Any South Africa or any other Africafags?I'm a black American, and I want to visit the continent of my ancestors. Im trying to find out more about the realities of modern day Africa. Naturally, I'm not sure where in Africa my enslaved great great great+ grandparents came from, but I saw this thing on PBS where they did the blood type thing on several black celebrities to determine where most likely their forebears were from, so I'm gonna do that. I priced it and its about 200 bucks, give or take.As a black man who has lived in America his whole life, its a trip to think about how there are whole countries where blacks are the majority. Of course, most of Africa is very, very poor and it is nothing like America at all. But I think, for personal fulfillment, that I need to visit the motherland, and soon. I need to see the lands where my family's people came from. But mostly I want to experience what its like not to be seen as a minority. To walk down the street and look just like everybody else for once instead of always standing out and being "the black guy". To be the norm and not have to constantly prove to people I'm not going to rob them just because I'm black. To be just another guy.God, that'd be fucking great.
Go to Harlem.No white people anywhere.
>>5657362learn to gentrification motherfuckerwhite people EVERYWHERE
Personally, I think you'd be disappointed in Africa. You will never be just another guy there, because to them, you are American.If you want to find your roots, you should still do it, though. Good luck!
they'll see you as a rich american, not as anything else. They'll beg from you. You won't speak their language. You will be just as much a minority.Your mother country is almost more scotch-irish from the slavery experience. Seriously! Modern negro culture is basically the same as scotch-irish rednecks who enslaved them. Gaudy clothes, shitty house, sweet ride, fucking, doing drugs, and beating asses.
>>5657404>You will never be just another guy there, because to them, you are American.I have the same problem, only I'm of irish descent. Shit sucks, but you're stuck with being an american, bra.
dont forget to participate in some psychedelic rituals while youre there
lol niggers and their "heritage"
IS this a joke thread? Why do you think you won't be seen as a minority? You will be. You'll probably get robbed if you go alone with this mentality. Grow up.
umm yea, that 200 dollar thing is a fucking scam. just get a map of africa and throw a dart in, go there. btw, africans hate afroamericans. and they are having problems ther cuz there is white ppl there too. good luck!
>>5657452ITT: niggers, niggers and more niggers.
enjoy ur utter lack of civilization, AIDS, crime, starvation, poverty, and niggers
>>5657666Sounds like the United States of America.
Fuck you OP. Fuck you in the ass with a big rubber dick. My 85-year old grandmother was born in South Africa and can't go back without getting robbed, murdered, and possibly raped.
As a venezuelan cunt, I visited my Grandparent's land, back in Spain.Honestly I felt proud of being of spanish descent.
Go to West Africa bro. Somewhere like Nigeria. SA's not really appropriate.OP's idea is pretty reasonable.You always see fat Americunts wondering around Ireland and Scotland trying to find their roots.I don't see why black people shouldn't.You're all Americunts to us. We don't see black or white.We just see the fat.
>>5657858LOL, I realize that being an American will taint the experience, but it wont stop me from seeing and observing the land. Still, no one will know I'm American until I speak anyways.Its almost impossible to track down any records, assuming any would have survived to the present day. Though I know my mom's side of the family is from Georgia and their name is Redding, which is English and signifies an Englishman as my family's "owner" (I saw a few years ago there's a Redding in the House of Lords in England). Most slaves were taken from West Africa, though African tribes sold prisoners of war from other tribes into slavery from god knows where. Still, youre right, west Africa is my best bet.
>>5657783OP here, Uh, what the fuck does that have to do with me? Im not the fucking President of South Africa.
Enjoy Euraids.
OP why would you want to go to South Africa?South Africa is the most successful African country sure, but only because it was strictly controlled by white people for so long. Look at what has happened to it since black people have been in charge.I suggest you go to Nigeria. Nigeria is black people at their finest. You will be robbed or scammed within an hour of getting off the plane.
OP HOW DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL?
You will go to Africa, see the mess black people make of their countries, come back to America and start ranting about slavery.Although by the looks of it you do enough of that already.
Enjoy being murdered and eaten by starving africans who maim each other over the stupidest things.
>>5657945>Nigeria is black people at their finest.I guess they are doing well for themselves then, since they are the 40th richest country and only 2nd on the continent.
>>5657945Yeah like I said, I know that Much of Africa is very poor, which breeds the worst types of people in any country. I'm not over-romanticizing it in my head, I know the perils and problems that I'm likely to face if I'm careless. I realize life is cheap in much of Africa. But I still want to see it.
>>5658014You know what Nigeria's biggest import is?Elderly Americans' pension funds that they have managed to scam from them.
Places to go in sub-saharan Africa that don't totally suck:KenyaGhanaBotswanaTanzania
As an American in Africa pussy will get thrown at you like rice at a wedding. You have to remember though, how rampant AIDS is, and be fucking careful.
>>5657351I'm from the Caribbean.Good luck in your shitty Africa. I'll be here, on this tropical island, laughing at you, smoking weed, eating saltfish and plantain, drinking rum and listening to soca with others of African descent, in a majority.Enjoy your wallet being stolen, your bank details mysteriously gone, and your AIDS.
