Black American Concerns & Contributions This document provides a factual record of two realities: (1) the historic and ongoing contributions of Foundational Black Americans to education, culture, civil rights, and global aid, and (2) documented concerns such as erasure, slurs, misrepresentation, and safety incidents. It is not intended to promote hate toward any group. Its purpose is to responsibly document patterns that many community members feel are harmful to dignity, youth identity, and historical recognition. 1. Firebombing Black American Residences: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/east-la-gang-member-who-led-firebombing-african-american- residences-sentenced-16-years https://youtu.be/IoAngmrwCzg 2. Physically assaulted Black American child in school: https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/12/26/black-boy-attacked-video-hispanic-student-arrested- defending-himself-mother-files-lawsuit-school-district/ 3. Kenyan Man, Planned 9/11 style Terrorist Attack on Majority Black American City, Atlanta: https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/12/kenyan-man-sentenced-after-planning-911-style-terrorist-attack- on-atlanta/ 4. Nigerian-American, Austin Chenge pledges to Cancel Black History Month: https://www.theroot.com/black-michigan-republican-thirsty-for-racist-support-pledges-to-cancel- offensive-black-history-month 5. Wes Moore (Jamaican-Cuban), vetoed reparations: https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/wes-moore-veto-reparations- maryland-73LPXPMGGVA6LD4WCVPMW543X4/ Questions have been raised about his South Carolina, lineage: https://freebeacon.com/democrats/wes-moore-says-the-kkk-chased-his-great-grandfather-out-of- south-carolina-historical-records-tell-a-different-story/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xyyd4d/ Confronted about Oxford thesis: https://noticias.foxnews.com/media/wes-moore-confronted-reported-misrepresentations-about- missing-oxford-thesis-story-about-great-grandfather.amp 6. Youtube Video: 12 : 00 mark - (Somali meeting to undermine Black Americans ? ) https://www.youtube.com/live/m _ DSnHlGcb4 ? t=709&si=RZgP8119rzPjHau0 Video has been timestamped to play at portion. 7. Jamaican American, Winsome Earle Sears slavery remarks: https://www.washingtoninformer.com/earle-sears-slavery-remarks-gop/ 8. Candace Owens Heritage Bias, when reporting negative media: https://streetz993.com/candace-owens-says-she-has-a-caribbean-bias-refuses-to-speak-negatively- about-rihanna-nicki-minaj/ 9. British-Nigerian, Cynthia Eviro tweets aimed at Black Americans: https://justnlife.com/cynthia-erivos-ignorant-tweets-about-black-americans-are-still-causing- backlash/ She was provided Career opportunities via Alice Walker and Oprah Winfrey: https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a23602746/unsurprisingly-oprah-changed-cynthia-erivos- life/ 10. Kai Cenant: Black Americans have no Culture: https://moguldom.com/457367/top-influencer-kai-cenat-repeats-false-pan-africanist-trope-black- americans-have-no-culture/ Kai has been invited to Black American created platforms: BET Awards and Wayans Film https://x.com/TheClipBot/status/2027179981990772959 ? ref _ src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2027179981990772959%7Ctwgr% 5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1 _ c10&ref _ url= 11. Fake Nursing Degrees (affecting Black American career fields) https://www.girardslaw.com/library/operation-nightingale-list-of-fake-texas-nurses.cfm 12. Trinidadian, Nicki Minaj, mocks Rosa Parks: https://people.com/music/nicki-minaj-rosa-parks-new-single-yikes-backlash/ Black Americans have been embracing many from Trinidad since the early days of Hazel Scott coming over and finding success in Jazz music. 