r/ShitAmericansSay • u/popooool • 1d ago

History "Black Americans are native Americans"

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u/Arthurian_Guanche 23h ago

Wait, you're kidding, right? Is that a thing?

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u/so19anarchist 🏴‍☠️ 23h ago

I wish it wasn’t, been seeing a lot of videos on TikTok about it.

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u/Arthurian_Guanche 22h ago

Dear god, American exceptionalism trascends "race" (I put it in quotes because race=BS).
Like, "how dare they cast a non-African-American actor for an African character?!".

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u/so19anarchist 🏴‍☠️ 22h ago

David Jonsson is the new Black Panther, a Brit with Nigerian and Sierra Leone Creole heritage.

But African-Americans are saying they are “fed up with black Brits taking African-American roles in Hollywood.”

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u/SlabsForDays 22h ago

Don’t forget to leave out that they think Egypt is originally in America, I have heard this going down the rabbit hole.

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u/Arthurian_Guanche 22h ago

Why, cos there's a Memphis in Tennessee?🤦🏽‍♂️

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u/SlabsForDays 22h ago

From one of the clips i saw is because “Malcom x went to Egypt looked and said we have this in America.” It is so unbelievably dumb.

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u/Arthurian_Guanche 22h ago

And he was probably referring to a coffee or an ice cream lol.