Music legend Smokey Robinson joins CNN’s Chris Wallace to discuss why it’s important for him to be known as a Black American. #CNN #News #shorts
Why Smokey Robinson doesn’t want to be called an African American
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This is very true because you have to know your history and know yourself. We know that they took the country from us we are the stars of the flag. The Esau's are from the Caucasus mountains. We ain't none of that shiiii. We are the Israelites of the Bible.
based on that argument then he's not even a black American. he is simply an American. we need to do away with all of this race labeling.
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When you go overseas you are called “Americans”
Hey thank u smokey for standing up for all black Americans true fact😢🎉🎉😊😊❤❤ good man
Raven Simone said the same thing.
I love Smokey; phenomenal writer & performer.
I agree Smokey, I don’t call myself African American, I’m neither African nor an immigrant. I am a Black American!🙏🏾👏🏾✊🏾✝️🕊️
European Americans is about right
I'm a Black African that was kidnapped and brought to a land that was stolen from the Red men that my European captors are squatting on.
Gold l love Smokey ❤
He is an American. A chief.
Nonsense. As Frantz Fanon says, “The goal of colonizer is to control the very dreams and consciousness of the colonized.” Cleary, Smokey has allowed his mind to be colonized. That’s whole reason why this genocidal, white supremacist country has gone to great lengths to strip and severe us from our African heritage/roots. There is NOTHING to be ashamed of about being AFRICAN! It’s our strength. Malcolm said it, Martin said it, Kwame Ture(Stokely Carmichael) said it. Decolonize your mind, people.
Is everybody treated equally as an American in this country
Partially right. He actually American Indian (non african)indigenous people of Turtle Island(Ameri)
I agree. There is no need to hyphenate. My family has been here before America was a country. I am American.
FBA
I would like to know his actual nationality because obviously there’s either there’s some Caucasian blood in there somewhere. such a good point, but yes, he’s right. I mean my great grandparents immigrated over here here but we don’t go around saying I’m a German American. I’m an American I’m Caucasian and it’s not a doubt about that. People are biracial their biracial. you’re an American or you’re not American and I think that this country uses all these titles to separate people people need to be proud of their heritage and their culture. I’m not erasing that at all, but he’s an American. I’m an American.
But you’re not a black American more than Obama was the first black president his grandmother was Caucasian
I don’t like being called an African American either. I can only trace back one ancestor of mine: the grandfather of my great grand father who was from Cameron. My great grandfather was Jamaican so 🤷🏽♂️ outside of that, I can’t trace back my African lineage.
Black Americans have been so brainwashed so enslaved that we do not know who we are and whose we are. Untill black Americans know where we originated from and that being born in America is not an origination. It is a continuation of where we originated from. No matter your culture change or what we have accomplished we r not equally treated. Other races do or do not acknowledge themselves because they fear being singled out.Black America will continue to think the way we think until we know who we are, and whose we are, after all most of our skin admits transparency. God have mercy on us. And God said he will afflict the people that afflicted his people and I look forward to that day.
In the name of Yahsua, the prince of peace. Amen .
That’s the way he feels about it. African-American stands for African ancestry board in America. All of us are blended with many different bloodlines.
Our African ancestors was kidnapped and made to be slaves. We’re giving respect to our African heritage and when they ask who you are where you come from our bloodline is African with many others yes
He could choose whatever he wants to choose. That’s his prerogative. It’s not denouncing anything we are African Americans and the black title he gives himself came from Africa and it come from anywhere else
Call whatever you wanna call it us are African-American black blood from Africa Heritage born in America.
Peace and love 🎉❤️
How about let’s drop black and just say American. There is no black white yellow brown there is only one country and one people. Unless you are implying that anyone’s who is not white is a second class citizen
Native is better im am not a color
He is an American Mullato. He is white and he is black. He's European and African.
As an African American, I prefer African American if it's talking about ethnic identity.
Our political advancement, cultural innovations, and professional achievements in this country are rooted in the backdrop of slavery and discrimination based on our heritage as Africans, which still exists today.
