Mutabaruka African People Are The Only People That Say, " I'm Not African, I'm West Indian"

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[@MsWildberry1]

Black British of Caribbean parentage. My nationality is proudly African first and foremost. Yes Muta as beloved Peter Tosh said no matter where you come from, you're an African.

[@energygoddess888]

I’m a 🇰🇪 born and raised in the 🇬🇧 but I have always called myself an African in this colonisers land. There’s nothing for me in the 🇬🇧 to claim as my own because it’s not where my roots are, it’s not a place I can call my home. It’s the land of where my ancestors came from is where I call home. The older I get, the more disconnected I become from 🇬🇧 culture, it does not represent who I am to my core. Thank you Muta for your Wisdom, I appreciate it so much. Bless up ❤️

[@EmpressAshe]

💯

[@jamesibz]

Coloniser island that you still live in because Africa isn’t safe for Africans... . Dumb

[@birdycam4873]

I've been thinking along the same lines and am in agreement with you. I would love to know where my ancestors came from. I don't know how they managed to survive slavery but I'm proud of them.

[@albertbinns326]

I was not born in Africa, Africa was born in I.

[@MsWildberry1]

Best comment

[@daphnesmith1686]

Ur Absolutely FABULOUS

[@omggiiirl2077]

Im an igbo descendant from America of the gullah culture, My Mom is Korean, im proud of my ancestry

[@PlaAwa]

i hope all people with identity issues get through it asap and start living.

[@josephnuttn3600]

Best comment ever!

[@feddi7693]

💯

[@productions271]

One of the reasons why they often distance themselves is also due to the constant negative portrayal of Africa across the western media. We have been portrayed and are often seen as barbaric and unintelligent savages with nothing to offer the world, nobody likes to be associated with the losing team. Human beings are shallow and superficial like that.

[@ikongchin3088]

HU (LIKE UNTO) MAN . NOT MAN

[@sassyx2048]

Spoken like a true Pro. A lot 🇯🇲 will want to fight you that they are not African. They are Jamaicans ignorance is never a reason. Jamaica and other Caribbean islands should be proud of Your African roots. We were all once Africans.This is undisputed Facts. I was born in Britain but my parents are Nigerian I stand tall and Proud to be Africans.

[@Intentionaltia]

They aren’t aware of their true lineage!

[@josephnuttn3600]

Earl 16:" the earth is like a melting pot"...

[@sassyx2048]

In some respects I can agree wirh you as a child growing up in the UK I also claimed i was from Jamaica not Nigeria due to the negative connotations about Africa at that time. However 20 years later I'm older and wiser. I've lived in Nigeria and got in touch with my roots. I know the villages NY parents are from and I know all of my Niget8an family. I also took it upon myself to do my own research about Africa. And I can tell you now. I stand tall and Proud of my African roots. I'm no more ashamed and I would not have it any other way. So there is no excuse if Jamaicans think they have nothing in common they need to think again. I've never visited JA but have family who have who state that parts of JA is like Nigeria. That's not a bad thing that's a good think. JA are Africsns lile it or loathe it. They desennded from Africa as Slaves. There is no getting away from that and other parts of the Carribbean. My advise is do your research there is a wealth of historical information on You Tube. Not frigging Wikipedia for heavens sake. JA should be proud of their African roots. Where did Nana of Maroons hail from? Do not know how she fought of the slave masters? In the Blue Mountains,??? Let's just start right there. I'm not buying the negative portrayal anymore as we now have Sicial media that speaks the truth. If we can soend all our days following the likes of the Karfashians and all those other D list celebrities. Then we can use the same efforts to research our proud African heritage. How did Jamaicans arrive on the Jamaica or carribean shores. Obviously for those who were born in JA 3rd gen onwards wi claim they are JA etc that's all fine we are talking about your heritage your ancestry from whence you came from. So stop being foolish and ignorant and free yourself from Mental slavery. Do they not understand Bob Marleys Lyrics? Africa Unite Movement of Jah people. Do they nit understand. I'm gona get those crazy bald heads out Town??? Do they not understand those lyrics. Jeez man I could go on and on.

