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Ms. Trinity :
She's engaging in my ethnic erasure. I'm an actual African-American. I have roots going back in this country to the early 1700's. My ancestors were enslaved here. Mamdani is not an African-American and he never will be. Calling him something that he's not erases the millions of African-Americans such as myself. It's highly offensive and disrespectful.
2025-07-14 00:19:24
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Lyss :
African American is an ETHNICITY!
2025-07-13 23:09:37
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KhafreJay :
Thank you, Sistah🙏
2025-07-14 23:23:09
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Don’t mind me :
Ppl really don’t understand that AA is an ethnic group within the US
2025-07-13 17:39:43
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Micagirl :
I get it, but that’s the problem with vauge language…. it’s frequently co-opted and misunderstood. We as African Americans in our righteousness anger about cultural appropriation, exploitation and erasure have historically made the mistake of trying to gatekeep things that are inherently vague and ambiguous. Ex: braids. These are cultural battles that I feel are ultimately unproductive and cause us to expend a lot of social capital on battles we can’t possibly win. Because ultimately we can’t control what other people do. All the while generating resentment from would be allies who feel brow beaten by the intensity of the discourse. There is a difference between what a term litterally means and what it means colloquially. Yes, colloquially African American is synonymous with foundational ADOS in America, yet at the end of the day the term very literally applies to African immigrants in America. The term literally describes someone like Zohran. We cannot become hysterical and conspiratorial when people of other cultures, ethnicities races have a different understanding of the use of the term. Especially, when the demographic section is so inadequate. We should instead be investing our energy into creating and popularizing a more precise term that isn’t so ambiguous to describe our specific ethnicity. Something that cannot apply to anyone but us.
2025-07-14 20:24:00
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🏴☠️ bored again ✝️ :
African-American is an ethnicity and racial identity. Nationality always refers to countries, NOT continents. Since he was born in Uganda, his NATIONALITY Ugandan-American. His ethnicity and race are not African.
2025-07-14 06:20:10
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Slayyy 💅 :
Her take just spreads further erasure of black Americans identity. It’s not cool, speaking as someone who was born and raised in Kenya til I was 8 and moved to the US and now a US citizen. I am not hard pressed to call myself an African American. In my heart I am African. I prefer to reserve the identity of African Americans to the descendants of the enslaved people.
2025-07-15 12:54:26
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Bren :
So are all white people calling themselves European Americans? They are not. The could not tell where the hell they stole our people from babes, they just simply refer to descendants of chattel slavery as “African America” because of that. “Black” refers to the culture we cultivated after forced settlement. They sure as hell we’re not letting us go home.
2025-07-15 01:28:57
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Call me Deni :
Let's be real he's going to use 🖤 people, but he's not for 🖤 people.
2025-07-15 06:50:24
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Dhail'ak :
He would be a "Ugandan-American". Country of origin. Italian-American. Irish-American. Nigerian-American.
2025-07-14 16:28:34
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nibary132 :
Didn’t he expressly come out and say that he only did that because the form didn’t allow for the diversity of his background. While he full well knows he’s not African American properly,
2025-07-13 16:52:45
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Sergeant Santiago USMC :
THEY are so annoying. Every take is just bad!
2025-07-13 19:18:12
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V.J. Harris | 🍉 :
Broooo like she could just say “he shouldn’t have done that and I would like him to address the situation around doing that” and still support him because HE IS the best option???
2025-07-13 18:21:13
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. :
I'm kinda the opposite. I'm Sudanese American, but I thought I was African American because I was indeed African and American lol. it was written on all of the demographic sheets, so I just thought that's what I was. I grew up in all black communities, had all black friends, and nobody corrected me EVER. I knew that I wasnt the same as my black friends, because I was Sudanese and they were ADOS, but at the end of the day we both checked off the box of African American. It wasn't until YEARSSSSS later that I ever heard of it being considered the ADOS ethnicity and not just a general category for the African diaspora. it was thanks to tiktok actually that I learned that African American is not for all Africans born in America, but for specifically those who consider themselves ADOS. I'm not excusing what Zohran did, idk what his motives are, but I will say that sometimes people just don't know🤷🏽♀️like I said, I grew up in a predominantly black city, had predominantly black friends, predominantly black school, nobody ever mentioned that this was a closed ethnic category reserved for ADOS people. Again, I don't know that man and I don't know his motives so I'm not gonna excuse what he did, but I can and will say that it's not so common knowledge that AA is only for ADOS, because clearly a lot of people think it's for the African Diaspora as a whole.
2025-07-14 02:10:00
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USArmyVeteran :
That’s exactly why we should say goodbye to the term African American because too many people not of our lineage can and do claim it. We are FBAs and that is as exclusionary as it gets and lineages are by definition exclusionary
2025-07-14 23:50:06
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Monroe Rodriguez ejiogbeinstit :
Are you black American ?
2025-07-14 18:06:01
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Caitlin James :
I’m not gonna lie I didn’t know that AA was specifically an ethnicity until like my second year of college bc my friends and I had those conversations I thought it could be both used to describe either Americans from Africa or black ppl in America-not saying he’s right but this is not as widely known as ppl think
2025-07-17 17:21:27
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Lucianno :
In history, people who try to do good are often called extremists(communists) or dangerous because of propaganda. If you want to know the truth, just follow the money. The rich and powerful are against Mamdani because they are afraid of him. The system and the establishment are against him. The Matrix doesn’t want him to win! Protect him and vote for him—do whatever it takes! That tells you everything—you know who to trust.
2025-07-14 09:03:05
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Sam B :
As someone that went to Bronx Sci, I've heard about ppl falsely identifying as AA so I wouldn't be surprised if Zohran was using his technical background to his advantage - ppl refusing to critique his choice are wild to me, coming from a South Asian
2025-07-13 21:06:46
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emmanuel :
It's a bit irrelevant to criticise which box Mamdani checked as those categories (like most ethnic/racial categories) are generally ill defined on those types of forms. Now, if we are talking about Mamdani's actual ethnicity/race, there isn't really an objective answer. He's of south Asian descent for sure, but being Ugandan gives him the legitimacy to claim "Ugandan"/"African" ethnicity (As "Ugandan" isn't actually an ethnicity anyway). And of course, he's not ADOS, so not an African American in the strictest sense.
2025-07-14 11:04:42
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Fenrík Skjaldgarmr :
Natsi Elon musk is a brother based in this analogy???
2025-07-17 11:02:48
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Ms. Trinity :
She's being very disrespectful and erasing my ethnic identity. I'm an actual African-American with roots in this country going back to the early 1700's. My ancestors were enslaved in America. Mamdani is not an African-American and never will be. They don't understand what they are doing is ethnic erasure.
2025-07-14 00:10:50
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oopsies poopsies :
So what exactly would an African from from Africa living in America put on this if they had no other option??
2025-07-13 18:40:49
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The Dana :
if he's from Uganda then he's Ugandan American
2025-07-15 00:53:24
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venuspisces :
It’s so interesting bc I’m a first generation American but bc my parents are from Africa, many Americans don’t consider me American. He’s born in Africa though of no African descent but they consider him African
2025-07-13 17:59:57
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