They don’t care if Jamaicans or Haitians identify with Africa. They only care if Black American People identify with Africa.
And that’s because they want to latch onto our culture and essence without feeling bad about it.
They don’t want us to have a strong ethnic identity.
Conscious Lee consistently claims that his style of speech, his half-witted prose, & parroting of feminist talking points are legitimate forms of Black commentary. Yet he does not mention that his focus is a white audience. He believes Black communities, poor Black families & children have no need for diction, phonics, or literacy. He performs a caricature of Black Southern dialect & bufoonery that white liberals would perceive as evidence of authenticity because Lee's commentary would not rise to the same standards of knowledge or presentation they expect of educated speakers. He trades stereotypes for sophistication.
The Black community deserves more than a minstrel show pretending to be punditry.
I am from a Southern city full of Black poverty, working class Black families, and segregation. His rendition of Black Southern speech patterns and culture is coonish.
Once peeps found out shorty was actually from Bermuda & not America, I didn’t see too any retractions or apologies towards Black Americans for people being loud & wrong