a favor by bringing africans over here. I saw something about ignorance being bred out. how the hell do you think that? all the kids these fools are having are gonna grow up with the same or worse morals as these dumb*****es.
@ Ghost
I applaud you for teaching and you don’t know what kid you got through to. But Rap, sports, jail, fighting, drugs and sex are part of black history too, you may have to find an angle to reach them on, but they are reachable. I know so many of my peers who read the autobiography of Malcolm X because of Public Enemy and the By Any Means Necessary Poster. Just keep trying you are doing more good than you know.
out of all the good reason to live in america the only thing he could come up with is ICE and TATTOO’S…SMDH!!!
One of the reasons why Hip-Hop is on Life Support. Silly negro. I bet the Klan really gets a kick out of dude …
“Did battyboy really say that LOL, that is some ignorant as ***** that belongs in the west indies.”
Tracey, have you ever been to the West Indies? Probably not! Because if you have, you will know that we, West Indians, are NOT ignorant. Anyone with a brain would know that Blacks in the West Indies were also brought over as slaves from Africa.
Soulja Boy: Go Back to school!! The children of this generation need more guidence. I blame the parents.
*idiot, i was just woderind yesterday what we would be doing if we were not taken from our native land
Dumb azz nicca.
he’s a dumb ***** ***** yes…but he only wut 16? 17?
T Pain may be ignorant but Bossipers are worse.
I am incensed that BOSSIP continues to label black people this derogatory term coon.
Racist bloggers such as JEWISH WOMAN and COLORED as recent as yesterday, called black people this degrading term.
I don’t give a damn what T PAIN said, It does not warrant this filthy racist term. If it continues I won’t visit this racist site.
I know a lot of jamaican people who bleach their skin as well as african people.
Why us??????????
The saddest part of questioning Soulja boy was they knew they’d get an answer somewhere near his comment.
Not only did they play on his youth and ignorance, they belittled him!
Soulja boy doesn’t appear to be the brightest crayon in the box but he doeasn’t appear to be unintelligent either. I honestly believe the spotlight might’ve caused him some excitement which resulted in his eagerness to answer without thinking.
How many kids his age and in his position would’ve answered somewhat like he did if they were under the same conditions?
I’ll tell you guys this–
If I was an entertainer constantly thrust into the spotlight, all BOSSIPers would constantly ask–
Does she ever speak to the public?
Is she conceited?
Is she a mute?
Why she be wavin’ all the time? Never say nuffin…just wave?
I’d be DAMN–If people are going to scruntinize, at least lettem guess.
“It’s better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder about intelligence/ignorance than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Lol!!!!!!!!!
I was in the Hair business for a long time and I worked with African women as well as Jamaican women and they would be dark skinned on week and then all of a sudden they are like 2 shades lighter with a dark neck and hands.
I’m not starting trouble I am just commenting on what I observed.
*Typo
One week
@ Hollywodd–
I’m really not making excuses. The key word you and I both used–
IGNORANT!!!
Reach one, teach one!!
See my point?
I aoplogize for the typo in your name.
Drats!!!!!!!!
A.P.O.L.O.G.I.Z.E!!
Lol!!!!!
SOMEone’s really in a tizzy tonight!!
Lol!!!!!!!!!!
DIVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess HOllYWOOD BS has his draws all twisted in a bunch.
I got chewed out for making a comment on my keen observation.
WHAT ROCK YOU BEEN HIDING UNDER GIRL??? LOL
WE MISS HAVING YOU AND THAT BEAUTIFUL GIRL OF YOURS ON BOSSIP!!! HER NAME IS MYKEL RIGHT?? SEE SHE IS ALREADY A STAR IN THE MAKING!!
Hi Sessy!!
Uh…..
(Side eyein)
Is this the REAL sessy?
Lol!!!
If not, Hi understudy Sessy!!
Lol!!!!
BTW–If this is Understudy, I’ve changed my name in your honor!
You likey??
Lol @ Janae!!
ROTFLMAO @ Sessy!!!!!
@ Sessy–
Thanks for the compliment and you’re correct in her name. AS soon as I get her pictures back, I’m going to replce this one.
This is last years.
if that doesn’t end his “career” then hip hop as I know it is officially dead.
PS – what’s up with people using comments on a website as an extension their social lives? Removing that bull***** and people that didn’t actually read the post before writing their knee-jerk reaction to the headline would do wonders for the signal to noise ratio.
I certainly didn’t read the post carefully because I was *****ed by the headline.
Soldier boy is only 17. He is still young and dumb. What the hell is Bossips excuse?
I am surprised that others are not offended. It it was TMZ calling black people coons they would be calling Al Sharpton.
Bossip, you showed this shot before. Why are you recycling this?
DIVA SHE IS ADORABLE BUT YOU KNOW THAT BY NOW!
YEAH, I AM ABOUT TIRED OF THE IMPOSTER AND REALLY HAVING BEEN COMING ON BOSSIP LIKE I USED TO. IT JUST ISNT THE SAME AS WHEN I STARTED BACK ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO. SOME PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHEN TO STOP AND THEY MESS UP A GOOD THANG! LOL
@ Binary Star–
BOSSIP doesn’t give a hoot about WHAT people write. They’re concerned about the NUMBER of POSTS/COMMENTS people write.
Even though they’ve added some chat room stuff, they still measure their success at the number of hits in a post.
JMO.
Hip hop died a long time ago.
We just refuse to bury it.
@ last$2-You are and ***** kissing idiot for that ignorant remark. How the hell would you know what’s best for us? You can’t look at feed the hungry on BET and go ‘I’m glad i’m in America” Think of the ones who died on those slave ships because they didn’t want to come here. the ones who was gutted open, and hung from trees, burned, and fed to dogs.. for ignorant *****es like yourself .. Think before you speak, and speak for yourself! There is no US in that comment you just made. I’m not linked to your chain..thank god.
When did BOSSIP change the blue gravatar thingy to the sillouette?
THAT IS A BIG..nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
You have to hear how he said that quote. He’s probaly saying like dang we still be in Africa but they took us from out motherland!!!
YEAH THEY ALSO DID AWAY WITH THE CHECK ME OUT FEATURE TOO. I THINK THE IMPOSTERS WORK FOR BOSSIP SOMETIMES TO GET THE NUMBER OF POSTS UP!!
Hey!
You’re right!!
*just noticing “check me out” feature is gone.
And to think–I thought I was all CSI and shyt!!!
How did I miss that?
**scratching head**
DIVA THINGS HAVE CHANGED FAST ON HERE!! HOW ARE THINGS DOWN IN NC?? I WAS GOING TO HEAD DOWN TO A&T NEXT WEEK!
Ignorance at its finest….
Wowzers! Thats embarr*****ing…
Why oh why are people still coonin’ in the 21st century? Can’t we leave that ish behind? We are about to have a black president, for cryin’ out loud…
see, he should have stayed in school.
@ last $2-
I STILL weep for you b/c in your cooning ingnorance you think I’m being judgemental. Coon.
