#I'm from Africa

[wenellyb]

White French people hate it when they get a taste of their own medicine. 

I was discussing with one of my colleagues and she told me how she was planning to go to Senegal for the holidays because she thought it was a good way for her kids to see more diversity and people who don’t look like them (ie Black People).

So I told her it was a good idea because I was 4 the 1st time I saw a White person (and I cried btw...) And she was so shocked, like she couldn’t understand that some Black kids have never seen White people in their lives but somehow doesn’t think twice about the fact that her kids are in a similar situation.

Another time, I was talking to someone else about how I arrived in France when I was young but had lived in many African countries growing up (RDC, Kenya , Gabon, Center African Republic...).

And then that person proceeded to go on a tirade about how I must have felt so lucky to arrive in France, and how I should have been relieved to arrive in a developed country like France, blablaba. I just told him “not really”, because growing up I was told that France was amazing and so wealthy, but the first time I saw homeless people was when I arrived in Europe, so I didn’t really understand why people always talked about Europe like that. And again, the guy was shocked, just because I didn’t say my life in Africa was miserable and sad, and because I said that Europe was from what I had heard as a child.

If you’re going to bring your assumptions without knowing, I’ll retort with mine ( the view of an 8-9 year old). I don’t understand how someone can feel so entitled and assume something about your situation without asking first. I’m sorry the only thing you know about Africa is that one documentary you watched in middle school but leave me alone.

#random stuff #I just give what I get #And I'm not saying there's no poverty in Africa... But people need to understand that Africa is a continent not a country #and I think that even people who understand it don't really understand understand it #what I mean is that all countries are different and even within the countries you have differences and just like any other countries in the #world you have wealth differences and it's stupid to assume that just because you come from an African country you're grateful to arrive in #an European country or a western country #Also you'll have very different opinions whether your coming from east Africa west africa northern africa etc... #They say stuff but then are surprised when you say the same thing back

[honestlyyoungtyphoon]

Yemen woke up today and chose violence against USA's hypocrisy

#Yemen said we're dropping the hottest disstrack on usa #from racism to terrorism to epstein issue #they're not leaving anything behind I'm crying #Yemen has usa by chokehold #yemen #palestine #murica #us politics #free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine resources #social justice #gaza genocide #gaza strip #imperialism #israel is a terrorist state #south africa #twitter #ICJ #international court of justice #netherlands #the hague #world politics #jerusalem #al quds

[nebulouscoffee]

"My name is Nyota. I'm the communications officer, I- I was born in Kenya- I used to have a cat, named Kamili. My first memory is watching my dad play the piano. I'm real."

Okay but I was wholly unprepared for how much it would mean to me to see more of Uhura's African identity actually being canonised by this show. The "I'm real" especially got to me; just a throwaway line but it really made me think of the Ben Sisko/Benny Russell parallels! Nyota, born in the 23rd century, is exactly the sort of person Benny Russell dreamed could exist in the future. She is real! She exists!

#celia gooding uhura u are everything 2 me #although. ten whole series of ''sci-fi utopia'' and we are still yet to actually SEE Africa or Asia properly lmao #literally this woman was having a traumatic flashback she was like OMG I'M AT THE SHUTTLECRASH AGAIN #meanwhile I was like OMG SHE'S IN KENYA AGAIN!! #STAR TREK SHOW ME 23th CENTURY AFRICA PLS #star trek: you can have a peek of skyscraper in the corner #me: omg a peek of skyscraper in the corner #(lol ok but in all seriousness. how the global south fits into a quote unquote ''developed'' TECH utopia is an important question!! #you could sidestep it in the 90s ig but now it feels like they're just being cowards about it lol) #all the same I am glad to have characters like her actually acknowledge where they come from in so many words #it does mean something #snw

[starrysharks]

tried to test the waters by asking my mother what she would do if she had a gay child and she said that she'd have them sent to ghana (home country) to be purified. ok

#like idk what i expected other than that but damn ok #this is why i'm glad i didnt try and come out or anything when i was younger a few years ago #anyway she said the other option if 'purification' didnt work was to disown them so i guess ill just come out to spite her as an adult #i do not give a fuck about this family line its ending with me brother #deleting this later i just wanted to get it out #i guess i should tag this as #homophobia #? #and maybe also #religious homophobia #because her hatred comes from supposed bible teachings but also africans are usually just Like That when it comes to homosexuals #africa moment

[sciderman]

I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with so much Iranian hate and drama <:[

oh anon. hate to break it to you (a lot of people make this mistake) but iran and iraq are two entirely separate nations.

and also i think reducing it to the words "hate and drama" kind of doesn't cover it, anon.

