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“Balela naabu kimbeetu. Badi beetu nebangaakwile”
Those with whom we share blood are not our people. Our people are the ones who will defend us.
~Baluba proverb ( Democratic Republic of Congo)
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I don’t understand this tbh. The first sentence does not make sense to me. And who else will defend them but their own bloodline?
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After all the millions that have died during the thousand years of enslavement in East Africa, the millions that died on the march from the interior to the coast, the millions that died in the middle passage, the millions that died during the enslavement and colonization process, the millions that died during the chemical genocide of crack cocaine, the physical psychological genocide of the negro project renamed Planned Parenthood. What this proverb speaks of are the people who share the same bloodline sitting in America talking about what we have contributed to America and the world. The ones who practice Christianity talk about they have more in common with white folks than they do Africans. The ones who say I’m not African because I have slave blood. Some of them say they are the ancestor’s wildest dream!! I mean really can you imagine? I can literally go on and on. The bloodline who is denying his or her African ancestry and talking about I’m native American, Hebrew, Asiatic, American, Dominican, Hispanic, christian, Muslim, or Jewish. That is what this speaks of 2 me
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