@HOLLYWOOD BS
I agree with you about that term African American. I don’t care for it either. I am black but I have other things in my background.
Though his comments are embarr*****ing and should never be said publicly, when you really think about it: was he wrong? We originated from Africa as slaves (even the beige negroes) and there is no doubt we would not be here in huge numbers if we weren’t imported from Africa. Would you really want to live in Africa right now? We are a strong people and have come from slavery to freedom with equal rights (though racism still exists), but I agree that the youth needs to get more educated and stop coonin’.
READ the whole article clearly ppl. READ the sarcasm in his statement..Yes , he’s a twit for the way he said it..but read into the sarcasm. I swear reading is fundamental *****es!
he’s a teenager, did you expect him to say something prolific? i’m sure when he’s older and working that drive thru drenched in his ice and tats, he’ll say to himself…”what was i thinking”
He is a certified dumb *****. With no direction. Jesus take the wheel
SMH
@Hollywood BS,
If you have such disdain for Black Americans, then why are you on a site that was made for and by Black Americans? It’s not like we need you here. You may see yourself as superior to us, but the truth is you are not.
***** soulja boy! Do like Ice-T say and eat a ***** *****!
Poor Parenting + Failed Education System =Soulja Boy
Wow soOO Sad wat a dumb ***** comment!!
jonjon23
Seeing that other races didn’t get bought here as slaves, I’m sure we would still be in this country. Now how would we have been treated would be another story.
He should have known better than to say that. Don’t keep giving folk ammuno to use on you. Because the ONE time you said you might go to college was ignored by the media. Everythign else gets blasted everywhere.
@Hollywood “Full of” BS
Skin Bleaching Thrives Despite Ugandan Government Ban on Dangerous Cosmetics
by Halima Abdallah Kisule
- Uganda -
Scores of Ugandans continue to bleach their skin despite a government ban on the sale of several lotions, creams, gels and soaps which are largely used to whiten, even and tone the skin.
Due to ineffective enforcement of the ban, these dangerous cosmetics are easily accessible anywhere in Uganda; whether sold over the counter, along the roadside or by hawkers, vendors move the skin lighteners easily due to high demand. Such is the popularity that skin-whitening products have gained today in Uganda.
Medically, skin whitening (or bleaching) products are used for treating pigmentation disorders like freckles, pregnancy marks, blotchy uneven skin tone, patches of brown to gray skin and age spots. Skin pigmentation occurs because the body either produces too much or too little melanin, the pigment responsible for creating the color of our eyes, skin and hair. It also provides crucial protection against the sun’s rays by absorbing ultra-violet light. Doctors say that those with darker skin are less susceptible to sunburn and the overall effects of sun damage.
According to dermatologists, skin bleaching can be achieved through a combination of treatments that reduce or block some amount of the body’s melanin production. Usually in the form of topical lotions, gels, pills and creams, these products contain melanin-inhibiting ingredients along with sunscreen. These treatments also contain amounts of hydroquinone, or mercury.
However, other cosmetics companies use natural ingredients to make melanin-inhibiting products. Extracted from plant leaves like the berry family, shrubs and pears, their naturally occurring arbutin leads to bleaching.
In Uganda, the practice of skin bleaching is common among adults with dark skin, especially women, but men also do it with little regard for the dangers posed to their bodies. Some people even use the products for ***** bleaching to reduce naturally darker pigmentation of the genital and perineal area.
Consumers of bleaching cosmetics claim that they want to enhance their beauty. One woman who declined to be named, explains, “One has to look good, by having fair, lighter skin.”
Unfortunately, her skin is now multi-colored from bleaching. She has red skin on her face, yellow on her arms and dark skin on her back. The skin on her knees, toes and finger joints failed to lighten and remain black.
For this woman, the condition of her skin has only brought her shame; she now tries to cover most parts of her body in an attempt to conceal the damage done by the products she thought would enhance her beauty.
Those in the medical profession explain that this condition occurs from allergic dermatitis or irritant dermatitis (abnormal, extensive and often local inflammation of the skin), both of which are common among people who have not previously used the bleaching cosmetics.
“I have cases where people get severe skin burns. It happens when people change to something new which causes allergic dermatitis and irritant dermatitis,” says Dr Misaki Wayengera of Makerere University Medical School.
He explains that the skin of the people using these bleaching products get inflamed, turns red, enlarges and begins to loose function as the cells fail to produce melanin.
Wayengera says that bleaching can be achieved medically using low dosage hydroquinone, recommended at 2%. He advises that it should be used only in the areas of the skin that need to be lightened. He also advised consumers to always read the contents of cosmetics because those that bleach cause health problems like skin cancer, leukemia, thyroid disorders and delay or prevent the ability to diagnose leprosy. Mercury is the most toxic of these ingredients and leads to liver problems.
Though the East African Custom Management Act of 2006 banned the import of all soaps containing mercury, products like Mekako soaps are readily available in the country having been smuggled in before being re-exported to neighboring Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda.
“They are smuggled in jerricans disguised as water while others come in through ordinary containers but are declared as cosmetics, when [in reality] they are drugs that fall under the NDA mandate,” says Gyavira Musoke, Head of Imports Inspection at Uganda’s National Bureau of Standards (UNBS).
UNBS says that Kenya is blaming Uganda for failing to stop the importation of this toxic cosmetic despite the existence of the law. This is just one of the 400 prohibited cosmetic ingredients (that are defined as drugs under the Uganda National Drug Authority (NDA) regulations) that are on the open market. Products containing hydroquinone are still for sale after traders asked the Ministry of Tourism to give them some time to sell off their stock.
Ready markets for these highly valued cosmetics suggest that smuggling won’t stop any time soon, but demand alone does not explain why one would continue to use these dangerous products.
“Such a person lacks self-esteem, has low self-efficacy and a perception that she or he looks ugly,” says Mr Robert Wandera, Coordinator of the Psychology Department at Makerere University. “It is common among women who are not educated,” he adds.
Wandera’s colleague, Mr Calistas, says that it is very dangerous to have low self-esteem because severe cases can lead to suicide.
He urges, “Do something positive to counter [your low self-esteem]. Take advantage of the good parts of your body or talents.”
Prolonged use of bleaching cosmetics can indeed be disastrous both psychologically and physically. One lady who I encountered on the street declined to be named nor talk about her skin. Her dry, pale face showed no happiness. She had wrinkles too – not from old age, but from the effects of starting and then stopping the use of these cosmetics. I could easily read the disappointment in her face when I asked her to talk about her skin. Her response is a clear testimony to the negative effects of bleaching cosmetics and hint at the lengths some will go to for beauty. Her unhappiness is the other side of beauty that we rarely see, but one that can easily be avoided.
