Vic Mensa Says The Division Between Black Americans And Africans Is Manufactured

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3:04PNC Bank, brilliantly boring since 1865. Brilliantly boring since 1865 is a service mark of the PNC Financial Service Group, Inc. PNC Bank, National Association member, FDIC. What I really appreciate about what y 'all been doing, man, is the presence that you're building on the continent, man. You know what I'm saying? It's like it's so necessary and people need to see it from you, too. you know saying because obviously i i have a voice and my own my own lane but as an african that's like uh mixed race and you know i mean i've got ways for people to discredit the situation discredit my opinion as it pertains to black american people i mean especially in the age of fba you know what i'm saying well can we talk about that i know you My bad.

4:07Can we talk about that, though? No, go ahead. I want to hear Vic's. I'm glad you brought that up because Vic, if you don't know his background, his father's from Ghana and his mother, your mother's from America, right? Yeah, she's white. White America. So, alright. This is a very sensitive topic right now. Tariq Nasheed, don't do it. Tariq, I love you. Hidden Colors 1 through 20. I know, I think FB is it. They got like hundreds, thousands and computers bro they got the first ai bots boy fba don't do it love you how how is that for you how is that for you i think it's really funny i like i kind of have a good time with it you know saying um the division between black american people and black african people is manufactured it's an agent of the state the division between black again, please.

5:05Thank you. The division between Black American people and Black African people is manufactured. It is an agent of the state. It's used to keep us divided so that we don't unify Black Americans with the most culturally impact, with the most impactful culture on the planet with Black Africans that are the fastest growing population with the most resources. They don't want Black American people, the most culturally impactful group on planet earth to link up with the most resource-rich continent which as you guys obviously know is the only place where the birth rates are on the rise and will be the majority of the human beings and if you look at places like china you know i mean like when the population increases and certain certain moves are made i mean to to economically benefit from that.

6:03I mean, the possibilities are we just want to. The possibilities are so fucking massive. And what the powers that be really don't want is that black American people who have been able to just in this past hundred years, man, dramatically change the landscape of culture globally. They don't want us to connect. You know what I'm saying? And that's where that's where I find my greatest criticisms with FBA is not FBA as an idea of foundationally black Americans. Like I 100 % believe whatever you want to call it, that black American people are obviously their own culture. You know what I'm saying? They are their own.

6:49I mean, they have their own cuisine. They have their own dialects. They're basically their own language, their own literature their own contributions to science technology math art everything you know i'm saying but was it malcolm x that said uh if a kitten gives birth in an oven does it give birth to cookies you know saying like was that malcolm x or beanie siegel that would be funny if i mixed up now can beanie seagull if you put pictures in the oven did i making biscuits biscuits biscuits that's funny i i do think i i don't know man yeah combination combination no my my big point though man is that like um i just think that uh like the group online that is pushing an anti-african narrative it's just misguided and I feel like they're misguided by design though you know saying in the same way that the Africans online that are pushing an anti-black American narrative are misguided they're misguided by design like I've had these conversations um in Africa many times when African people will ask me they say black Americans why are they so aggressive and You know, I mean, why are they so angry and why can't they figure out how to rise in society?

8:19Like Africans are often colored with so many negative stereotypes of black Americans because the media has painted black Americans in a certain way. you know i mean intentionally derogatory light in order to keep them exploited you know i mean and and in order to make the world feel like but i guess yeah my point being that it's just two different strokes of the same brush because at the same token like uh the the media has and continues to paint africans as having no contribution to history saying that the pyramids are created by, you know, aliens or goddamn motherfuckers look like Brett Favre.

9:05You know what I'm saying? Like, just because they don't want to acknowledge the greatness of black people. And so, you know, I mean, I appeal to like both to both FBA and to uh african people of the continent to um you know recognize our our necessitated unity like we don't get free until we all get free you know that's how i feel earners what's up you ever walk into a small business and everything just works like the checkout is fast the receipts are digital tipping is a breeze and you're out the door before the line even builds. Odds are they're using Square. We love supporting businesses that run on Square because it just feels seamless whether it's a local coffee shop, a vendor at a pop-up market, or even one of our merch partners.

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