[@charlajefferson9220]

🖤🖤🖤 I'm so proud of my African ancestry. That's why i don't mind calling myself African-American. It ties me to Africa even thought I don't know which country I come from.

[@brandytidwell2784]

Africa for the African

[@ikongchin3088]

Blessed love Muta , I. Kong inna de space. I fully agree wid de I in all your comments on this subject n reasoning 1000000%. To tell de truth I myself am guilty of saying certain words. Thanks to 1s n 1s like the I , mi realign mi self blessed love for knowledge.

[@ptrco5]

💯💯🙌🏾

[@idubtheejado]

At home and abroad.

[@josephnuttn3600]

I've got a question, can you please explain why thousands of African people trying to get in Europe? When Europeans would say the same (Europe for the Europeans) they are racist and xenofobe (I agree). No human is illegal. Polarisation is not helpful. Meanwhile mutabarracuda is in Europe to make money on music festivals. But..... He won't stay too long😂

[@batmanrobin2099]

I can listen to Mutabaruka all day everyday. Keep the message going. Irie! ❤🇯🇲

[@galacticsoul1615]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿Muta. I have denounced “West Indian.” I am an African who happens who to live in Diasporan lands. The colonial programming runs deep. These same Jcans or “West Indians” will be the first to point out they are of mixed ancestry.

[@davidson5423]

Cowards small minded ignorant and dunce

[@MJ-sm6tm]

Perhaps it’s because quite a few of them are. Jamaica’s own motto “Out of many, one people

[@kreativeforce532]

​@@MJ-sm6tm thats not what that motto means. its in reference to the many African tribes that were mashed together in slavery. That the motto can be misued so, means it is no longer any good.

[@MJ-sm6tm]

@@kreativeforce532 I’m not sure if your African or just Afro-centric, but as a Jamaican I can tell you categorically that the motto refers to Jamaica’s population having multiracial roots. It’s not specifically about Africa or any African tribes. A cursory check online or in literature would have cleared that up for you before you decided to challenge me on this matter. All the best.

[@stonyhill3618]

Real talk mi elder from 🇬🇲 gambia

[@winningvictory]

Maximum forever respect to Mutabaruka for always speaking unfiltered Truth/Facts, Wisdom & Knowledge! 100% True Story: Years ago I admit to foolishly being on a dating site called: "BlackPeopleMeet"! At least 70% of the BLACK women on the site identified themselves ethnicity as: Native American! Samoan! South American! West Indian! Asian! There was hardly any Black women who identified themselves as African! There is an old wise saying: "Be Yourself; Because Everyone Else Is Already Taken"! Black women need to realize and believe that Black is Beautiful! Stop with the bleaching of Skin! "Nardo Ranks" (Them a Bleach; Them a Bleach out them skin) Stop with the Breast & A$$ Implants! Stop with the Fillers! Stop with the Botox! Botox is actually Botulism which is Bacteria; that poisons the immune system! Stop with the Plastic Surgery! Black Women; If you are not Bad-minded, envious, nor jealous; then love thyself!

[@ceofounder]

Wow! Absolute thought provoking, profound, and deep commentary! Respect!

[@ikongchin3088]

Well said. It refreshes my soul was hen I read your comments. 1❤

[@winningvictory]

@@ikongchin3088 God bless you! Keep winning!

[@kreativeforce532]

unfortunately they are bad minded. they hate what they are and what African men are hence their desire to escape the race via delusion, illusion and then mixing (if possible).