@JANAE’
“A cat can be born in an oven it don’t make them biscuits”
MalcoLm X
sigh we have dumb*****,coon *****,brainwashed *****z on here!!
truthfully, what do you expect from a southern rapper these days? not only do they lack respect for hip hop and rap, they lack respect for themselves
@ALL OF YOU
SOULJA BOY IS NOT IGNORANT, HIS STATEMENT SIMPLY MEANS HE’S PROUD TO BE AMERICAN. HE’S PROUD TO LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE. YOU ALL ARE THE FOOLS AND IDIOTS JUDGING HIM BY A COMMENT THAT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND BECAUSEYOU HAVE A DIFFERENT MENTALITY. (NOT NECESSARILY MORE EDUCATED). HIS COMMENT TO ME IS LESS OF A SLAP IN THE FACE TO BLACKS BUT MORE OF A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE BIGOTS RACISTS AND SLAVE MASTERS. I LOVE MY LIFE AS AN AMERICAN I DONT LIKE THE PROCESS THAT I HAD TO GO THROUGH ALONG THE WAY, BUT NOW THAT I’M HERE I APPRECIATE IT AND ANY WEALTHY PERSON THAT HAS PROGRESSED BEYOND BEING POOR SHOULD FEEL THE SAME.
KEEP IT REAL!!!
@SIMPLE TOM GO TO HELL, *****
I think that soulja boy is a young fool who like many african Americans, who don’t know or really appreciate the richness and sacrifice our african
ancestors paid for us. He sucks as a rapper hands
down. He is a handsome young fool though. I feel so sorry for young black males who act like him.
Such a waste of time and intelligence. There are far too many highly intelligent young brotha’s who
must not be aware of how valuable they are in our
community, if they would just apply themselves. It was us that gave the white man every knowledgeable intelligence he ever had. It was the african who had the first university in the world.His riches comes from african natural resources and free slave labor. Black folk built this country with our blood, sweat and tears. Young brotha’s wake up!, your in a second reconstruction era!. Trust me slavery is not FULLY OVER!. Just look around the signs are there.
I think that soulja boy is a young fool who like many african Americans, who don’t know or really appreciate the richness and sacrifice our african
ancestors paid for us. I feel so sorry for young black males who act like him. Such a waste of time and intelligence. There are far too many highly intelligent young brotha’s who must not be aware of how valuable they are in our community, if they would just apply themselves. It was us that gave the white man every knowledgeable intelligence he ever had. It was the african who had the first university in the world.His riches comes from african natural resources and free slave labor. Black folk built this country with our blood, sweat and tears. Young brotha’s wake up!, your in a second reconstruction era!. Trust me slavery is not FULLY OVER!. Just look around the signs are there.
Darkest Nubian u’re not more intelligent than anybody else on here.U would be an idiot if u were not proud to be american people.Y’all american people have to live ur life as american people.U’re different from us african people and that’s a good thing.
U’re talking about poverty and healthy.But don’t u know that white people found african people healthy and rich?IF THOSE MOTHER*****eRS DIDN’T COME THERE,AFRICA WOULDN’T BE THAT POOR!!!! They just came and bring back to their country all gold,silver,diamonds they found out and in addition they bring back african people.
U call America land of the free!Well but didn’t they tell u that there was no slave in Europ but only on land of the free.European people were those u sold,american people those who used black people.
U can disrespect me but don’t disrespect “your” ancestors.
The only thing I could thank the slavemasters for is to give african people the opportunity to show them what PRIDE and STRENGTH are.
@ hollywood bs
u said obama is not african american hes kenyan american ..isnt that an oxymoron lol last time i checked the country of kenya was in AFRICA and hes an american citizen so it would be fitting to refer to him as AFRICAN AMERICAN lol but aside from that i agreed with alot of your points but i dnt understand why you are so mad with us americans very few of us have the priviledge of knowing our ‘original’ culture and languages and our native countries and spiritual practices and things like that so please stop making your comments so personal … i wish we werent robbed of these things but we were and thats the facts but what we have done we have came here and created new cultures, history, and languages and good or bad im very proud of that and who I am as an african AMERICAN yes i would love to explore africa if im ever financially able to and explore the countries and cultures and connect with the people there but from what i’ve been told africans dont even view us as ‘brothers and sisters’ so there’s a problem all together and as for this little ignorant being soldier boy all i can do is shake my head these littles boy are so STUPID lol omg!!! i cant help but laugh he seriously needs to put down XXL or Source and pick up some serious reading material no matter what it is hell start with the dictionary learn how to speak in front of a camera and not like your on the court with ya boys …he really irritates me this is why i vowed that when i have children there BET intake is gonna be slim to done because i refuse for them to be entertained by idiots like this
If this fool don’t go back to school somebody beat his azz, this is one ignorant azz black boy, that is right , BOY, this is the only thing I can legally call this idiot, his mother needs to take her dumb azz back to school too, “WTF” have he learned? NOTHING! He is a IDIOT and so is his peers, somebody please lift this fool up and teach him some home training.
@darkest nubian, see that’s just it you’re only making that backward statement cos you didn’t go through any pains to get to the U.S, if indeed you are black, that was done by your ancestors, not you. Moreover, coming out of Africa does not mean you progressed from poverty cos as well as it being my pride and joy, knowing my heritage, my culture and that i was born on the soils of my motherland, it’s also a sense of wealth to me. Interestingly, the U.S relies more on imports than y’all can imagine, they just use tactics, pathetic intimidation and sometimes bride to get their way. Anyway, enough about politics, cos if i’m to get into that I’d have a thing or two to say about African politicians too and their money-grubbing and corrupt selves, that’s why y’all don’t see the progress or wealth of nations like Nigeria which believe it or not, is blessed with wealth though plagued with bad leaders. However, when African Americans get all caught up in the American pride thing, I find it amusing cos to know where you’re going, one must know where he/she is coming from. Solely claiming a land that the Europeans stole from the Indians just as they stole blacks from Africa isn’t a good look.
And @Hollywood BS, let’s be real now, 4m your posts so far, correct me if i’m wrong but i’ve gathered you’re a Naija male, who studied in the U.S and cos you seem intellectual enough to listen to facts, it is a FACT that some Africans and even Nigerian women bleach, not to the wacko jacko or them french-speaking African countries extent, but they do, it’s just on the sly. I mean i told my fellow nigerian colleage that i noticed her face was lighter than when i first met her, she’s like 10years older than me but i had to point it out, cos to me it’s silly, and even more when you deny it which she did. Trying to achieve clearer skin is different from trying to lighten you’re whole face/body to tacky whiteness. I don’t know about over in the U.S but here in London, especially in the South-East, if a black hair shop (which are ironically dominantly set up and run by Asian Indians) don’t display at least 90% of the bleach in the market in 90% of it’s shelves, then it ain’t in business. It’s like being synthetic is natural now. Synthetic hair, skin, accent. More people need to get into the 500 years later (a black movie) vibe. Black is indisputably beautiful but being NATURAL is even more so.
…YUP I love the way u talk.But let me tell u that that’s not true that african people don’t view you as “brothers and sisters”.For us black is black.