13. Mamdani (of Indian heritage) checks Black/African American box for college application: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3463491/adams-cuomo-rip-mamdani- identifying-african-american-college-application/ Additional Readings: Mamdani’s mother made a film starring Denzel Washington: https://thegrio.com/2025/06/27/zohran-mamdanis-mom-mira-nair-directed-a-denzel-washington-film- mississippi-masala/ Mamdani’s Father benefited off of the Civil Rights Movement via airlift to garner higher education in the States. https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/magazine/airlifts-of-us-the-first-kenyans-to-study-in- america-1358684 https://archive.oah.org/special-issues/teaching/2008 _ 12/article.html Mamdani faced backlash after saying, Immigrants Built America.. concerns were about erasure. More reports included.. 14. Somalia’s Jaree* slur: https://www.academia.edu/11464310/Racial _ and _ Caste _ Prejudice _ in _ Somalia 15. Mindy Kaling’s Bother (of Indian Heritage) posed as Black American to get into Medical School: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/mindy-kalings-brother-i-posed-black-get-med-school- n337026 16. Nigerian-American, Yemi Mobolade and Cross Burning Hoax to get votes (This trauma occurred in Black American Painful History) https://coloradofoic.org/news/supporters-of-colorado-springs-black-mayor-faked-burning-cross- racist-slur-during-2023-campaign-feds-allege/ 17. Bringing illegal substances into communities: https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/jamaicas-organized-crime-after-the-fall-of-dudus-coke/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-14-ga-78-story.html 18. Several Countries (Nigeria, Middle East, and more) exposed as creating Anti Black American Twitter/X Pages: https://www.yahoo.com/news/alt-twitter-users-create-fake-203735073.html 19. Affirmative Action ending: https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/news/asian-americans-got-played-affirmative-action 20. Nigerian CEO defrauds Veteran Affairs: (Black Americans serve at large numbers) https://businessday.ng/world/article/nigerian-ceo-accused-of-defrauding-us-veterans-of-more- than-7m/ 21. Two Black American elders, slain in Ghana: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2015/05/07/elderly-native-detroit-sisters- slain-ghana/70980666/ 22. Malcom X (who has Black American Father, Earl Little) went to African Leaders and they refused to help his movement: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/10/archives/malcolm-x-to-meet-leaders-of-africa.html 23. Abuse in nursing care home: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/nursing-assistant-accused-of-sex%C2%B5ally-abusing- care-home-patients-in-southern-california/ 24. Haitian Policeman: https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/woman-kicked-in-head-atlanta-officer-viral-video/ 85-9635086f-7cf8-4581-9b32-917c030889bf 25. Erasure, Cosplay, BAs built America https://x.com/beyoncegarden/status/2018085352557195440 ? ref _ src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2018085352557195440%7Ctwgr% 5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1 _ c10&ref _ url= 26. Marcus Garvey met with KKK https://www.pushblack.us/news/here-s-what-happened-when-marcus-garvey-met-kkk Garvey Must Go.. https://academic.oup.com/north-carolina-scholarship-online/book/20440/chapter/179593909 27. Illegal Tragedy: Hugo Hernandez-Mendez (35) charged with murder of 19-year-old Dacara Thompson in Prince George's County, Maryland. https://x.com/va4safecomm/status/1963993509288960105 ? s=46 28. South African designer makes “rope” fashion, that mocked Black Americans being lynched https://www.aol.com/south-african-designer-issues-apology-223845061.html 29. California released a 400 page report of all of the injustices, discrimination, racism, brutality, and harm done to BAs.. https://t.co/AP7oflcR9S 30. A Book showing, immigrants arrive to USA with negative stereotypes about Black Americans: https://nyupress.org/9781479805310/black-mosaic/ Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity, Candis Watts Smith writes that “animosity between Black immigrants and Foundational Black Americans is linked to the adoption and perpetuation of negative stereotypes about Foundational Black Americans by some Afro (Island & Continental) immigrants, who may view them as lazy, discourteous, prone to drug use, or criminal” (pp. 128–131). (These same groups have historically been apart of bringing in illegal activities to US and several countries.. The Coke fam- Founder of Shower