[@afromondo9212]

Bless up Elder. We give thanks for the life you living. Greetings from Germany

[@whitneyc.3257]

I’m an Afrocolombian woman and I remember one day an Uber driver apologized for thinking I was African. I told him he did not need to apologize because there’s nothing offensive on being African and all diaspora s come from Africa anyway 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@whitneyc.3257]

Diasporans*

[@Blessed965]

I’m African American and EXTREMELY proud of my African ancestry. I think that a big issue in this for African Americans and the Africans in the Caribbean who don’t claim themselves as African, is that African nations have not CLAIMED us. It’s a big unspoken elephant in the room. We have not EVER heard from African leaders as a whole (meaning a large group of African presidents and tribal leaders) not only CLAIM African Americans and African Caribbeans…but invite us back in order to be amongst them and learn their cultures and ways. Even if it’s not “moving” over there but simply visiting….there’s been no olive branch extended to us. And deep down, it hurts. And I think that that can contribute to many Africans in the diaspora as a result of of the transatlantic slave trade sometimes not even claiming their African ancestry. They’ll simply say that they’re black, or West Indian (Caribbean), or black and Native American. There’s some hurt feelings here. The relationship has been severed. And africans in the motherland have not yet AS A WHOLE made any serious attempt to try to develop a serious bonding with Africans in the diaspora (blacks in America, Caribbeans, black Brazilians, etc.) that are products of the transatlantic slave trade. We have not been formally “welcomed” back to our ancestral home by the current occupants of our ancestral home.

[@alexred1038]

Many have said, you’re just ignorant of it or waiting for massa’s mainstream media to tell you. Wise up n use your head not just to carry your ears!

[@EmpressAshe]

Why do You or we Need the Africans from Africa to Welcome its Own ppl back?? (Africans carried to other nations) We Are Alll Africans So We Are Welcomed It goes without saying, African Leaders Don't have to Tell Us that. We Should Know that We Should Feel it We Should Feel Connected and Free when we go there I think you should just Go I have seen welcoming ceremonies for African Americans and Africans from the Caribbean islands who have gone back to the mother land and they are Welcomed by Our ppl when we Go The thing is You gotta Go Not wait If you want to go go Don't let that hold you back I also think you're putting the Blame on the Wrong ppl, Africans Didn't separate us the Whyte man did You hurting from the wrong thing hun, if you change your perspective it'll be easier for you Wish you Healing 💜

[@HausofVinings]

Caribbean is the heart of separatism. First people in a conversation to distance themselves from other blacks/Africans 🤷🏽‍♀️ that's an entire mindset that would need to be improved upon 😮‍💨

[@scampishfoxx3138]

“How good and pleasant it will be before god and men,to see the unification of all Africans … we are the children of a higher man” … Africa unite. One president, one currency, one country, one direction..NO BORDERS … Farward aka ( Forward)

[@Aquil84]

When I went to Ghana in 2019 I visited the 3 major dungeons used to house our people before being shipped to the west. I felt a weight on my shoulders and heard faint whispers while in Cape Coast dungeon then the weight came off me. I later found a distant cousin from Ghana in Accra and later found a distant cousin from Ghana Cape Coast area. I knew looking at the people that this was the land my mother's side came from and sure enough the ancestry test confirm my mother's side connected to those distant cousins. I saw mad people that looked like relatives and when I showed them her picture people said she Looks Ga, or Ewe. Saying all that to say we are Africans no matter what part of the diaspora you are now located in (and I found distant cousins from Haiti, Jamacia, and Bahamas)

[@josephnuttn3600]

The past is one big pile of horrible things. But in the present horrible things still happening: what about the Ethiopian refugees that are being murdered by the borders of Saudi Arabia? Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Hundreds. !?.

[@peacefulblessed2114]

I am a American melanated Woman with African features and proud. I considered myself African more than anything else. I know the difference between a melanated Indian Woman and a African . I have no Indian in my blood, I don’t get caught up in that FBA mess.

[@takeaxsh00]

Me neither any dna black/African person that lives and was born in America going around calling themselves fba are dumbasses

[@yangasidziya3245]

Really? This is a first? How did you not fall into the FBA trap?