But I’ve always been told that african american don’t like African people…
@African girl, i agree with much of your statements cos i ain’t anti African-American but y’all should know that Americans and Europeans didn’t just take from Africa the people alone, they dried out it’s natural resources which they still do till date, weather it be gold, rubber, diamond, oil etc. However now they pay for it, though it’s practically as bad as it was in the slavery period cos they pay peanuts for things that are worth gold. Even if the prices of fuel are at a sky-high, it’s nothing in comparison to what it should be considering it’s running out. Also, with Australia, how can whites just shove the natives of such a place to one corner and send their own convicts and prostitutes to it. See crack heads have always been good at that, taking everything for nothing without any consent for those they deprive. Such a mentality can’t disappear into the air just like that, it can only be diluted to go with times and p*****ed on. I ain’t racist, ‘more a realist.
i really HATE the word ‘coon’
can we not promote it’s usage??
Soulja Boy needs to “eat a *****” and shut the ***** up
Co-sign Soulja boy. He’s just speaking what you’re all thinking, not one of you would want to go live in Africa with all it’s savagery and disease.
We are VERY lucky to be taken under the loving arms of Mother America. That our sick poisoned culture has squandered these gifts is only on us.
REAL BLOOD CLOT COON
@ Black,yet bla bla bla.I REALLY LOVE THE WAY U TALK.ARE U FROM KKK???
@hollywood
I’m PROUD AFRICAN from west africa( Cameroon ), living in France. I feel you at some point but i think you are wrong or the way you try to explain your view is wrong.
And i can’t add this white americans and white europeans are all white but they doesn’t the same culture.
Finally, it’s not a good look to be divided we are all Black
sorry for my english
He’s so annoying.
See Souljia Boy needs a motha f’in history lesson! He is sooo dumb!
OMG. Does he understand the oppression that slave masters did to blacks? ?
F’in retard! Africa was the motherland to all riches and it was stolen if his dumb ***** wants to be materialistic. That lil gaudy ***** he rocking cant touch all the riches we had until folks invaded our land and stole everything.
A dumb *****!
Black, yet very well educated
You are as dumb as he is…
UGH!
your right he is a *****in sambo what an idiot
someone please buy him WHEN WE RULED BY ROBIN WALKER seems like brotha has no education and as for T Pain chicken george springs to mind or shall i say fiddler……
i can’t support them at all thats why we as a black race are always *****ted on because of these fools (Jesus please please take the wheel)
U african american think u’re blessed to be born in America.But I’m sorry to tell u but the blessed one in that story is America.Didn’t u realize that U are a big part of what make America so famous. Marthin Luther King,Rosa Parks,James Brown,Carl Lewis,Aretha… and the youngs Obama(vote for him ^^),Beyoncé,Kanye West… Everybody know them through the world.
Don’t waste time and energy trying find differences between african and african american people.We are different by many sides but we all the same.That make me smile when I see American African when they’re talking out of their neck like we do,when they’re dancing and so many things that really prove that we have something in common.
But don’t u know that for racist people a black is a black?
Don’t u realize that we black people have something to prove?
soulja boy should catch an ***** whoopin for that comment straight up.
Miss Take
There’s a whole generation of these types. Y’all know who they are- the ones who could’ve been prevented with a 25 cent condom…the type who makes you turn your ipod on louder and/or leave the subway car b/c of their stupid talk…the type that prides himself on speaking gutter English… the type that uses the word ***** in every other sentence…the type that has MLK and all his ancestors turning in their graves… the type that will hopefully SOON be bred out. The modern day slave.
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The type who say things like BLACK and ugly. The type who say things like ‘ewwwww why she so Black’? They type who says things like ‘The type who goes on and on about their REDBONE, BIRACIAL, YELLOW, CREOLE or whatever selves as though it is somehow superior to darker skinned Blacks. Yes..there are quite a few of them here and I wish they would breed themselves out too. THEY ARE AN EMBAR*****MENT.
Shout out to my brothers and sisters of ALL complexions who are not hung up on the slave masters mentality….
African Girl
U african american think u’re blessed to be born in America.But I’m sorry to tell u but the blessed one in that story is America.Didn’t u realize that U are a big part of what make America so famous. Marthin Luther King,Rosa Parks,James Brown,Carl Lewis,Aretha… and the youngs Obama(vote for him ^^),Beyoncé,Kanye West… Everybody know them through the world.
Don’t waste time and energy trying find differences between african and african american people.We are different by many sides but we all the same.That make me smile when I see American African when they’re talking out of their neck like we do,when they’re dancing and so many things that really prove that we have something in common.
But don’t u know that for racist people a black is a black?
Don’t u realize that we black people have something to prove?
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This is true but for those who try so hard to seperate themselves from all things African or ‘too Black’ I say GO ON! Who needs those types of warped mentalities poisoning our children’s mind? Let them poison their own but they will have no part in corrupting anyone involved in my life or anyone who knows the real deal. They are worse than the whites who do it because they are able to infiltrate into the psyches of other Blacks easier because they resemble them (don’t tell them that though).
Don’t blame that ***** on hip hop or the hood, you will find some of the greatest black historian in the hood and in hip hop, this boy is a product of the media and the American education system. When they teach about Africa it’s about apartheid, famine, colonization and slavery, which they teach us was not that bad. Anyone who has a real view of the black experience they got it from their parents for private research.
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@BLAQ
I didn’t blame ***** on the hood, I said he’s being influenced by the so called “culture” of hip hop/hood which like you stated is heavily influenced by the media but at the same time you can’t blame all that ***** on the media either because we got these ignorant ***** negros who come from the hood representing the the very worst in our hoods and black culture to sell records and make money..By no means am I saying everything about the hood is bad, but you these stupid ***** thug rappers and clowns like Soulja Boy who give the world a negative impression about the hood and black neighborhoods.
I was about to post a similar article!!
Ignorance is infectious apparently.
Poster Boy for having Failed Our Kids!
EbGCH,
apparently ignorant is. These IDIOTS in here took the comments of an illiterate dumb***** kid and are now being just as STUPID by arguing over whos better and perpetuating stupid stereotypes about each other. Good job Black people.
“A race of people is like an individual man:until it uses its own talents,takes pride in its own history,expresses its own culture,affirms its own selfhood,it can never fulfill itself”
Malcom X
leave souljah boy alone, most lil 18 yr olds dont really care bout politics and stuff..he’s young, hopefully he’ll wise up over the years during this experience..leave da boi alone..,
leave souljah boy alone, most lil 18 yr olds dont really care bout politics and stuff..he’s young, hopefully he’ll wise up over the years during this experience..leave da boi alone..,
Blame my educational system? Are you comparing the educational system in the United States to the educational standard in Africa’s? That is the most ridiculous ‘ish I’ve ever heard LOL. I am quite familiar with the differences as it relates to skin-tone in Africa. However, North Africans, except for Nubians and the Sudanese are NOT native Africans. Modern Egyptians for example are Arabs not native Africans hun. East Africans are lighter than West Africans however they do not have light skin. Light as in a Beyonce’s skintone. Many East Africans are medium-toned like Liya Kebede for example. When I spoke of bleaching, I was speaking of darkskin Africans who desire lighter skin ( because of the Western media’s impact in Africa) and skin-bleaching is very popular amongst those particular Africans.