Posse- https://www.kulturevulturez.com/top-jamaican-gangsters-all-time/ Others in US & Abroad: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-14-ga-78-story.html https://allafrica.com/stories/202504140191.html 31. Hot 97 - Migrant Host at 9 : 06 mark: https://youtu.be/O8hemkFCGdk 32. British - Nigerian wrote TV show insulting BAs. (One of the scenes was based on the BA child actor not amounting to anything.. yet BAs have medical schools, have been Doctors since 1700s, Medical Pioneers such as Open Heart Surgery, 55K inventions and made it possible for others to migrate and work in Hollywood on esteemed levels -See Hattie McDaniel Story).. https://moguldom.com/232287/not-funny-ados-launches-boycott-petition-against-cbs-over-bob- hearts-abishola/ 33. Migrants have rejected the Black identification for many years. Expanded Photo follows https://africaanalyst.com/we-are-not-black-no-black-or-negro-has-ever-existed-in-africa-we-are- africans/ https://ourmoon.org.uk/i-am-not-black-im-african/ https://blavity.com/entertainment/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-learning-to-be-black-in-the-usa-my- own-personal-tales https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/news/lupita-nyongo-turns-down-slavery-roles-reason- oscar-569819-20251124 Videos: https://x.com/Chris490360/status/1944042805749248178 ? ref _ src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1944042805749248178%7Ctwgr% 5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1 _ c10&ref _ url= https://x.com/StonoTone/status/1778813020249948290 ? ref _ src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1778813020249948290%7Ctwgr% 5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1 _ c10&ref _ url= Link: https://tinyurl.com/3ee9244d Caribbeans were considered the below term in 1964 Newspaper... (yet Black to benefit ?? ) Online discussion on how to promote Haiti country to Black Americans for profit.. (black Americans have contributed millions to Africa and Caribbean nation tourism..there have been concerns of being overcharged, scammed, and more... https://www.reddit.com/r/HaitiThinkTank/comments/1cu8agh/ what _ do _ you _ guys _ think _ of _ pitching _ haiti _ to _ black/ More online remarks towards Black Americans: 34. Slurs, Caste Discrimination against BAs https://brittlepaper.com/2022/02/nnedi-okorafor-addresses-akata-a-west-african-term-for-black- americans/ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php ? term=Jareers https://moguldom.com/372346/what-is-a-bullet-bag-inside-the-new-liberal-smear-against-black-men/ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php ? term=yankee https://www.journeys-magazine.co.uk/africa/obruni/ https://medium.com/the-m-u-s-l-i-m/is-abeed-an-islamic-derogatory-term-for-black-people- ee4506e29218 https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/124024/why-are-african-americans-sometimes-referred-to-as- mayates Calling BAs lazy, ebt/welfare/food stamps users when.. https://www.villages-news.com/2025/12/13/data-shows-overwhelming-number-of-somali-americans- receiving-welfare/ https://headlineusa.com/somalians-charged-for-stealing-billions-of-dollars-from-welfare-programs-in- minnesota/ (also same slurs directed at others who were victims of being TAST..) https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP893oSBj/ 35: Musical Infringement -Lawsuits -Revisionist History - Erasure History: https://vincedixonportfolio.com/app/black-music-history/ Musical Erasure: (Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B, Folk and more)... https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954853692/tracy-chapman-wins-lawsuit-against-nicki-minaj https://queensbookasylum.com/2025/05/19/music-monday-games-by-chuckii-booker/ DJ Disco King Mario (From NC whom relocated to The Bronx in 1970s) - Helping Afrikan B. Afrikan was assistant to Mario, yet is often credited as originator of Hip-Hop.. https://www.pedrojdeleon.com/p/the-forgotten-pioneer-disco-king https://m.youtube.com/watch ? v=9bI1598Gj3Q The same groups that claim they created hip-hop, have slurs during this time, when BAs were creating said genres and break dancing. They were told to stay away.. slurs such as: Jungle Music, Yank.. yucka