There is an income disparity where African Americans, in particular, are more likely to be born into cycles of poverty than other recent immigrant groups of the African diaspora as a result of our neighborhoods that are faced with systemic disadvantage from historical racist policies.
Jazz, Blues, Country, RnB, and Rap all have structures or instrumentation that derive from our ancestral African music. For there to be Black American as an ethnic identity that replaces the African American ethnic identity, it would assume that there's no necessity to articulate the difference between other black american groups when it comes to policy. It would also have to reject the esteem that otherwise should come with pride in your ethnic identity. Irish Americans are proud to claim their ancestry and still be American. Italian Americans are proud to claim their ancestry and still be American. Polish Americans. Jewish Americans. No one discriminates against them as any less American, even though they're allowed to appreciate their ethnic identities.
I believe black American should be a concept, but not specifically applied to a single ethnic identity like African Americans. It should be the all-encompassing term for black people who identify more with the standard American culture. Black American as a category is more of a national or racial/national identity.
That B@stard (AINT FKN BLACK) 🔥
That’s why he’s so Fkn Successful
Like Obama, Kamala, Patrick Mahomes, Corey Booker, Hakeem Jeffries and all the Mutant Whites 🇺🇸🫡
White people have done such a number on our Race. I understand what he’s saying, but we are Afro people. We are the most ancient people on this planet are Genetics still fall under that continuity of E1b1a L2 or L3 , so we should be proud to be represented by our ancestry who have been on this planet for hundreds and thousands of years before any of these Eurasians to want a name based on what they call themselves where they dragged our families to I don’t know if that’s the point I’m a pro black woman, but I’m an Afro Caribbean woman. I’m Black American only really speaks to and identity forced on us, but an Afro American still ties our ancestry to our homeland.🙏🏽👍🏽💪🏿❤️
Smokey is right
Damn right Smokey Bill, ion know nothing about Africa, except where point at it on a map.
Tears and Presicipration ❤ endless 🎉
That’s right. Black American. All dayyyyy
Smokey is so beautiful to me. I love him
Our great elder Smokey is telling the truth. He is recognizing his Foundational Black American lineage…My ancestors fought in the American Revolution. We are not African Americans. Our ethnic group was born here in America🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Tell it Smokey! ❤️😃
Yup.. agreed..l don't relate to a thing about Africa or Africans. I relate more to other Americans, simply because l am one. My ancestors who were taken from Africa, related to Africa, but since we were moved, our story then became the American story and the American struggle, not the African story or struggle. It is what it is…
No such thing as Black colored people anywhere 😮if you are copper colored original American people you Indian American people
Smokey dont look african mate😅. But majority of AAs do. Smokey mixed race, i get his position 🤷♂️
FBA…
Just put down-Human Race😊
Call ICE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It makes sense
I just say I belong to the human race😊
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾YES Mr. Robinson i agree right on.
I will, for once, refrain from making a statement that can be easily misconstrued, … Hopefully.
I deleted the rest because there is no way anything I can say can not be misconstrued.
The gist was an American is an American. No further description is required.
He is not black American, he is mixed race American
Damn this is deep. Never considered it in this way
I can drill it on home according to the 1924 racial Integrity Act Walter Ashby plecker placed on page 3 we will no longer cast these Negroes as Indian but true blacks negro colored and black the word no longer means used to it literally stipulates we will no longer we will no longer Indian we will no longer call them Indian but negro colored in Black they didn't call us a nation they didn't call us after countries if they claim they got it from Africa then why didn't they just call everybody African who would get a bunch of Asians and then start calling them all yellow they started calling us by these very different colors why because it's an Erasure African American African and American is an eraser it's a misnomer right you can't find African ancestry in order for us to be African they would have to find the African ancestor they leave out and if you're talking about DNA analysis I can go toe-to-toe with you on the single nucleotide polymorphism that they use and extract from our DNA in these ancestry are DNA tests define origin it gives my it gives migration not origin the time or when only documentation can tell you where these people landed in this in different parts of the world and documentation will tell you why