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PharaohLiban wrote:Agreed^ Even today you will see Somalis wearing Dashikis and do other foreign cultural things because its considered "Black" by African-Americans, then if you are so "black" then why dont you wear traditional Somali cultural clothing? Why isnt baati or dirac a "black cultural attire"? Because it is centered on African Americans view of blackness and European-Americans view of it. It's really retarded.

I used to think Dashikis was part of Somali culture because my father and my uncles used to wear it often when I was 10 ~ years old. So don't make it out as if it's only Western Somalis that appropriate African culture.

You wear a shirt which is Western culture, jeans which is Western culture but if a person wears something that is Swahili culture (which had ties to "Somalia" pre colonialism) you go ape shit.

Calm the fuck down. Somalis may not be Bantu but we are black. We are dark skinned Africans with black features. We may not all have flat noses, but the vast majority of us have afro hair, big lips and dark skin.

PharaohLiban wrote:If we are going by scientific racial distribution then we are in the Hamitic race

Hamitic race kulahaa, maa jeebkaadaa kala soo baxdey. Fuckin self-hating dhaadhaan. Tell me your ancestral village.

PanSomaliNationalist wrote:How come most Indians are the same color or darker than Somalis yet you don't consider them black.

Indians



Somalis

It is a certain fringe of the Somali population ka carara their blackness and hold on to long held ancient bs that they are arab.

Humans have three different skin colors black white and brown, Most Somalis are black and we do have some light skinned or brown Somalis, we also have almost all human features resembling all races on earth . We got Chinese looking Somalis, We have South assian looking Somalis, Bantu looking Somalis, Latino looking ones, even red Indian and and aboriginal looking Somalis. It's weird that We look very mixed people although we are truly one single pure Race .

There are light-skin people even in Kikuyu tribe. So the notion that lightskinimo equals arabnimo (am talking about banu hashim and jaberti, where you at folks?) is just that: a notion

I don't blame anyone for having a feeling of remorse and shame for being black in today's world. Dark skin is vilified. That's the narrative of today. Blacks are the wretched of the earth. Not due to their own volition. When you have a mass global media that dictates the definition of what beauty is and what beauty isn't. Then society will eventually conform to that regardless of whether that judgement is actually validated.
I remember once passively listening to an Iranian professor called Mohamed Marandi speaking about the nuances of Western academic imperialism in Iran. One interesting fact that he stated amongst others was that most of the beauty magazines almost always displayed women who were blonde haired and blue eyed. He then said, it was morally inconsistent that a society which doesn't possess those 'genetics' then display as the 'standard' of beauty, women who are not native to that description.

Woman (and man) wish to be appreciated for who they are. If that need for self satisfaction cannot be attained, except through giving into this bastardised system of explotation and vilification of others. Then that's what they'll do. It's better to empower those who don't feel well about themselves.

My view is that everyone is beautiful. Allah didn't create ugliness in His creation. You will find beauty in the blackest of black and the whitest of white. It's the system that creates this hierarchy and convinces some that they are not beautiful.

There is a nice book written by Chris Hedges, called 'Illusion of Empire' or something along those lines. Have a read.

grandpakhalif exposed... You no longer allowed to use the term HUTU in your fadhi-kudirir sessions

Inferiority complex and self-hatred, what else? Kuwo sida dhuxushoo kale u madow baad arkaysaa oo madownimada ka cararaya, aaminsanna in ay Carab yihiin. Taa haddeysan cuqdad-nafsi aheyn I don't know what is.

GIJaamac wrote:

PanSomaliNationalist wrote:How come most Indians are the same color or darker than Somalis yet you don't consider them black.