Everyone loves the Gambia.
>>5658044Shit, seriously?Americans sure are dumb then. I guess the Nigerians have taken capitalism to heart and rip off retards just like they should.
>>5658095OP hereWow, cool..actions.. bro. Enjoy yourself!
>>5658106I was working on a floating fish processor in Alaska with a lot of Sudanese and Ethiopians, and when we had downtime and were just kicking back they would be joking around with each other and apparently amongst Africans, or at least Sudanese and Ethiopians, its an insult to refer to someone as Gambian. I never gt an explanation as to why, either. it was kinda funny.
i love black people they have awesome hair. do you like bob marley?
SA eh?FOOKING PRAWNS
>>5658158In my head that is how Barack Obama talks to other black people.
>>5658157Yeah Africa's the world's biggest continent. It's pretty diverse place. I don't like the the term race or how we use it. It's such a misnomer. There's no single black "race" or "white" race for that matter. For example some Irish pig farmer has nothing in his bloodlines that involved building Rome. Just as unless you create a fake cultural identity what do a Eastern European Pole and Scotish person have in common in regards to culture or genetics?People across Europe and Asia are very different there are hundreds of different cultures and ethnicities.In Africa even more so. North Africas are very different to East Africans (like the current POTUS' father) who are very different to South Africans who are very different to West Africans, etc etc.I'm not black but I've mixed with black people of African-American descent, Afro-Carribean descent, West African, and East African descent. The West African's especially the Nigerians resembled black African-Americans the most in regards to their appearance.
>>5658297>Africa's the world's biggest continent.don't think so kid
>>5658297Nope, you are confusing 'race' with 'ethnicity'/'culture'/'nationality'. There are only 3 races, black, white, oriental.
A lot of people underestimate how HUEG Africa really is.
Hey OP, you wont get thought of as a robber or a rapist when you walk down the street in Africa, but everyone else will rob and rape you anyways. So you'll be the exception to the rule- in both countries. *pats you on the back*.
>>5658354So then what are Polynesians?
>>5658361pic implying africa is a country. failblox
>>5658361>>5658375you would have a point if it didn't paste europe over it as well.
>>5658157North East Africans look different, look at this former Somali president. They got straight hair and finer features.
>>5658375I didnt "imply" anything, I said a lot of people fail to reallize how HUEG Africa is. I didnt say "the country of Africa"if you werent so eager to seem LOLSMART by correcting people who call Africa a country, you would have seen that.I bet you been sitting here just fuckin WAITING for someone to say that Africa is a country, huh you sorry ass motherfucker.
>>5658354no they aren't, a white guy from russia and a white from france don't have a single thing in common GENETICALLY SPEAKING
If you do come to South Africa, come to Cape Town.Other cities are fucking boring.
>>5658423Well, east Africa is right next to the middle east, so of course theyre likely to have mixed features.
>>5658373A bit o' black, a bit o' oriental.
>>5658467Thats bullshit, you dont know what the fuck your talking about
>THIS THREADIF YOU HAVE NEVER STUDIED GENETICS PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE HARDCORE POP CULTURE ANTI-RACIST AND READ A BIT ABOUT IT ON WIKIPEDIA IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU AN EXPERT.
All the South African's I know are incredibly racist twats.Also: you're nowhere near a pure-blood, most likely. You'll be singled out there as well (._.)
Go to Ghana. I went there this summer. Shit's good there, no chance of getting robbed, no genocide, only malaria and heat somewhat. Civilized, almost modern, (they're not as good with electronics as we are), Healthcare is not too bad, but other then that. it's all good.
>>5657351Go teach some of the poor dirt farmers how to build windmills or cisterns or water pumps etc.Seriously. I kind of want to go help after hearing about that young African who read about windmills and went the fuck out and built one to give his town electricity. That kind of shit is AWESOME, and any country should be proud to have people like that. I am an engineer, and that fills me with happiness that such people exist. That one guy redeemed Africa in my eyes. The only problem is, I think I would get my dick shot off if I went around helping people there.
>>5658616OP here,Im the complexion of the kids in the OP photo, I'm not some diluted super light half breed or anything. Like I said, if I didn't speak they'd never know I was American.
>>5658645This. If you really want to connect with your roots. The best way is to do volunteer work (engineering, medicine, teaching, etc).I don't know if Americans do it but in Britain we have the concept of a gap year, where before or after university you spend a year doing something often abroad. Lot's of people use it as an opportunity to do volunteer work in Africa or Asia.Doing something like that in somewhere like Ghana for example would be a much better way to connect with your African roots then, the typical American thing of wondering around Dublin or Edinburgh with a loud tee-shirt, complaining about the size of the meal portions, taking lots of pictures, and generally being a loud annoying tourist.
>>5658733OP here,Funny you should mention that, I was thinking about joining the peace corps and was watching videos on it, which is what started me thinking about this whole thing. I have a working knowledge of several languages, so I was thinking of doing something related to teaching.bu yeah, helping out a village or something would be really cool
>>5657351God damn you almost trolled me.