yucka music said by fat joe’s father and kid n play member’s father: (both Caribbean/latino fathers) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM0qL7bvIVS/ ? igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== This magazine showcased, 3 Caribbean Pioneers. There has been many historians, Black American Pioneers that have been erased and more and more research is being conducted... Recent interview about the truth behind this cover: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xaKNUX/ Research: -Toasting Blues - 1930s - Black Americans prior to large Caribbean migration. https://grokipedia.com/page/Talking _ blues -DJ/Sound System https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/scratch-cyborgs-the-hip-hop-dj-as-technology/ https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi ? article=1027&context=utk _ popcultpubs Black American erased Pioneer, that mentored Afrikan B. http://hiphopgoldenage.com/forgotten-founding-father-disco-king-mario/ Crediting James Brown: https://hiphopandpolitics.com/1988/06/01/what-is-hip-hop-dj-kool-hercs-definition-of-hip-hop/ From 1800s to videos in 1930s: Breakdancing also came from Black Americans and is documented, but that has been largely erased... https://youtu.be/Iat62Ab87qs ? si=ULsgOhIUdG062e5p Its the same as Rock Music, being labeled as Race Music but was later highjacked from BA pioneers such as Rosetta Tharpe, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Big Mama Thorton... Also, UK acts have consistently “borrowed from BAs”.. many early BAs artist passed penniless without proper credit or royalties.. Such as Black American, Colonel Sanders - Trapped Imitated by British Rick Astley - Never Gonna You Up Some gave credit.... The Ronettes - Amy Winehouse (style & doo wop from BAs) Articles on Winehouse’s style describe her “nostalgic sensibility for 1960s girl groups” — including The Ronettes — which influenced her beehive hairdo, makeup, and retro fashion. https://www.mouthymagazine.com/post/amy-winehouse-the-life-the-art-the-media-spectacle https://www.vogue.com/article/ronnie-spector-style-ronettes-fashion-interview KISS Band’s Manager wanted Patti Labelle’s group Costumes https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2019/04/larry-legaspi-feature/ https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2019/04/larry-legaspi-feature ? utm _ source Bob Marley - Motown - Smokey Robinson Reggae - Motown’s Steel Pans http://michelconci.blogspot.com/2018/05/motown-and-jamaican-one.html ? m=1 Fela Kuti - Afro Beat - James Brown, Funk, Sondra https://www.okayplayer.com/how-fela-kuti-channeled-james-browns-funk-to-spark-his-own- revolution/1414597 However, sadly it’s led to various extremes of entitlement and increased concerning erasure The Rolling Stones, The Beatles (Billy Preston), Milli Vanilli’s Producer taking BA Baltimore teen group record Girl You Know its True from another European country.. https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/numarx-milli-vanilli-girl-you-know-its-true-8551444/ (A young Kevin Liles was in this group)... Also, from US acts under “Blue eyed Soul Label/Rock”.., Elvis, Pat Boone, and more.. https://metalheadzone.com/gene-simmons-reacts-to-black-music-being-stolen-by-white-bands/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DUZUWLbDsuN/ ? igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== 36. Muhammad Ali was refused by establishment, but African migrant overstepped and proceeded to eat inside: https://speakola.com/sports/muhammad-ali-this-day-tonight-rome-gold-medal-louisville-river-1976 (Ali helped pay for East African student visas, scholarships, housing prior) 3 7 Another example of privilege over BAs: https://x.