Now we're having a conversation. Good info. I'm not aware that the Asantes "mopped up" the British for that 100 years but hey, school me.
Now we're REALLY having a conversation. I wasn't aware of all of those. Keep talking to me and informing me. You tend to hold out until someone pisses you off lol. Let's TALK ABOUT IT.
In this particular story, people are excited that 15000 Zulus killed 1200 whites. I don't find this a particularly great or inspiring story. There are others that ARE indeed great so I don't have to blow hot air into a story that is really not to me.
Talk to me about Angola and the others. Those sound much better.
Dude, I'm not some white boy and further more me and mine suffer from the consequences as much as you do.
Are you South African? Lemme know, you're very vague about it. Do you not refer to people as "buggers" and such? I brought up Wole Soyinka who served time in prison and fights for his people. Since you don't like him or his choices you called him names. I list African artists, but since they're too euro for you you have shit to say about them too. I've asked you your feeling about many different historical figures and you have an opinion one way or another and a term for them based on what you know of them. So get the fuck out of here. I'm talking about mistakes I think that were made and how it affects me.
I'm from the south. I've referred to my people closer in culture the same way. We have terms for people from southern black culture who do things that we don't like such as uncle toms, coons. the word nigga gets many different usages, and I don't shudder when I hear it. At this point I'm just talking about humans in the past whom I share a heritage and a fate with. I can lovingly call them whatever I want.
I wanna sympathize with what you're saying in terms of not disrespecting ancestors but we discuss the great things they do all the time. I've called members of my immediate family dummies before, as well as geniuses.
If we're continuing to try and one up each other on Africaness (which happens all the time in here) that's the only reason you can pretend to be more outraged about one thing or another than me.
Having said that, I respect the information you bring here as it pertains to stuff like this. I like the dialogue. If you don't see the respect I have for my ancestors, wherever they may come from based on how much I post great things about them and only wanna flip out when i say something you don't like, you're missing the point. honor Thomas Sankara and Patrice Lumumba. I don't honor the Fuckers who killed them. I'm learning about many more situations like this throughout history in that part if the world and I notice you and a few others have this knowledge and perspective. Share it.
I do have a hard time excepting the notion that these guys seem to have been anti technology and it cost them. That pisses me off more than you and the name calling.
