Don't wanna make a new thread about this, so I'll just share here.
We were discussing Christmas & Kwanzaa at my job last week, and I was reciting the principles of Kwanzaa with everyone. One guy felt the need to ask where my family is from. I said I'm black and from America. He then said "the America(s)"? Putting the "s" on the end.....it's like he was pushing me toward saying I'm Haitian or West Indian or something (all part of "The Americas")
But I guess he realized the workplace is nowhere to state your thoughts on where someone in from and didn't outright say it.
I could clearly see what he was trying to do though. My answer wasn't sufficient.
No, I'm black from America and Imma sit here and recite these Kwanzaa principles hun. Who the hell are you to question where I'm from and make suggestions on what you think my origins are when I give you an answer, trying to push me toward what you think is my truth. What the hell does that have to do with me knowing Kwanzaa principles? At the end of the day they apply to me as a black man in America, cops will not see "the America(s)". They gon see a black got damn man. People in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, or whatever are originally from Africa. Kwanzaa celebrates African pride. So I didn't see the correlation of that question to what I was reciting with him.
This is the kind of mess that pushed me to take these tests to begin with. Ignorance.
