Sudanese American Debates Black Identity, Race and Sexism

How am I not Black? Do you identify as such?

You do realize my family is from Sudan, which means the land of the Blacks, right?

Uh, do you identify as a Black man? By definition, I am.

Do you identify as a Black man? Uh- Or do you tell people you're Sudanese and you're Arabian?

Okay. Which one is it? Like I said before- You're not answering a simple question ... I'm gonna answer. I'm gonna answer right now.

Number one, Arab, being an Arab is, you know, it's a language.

Number two, Sudan literally means the land of the Blacks, okay?

That's where my family's from. I can't choose to identify as Black or not.

I am by definition. I am by, by definition African-American.

My parents come from Sudan, land of the Blacks. They came to America.

They had me. That's in Northern Africa. I am by definition African-American, so I am Black despite the fact that you might not think so, and honestly, I don't care 'cause I don't really give a shit about identity politics, but I find it absolutely ridiculous how Black people always wanna sit there- Identity politics- 'Cause-

... is part of the systematic politics- Okay ... at hand in the country that we live in ... let me finish what I was saying. I let you speak.

I wrote down the things you were saying. I gave you the respect.

Oh, okay. So- Oh, you're attentive. Continue.

Yeah. What do you, what do you think I was doing here?

Like- Oh ... I was literally writing down what you were saying ... just being on your phone, but okay.

What the f... Okay, anyway. Relax, and I respond.

So, um, so yeah, 'cause, so here's the issue, and I get this all the time from Black people like yourself. You'll sit there and say, "You can't use the word nigga. You're not Black," and the real reason why you guys say that is because you guys don't like the criticism I give of the Black community.

Because Black people have this really bad fucking habit where it's, "If you're not Black, you can't criticize us or comment on our struggle." That's absolutely preposterous. I don't have to be a mathematician to say one plus one is two, and I don't have to be necessarily Black to comment on things.

However, that doesn't apply because I am Black, despite the fact that you're trying to sit here and like, "You, you don't identify as a Black." That's irrelevant because I am. Just like if someone was a woman and they say, "I identify as a male." Uh, no, you're a fucking woman, buddy, okay?

Biology is biology. Reality is reality. So with what you're saying, you're not Black, you're actually wrong, okay? Um, and then the whole thing about using the word nigga, who cares, bro? Who gives a shit?

Uh, Black people are way too, uh, sensitive about that. And then, then you said I run sexist rhetoric.

Reality is sexist, okay? There's a reason why men are supposed to pay on dates.

There's a reason why men are supposed to protect women.

The issue is this, women complain about sexism when it doesn't benefit them, but they have no problem with men protecting them, running infrastructure, running the world the way that it is. When it benefits y'all, you guys love it.

When it doesn't benefit you guys, you guys complain.

Um, and then the last thing I was gonna say- You're not- ... was, um, you don't like the way I say things.

Um, look- I mean, you already said you don't care- If I say- ... so you don't have to retouch up on that subject ... if I say one plus one is two or I say one plus one is fucking two, it doesn't change the fact that it's still two,

or if I say the sky is blue or the sky is fucking blue, it doesn't change the fact the sky is still blue.

Uh, can I go now?