Would a moderator please delete my entire account and posting history from DegreeInfo? That option isn't available in my profile settings and I don't want to just log out. I want to be completely erased from DI. Can somebody please take care of that for me? Thank you.
Why not? Is it not possible, is it not policy, or is it the fact that you're being difficult and just don't want to? At any rate, I hope another moderator will see my post.
F2be, please stick around. I appreciate your opinion even if I may not share your worldview. I am also a descendant of slaves. However, I watched at a little bit of the video on ADOS and I find it very divisive. It is just silly that Obama and Harris are less black . So if i were living in the USA, I would have been less black. And worse, my son who has been living in the usa for most of his life is an inferior black. The whole ados thing is stupid.
It is technologically possible but against policy. As for being difficult, well now you're just being silly. I haven't even begun to be difficult.
Like I said in my disclaimer, I don't agree with everything he said. But, I agree with enough. And, I don't believe it's divisive. Other ethnic groups look out for their own best interests, hire their own people, and keep their money in their communities as long as they can and nobody says a thing. But, when we decide that we're going to start doing what the other groups have already been doing (some for decades, such as the Chinese and Koreans with their Chinatowns and Koreatowns), suddenly it's "divisive". That's BS. The ADOS thing isn't stupid to those of us who are ADOS. All the black immigrants to the USA want to pass themselves off as African American when it's convenient for them, but they don't hesitate to remind us that we're not welcome in their organizations. Let me try to go to a Nigerian Association or Haitian Association meeting in some city. I'll quickly be told that I don't belong there and that the meeting is for Nigerians or Haitians only. Other blacks are quick to let us know we are not of them or like them, but they turn around and pretend to be us when they think it's going to benefit them. Like Zora Neale Hurston said, "All my skinfolk ain't my kinfolk."
I wasn't being sarcastic when I asked if you just wanted to be difficult. It was an honest question because of the way you replied. You just said no without giving any explanation. So, yes, I thought it was possible you were trying to be difficult because you didn't like my opinions... and so I asked. But, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. You could have given me the above answer (against policy) when you initially answered my post, but you didn't. All I got was a seemingly terse "no". If the tables were turned, you'd also probably wonder if I was just trying to be difficult because I didn't like what you wrote. At any rate, since it's not possible, I guess I will be permanently logging out.
I did not look at the full video. I stop watching very early into it. From what you have just written above, it is about a sense of belonging or the lost of a sense of belonging. I can assure you it is not only shared by ADOS but by all descendants of slavery whether ADOS or not. My current day anger is not what happened 500 years ago, but with the current leaders in Africa. They failed us 500 years ago and they are failing us now. African leaders moved from one colonial master to the next - now they voluntary accepting China as the new imperialist and colonizer. It is no fault of China.
With all due respect, I didn't say anything about being angry about what happened 500 years ago. That's not what ADOS is about. It's about what's happening now. And, the fact that you KEEP missing my point just further reinforces for me that you're not one of us. If you were one of us, you would understand what the movement is about even if you didn't agree with it. But, you don't understand and don't care to understand (as evidenced by you not watching the entire video but deeming it to be "stupid" and "divisive"). Not to be mean, but I don't care about the Chinese taking over Africa. I don't have a dog in that fight.
You do have reasons to be mean, so no need for an apology. I think what happened to our ancestors 500 years cannot be separate from what is happening in current day Africa. Please remember that many African leaders got wealthy by slavery. It is not slavery any more but not much better. Africans are still leaving Africa to go work in slavish conditions. I think that should concern you.
F2be, if you return, then you should read this article. This is one more reason to be concern about current day Africa. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/18/africans-apologise-slave-trade?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1OX_UkEBPcr3w0404S6mOTCmYs1o34eV5-3q0Db17mKiZjMynOd4z0PjQ