#i think if people were. just a little bit more informed. then maybe people would see that the people from this region are humans actually. #so anon. please. like... look at a map and do some reading maybe. if you care just a little. #i'm sorry anon but i'm a little bit at a loss for words over this message. like it rendered me speechless for a little. #but it's so common in my life that i've been called iranian and i constantly have to correct people on it. c'mon man. #i mean i have SO many iranian friends even though iraq and iran you know. aren't exactly bedfellows. politically. #but those politics don't really follow me. like in my day to day. iraqis and iranians in the uk of this generation. are again. #pretty divorced. #but it's kind of really frustrating that people Without Fail make this mistake over and over. #it's like how people just refer to “africa” as a whole. instead of recognising there are seperate nations there and. #it's not just a homogenous “other” #please. there are humans there. it's not just “foreign”. #i don't know if you're american anon but i see it a lot that anything outside of america is just “foreign” #and i mean #even as a brit. americans are constantly surprised i'm british because they forget anything exists outside of america. #i think it would be so so so so sexy of you anon to take a look at the globe tonight. give it a spin. #look at the world. it's so full and so beautiful and there are So Many Nations. #i'm going to look at my globe tonight too. i have a really cool old one. it spins so good. #and i'm going to pick some countries i don't know a lot about and do some reading about them. for funsies.

[some-siren]

What���s puzzling to me is why people say Aziraphale’s French is bad, like-

No it’s not. It’s quite good even. Sure he has a thick (no really) accent but that’s about it. Everything he says to Justine is something you can hear in the streets, and it’s correct too-

Az: Euuh.. Bonjour Justine ! Euh, pardonnez-moi ! Euh, mais euhm... [Uuh.. Hello Justine! Uh, excuse me (formal)! Uh, but uum...] J: Mister Fell, I speak fluent English. I’ve been living here for fifteen years.

Az: Excellent. Excellent !.. Uuh, well erm. Bien (alt. Viens) ! Maintenant, j’ai une réunion de l’association de tout les (alt. des) commerçants de la rue, dont (alt. dans) mon magasin de livres — des! — des livres. Uh, je serais honoré si vous pouviez venir. Il y aura des vol-au-vents. [Excellent. Excellent !.. Uuh, well erm. Good(alt. Come!)¹! Now², I have a reunion of the association of all the (alt. of the)³ merchants of the street, of which (alt. in)⁴ my store of books — of the! — of the books.⁵ Uh, I would be honoured if you could come. There will be vol-au-vents.] J: Mister Fell, if it’s about the street traders meeting, I can be there, but only until seven, as we start to get really busy then. Az: Oh, merci bien ! Uuh, il est à six heures trente. [Oh, thank good!⁶ Uuh, it⁷ is at six hours thirty.⁸] J: Yes, six-thirty. See you there. Az: (incomprehensible) Au revoir! [(incomprehensible)⁹ Goodbye!]

¹ "Viens" (Come!) instead of "Bien" (Good, well) would be weird in this situation for a couple of reasons: firstly "Viens" is the informal form of the imperative for "venir" (to come), the form one would use with people one is close to — like friends or family —, which is in contradiction with the formal way he first addresses Justine. Secondly, while it could — emphasis on could — be "Viens" on a purely phonological basis (when I say his accent is thick I mean it), it isn't correct in this context, same as English.

² "Now, " is perfectly correct in English, but it is weird in French. "Maintenant" will most of the time mean "right now" in French, and it is no exception here. Therefore what Aziraphale says is grammatically incorrect, because it would suppose the object of the sentence (the association meeting) is either currently happening or is just about to start. Although don't get me wrong, it's a very minor mistake; the sentence is still entirely comprehensible.

