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Tina Turner, Blackness And Africans: A Complicated Legacy

Tina Turner died yersterday at 83 years old. According to her daughter-in-law Afida Turner who spoke to French media a few months ago, her health was already deteriorating. The last years have been very tough for Turner. In a matter of five years she lost two sons, her eldest, Craig who committed suicide, and Ronnie,…
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How Globalism Destroyed Western European Traditional Music

Out of all European spheres, the Latin one is the worst. It not only forces the colonized ones to submit to a false ideology of Latinidad, racial equality and the non-existence of racism but it also blocks them from claiming and cherishing the cultures, the history, the essence they created and developed in the name…
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The Importance of Kat Deluna’s Whine Up: The Last Afro-Caribbean Anthem Before The Whitewashing Of Caribbean Music

The 2000s will be remembered as a time of openness. Despite the shock endured with the horror of 9/11, the hope for a better world was still vibrant. With the emergence of technology and accessibility to the Internet for the youth (or modern-day millennials of all ages), the Latin community, thanks to music, was also…
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Why We Are Tired of The White Latin Rhetoric Regarding Their Justification In Exploiting African Music and Identity

Racism in the Latin world has displayed its worst forms since 1492. There, the colonial powers which have dominated both the Africans and the Natives, have tried to hide their racist and white supremacist agenda behind the propaganda of Mestizaje, as mentioned several times on this website. This racial hierarchy began with the racial blood…
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Shakira Becomes The First Latin Woman To Be Crowned “Woman Of The Year”: Another White Woman Was Chosen To Represent Black And Indigenous Music

Shakira supposedly made history yersterday when chosen as Billboard’s Woman of The Year, thus becoming the first “Latin” woman to ever do so. Billboard, along with the Grammys, lost their appeal and legitimacy a long time ago. We know how Americans have an obsession with excellence, and how black industry products such as Beyoncé want…
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Remembering Layne Staley Who Passed Away 21 Years Ago

Remembering Layne Staley who passed away 21 years ago. Nobody sang and wrote pain like you. May you rest in peace. Victoria
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Comment Fally Ipupa A Trahi Le Congo Et Ses Compatriotes Congolais

L’annonce fit le tour des réseaux sociaux. Alors que son pays et que son peuple français s’enfoncent davantage dans la paupérisation, la crise sociale et la tourmente, Emmanuel Macron, après s’être rendu au ski, rempli son calendrier par des voyages en Afrique. Il y a quelques mois encore, le président français avait effectué un voyage…
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Rosalia, The White Colonial Agent Of Black Latin Music

Globalism has killed traditional cultures and movements, whether within the white or black European groups. The rise of technology allowed each and every one of us to evolve more rapidly, reducing the then gigantic spectrum of the world, to a small fraction of land available to any one in a simple click. Since the entry…
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La Médiocrité du Noir Occidental: Entre Standardisation de la Négritude et Déclin Culturel (Le Cas du Hip-Hop)

Les questions relatives à l’immigration nous font oublier que, depuis bientôt cinquante ans après les vagues d’immigration de masse de familles ouest africaines et maghrébines en Europe à la chute des anciens empires coloniaux africains, de nouvelles générations sont nées. Par mépris des institutions européennes à leur égard, ces groupes qui se suivent au fil…
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The Mediocrity of Black Westerners: Identity and Politics

Though they swear to be the incarnation of pro-blackness, African authenticity, as they view themselves to be superior to the white Western groups whose members lost both their culture and identity for the profit of capitalism and mass consumerism, it is clear that the orchestrated Black Lives Matter protests from the late 2010s highlighted one…
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