[@AERakim13]

But you still are FBA. even if your a african descendant of a slave

[@LaughandGrowandLive]

Exactly, I fell for the FBA stuff until I did my ancestry test and I felt so excited when I got my results. I guess you can say I had it identity crisis but I'm 94% of African background and only 1% % indigenous American-Mexican and 5% add mixture of different European backgrounds. Black people don't want to be African, because my mom focused on the 1% indigenous Mexican American that I had in me 🥴 like wtf....

[@AERakim13]

@@LaughandGrowandLive Yh my point is yes your African but your Also FBA. European Americans did not build america. It was the blood of the African slaves on the land that did that and some indigenous, All the greatness(might not be positive but it’s still “Great” in a sense) you see in america come from FBA or whatever. Just like a Caribbean or Brazilian or Cuban , whatever

[@boxtonkanu5909]

Big up Muta...

[@domju6546]

for sure

[@xinavaneify]

(Sigh) The great damage we must work to undo. So many of our people running away from themselves and the full complement of gifts we have been given. They are totally unaware of what lies dormant within. Asante sana, Bro Mutabaruka.

[@melanatedandlovingit1305]

I am an African. Born and bred in the 🇬🇧 with 🇯🇲 parents and 🇯🇲 grandparents and so on. I AM AN AFRICAN THROUGH AND THROUGH. I don't business wid how Africa looks, what they depict. I know this is the motherland, never seen a continent that has raped and robbed as Africa. Therefore there is something there they want. So I don't business straight African blood. I'm not dissecting my light skinned ass. My parents black my foreparents black and I do not care about the rapes of my ancestors, so I'm quarter coloniser. No love. Keep dat DNA I'm from the blessed tribe of the first humans the most high created.

[@blackdreamhunk3413]

I am mixed I think as cribbean descent one day I may do dna test.

[@ogmedz]

In all fairness, Chinese people often choose English names. Some younger Chinese men claim no interest in China and even express disdain for Chinese women in front of their mixed-race daughters. While an African person may identify as African, it would be considered as incorrect to refer to a Gambian as Senegalese, even though they are the same people. As a Caribbean person who does identify as African, I have a deep love for Africa and have visited many times, but I'm often made to feel like a foreigner.

[@Intentionaltia]

Oh please those same people you speak of identify with their lineage when it benefits them!

[@pierreelhakim3876]

🔥❤️🔥 Nuff Raspek Elder 🫡

[@LadyDee-rg9ee]

I can respect this true reasoning. To know your identity is to know oneself.

[@rootsgirlrider2006]

...Usually you hear most quick to identify with their Scottish, English or Irish part of their ancestry

[@AlexanderSio]

Wisdom!

[@hobbsaccount]

Unfortunately this is so true 🙏🏾 But I ask my friends who question me, asking me why I chose to live in Africa instead of Jamaica, my answer is, I’m an African man that’s why. If my dog has puppy’s in the horse stable, are the pups horses or dogs, they laugh 😮but it’s not about where you are born, it’s about who you are, and my DNA tells me that I’m 90% African, that’s all I need to know 🧬

[@ceofounder]

Pan Head(God/Jah bless his soul)! "Give Me, Mi African Princess"!

[@steveowlhollamac8065]

GREETINGS FROM ST.LOUIS , MISSOURI U.S.A 🇺🇸 ❤

[@billiondollarambition]

I was born in Bermuda where Mary Prince released the book West Indian slave when she moved to England as a british citizen & I know the History of black people come from Africa & the “Indians” are Taino which are 2 different populations. I’m a proud African black man that was born in a overseas British territory✊🏿

[@daphnesmith1686]

MASTERPIECE!🎉❤

[@chandrayoung724]

Exactly! What is wrong with Afro/Caribbean? Indo-Caribbean? Chinese-Caribbean? Etc? You are right, some of us are already identifying others and continuing the mental slavery and psychosis of self-denial. If have had others tell me I am Indian and have had to make clear that I am only 50% Indian. By my skin and other phenotypic appearances I am Black and therefore AfroJamaican. Serious ting.