³ "des" (of the; plural) is what I hear instead of "les" (the; plural). If he is indeed saying the former, then it is a grammatical error, because it would be like he is saying "a reunion of all of the traders". "tout" (all) expects a direct object after it (all what?) and "des", here, is an indefinite article, a bit like "some" in English, and induces an indirect object. On the other hand if he is saying "les", then the sentence is correct because it is an (definite) article introducing a direct object. It's slightly confusing to hear, but that's about it.

⁴ I am almost certain he is saying "dans" (in, inside of) but because of his (BLOODY THICK) accent it sounds like "dont" (which, in/of which). If he says "dont" his sentence is missing an indirect object. "Dont" is a relative pronoun (here referring to the subject, aka the association reunion) which induces a new proposition, so like a new part of the sentence, that here is dependent of the first proposition. Basically it needs a verb but it doesn't have one. Which is to say his sentence if he used "dont" should have been "dont mon magasin de livres fait partie" (which my bookshop is a part of). On the other hand, if he said "dans", his sentence is correct.

⁵ "of books — of the! — of the books", just as bad in French as it sounds in English. Aziraphale was right when he said "de" and wrong when he corrected to "des". I could not if my life depended on it explain why it's wrong but it is. Made me wince.

⁶ "Oh, thank good" sounds weird in English but it's quite a common (although slightly fancy and old-fashioned) figure of speech in French. It doesn't have a real equivalent in English and most of the time will be translated to "thank you very much" or "thanks a lot"

⁷ "il" (he, it; masculine, can take on a neutral gender) is referring to the reunion, which is feminine in French. Wrong gender, mate

⁸ "six hours thirty", is a perfectly correct and normal construction. We say "hours" in French, it's usually translated to "o'clock" in English.

⁹ An utterly incomprehensible pile of sound vaguely resembling "(au) revoir", only understandable thanks to context.

Ok I know it's not very flattering but like. This angel speaks great French, especially for someone who learnt the hard way. Like suuuuure her accent is terrible, but in that weirdly endearing way British people speak French (also I have heard WAY WORSE), so really we're giving her a hard time for no real reason

#i didn't plan on making this #leave my boy alone #also please keep in mind i'm a native from france #someone from quebec/canada or africa might say different things about az's french than what I say #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #aziraphale's french #french #french is hard #trust me i'm french #justine good omens

[layzeal]

i'd appreciate reblogs <3

#polls #latin america #THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN EATING AT ME #hope this doesnt come off as a latin america vs diaspora thing. it's not! #i just thought might be more interesting to put it this way #i'm making this poll because sometimes i'll see people from like... africa or asia refer to themselves as ''gringos'' #in the context of latin america #AND IT'S ALWASY SO WEIRD TO ME. it just doesn't feel like it fits #so like... do you use ''foreigner'' x ''gringo'' interchangably? #to me a gringo is anyone from europe/north america regardless of ethnicity. it's more of a cultural thing #but only if they carry very heavily that... european/NA mentality #so a lot of diaspora for example i wouldnt consider gringos #because they don't have that level of... hm how do i say #innocent ignorance #that can be either endearing or extremely annoying

[singsweetmelodies]

some highlights of watching the South Africa vs France rugby quarter-final with my very Afrikaans mum tonight:

"TRYYYYYYYYYY" *ear piercing shriek*

(whenever it's time to for a conversion or a penalty kick) "no, I can't watch, I can't watch" *leaves the room*

*5 seconds later* "OKAY I CAN WATCH THE REPLAY"

"Mum, would you like a chair..." // "NO!! I don't understand how you all are sitting down calmly!!"