Qui a tuer les anglophones au cameroun???
The Ashanti and other TRIBES (not only tribal chiefs) were all willing parti*****nts who captured people to sell off as slaves for less than pennies.
“All ancient civilizations enslaved their own people.” That is a blatant LIE.
You’re the one that needs a course in WORLD history. East Africans never sold their own people into slavery. Many civilizations did have servants, or indentured servants and cl***** structured society’s however, African’s are the only people on earth to allow Europeans to rob them blind/destroy their thriving civilizations, and they *****isted the white man in doing so!
WOW I CAN’T BELIEVE BOSSIP IS CALLING BLACK FOLKS COONS AND SAMBO?? WTF? THAT IS AN ALL TIME LOW!!
Also, Obama is biracial so how does that make him Kenyan American? He was born in the United States to a white mother. His father was Kenyan American, Obama is not.
He is a damn fool.
To all you african haters. It took Obama, a man of direct Kenyan descent to become the 1st BLACK president of the USA. His father was not a slave but a free thinker.Maybe you african-americans should free your minds and stereotypes of africans. After all, you are using AFRICAN-american to describe yourselves to the white man. So show the real africans some respect.
East Africans never enslaved their own people. In fact,if your able to find a single item of reference material that points to such nonsense I’ll stop posting on Bossip for a week! You’re right about being and idiot and that’s about it.
I would verify that he really said that before I cast judgment. That sounds made up to me. I hope.
You are quite challenged with reading comprehension. I didn’t say Obama was African American I said he was BIRACIAL and he is!! He is half white imbecile! His wife is African American and is kids are as well. Only half of his paternal relatives are in Kenya, his other half, THE WHITE HALF IS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. We know that he has poverty stricken relatives in Kenya, Obama’s visit with them was broadcasted on TV, we saw their little hut. Obama is who he is because of his AMERICAN education and AMERICAN upbringing period.
@ hey hollywood, what is your problem? What are you talking about?
Tu as bu ou quoi? Je crois que tu as unsérieux probleme mec
Where would Obama be if his white mother sent him off to Kenya to live instead of raising him in the United States????????????????? A place where he was given the chance to live amongst and lean about progressive African Americans. He met one in Law School and married her. I’m thankful that his mom had the common sense to know what was best for her children.
I have been reading these post, and I can’t believe how off subject we got. This is about an ignorant statement made by an ignorant person (Soulja Boy). Unfortunately many of us will allow his music to infiltrate our homes and cars, and our children. I refuse to allow anything by him or any other idiot regardless of race to be played around me or my children. If you can’t speak grammatically correct English, you do not get a voice in my home. Attacking each other whether African, or African American or Black (as I choose to call myself) doesn’t change the fact that this Soulja character is deficient in his abilities to reason. He is a clown–just look at him. The fool next to him is too. The time for shucking and jiving for a dollar is over. We can either get our butts in school, educate ourselves for lifelong benefit, or be left behind. I just do not give an audience to this foolishness. We need to unite against stupidity, and defend intelligence, because no matter what part of the world we come from, we are all brown, and we all look bad when someone that looks like us acts less than human.
@ Akira:
Growth of the Slave Trade
Quite possibly, the maintenance of slavery and the social acceptance of slaves were important drawing cards for Islam as it penetrated Africa. Without a knowledge of history, many Africans may be unaware of the fact that Islamic traders carried on a steady slave trade from East African ports for many centuries. Records are available which contain the lists of goods involved in trade with the rest of the world.
Muslim merchants traveled to India, Ceylon, the East Indies, and China, over sea and land, bringing back silks, spices, aromatics, woods, tin, and many other items. Records mention ’slave girls’ from the Byzantine Empire along with gold and silver, marble workers, and eunuchs. Surprisingly, Muslim traders went as far away as Scandinavia, and especially Sweden, where scores of Muslim coins have been found with inscriptions from the seventh and eleventh centuries. On the long lists of goods which Muslim traders imported from Scandinavia, are found ‘Slavonic slaves, sheep, and cattle’ (cited by Lewis in The Arabs in History). An early ninth century geographer, Ibn Kurradadhbeh, describes Jewish merchants from the south of France ‘who speak Arabic, Persian, Greek, Frankish, Spanish, and Slavonic. They travel from west to east and east to west, by land and sea. From the west they bring eunuchs, slave girls and boys, brocade, beaver skins, sable and other furs, and swords’.
YES East Africans also enslaved their own and this is partially why you see East African women who look like Iman with that lighter skin tone. They were enslaved and raped just like West African women in America.
…we would still be in Africa, no?
not sure the slavemasters deserve a “shout-out”, though…
Why give a shout out to people who destroyed so many lives? He was starting to grow on me a little and now this!
Nowhere in you’re post does it say anything about East Africans. Obviously you don’t know anything about East Africa. Ethiopians are indigenous Africans. In layman’s terms, that means the majority of them don’t posses any admixture from whites or Arabs. Somali’s are closely, genetically related to Ethiopians, however some Somali’s mixed with Arabs as Somalia is predominately an Islamic nation. But most Somali’s are indigenous also. Ethiopians however are predominately Christian and there is alot of data to support the FACT that Europeans are descendants of East Africans not the other way around:
” Genetic genealogy, although a new tool that uses the genes of modern populations to trace their ethnic and geographic origins has also helped pinpoint the possible background of the modern Somalis. According to one prominent study published in the European Journal of Human Genetics, the Somalis are closely related to certain Ethiopian and Eritrean groups:
The data suggest that the male Somali population is a branch of the East African population − closely related to the Oromos in Ethiopia and North Kenya − with predominant E3b1 cluster lineages that were introduced into the Somali population 4000−5000 years ago, and that the Somali male population has approximately 15% Y chromosomes from Eurasia and approximately 5% from sub-Saharan Africa.[12]
Besides comprising the majority of the Y DNA in Somalis, the E1b1b (formerly E3b) genetic haplogroup also makes up the bulk of the paternal DNA of Ethiopians, Eritreans, Berbers, North African Arabs, as well as many Mediterranean and Balkan Europeans.[13] After haplogroup E1b1b, the second most frequently occurring Y DNA haplogroup among Somalis is the Eurasian haplogroup T (M70),[14] which is found in slightly more than 10% of Somali males. Haplogroup T, like haplogroup E1b1b, is also typically found among populations of Northeast Africa, North Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Mediterranean.
********Overall, the genetic studies conclude that Somalis and their fellow Ethiopian and Eritrean Northeast African groups represent a unique and distinct racial bloc on the continent:*************
The most distinct separation is between African and non-African populations. The northeastern-African — that is, the Ethiopian and Somali — populations are located centrally between sub-Saharan African and non-African populations… The fact that the Ethiopians and Somalis have a subset of the sub-Saharan African haplotype diversity — and that the non-African populations have a subset of the diversity present in
FYI: ***********Ethiopians and Somalis — makes simple-admixture models less likely; rather, these observations support the hypothesis proposed by other nuclear-genetic studies (Tishkoff et al. 1996a, 1998a, 1998b; Kidd et al. 1998) — that populations in northeastern Africa may have diverged from those in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa early in the history of modern African populations and that a subset of this northeastern-African population migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the globe. These conclusions are supported by recent mtDNA *****ysis (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999).[15″
YES East Africans also enslaved their own and this is partially why you see East African women who look like Iman with that lighter skin tone. They were enslaved and raped just like West African women in America.
