But there's a difference between American Blacks and those examples you listed. Those people were able to create a culture and history based on things that reflect themselves... Black Americans don't have that.
Hell the sheer fact we're called black is a testiment to that. Black is a designation not a culture or language. The religion we practice is the religion of our captors and reflect them. God looks like them...that in itself is a powerful thing. We live in a society that has consistently, methodically and purposefully told us that people who look like us haven't contributed to American history and certainly not human history. Also we're only 200 years removed from slavery which is only a few generations so we're at the beginning of our journey to self actualization.
You seem to be confusing color with culture. European groups to Africa didn't invent imperialism. They were just the latest. And they did it over sea , instead of over land through mountains, forest, river and desert.
Int my prior example Just because all those groups eventually spoke Yoruba , doesn't mean that's their so called "Original" languages or cultures.
The different empires of those regions COLONIZED the others and "yorubized" them. The largest expansion was done during the Oyo empire. The word empire is used to describe a kingdom that expanded and took over others. Lagos itself was a colony of the Benin kingdom. The locals still call it Eko, which is the bini name for it. Before that c it was a fishing village of the Awori people. They ended up assimilating into Benin culture, just like anyone else has to. This is just one example. Empires all over the world force people to change and adapt their culture according to the dominant one wmthat comes along.
So no, that wasn't THEIR culture, just because the guys who colonized them were also Black. They were robbed of their language, robbed of their culture. Robbed of their religions, their Gods, and many of them ... Lol you know the line. Yoruba isn't even a name they called themselves until the Samuel Ajayi Crowther used the name that the Hausa called them, and the English copied.and "black people" in America were already a fully formed group well before that.
Our ancestors found themselves transported over an ocean, instead of just over a river like those prior to then. But just like the others before, they adopted and moved forward. They passed onnskme things , and also made the culture they found themselves in , adapt to them. That's what makes AMERICAN culture. All those European groups , mixed in with all those African groups, mixed in with all the indigenous groups, plus the terrain. Nothing's different but the distance. Plenty of people were taken from.rain forests and made to adapt to desert life, or coastal life, or mountainous life. Forced to learn a new language, forced to accept new gods. Nothing is new here. No one is lost. We right here.
And no, everyone knows how much we contirrbuted to American culture. We are a culture within a culture, and it's the most influential culture on the planet. That's why they copy our music, fashion, CULTURE. Just like they are within Nigerian culture overall. The stuff they wear at their weddings-- that didn't statt til 100 years ago, and the fabric came from the Dutch. Even the concept of weddings As they do it is European. Also, much of the food they eat, is a product of Columbian exchange. Much of their current staoles came from interactions with colonists and new plants they got from that. This isn't stuff that's been the same way for centuries. This is evolution just like what we have here.
Slavery caused a huge identity crisis that might never be sorted out.
the 1828 dictionary contradicts your statements as “copper colored like Ethiopians” are not mongoloids.