(when De Klerk was subbed on) "COME ON FAF YOU BLONDE BOMB"

"Come on Pollie!!!" (Pollard)

"WASTE TIME, BOKS, WASTE TIMEEEE" (in those last 10mins of the game)

"DEFEND DEFEND DEFEND"

"Awwwhhhh, give him a big hug, yes give him a big hug, comfort him... trés trés triste" (about the French defeat)

".... he is quite pretty though" (about Dupont)

"OKAY NOW OPEN THE GOOD SOUTH AFRICAN WHISKEY"

😂😂😂

#rwc 2023 #south africa vs france #😂😂😂 i love my mum #she's absolutely insane about rugby LMAO #now i'm not usually a rugby girlie BUT i can occasionally be persuaded/lovingly forced by the aforementioned mum to watch the RWC #and tonight was definitely a good game. MY WORD #go bokke!! 👏 #my fav moment from tonight tho was DEFINITELY my mum yelling ''KOMAAN FAF JOU BLONDE BOM'' full volume at the TV #ICONIC 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[jakes3resin]

Once again rewriting parts of England Arc.

Getting Gale down is turning out trickier than I thought. Bucky is usually the one to stop me in my tracks not him.

Today's rewrite: after Gale's first mission and how he acts with Bucky

#I'm still not even out of africa yet with this fic cause i keep going back and rewriting sections #a/b/o fic #balancing his anger betrayal and love for Bucky all from Bucky's pov is hard #cause i've set up how fucked bucky feels about that emotionally and this scene just feels like pouring salt in an open wound #he tried the only way by giving him his lucky deuce #ugh plus i'm still in the middle of rewrites for the pub fight scene and the bunker scene

[thehollowwriter]

why are you always so bothered by the boys disrespecting the culture of a place based on france? i thought that everyone hates france no matter what? i’m genuinely confused like have i been reading the hating france situation wrong or?

I'm gonna be honest I don't understand the hate on France trend and I've never really partaken in it. And technically Rollo's home isn't France? If you wanna be technical.

It's just that in various events and not just this one some of the boys don't put in effort to understand how different cultures work and why. If they don't understand it they insult it or call it pointless. Or just behave in a condescending manner. There's also Idia who was constantly insulting Epel's home because it wasn't like it was in his anime, which a lot irl people do when they go to Japan and expect it to be just like their anime.

Maybe I'm more bothered by this because I'm not American? There have been people who just sum up my country to "Africa" or insult it without bothering to learn anything about it beyond stereotypes seen in Western movies.

And maybe this is hot take but "it's ok to disrespect this culture because based off France" is pretty shitty logic.

#quinn quips #quinn answers #anon #i think about people who insult the art and history of country saying “once you've seen a few wooden masks you've seen them all” #or “i'm not interested in seeing people dance around a fire” #without any understanding of our culture #people think we aren't as intelligent or whatever because “oh god you're from Africa poor thing” #“do you speak african?” #twisted wonderland

[culmaer]

¶

#nothing is more depressing than working on my cv #because I just don't feel like I have marketable skills #and so many of the writing and research posts I come across on job sites are like ''you'll be working alongside ai'' #I even saw a copywriter post that said ''you won't be doing any writing or editing. you job will be to refine and improve ai prompts #so that the ai can more consistently produce the texts we need'' #like hello #the person doing that job is literally making themself more obsolete by the day #so here's the plan #I need to take any job that pays vaguely well #and use that money to either do short corses #or save up to go so my masters #that conclusion is inescapable #just. for now I'm still stuck on step 1 : finding a decent job #and (perhaps I'm being too picky) but post covid I do not want to go back into anything in the tourism industry #it's too precarious and honestly just comes down to entertaining rich people which pushes me further left every time i think about it #I considered joining the communist party. but 1) they're still part of the tripartite alliance with the anc... which is a no from me #and 2) communist révolution should spontaneously happen in industrialised countries with surplus wealth when the proletariat arise #south africa does not have surplus wealth nor class consciousness really. it's still filtered through post apartheid racial groupings #which is unhelpful because the black bourgeoisie are not our allies just because they're black #and trying to impose communism in a society without the surplus wealth didn't work out too well throughout the 20th century #so what does that leave you with #parties like cope ? plagued by the same issues as the anc ? no thank you #(I did also study politics btw which is why I've even considered these career paths) #(although I haven't worked in politics or governance since graduation so maybe that doesn't even matter anymore it's been years) #all I want is a job that pays fairly and leaves me with enough free time to do my hobbies #I do not have the grindset I'll admit that #which is why I've enjoyed the art industry #but again. it just comes down to entertaining rich people in the small galleries which is needlessly stressful #and the larger non-commercial galleries and musea aren't hiring atm... #and that's it. rant over I guess since this is the 30th tag