*******Correction, I did not mean to include Real Woman’s last paragraph in my response.
Nowhere in you’re post does it say anything about East Africans. Obviously you don’t know anything about East Africa. Ethiopians are indigenous Africans. In layman’s terms, that means the majority of them don’t posses any admixture from whites or Arabs. Somali’s are closely, genetically related to Ethiopians, however some Somali’s mixed with Arabs as Somalia is predominately an Islamic nation. But most Somali’s are indigenous also. Ethiopians however are predominately Christian and there is alot of data to support the FACT that Europeans are descendants of East Africans not the other way around:
” Genetic genealogy, although a new tool that uses the genes of modern populations to trace their ethnic and geographic origins has also helped pinpoint the possible background of the modern Somalis. According to one prominent study published in the European Journal of Human Genetics, the Somalis are closely related to certain Ethiopian and Eritrean groups:
The data suggest that the male Somali population is a branch of the East African population − closely related to the Oromos in Ethiopia and North Kenya − with predominant E3b1 cluster lineages that were introduced into the Somali population 4000−5000 years ago, and that the Somali male population has approximately 15% Y chromosomes from Eurasia and approximately 5% from sub-Saharan Africa.[12]
Besides comprising the majority of the Y DNA in Somalis, the E1b1b (formerly E3b) genetic haplogroup also makes up the bulk of the paternal DNA of Ethiopians, Eritreans, Berbers, North African Arabs, as well as many Mediterranean and Balkan Europeans.[13] After haplogroup E1b1b, the second most frequently occurring Y DNA haplogroup among Somalis is the Eurasian haplogroup T (M70),[14] which is found in slightly more than 10% of Somali males. Haplogroup T, like haplogroup E1b1b, is also typically found among populations of Northeast Africa, North Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Mediterranean.
********Overall, the genetic studies conclude that Somalis and their fellow Ethiopian and Eritrean Northeast African groups represent a unique and distinct racial bloc on the continent:*************
The most distinct separation is between African and non-African populations. The northeastern-African — that is, the Ethiopian and Somali — populations are located centrally between sub-Saharan African and non-African populations… The fact that the Ethiopians and Somalis have a subset of the sub-Saharan African haplotype diversity — and that the non-African populations have a subset of the diversity present in
FYI: ***********Ethiopians and Somalis — makes simple-admixture models less likely; rather, these observations support the hypothesis proposed by other nuclear-genetic studies (Tishkoff et al. 1996a, 1998a, 1998b; Kidd et al. 1998) — that populations in northeastern Africa may have diverged from those in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa early in the history of modern African populations and that a subset of this northeastern-African population migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the globe. These conclusions are supported by recent mtDNA *****ysis (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999).[15″
Damn. I did not know being black was so complicated. Whitey got these problems??
@Hollywood “I smell like” BS
I guess your dumb***** can’t read a map Uganda is in AFRICA stupid ***** KAFIR COON!!
AFRICANS are just as BRAINWASHED from your CRACKER BLUE EYED DEVIL brits.Not all ‘Black’ americans glorify the word *****.Stop relying on BET videos you dumb***** CIA ***** bucket!!Yuo steroetype us like these white devisl..your an UNCLE TOM COON *****,AND I WILL EXPOSE YOU!!!
Your coon *****S PROBALY LOVES THEM!!!
BTW I have the RIGHT to expose dumb***** british ***** swallowing kafir coons like yourself.With your currupt dictators & racist Arabs,whom you love.
dumb*****, how ignorant and retarded. Black people don’t you think we should start showing the world we are inteligent and capable of doing so much great things, instead of some us acting foolish.
if he did say this then that’s really sad.
Another example of BRAINWASHED AFRICANS!!
New beauty trend in Africa causes serious health problems
Ashley Hardiman
Many women in Africa are using bleaching cream to lighten their skin because they *****ociate lighter skin with beauty.
Peter Deng, a sophomore from Sudan, remembers when bleaching cream first started getting popular.
“A lot of my friends tried using the cream,” said Deng. “It made their faces and necks look pale, but the rest of their body was their natural skin color. They thought it made them look beautiful.”
Skin bleaching, while it is very popular, contains toxic chemicals that are linked to weakened immune systems, organ failure, and even death.
Yaba A. Blay, a doctoral candidate in Temple University’s African American studies department, conducted a study last summer, in which she surveyed approximately 600 residents of Accra, and interviewed another 40 who reported bleaching their skin.
“Despite attempts by the Ghanaian government to ban bleaching products and the extreme health risks, including skin cancer, brain and kidney damage and sometimes death, the practice of skin bleaching is seemingly on the rise,” Blay, a native of Ghana, said to Diverse magazine. “It appears that in the context of global white supremacy, skin bleaching represents an attempt to gain access to the social status and mobility often reserved not only for whites, but for lighter-skinned persons of African descent.”
Eleanor Branch, *****istant professor of English and African American studies, remembers seeing light-skinned individuals on the majority of ads in Ghana, where most people are very dark-skinned.
“I feel that skin bleaching is saying that there is something wrong with black skin,” said Branch, “but it shows how much influence the Western world holds.”
Deng remembers his mother warning his sisters not to use the bleaching cream.
“Luckily my sisters never tried it,” said Deng, “but one of my cousins did. I remember it was a really big deal. The people in my family were very angry and upset about it.”
The trend of skin bleaching in Africa may seem very similar to the trend of tanning in the United States. Young women here are tanning their skin because they think tanned skin is more beutiful.
“I go tanning because I like looking tan,” said sophomore Taylor Brown. “I feel like I don’t look as good when I’m not tan. Some people look better tanned, some don’t. It depends on the person.”
As with skin bleaching, there are many risks involved with tanning.
Evidence links UVA, the type of rays emitted from indoor tanning, exposure to malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.
Overexposure to any UV rays can cause loss of skin elasticity, premature aging, and cancer, but these are harmful effects of tanning booths that do not show up for several years after the damage to the skin is irreversible.
Despite all the risks, women continue to try to make themselves more beautiful by skin bleaching in Africa and tanning in the United States.
In addition to the risks involved, Deng believes skin bleaching is disrespectful.
“I am proud of my heritage and where I came from,” said Deng. “It makes me angry to think that so many people would want to hide that.”
@*****wood “I smell like” BS
CL***** DISMISSED!!
P.S. Your a lightweight messing with an heavyweight.Now go read Uncle Tom’s Cabin….YOU SAMBO!!!
I am so sick of BOSSIP calling people coons, monkeys, black sambo and other racial degrading terms.
If this was a white website black people would protest. But since it is BOSSIP its okay to call black people racial epithets when they do or say something foolish.
I AM SHOCKED AT THE IGNORANCE OF BOSSIP WRITERS and the bloggers for ignoring it and posting like it is okay to be called a COON.
T-PAIN LOOK LIKE A BIG BOTTLE OF KID’S COUGH SYRUP
@ Pride
Typical African American: arrogant, aggressive, profane, full of ***** and worse of all DUMB!!
@ Pride
I said “Is Uganda Africa?”, I didn’t say “Is Uganda IN Africa?”. By saying “Is Uganda Africa?” I am IMPLYING that whatever happens in Uganda is not a reflection of the African continent.
But I don’t expect ghetto trash like you to comprehend sentences. I could barely understand a word of what you were trying to say: illiterate rant. When the U.S economy gets into a recession, African Americans like yourself will suffer the most. You will face difficulties competing in the international market: you are black first and foremost, you lack any decent education and you speak only one language ( English) and you barely even speak the English properly. It’s a damn shame!!
I have been reading these post, and I can’t believe how off subject we got. This is about an ignorant statement made by an ignorant person (Soulja Boy). Unfortunately many of us will allow his music to infiltrate our homes and cars, and our children. I refuse to allow anything by him or any other idiot regardless of race to be played around me or my children. If you can’t speak grammatically correct English, you do not get a voice in my home. Attacking each other whether African, or African American or Black (as I choose to call myself) doesn’t change the fact that this Soulja character is deficient in his abilities to reason. He is a clown–just look at him. The fool next to him is too. The time for shucking and jiving for a dollar is over. We can either get our butts in school, educate ourselves for lifelong benefit, or be left behind. I just do not give an audience to this foolishness. We need to unite against stupidity, and defend intelligence, because no matter what part of the world we come from, we are all brown, and we all look bad when someone that looks like us acts less than human.
What this doof said was not funny. What some fail to realize, especially in education, ignormuses like him are ONLY able to say old stupid stuff and joke and clown. They go completely silent when you ask them what 2 + 2 is so this behavior isnt funny. My teacher relatives deal with this type of ignorance daily with multiple black kids who are ONLY able to act stupid..and literally cant read or write…literally. Does this fool know how many black folks, our ancestors, for a decades had to endure unimaginable oppression. Many many many many, many meaning millions of black people have been lynched, raped, castrated, mutilated, killed for fun, whipped, families broken up and sold off….so he can freely stand up there talking like that….but I have decided….coons will do and say anything including standing on the corner and parting their butt cheeks as far in opposite directions for a dollar…translation(he will do and say anything for a dollar) What a bafoon he is!
Skin bleaching is popular across West Africa not just in Uganda.
@The_Truth-”**DL HUGHLEY IS THE COON OF THE DECADE!–The skit he did about Obama term in office was embarr*****ing. . .”
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1000% Co-SIGN!
@blackgirl-”What this doof said was not funny. What some fail to realize, especially in education, ignormuses like him are ONLY able to say old stupid stuff and joke and clown. They go completely silent when you ask them what 2 + 2 is so this behavior isnt funny. My teacher relatives deal with this type of ignorance daily with multiple black kids who are ONLY able to act stupid..and literally cant read or write…literally. Does this fool know how many black folks, our ancestors, for a decades had to endure unimaginable oppression. Many many many many, many meaning millions of black people have been lynched, raped, castrated, mutilated, killed for fun, whipped, families broken up and sold off….so he can freely stand up there talking like that….but I have decided….coons will do and say anything including standing on the corner and parting their butt cheeks as far in opposite directions for a dollar…translation(he will do and say anything for a dollar) What a bafoon he is!”
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Let me find out that the people on the blogs are getting more and more intelligent. I applaud your post, too much on point….It is VERY encouraging…
I read all the comments here, Most of you have problems,or i will say there are just like souja *****. some are saying they are from africa, but they dont even know whats going on in africa, Here is a little research for you. Look for the name Boers.
I must agree with Hollywood BS on all points. I am half Jamaican and half African (Ghana) and was brought up in Canada. I love ALL my people no matter where they are living, and the truth must be told. Americans in general – regardless of colour – tend to know only of what goes on in their own backyard. There is a rich black life outside of the states but you are not exposed to it. I am sick of Canadian whites (and others) treating me in a negative way due to the crap they saw on American news, quoting American statistics et al. Please. Don’t get me wrong, we have issues in our community i.e. gangs, drugs, lack of representation, medical discrimination, economics, etc. but it’s not the same thing so our Canadian leaders need to stop lumping us together. We don’t have the same culture AT ALL.
A gov’t study in my province (state) concluded that a black university grad has the same chances of finding a job as a white high school dropout. Another demonstrated that the average black here in Canada has 4 more years education than the average white. Now put the 2 together and what do you have? We have NO affirmative action here and trust me, this makes life f***ed up! I refuse to let these klansmen determine whether I can feed my daughter today, so I run my own business.
As for dat likkle bloodclaat punk ***** soulja bwoy, being 17 is no excuse for being an ignoramus. Check the grade school children from Ron Clark Academy on Youtube doing an electoral parody called “You can vote however you like”. I don’t agree with putting kids in the middle of this stuff, but they understand the process and are not going to iterate the disgusting lack of forethought that that little idiot came with. Didn’t he say Ice T was the FOREFATHER of his nuts?? I guess that was a good thing.
Nuff said and respect due.
@AFRICAN GIRL.
WHATEVER, HONEY. US BEING BOUGHT FROM OUR **AFRICAN SLAVE MASTERS** WAS AN OBVIOUS INDICATION THAT WE WERE IN GOOD SHAPE. A SLAVE IS A SLAVE NO MATTER WHO YOUR MASTER IS. AGAIN I AM NOT ONLY PROUD BUT ***BLESSED***TO BE AMERICAN. AT LEAST I HAVE A CHOICE. IF IM AMBITIOUS THE SKY IS THE LIMIT, IF IM LAZY I’LL GET WHAT I DESERVE. UNFORTUNATELY IN 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES THOSE SAME OPTIONS ARE NOT AVAILABLE.I WILL NOT DISRESPECT YOU , I RESPECT YOUR OPINION. MY ANCESTORS DID PAY THE PRICE, I RESPECT IT AND MY LIFETIME COMMITTMENT TO FINISHING WHAT THEY STARTED.BUILD MY OWN EMPIRE OF WORLD CHANGING GOOD CITIZENS, BUILD MY OWN WEALTH AND RICHES, GIVE TO THE LESS FORTUANTE AND DEDICATE MYSELF TO LIFE AND NOT JUST MY LIFE AND NOT JUST MYSELF. SOULJA BOY IS VERY SWIFT, YOU PEOPLE NEED TO CATCH UP. HE DIDNT ELABORATE BECAUSE HE DIDNT HAVE TO. LET THE BS GO. RACISM STILL EXSISTS BUT SLAVERY IS OVER. AND FOR YOU ALL WHO THINK THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND EMPLOMENT IS MODERN DAY SLAVERY. YALL NEED TO ADVANCE.
@TEJU AND AFRICAN GIRL AND EVERYONE THAT IS “AFRICAN” BUT UNINFORMED.
EUROPEANS DID ONLY WHAT THE AFRICAN LEADERS ALLOWED. THE NATURAL RESOURCES AND ANCESTORS OF BLACK AMERICANS WERE **BOUGHT** FROM AFRICAN LEADERS. AND THOSE MINING COMPANIES AND OTHER COMPANIES ARE STILL REEPING THOSE BENEFITS OF THE INEXPENSIVE RESOURCES SOLD TO THEM TO DAY. I BELIEVE THAT IT WAS WRONG TO TAKE ADVANTAGE THE WAY THEY DID. BUT OBVIOUSLY THOSE AFRICAN KINGS WERE GREEDY THEY WORKED OUT BAD DEALS. AND KNOW THE COUNTRY IS PAYING FOR IT. SIMILAR TO AMERICANS. BUT OBVIOUSLY WE( THE PEOPLE SOLD INTO SLAVERY) COULDNT HAVE BEEN BENEFITTING FROM THE RESOURCES TOO MUCH BECAUSE WE WERE SLAVES.
@ TEJU, AND ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS
IT SEEMS LIKE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE DISLIKING THE FACT THAT BLACK AMERICANS ARE PROUD TO BE AMERICAN. I UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS, AND I AGREE THAT MOVING FROM AFRICA DID NOT IMMEDIATELY TAKE US FROM POVERTY, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT POVERTY HERE VS THERE IT’S DIFFERENT WHICH OUR POVERTY IS, MEDICAID HEALTH CARE, PUBLIC HOUSING, FOODSTAMPS AND MORE, 3RD WORLD IS, *****ED OUT, UNFORTUNATELY. I AGREE WITH **BOBARABA** WE ARE ALL BLACK AND AS LONG AS WE ARE WE SHOULD STICK TOGETHER BECAUSE WE ALL GO THROUGH RACIST BS. BUT LORD KNOWS THAT ONLY IN AMERICA CAN YOU GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. (SOULJA BOYS CONTRIBUTION TO THE RAP GAME, LAZY WELL FRE RECIPIENTS) OR NOTHING TO SOMETHING ( OPRAH WENFRY) WE ARE BLESSED,
TO ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS
LETS START APPRECIATING THE LITTLE THINGS OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. BECAUSE OUR POOR IS NOT LIKE 3RD WORLD POOR, BUT IT CAN GET COULD GET UGLY!!!
@AKIRA THANK YOU GIRL, BREAK IT DOWN.
I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST AFRICANS I LOVE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
BUT TELL ME WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW AFRICAN HISTOR OTHER THAT FOR MY OWN INTEREST?
WHERE WILL IT TAKE ME?
NO WERE, BECAUSE I LIVE IN AMERICA, WERE AFRICAN THE LAWS ARE EUROPEAN!
The thing is though he’s getting paid, and that’s all he cares about no matter what dumb ***** he says.It’s really sad.
@ Darkest Nubian
I do know my history and let me tell you what I’ve been taught.When they came in africa,white people who regarded black people as animal,decided to make “razzia” which means that they caught them like animals and brought them back on there countries because they had weapons,they were powerful.But when some
@ Darkest Nubian
I do know my history and let me tell you what I’ve been taught.When they came in africa,white people who regarded black people as animal,decided to make “razzia” which means that they caught them like animals and brought them back on there countries because they had weapons,they were powerful.Black people tried to resist but their resistance was insufficient.some covetous african kings decided to draw benefit from this situation.They decided to sell to white people their own people and white people accepted to give them shoddy goods back.I am not making up excuses for that kings because their behaviour is unacceptable.Even if u are weak,u have to try to resist til death.This is just to show u that with our without african king’s agreement,they would have taken african people.
Let me remind u that one century after the end of slavery,white people came back in Afica to colonize its countries.
And i see u asking to Akira what to learn african history for.You know this is not because you’re black that you are obliged to know africa’s history.But don’t be narrow-minded.Forget that u’re black and learn it for general culture.
I was born and grown up in Senegal ,in Africa but I learned french,english,spanish.I learned african history,french history,american history,japanese history… I am not saying that to show off but I just wanna let u know that to understand other communities and civilizations u have to know their history and their way of life.
U see in the whole world, people are regarding Usa as a rich country but where people are not very intelligent becuz too many american people wouldn’t be able to locate Europ,for example,on a map.
Life don’t start and end on America.Open ur minds guys.
p.s:sorry for my english.I am a French-speaking person
@Darkest Nubian, I am well informed thank you very much. Still, I’m an independent thinker, I don’t take everything I hear as the truth, even if it is do*****ented cos it doesn’t take a computer to manipulate information, history could have been re-written literally and one wouldn’t know. Also, I ain’t saying you shouldn’t be proud of being American but y’all really sugar coat how America came to be as we know it today, it’s just the red Indians aren’t as vocal as blacks or else they would have a month of their own too, though their eviction wasn’t as bad as slavery was. Lastly, Whites might have worked out bad deals with African leaders, but where one is given an inch and takes a mile, that can’t be justified, if indeed the African leaders did consent to it (which i question cos i know how heavy the guilt must be that they can fabricate bits of history to favour themselves) they abused it and that is that. Raping, murdering and using the babies of slaves as crocodile food etc couldn’t have possibly been part of the so called “deal”, they got power drunk and made it that way.
All the same, we are all black people and proud to be so i *****ume. Claiming being African Americans ain’t an issue, solely claiming to be American along with the White man who forcefully stole the very land you claim and feeds you white lies on how you got there, that’s what I said I find amusing.
or rather than amusing, more worrying.
@ AFRICAN GIRL AND TEJU,
THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS, AFRICAN GIRL I’LL GRADUATE WITH A MASTERS IN POLI-SCI IN DECEMBER OF O9, I AM A HISTORY FANATIC THAT IS WHY I ASKED, WHY SHOULD I STUDY AFRICAN HISTORY IF I HAVE NO INTEREST. EUROPEAN HISTORY IS MOST INTERESTING TO ME, AND NOT BECAUSE I LOVE WHITES, ONLY BECAUSE IT’S INTERESTING.
TEJU OBVIOUSLYT YOUR NOT INFORMED ON AMERICAN HISTORY, IF YOU WERE YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THE INDIANS HAD IT WORST THAN BLACK SLAVES.
LOVE YOU GUYS, JUST RECOGNIZE THE WEALTH AND OPPORTUNITIES HERE AND DONT TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED.
The Indians had it worst than slaves you say, well…you said it, I didn’t. Atleast they still reside where they originated, atleast they weren’t sold on an industrial scale as kept people. I’m just saying my mind, but i respect your views too, so it’s kool.
Say “No” to dumb *****s
He’s an idiot.
WHAT’S GOOD MY FOLKS