Is this guy black

http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/ ... a-576069-1

How about this old man
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0IWQRrvH_nc/T ... G_8655.jpg

How about this girl

http://telo.org/wp-content/uploads/2013 ... -guard.jpg

Call them black and they will definitely cremate you alive and scatter your ashes on the Ganges river or over them to the sanab key caabudaan!

theyuusuf143 wrote:Humans have three different skin colors black white and brown, Most Somalis are black and we do have some light skinned or brown Somalis, we also have almost all human features resembling all races on earth . We got Chinese looking Somalis, We have South assian looking Somalis, Bantu looking Somalis, Latino looking ones, even red Indian and and aboriginal looking Somalis. It's weird that We look very mixed people although we are truly one single pure Race .

The asian-cheek bones and monolid eyes also runs in my family and is just so fascinating. Somalis come in different hues and shapes yet there is something unique to them such that you can easily pick a Somali face from a sea of people (or atleast I can lol).

I thank Allah everyday for making me lightskin.I can't imagine living everyday looking like Sheikh Sharif.It must be terrifying to see yourself in the mirror

grandpa beenta jooji there are no light skin marexaans

GIJaamac wrote:

PharaohLiban wrote:If we are going by scientific racial distribution then we are in the Hamitic race

Hamitic race kulahaa, maa jeebkaadaa kala soo baxdey. Fuckin self-hating dhaadhaan. Tell me your ancestral village.

Self-hating? How am I self-hating if I wanna be labeled only Somali? I dont share nothing with Bantus or African-Americans so why would I put myself in their category? The only self-haters is Somalis who do everything to claim being black when black people dont even claim you. Where is the Black Lives Matter movement when Somalis die by the police? Where is your black pride when Somalis are slaughtered by other Bantu Africans because they have different facial features? Search for Tamil people and you will find Indians darker than Somalis, are they also black? No. Because being black is only a Western phenomenon, if you go to any country in Africa and they ask you what you are and you call yourself black they will laugh at you. Tell me, are Chinese people white?

It's actually funny how you only respond to one thing. It is the Hamitic race that we've been put in, go search for Negroid race and Hamitic race instead of trying to laugh it off like a moron. This black and white shit is bullshit. We are Somalis, nothing more nothing less. Your language, culture, people, none of it is considered black by anyone but self-hating Somalis like you.

Lion104 wrote:

PharaohLiban wrote:Agreed^ Even today you will see Somalis wearing Dashikis and do other foreign cultural things because its considered "Black" by African-Americans, then if you are so "black" then why dont you wear traditional Somali cultural clothing? Why isnt baati or dirac a "black cultural attire"? Because it is centered on African Americans view of blackness and European-Americans view of it. It's really retarded.

I used to think Dashikis was part of Somali culture because my father and my uncles used to wear it often when I was 10 ~ years old. So don't make it out as if it's only Western Somalis that appropriate African culture.

You wear a shirt which is Western culture, jeans which is Western culture but if a person wears something that is Swahili culture (which had ties to "Somalia" pre colonialism) you go ape shit.

Calm the fuck down. Somalis may not be Bantu but we are black. We are dark skinned Africans with black features. We may not all have flat noses, but the vast majority of us have afro hair, big lips and dark skin.

Wearing a Dashiki in Western society is retarded. The Swahili culture had ties to us because thats where the slaves came from, we didn't really have any ties and Dashikis are not from the Swahili people. It comes from West Africa.

If Somalis living in West Africa want to wear Dashikis, then why not? But don't wear Dashikis in Western society and think that that is "black culture" when there is baati, hoos gunti, dirac etc. that we have in our own culture. Jeans and t-shirts etc. are worldwide and if you live in a Western society then you obviously will wear that, if you go to India and wear their clothing while living there that's fine, but don't claim to be Indian. Just like you don't need to claim to be Bantu, West African or African-American or whatever "black culture" is.

I am calm. We don't have "black features" either, no such thing as "black features". Our features are more closely related to South Asians, European etc. but doesn't mean we are white or Indian. Just like a darker skine tone doesn't make us Bantu or "black". Most Somalis are brown skinned anyway, are some of us in the brown race? and some in the black race then? We have a straight nose, high cheekbones, big foreheads, curly hair and our skin tone differ from light brown to darkskin which is completely different from any full blooded Bantu.