[zingaplanet]

Insight to Federer and Nadal's private convo during the Match In Africa + the in-laws reuniting:

#I love how honest rafa is with roger #he just straight up bitchin bout how tired he was from work LOL #papa nadal watching his son in law 👀 #i'm not giving y'all crumbs i promise #it's just that i can't upload the whole video in one go so i'm editing the ones with rafito on it #it's coming bbs keep stalking me #fedal #tennis #roger federer #rafael nadal #match in africa

[taffyvontrips]

some thoughts on the 1982 drivers' strike and a little context

So, I’ve been feeling a little odd about the 1982 drivers’ strike for a while, and I’ve been mulling over it. The reason I haven't written this post before now is because I know that a lot of people in this community are attached to the strike! I am not immune to this! It’s a great story, unexpected and fun, rich with lore. I mean, who doesn’t love union action? Who doesn’t love a good strike? 

I really hate to be a buzzkill and I don’t mean to attack anyone—not any users here (definitely not!), not any drivers either really (maybe Bernie Ecclestone though). I guess I just mean this post as a conversation starter. 

Anyway. People like to use the example of the 1982 strike when they’re trying to make points about modern F1. For example, when the race in Saudi Arabia was in question because of airstrikes happening near the track (I still can’t believe that went ahead, but I digress), and when Domenicali made that asinine statement about drivers’ political engagement, a lot of great posts about the strike were suddenly doing the rounds on modern f1 tumblr. Look at what they managed to do before! people were saying. See how ridiculous it is to say that Niki Lauda wasn’t political! Look here! They organised a strike, maybe they’ll do it again! We love a strike! We love a union!

And good for the drivers for sticking up for their workers' rights and so on. Good on Niki Lauda and Didier Pironi for not rolling over.

However.

Something that has always quietly gnawed away at me ever more since first learning about the strike was the fact that it took place in South Africa, in 1982, during apartheid.

If ever there has been a place where F1 should not have raced, it would be South Africa during apartheid. 

The cognitive dissonance is pretty extreme to me. There was an active international campaign going on at the time to try to pressure South Africa into not being a racist backwards hellhole; musical artists were strongly encouraged not to go there as part of a large cultural boycott, trade embargos were in place, the country was excluded from the Olympics and most sports organisations. An exception to this? Formula One. While these very rich white Formula One drivers were gallivanting on Kyalami Ranch or in the Sunnyside Park Hotel, which was whites-only, the majority Black and Coloured* population were being brutally oppressed, deprived of their civil rights, displaced from their homes, and kept in poverty by an explicitly white supremacist regime.

Were the F1 drivers striking over apartheid? 

Were they striking, perhaps, because non-white people did not have equal access to the GP? 

Were they striking, maybe, because the Black employees at Kyalami didn’t have the right to vote? 

No. 

They were striking because they wanted more control over their contracts. 

If the strike had happened anywhere else, I would enjoy the story without reservation. But it didn’t happen somewhere else, it happened in apartheid South Africa. I think it’s maybe good to keep that in mind as an extra dimension when we talk about the strike. It’s also useful when we think about F1’s relationship with politics—internal and external.

F1 is rumoured to race at Kyalami again next year, and I for one am very excited.

Please reblog with any additions and perspectives you may have!

