#colonial mentality

[blackstarlineage]

Mad your DNA said West African? That’s not disappointment—it’s internalized colonial shame. Some of y’all would rather claim Moor, Olmec, Hebrew, or Viking before you accept Africa. That’s not consciousness. That’s confusion and self hate.

You were stripped of your language, land, and lineage—and now you cosplay lost empires to feel valuable. But the truth is: you are African. And there’s no higher truth than that.

Your heritage is the root of civilization itself. African ancestors built pyramids without machines, mapped stars before telescopes, birthed medicine, mathematics, and systems of governance. Even in the face of slavery and colonization, they resisted, revolted, and rebuilt. That blood runs through you. That fire is yours.

Having African heritage isn’t a downgrade—it’s a divine inheritance. It's not something to deny, it’s something to defend. You’re not lost. You’re rooted. Stop fleeing your power. Stand in it.

✊🏿

[icedsodapop]

Imagine being a Ugandan doctor who studied their ass off for 5-6 years or a Ugandan nurse who put in 3 years of their life to become qualified, only to have a White American woman with a high school diploma (and from motherfucking home school to add on to the sheer ridiculousness of the situation) come in thinking she's on the same level as you??

[protoslacker]

He [Kissinger] didn’t study Africa. He went in with a very typical racism of the time, a contempt for all developing countries, and thought he could get an easy victory, which he needed after the collapse of South Vietnam.

Nancy Mitchell quoted in an article by Peter Beaumont in The Guardian. Kissinger at 100: How his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid

Historians say the involvement in Africa of the former US secretary of state, who is 100 this week, drew the US into Angola’s war and aided apartheid after the Soweto uprising

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Nancy Mitchell is the author of Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War. Jimmy Carter participated in candid interviews with Mitchell for the book. In The Guardian article Beaumont circles in on Kissinger's "Eurocentric prism" distorting his picture of what was actually happening and preventing imaging better possible futures.

Angola is an episode in Koranteng's Toli's Things Fall Apart series writen in the spring of 2006. My mind was blown when I first read it and I still consider it one of the best pieces of Web writing ever. Around that time Teju Cole was publishing on his blog posts which were to become the basis for Everyday Is for the Theif. Howard French was also writing about Africa on his blog. French wrote the recetly published Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, And the Making of the Modern World. Discovering different perspectives by way of blogs was invigorating for me.

Koranteng's piece "Angola" is a bit like The X Files, or a James Elroy novel. It's engaging and to one of the reasons to read it now is that it plays with that "Eurocentric prism" that botched Kissenger's vision. Perhaps it's really slightly updated prism one of Trump's advisors aptly called it, "We're America, bitch." Most of us in the USA use a lens like it often without realizing it.

My heart sank when hearing Biden responding to questions about his speech on Gaza and Ukraine say, "We're America." The foreign policy of the USA need not be as stupid and evil as it too often is. We must pick up the lenses that so distort our vision and set them aside so we can view through different lenses to gain better perspectives.

[toshkakoshka]

I HATE YOU SPANISH COLONIAL MENTALITY I HATE YOU UNDERREPRESENTATION OF DARK SKINNED FILIPINOS I HATE YOU LACK OF DIVERSITY I HATE YOU DOÑA VICTORINA MENTALITY I HATE YOU OVERCASTING OF HALF WHITE FILIPINOS I HATE YOU COLONIAL MENTALITY I AHTE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

[intotheclash]

Kokoroko - Colonial Mentality | Sofar London

Fantastiche!

[renatoi]

Tumblr made me decolonize myself. I learned being on here what 4 months!? that white Latinos/ people have no right to speak on behalf of the rest of the indigenous and Afro descendants from Central America, South America, and Caribbean. They can never represent us . You can only amplify and support our suppressed voices. They don’t understand the struggle or experienced what the indigenous and Afro descendants have gone through or will ever go through. I see many have stated that on here and it’s true. They will never understand our struggle. We live in a much more systematic oppressed society than they do. Their privileges are bias and obscured from the rest of us and our experiences. Like many stated here, the terms “latino” “latina” “latine” and “latin america” are caste terms from colonial times that the Spanish and Portuguese have embedded in our minds to believe in. They brainwashed us to use them and for what? To erase our indigenous and Afro descendant culture and identities. To put their identities and culture to a higher value and all knowing as the superior main one. There are countries in South America that have their indigenous languages as their official languages such as Guarani, Aymara , and Quechua in their own country. As well as countries with southeast Indian heritage, that eat roti, have NON- “latino/a/e” Caribbean heritage, and are part of the guyanas region BUT are excluded from “Latin America” . There are countries in the Caribbean and Central America that share the same Afro descendants language verbiage from Nigeria and Mayan identity and heritage , BUT they are excluded from “Latin America”. Latine and Latin America have always been oppressor words to erase who we really are. To erase us indigenous and Afro descendants. Latine and Latin America these caste terms have to be removed from existence. They have always been toxic suppressive words. I sympathize and believe on with the indigenous and Afro descendants that have brought this subject from Central America, South America, and Caribbean to never identify or associate myself with absolutely anything that has to do at all with the caste terms “latin america” “latine” “latino” and “latina”. I’m indigenous and from South America that is it. There is only Central American, South American, and Caribbean that is it.

[moonfirebrides]

[m-ushroomtale]

Americans don’t beat fellow Americans 🤡