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1753570532501471616 ? ref _ src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1753570532501471616%7Ctwgr%5 E%7Ctwcon%5Es1 _ c10&ref _ url= https://speakola.com/sports/muhammad-ali-this-day-tonight-rome-gold-medal-louisville-river-1976 (Yet, these same groups participate and benefit off of selling slaves, civil rights from BAs, and gladly over stepped prominent BAs).. They also pretended to be BA to get into schools such as Mamdani (father benefited from BA civil rights pioneers airlift generation helping east Africans obtain phds in usa... and mindy kaling’s brother).. https://article.wn.com/view/2025/07/04/ Zohran _ Mamdani _ Mindy _ Kaling _ s _ brother _ and _ the _ uncomfortable _ / Others have famously claimed to be of the BA ethnicity and used BA historical trauma to get votes for office https://www.denverpost.com/2025/05/20/colorado-springs-cross-burning-trial-yemi-mobolade- testifies/ And claimed to be first black mayor of Colorado when it was already an BA mayor prior The first Black mayor in Colorado was Wellington Webb, who was elected as the mayor of Denver in 1991. He played a significant role in the revitalization of the city during his tenure. 38. Kamala and Collard Greens ? https://theamericantribune.com/id-need-to-wash-them-in-the-bathtub-kamala-harris-makes-bizzare- collard-greens-claim-in-cringe-inducing-conversation-watch/ She descends from Caribbean and they eat Calaloo... Also, claimed to of the BA ethnicity group.. also went to HBCU, joined BA sorority, got job advancement from Willie Brown, and funding/support from BAs..) yet when asked about Reparations for BA https://www.youtube.com/watch ? v=hsB6EWNUcyY 39. Another example of claiming to be of the BA ethnicity without any lineage or actual relation.. https://youtu.be/wuECw _ UB0P4 ? si=lOjfsMMEiU031Hyd (As Kenyan Father and no relations to BAs)... only wife is BA.. 40. More Historical History Negro History Week, was started by Carter W for BAs.. Juneteeth down the line is another holiday.. Other groups have attached themselves to BHM, changed the history for their own culture adding their flags and claims.. while already having their own Heritage Month, Separate Caucuses, Student Organizations, Networks for Jobs and Resources, Scholarships, and Parades, Chamber of Commerce.. yet have often used, joined, exploited several BA spaces... There has been bills introduced for more Separate Cultural Representation: Congress.gov for more.. Furthermore, the earlier mentioned topic.. the positions and slots are often meant for BAs... these same groups have tribes... Example: https://m.youtube.com/watch ? v=IxoKdMKZUZk This is not to be negative, just showing they have separate things where BAs are not apart of... another example at HBCU: https://www.blackenterprise.com/famu-oluwamodupe-oloyede-first-female-head-drum-major/ Another example: Essence https://spokesman-recorder.com/2025/07/22/essence-festival-2025-backlash/ 41. Foreign made Blogs/Media Platforms that discuss Black American culture; The Shade Room: Nigerian Sandra Rose: Born in London, UK World Star: Haitian Media Takeout: East African Empressive: Jamaican and Nigerian Academikis: Jamaican Joy Reid: Congolese and Guyanese Hot 97: (White American owned/non BA host Vlad TV: European Atlanta Black Star: Jamaican Madame Noire: Jamaican There have been numerous discussions about blogs that profit from the ethnic group, exploit it, and create tension. SR made several post about BA blogger, Necole. https://sandrarose.com/2016/09/blogger-necole-bitchie-is-broke-my-life-is-a-total-mess/ https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/almID/1202558340253/ Necole, ended her original blog.. Posts about drama in that individual’s home country are rarely shared. Instead, the blogs mostly post positive stories or try to insert their people into Black American culture. Several of these blogs have been sued and repeatedly asked to stop spreading misinformation. 42. Fraud that affects Black American stats in policing, and socially: https://apnews.com/article/washington-arrests-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic- ae4ae6a55727a5337c63c470d1df576b https://www.legit.ng/nigeria/1646783-nigerian-nationals-facing-62-year-prison-terms-50-million-us- fraud-case/ This data/statistics goes under Black 43. Kai Cenat and Waitress call Ishowspeed a slur: Yankee At 2 : 02 mark https://youtu.be/JpTntxByUco 44. Zoe Saldana apologizes for Nina Simone role: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53676550 45. Hispanic KKK Costume: https://m.youtube.com/watch ? v=qnbGA-khHZg 46. Latasha Harlins: