Smokey Robinson, Def Poet "Black American"
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Smokey Robinson's "Black American" on Def Poetry. He snapped on this! Usually i don't like use of the word "n*****" but he represented on this one. Kudos.
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So amazing, as a lover of poetry, black literature and culture, Smokey as a musician, I came upon this by accident and I'm so glad I did. I was FLOORED, and in awe.
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he better speak..this is one of the best BLACK MEN there is. He is a wonderful example of a man..and he better speak the truth..
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@astroboirap Black is a mind set. If you are human, you are an African. You may be a genetic mutation of the original Africa, but you are an African.
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Please Take Time To listen
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@TruthSayer2 I know far more racist religious folks than secularist. As a matter of fact, we don't even believe in race because in science it has no merit. This poem was not about one "race" over another but the identity of a people. Slavery stripped Black people in America of all their culture and ever since they have been desperately seeking a way to define themselves. That is what he is talking about.
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@MercedesDiane I really love that he acknowledges Adam and Eve. Every racist I ever knew believed in evolution, and that the black man was closer to an ape and less evolved.
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**snap snap snap** you better say tht Smokey!!! loved it.
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@beckirene And those ethnicities make sense for people whose family recently immigrated. Their native culture still forms a significant part of who they are. But what Smokey was pointing out was that the ethnicity that the term African American describes is not an African ethnicity. There's nothing like it in that whole continent. Attaching black people to Africa makes as much sense as attaching white people to Europe. There are definitely notable roots there, but the cultures separated long ago
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I always loved Smokey! Now I really love Smokey!
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03:55-04:09the best use of the term "nigga please" i've ever heard
TKManUTD1989 2 months ago 7
I'm not African American. I'm a Black American. PERIOD. smokey said it best.
indeed1234 8 months ago 6