*a term used in South Africa with different connotations than in other places

#sorry about this massive chunk of text #again i'd like to reiterate that i don't mean this as an attack on any of my wonderful friends on here!! #just some thoughts that have been niggling at me for a while #i have a bit of a personal stake in south africa and zimbabwe and the awful things that happened but i'm not from there #if any south africans see this and would like to chime in that would be amazing #f1 #classic f1 #retro f1 #south africa #south african gp #kyalami #1982 driver strike #1982 drivers strike #i'm waiting for a researcher on researchgate to potentially get back to me with a fulltext article on the south african gp #it's a bit of a long shot but i'm crossing my fingers #i really want to be as informed as possible #i talked to my dad about this essay and he said #the bitter irony of drivers striking for their freedom where swathes of the population #had no freedom #i think that just about hits the nail on the head

[intern-seraph]

[goy voice] ashkenazim are all white europeans mizrahim are all arab and sephardim are all hispanic

#seraph speaks #i'm losing my mind this is so funny #for further context: no #they are not #jumblr #try telling sephardim from turkey or like. north africa. that they're hispanic #or persian (iranian) jews that they're arab #nevermind telling black ashkenazim that they're uh. white europeans. #i am vaguing about a braindead i/p post in case you can't tell #unfortunately it prob has waaaay too many notes #considering it's flat-out misinfo

[spurgie-cousin]

Just saw the video and commentary you posted around the poverty cosplaying and I just want to add that there used to be a different place in Arkansas that did a similar thing, sorta. It was through a charity organization that shifted focus so they no longer run the program, but they used to have a "global village" where people would get assigned different regions of the world to live in by lottery with a couple key differences. First, they used actual names of actual countries and provided actual information about the country/culture. Secondly, it wasn't for mission training but instead was meant to be an educational tool to help middle school and high school students to consider how existing in different global and socio-economic circumstances change your decision making etc. and in depth discussion and educational activities were facilitated frequently. I went there as part of an overnight high school trip and while in retrospect the "poverty cosplaying" does give me the ick I still feel like that particular program was informative. Mostly I'm shook that two distinct programs like this exist in AR? I've literally never heard of the Harding one from the video until now and went on a Google deep dive to see if they were connected in some way, but not that I can tell. Anyway, no deep thoughts really, just thought it was super interesting/weird.

There is something in the water over there in Arkansas man lol. I can never learn just some normal fact about AR, it's always something weird.

I totally understand wanting to create more empathy for those who live in poverty, especially in teenagers who are in a really formative years of their lives. And it's one thing to replicate conditions in your immediate area which you are intimately familiar with, but I just can't get on board with play-acting poverty in different areas of the world. I just think about how I'd feel if some religious group in another country tried to replicate my life experience for shock value.

Even replicating the conditions semi-well can't replicate the actual stakes faced by the people they're cosplaying. You can't replicate the stress of a single mother working 2 jobs and supporting 3 kids in a one-room house, you can't replicate the stress of food insecurity and legitimately being worried about when your next meal will be, etc etc. And something about pretending to do them when you can just go back to normal life at any time just feels disrespectful in a way I can't really articulate.

Idk if people get something from it that's great and I do get the thinking behind the one you described at least, I'm mostly still ranting about the first camp lol. I don't have any doubt that some of the people running the camp you went to had good intentions (the other one though I'm really not sure based on the town names) I just have a lot of mixed experience in Christian missionary culture where poverty is treated voyeuristically which is just definitely the vibe I got from the first camp.

#idk my dad grew up really really poor and i live in an area with a lot of poverty and so maybe i'm just overly touchy about it #but so much of the “philanthropic” culture i experienced in Christianity was making an other out of poor people #it's hard for me to really articulate well i feel but it was just this disconnect like we are different. we are the saviors. #we're on a different level. when in reality i mean everyone is an arm's length away from being in a bad situation in the right circumstance #i think the fact that a lot of the missionary work we did too was just classic surface level stuff like putting a bandaid on a gaping wound #kind of stuff that never addresses the root issues of poverty left a bad taste in my mouth for the community too #my church in particular has had this fundraising event every year for 80 years for the same area in africa building infrastructure and its #like....it's been damn near a century. how has this goal not been accomplished yet like where is this money going too?? #why have the missionaries in question seemed to make so little progress #idk ok im done lol i havent ranted in the tags in so long

[dinaniktorl]

I think Harvey would be black if they had a human form

Reason? Beacuse.

#rusty lake #harvey the parrot #they're an African grey parrot. #i won't say that there are only black people in africa. but you know. #maybe they moved to Europe from Africa. but i duntknow don't quote me on that #btw I won't be defending my point. I'm happy to see Harvey as any race (and/or nationality)