They celebrate being African-American, which is its own culture distinct from Ivorian (not Ivory Coastian) or Ghanaian or Zimbabwean. As others have pointed out, one key aspect of black life in America is the erasure of previous cultural traditions through slavery, oppression, and Jim Crow. Unlike, say,…

I feel like there's probably a lot of overlap between these assholes and the ones that feel that Christians are a persecuted class in America. Not being able to oppress other people in the full range of ways you like is not the same as being oppressed yourself. These people all need to get a fucking grip.

This was my first thought... what would embracing whiteness even look like for me? Bad dancing, cultural appropriation and “discovering” things that already exist?

Not to mention that the reason why the vast majority of black Americans don’t celebrate being Ghanaian, Zulu, Xhosa-speaking, or whatever other granular-level identity would be comparable, is because they don’t know even one aspect of their deeper-rooted cultural heritage. Because their ancestors were torn from those…