[@DavidLargie]

I agree we must honour our ancestors, however, in our original Medu language the name we refer to is a disrespect that was given to us by the Greeks. Afrika” Afri= Burnt & Ka = Soul. We did not refer to ourselves as African before Colonialism.

[@bodosam7798]

Some African Americans nowadays say they're Hebrews 😂😂

[@josephnuttn3600]

Lmao. That's a perfect example of people with identity issues 😂.

[@bodosam7798]

@@josephnuttn3600 some even say they were in America before slavery with the Indians so they shouldn't be called African Americans. Funny people😂

[@malcolmtate-murry4571]

Lithuania Vs Egypt 8/25. I hope it's a win for Egypt and that there are no scuffles. The game is difficult enough.

[@MarvinOrieh]

Respect. Brother Mutu speaks facts

[@josephnuttn3600]

He's living in the past instead of looking at the future..... Sad.

[@BryceLemon]

African is a was a colonizer named it. Ancestors never called the land Africa. We are the original people of the WHOLE EARTH, we populated the Asia, The Americas, India, THE WHOLE EARTH!

[@leslienorris1204]

Same ting ina USA 🇺🇸 Government call we African Americans but too much black ppl don't wan'be African 🙏🏿🇬🇭

[@icebearnicho8256]

Cause not every melanated person is African.

[@Donique_23]

I will take the African any day but the African American is a bit different to me I wasn't born on American land, my ancestors didn't originate from America

[@LeviJahbrown]

Another thing you Jamaicans should know is that the people them in Ethiopia who serve the Emperor loyally, is people from the poorer regions of the Empire that the Emperor choose himself. His lmperial Majesty visited Jamaica 1966 for the same porpuse. I was one of his chosen, and is now his Historian Yet many claiming to be Rastas, is not learnded about the Emperor

[@QueenSha71]

I support this message🤍

[@rantsinpatwa]

Nobody can call me west Indian

[@domju6546]

😁

[@earlphillips7847]

I am an afrojamaican❤living in America

[@NaphtalisNewSchoolofThought]

I've been interested in the topic of Islam. Wondering is it good for black people? If so I would like to have a dialog with anyone of you. Most High Bless

[@josephnuttn3600]

Do you know how the islam was spread over Africa? (Spoiler: by sword and flame)

[@LegendsofWorldMusic]

Sir, what about those Africans from the Caribbean that say that they’re Garifuna?

[@LeviJahbrown]

A person calling themself African or Jamaican, would make no impact on their Life.. Unless we are justified by our descriptive identity and not our behaviour. I am not one who put emphasis on Names, Hair or Cultural Description. The Contents of a persons Character should be the main issue

[@johnfort290]

NO MO TALK...... WELL SPOKEN

[@kwameolatunji1193]

Talk my brother talk.

[@harriettebarker7094]

That is me. I am not African. My ancestors came from there.

[@russell311000]

This man should get more respect than those reggae artists that come out of JA.

[@josephnuttn3600]

Why?

[@alkuya546]

Marcus Garvey said he will never give away a Continent(Africa) for an Island (Jamaica)

[@AshKru]

True!

[@LeviJahbrown]

It is our behaviour that affects each other in a Good or a Bad way. If a person say they are an African instead of a Jamaican Would that make any impact on their Personality ?. Would that influence their behaviour and seal them with an unblemish Character ?.

[@dcharles131]

Most of my Jamaican friends hate to say they're African and get angry when you tell them they are African. They will say they're everything but African.

