culturally deprived...

being an African in the U.S. can be frustrating from a nationality/cultural perspective...

i'm not big on Black History Month anymore, 'cause i'm an all year around type of cat. but this isn't about that type of frustration. that is institutional frustration. the type that has been established & perpetuated by the standards of Western society. i'm looking more at the frustration of ambiguity caused by disassociation.

most European, Asian, & Latino citizens can associate some nationality w/their cultural heritage. whether or not they are patriotic to the U.S., they usually have some other nation to relate to culturally. Africans who are generationally embedded in the U.S. do not have this cultural identity. thanks to European enslavement, these cultural associations are completely non-existent in most cases. it's nothing to kill anyone over, but it can be highly frustrating.

i don't know if i'm Sudanese, Nigerian, Ghanaian, etc. the genetics are so muddled at this point that i probably cannot even determine such cultural association through physical characteristics either. there are genetic materials tests that will tell you what region of the world your family is likely from, but my understanding is that even these are general. besides, the real fucked up aspect is that at this point i'd be trying to play hundreds of years of catch up.

sometimes it appears other Ethnic groups do not appreciate the significance of this cultural ambiguity. when one disassociates by choice from their inherited culture that's 1 thing. not having an inherited culture at all is a whole other thing. it's not a choice you generally want to have forcibly removed.

make like cultural ambiguity is hot like that...

PEACE
...be calm...