[@brendonjoyner-el]

Race and nationality are two separate things. Both have existed since the beginning of creation. Africa is a great continent comprised of 54 countries the majority constructed by Europeans. Not every individual who lives here in the western hemisphere with a shade or hue derives from the continent of Africa by way of the physical slave trade. Unfortunately, we as a race of people have be subjected to European psychology. Here in the United States our grandparents experienced what is known as “paper genocide” This is well known through our oral history and it’s been documented online too. To be honest we give the European too much credit and he’s due little if any. Many of us have been in this part of the world predating the colonizer. Our history both here in the Americas and elsewhere is very vast and illustrious. Peace and love!

[@thebiggsestate]

Thank you. MUTA A AGENT

[@AERakim13]

Even if we aren’t descendant of slaves . Where you think those black people that were on these shores before Columbus came from ? It all links back to africa. Columbus was navigated by maroons to get to these shores. The Aztec pyramids and plenty artefacts have a direct correlation to Africa. Even certain part of Asia too. The same thing. So yes you are African, might to be via slavery (which I think it might be) or because your ancestors travelled here before Columbus. So yes Claim your Caribbean heritage as we all do. But just know you are African-Caribbean. I even consider the real aboriginals of Austria. African, especially with their strong Afro features. And note Africa’s is diverse. It isn’t just the west African features that make you African because we have the north (paler skin straighter hair) and you have the East.

[@brendonjoyner-el]

To be clear no person on the face of the earth is black or white. I am in agreement with a lot of what you shared. The Aztec Pyramids and the pyramids in this part of the world have been proven to be much older than the ones we find in Egypt and other parts on the continent of Africa. Prior to the event that caused the Atlantic ocean to be our ancestors had a vast network on kingdoms that not only existed but was centralized. Our dominion and inhabitation extended from North-East and South-West Africa, across the great landmass known to some as "Atlantis" even unto the present North, South, Central America, and also Mexico, and the Atlantis Islands. The Atlantic ocean wasn't always an ocean and that too has been proven. At one point in time our ancestors were able to navigate across from the River Nile through the Niger River which was dredged in order to trade with surrounding kingdoms. We are already in Africa not the continent but, this land was in fact Africa prior to the European altering our history, maps etc. @@AERakim13

[@AERakim13]

@@brendonjoyner-el Yh you know your stuff 💯 💯💯💯💯

[@brendonjoyner-el]

As do you. Much love and respect from Baltimore Maryland. @@AERakim13

[@mymzansi_rsa]

Realest eyes I've seen on youtube

[@iveyhealth2266]

Yes! We are African, however, I believe we were already here when Christopher Columbus arrived.💯

[@KeishaCruickshank]

According to the master teacher DR JOHN HENRICK CLARK .. the only difference between blacks in America.. Jamaica... Trinidad.. Tobago ECT ECT .. is a BOAT STOP.

[@EmpressAshe]

I Never say West Indian That is a Disrespect I Rather say Caribbean than that

[@Marksman791]

facts!

[@goddessglow6996]

Born in the Caribbean and my 🧬 test came out high in Amerindian blood 🩸

[@MichelleWhite-d3q]

Well I’m African Jamaican.

[@propaganja7264]

I think that west indian title comes from the West & East indian trade companies that basically help make slave trade a big thing

[@Winter74575]

The Caribbean is Not West Indies as it was a mistake made by Colombus as he was headed to West India and ended up in the Caribbean but thought he was in West India because of the natives on the lands. We are out of many 1 people, my father’s father was from Irish decent and his mother was from African and Indian decent. Most Jamaicans and other Caribbean decents are mixed so no I would not say I’m African because I view myself as a mixed person from a very mixed ancestral line of people. I AM Human. The only Race on this planet.

[@jjw56]

Nice

[@wakisakalinga6563]

✨💙

[@Ikena276]

The only people in America that kept their culture and traditions is the Gullah geeche and the Yoruba people in South Carolina USA

[@echad6259]

That's sad

[@Hosea470]

I was born and raised America and I'm African-American I'm proud of my African ancestors with that said I was having a little chat with one of my coworkers who is from Clarendon I said to him would you want to go to Africa he said no they will kill you over there I said my brother they will kill you right here

[@0f-the-land]

The 'Black' Jamaicans are not the only ones that don't trace their roots back to another country. Many Indians, Europeans, etc., in Jamaica don't either. Why should they give up their Nationality, when their heritage there has been for so long?

[@EricWilliam-ol6kz]

Africa for Africans? How and where does World Citizenship enter the story?

[@aliciamaria2730]

🧡😘👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@MichelleWhite-d3q]

We must not forget African people was there in the Caribbean before slavery. It’s a myth that all Melanated people came to these parts via slave ships Some were moors in Europe sold through Portugal. Migration from Africa scattered us to the four corners Before slavery.

[@goddessglow6996]

Amerindians

[@davidson5423]

I AM A ETHIOPIAN ..ETHIOPIA IS OLDER THAN AFRICA FACTS 💚💛❤

[@josephnuttn3600]

? Please explain! Btw you know that hundreds Ethiopians are executed past months at the Saudi Arabian frontiers? Trying to make all living, find a job?

[@ShanrickLogan-bu9kx]

Any black man are woman that hate his father an mother will be Dum

[@bingieroyal7377]

I n i a ethiopian born a jamaica

[@gregoryshackelford8725]

❤️🖤💚

[@CloudTribe]

“I’m African American, I’m African” -Kendrick Lamar

[@jahsuncamara-kb2ec]

Et extra terrestrial AKA Ethiopian world 🌍🌎 check it don't know much about history stresfreestyle family 🌲🐦 affair satamaxagana foundation Ninjah holy 👻 mountain 🏔️🏔️🏔️ Addis Ababa

[@wilbertberriclone7427]

The deny African syndrome only affects African descended black Caribbeans and some black Americans although most of them proudly identify as African American. The Indians in the region proudly claim their India originated culture. Indians in Guyana and Trinidad are as proudly Indian as the population of India. They are not confused. They celebrate their Indian culture and heritage. When Busta decided to genocide Rasta out of existence in Jamaica many African descended Jamaicans agreed with him, because they despised their Africanness and Rasta was a reminder. White man Busta was a racist? Think about that. He should not be a national hero in a black country.

[@whitney6796]

Africa or Alkebulan? One is colonized and the other one was not.

[@donnamariesowell592]

🎉

[@LeviJahbrown]

The people them describe themself to the name of their Country. If a Athlete born and grow in Jamaica, should he represent Africa in the Olympics, or Jamaica.. Is not every Asistic people in Jamaica is Chinese. Could you know the Chinese different from the Japanese. They were fighting a major War before the Second World War. My assumption is that most Europeans born and grow in Jamaica, would regard themself as a Jamaican

[@christopherwest885]

Then what u still a do ova ya. Africa means separation. Pan- pan GIA. One grid. I man born ya suh Me a stay ya iya.

[@domju6546]

Well Im Afro

[@B1FORLIFE]

But isn’t Africa name after a white man ? And Africa not a original name either. Mutta knows the reasons why move deferent from other groups of people 👉🏿SLAVERY”

[@khabasahure9840]

it doesnt pay to stay in a white man country too loooong !!! ( Mutabaruka- movie Sankofa in the role of the maroon slave "Shango")

[@josephnuttn3600]

It does. Just for a moment is enough. A short performance at rototom for example is enough 😂

[@ReubenMendez-wj5mf]

How about black Israelites ain’t them from Shem

[@josephnuttn3600]

😂

[@josephnuttn3600]

Mutabaruka, do you have an opinion about the hundreds of Ethiopians who get killed by the borders of Saudi Arabia? Right now? Today and tomorrow? Seems more importantly enough to me!? Instead of leopords changing their spots? A living leopard with changed spots or a massacre of lions?

[@jermainroberts361]

my friend oswin is not african. i will never accept him as one of us.. in my mind he will always be a buck banuh

[@cal6177]

Mutabaruka.. we can not be African that is a Roman general..... the proper name is Ethiopia which means black man

[@MickeyAndMore]

West Indians have a right to claim the culture that we created. We have a right to be proud West Indians. There is no need to diminish our current culture to acknowledge our ancestral heritage. We know we have African blood, but Africa is no longer our home, so we don't have to identify as African.

[@jbfitness38jb37]

Yes but isn't the term "west indian" meaning ameridian indian or indian that lives in the Caribbean west?

[@OloRishaCreole504]

@@jbfitness38jb37 exactly..they should also drop the indian..if its an ancestral heritage as they stated Africa. Is their ancestral heritage

[@omggiiirl2077]

​@@jbfitness38jb37so Afro-Carribean?

[@jbfitness38jb37]

@@omggiiirl2077 Yeah it should be. Ain't no need for the "west Indian" unless your of indian descent

[@coz2j69]

SMH Speak for yourself. In addition, does the majority of Indians (from Indian and Latin America) accept you as a "West Indian", SMH

[@PlaAwa]

not true. how far back do you expect people to go? why don't we go back to when we were shrews? why don't all nations trace back to africa? there is no point being cultish and prescriptive about what others should do with their lives and identities. and there is no 'we' other than the human race. you're entering into racial science territory. but i understand that you have to learn too, like everyone. we can speak with authority and from a moral high ground but these are all subtle forms of deception and self-deception. the heart might be in the right place and individuals might be confused in an atomised and scattered world where detachment has occured at various points along our family tree but there is no wrong and right way to live. these are all theories and philosophies, which may serve people who are looking for guidance, perhaps, but there is no objective truth in it, no matter how much the speaker believes in it. I'd be willing to bet that most west indians have 'white' or indian blood, like many others, myself included. so why don't we follow those bloodlines? heck, even dreadlocks came from india. that's why there is no shame in celebrating a more local time and place. celebrating the culture one grew up immersed in. i'm sorry but this is nonsenese, no offence.

[@roderiquephoton8299]

Muta dnt waste your time on these ignorant mentally disturb set of people.

[@angelapalmer3542]

I listen to a lot of reggae artist, singers. And nuff boast about being a Jamaican. For instance, Buju. Question: Why is you muta, who spen a lot of time talking about the west, what black people do from where dem no do. Why is it that you yourself is not living in Africa....You have to much talking and very little action....

[@heywardsanders1680]

All the thing you saying are true, but you also have to take in consideration the acts that you talking about have done serious damage to the mental ability. Therefore, one have to understand where their enemy lies within their own circle, and learn how to work around it, instead of allow it to infiltrate inside your system to destroy it. Everyone mind are not African, and that what you have to understand. Just like everyone come from Africa mind is not African because of the petty survival game. Some things our school system do not understand in the United States of America. We have black kids being taught blackness in some house holds, and communities, we have Afro American kids being taught whatever culture the gay movement steals to make their message get across, and we have the outright uncle tom movement to fit in with the general whole uncle toms movement from all racist to function in with, but one cannot understand the problem going on in the school system. Only allow some to see the same things what they cannot see what exactly the problem with what going in the country. You just can't blame one group of people for being a racist, or bias against how the system is being ran because all culture will have some in their own surroundings with different opinion from the rest in their culture of things they don't like. See today we will find a bunch of asshole with no common sense of knowing what is plain living about, who think it is to dominate the system, and apply their way of living throughout the land, which it have been tried before, and never got off the ground. Who now come back with another plan that they think is working for them so far. All because their incompetent minds cannot see all the things around them is falling. It don't work, and will never work in this country. Especially as we move towards modern time, that fighting against the stand still life. I myself believe one should put more time into the future because the past came and gone. Where in time things will work itself out, by chasing the future one will have to know the blueprints in how to understand each step, and that will be the past. Those who cannot understand that, they just don't want to, that no one can make them to.

[@domju6546]

😆"Im from West lndians"