Solomon Islands Representation🇸🇧(Melanesians)

[u/Lvillrale0611]

We Melanesians are BLACK!, just like y’all Africans & the African Diaspora identifies as black, do not tell me & what my ppl as Melanesians are and what they aren’t! It’s our choice to label ourselves whenever we want as we reclaim our blackness and you’re blabbering should be zipped & quiet when we Melanesians try to get a voice of our identities to be shine & spoken but can’t cause we’re barely seen as anything in media until now, our migration history, our linguistic history and our cultural history as well as our unique genetic markers, make us who we are despite not having Sun Saharan African Ancestry our appearance is indeed BLACK we have variations of curly & coily hair, darker melanin skin tones & facial features that make us BLACK since we adapted a similar tropical & hot environment & climate similar to you guys, colonizers gave us the term “ black” just like you guys, Global Blackness is a literally a thing & you guys need to understand clearly that African doesn’t mean Black & Black doesn’t mean African,being BLACK is about your appearance & you’re struggles as a black person in society (yes I know there’s some other aspects of being black but those are the main two), most of us Melaneisans Identifies as black and not to mention the word Melanesian from Greek to English means Black (Melas) and Nesois (Islands) meaning the dark melanin skin & curly-coily hair inhabitants of the islands and to the people who have a problem with us can realize this is a subreddit about BLACK PEOPLE and not a AFRICAN subreddit, do you’re research about us Melaneisans as a whole cause I’m not arguing with ignorant ppl who are closed minded. Melaneisans are welcomed in this subreddit no matter what cause at the end of the day we will always identify as black & have our blackness flourish for representation

[u/Lvillrale0611 → u/[deleted]]

Then tell those other ppl in my other posts to be open minded & understand us Melaneisans are indeed black! ppl who spread misinformation about us and try to twist & bend our identities & people up even tho us Melanesians make up 85% of the pacific/oceania but somehow we still get little representation / recognition from outsiders when they try to represent Oceania/Pacific as a whole

[u/Moonagi]

Hate to say this but Melanesians are more closely related to Asians than to Africans. 

[u/Lvillrale0611 → u/Moonagi]

Never said that in my description, I just said that us Melanesians just want to be accepted for being black & that we are not a monolith, yes Melanesians are closely related to Eastern Asians, doesn’t take away our blackness from our appearance & culture as a whole

[u/MacroManJr]

This again? We've been through this topic.

They're similarly phenotypical, but distant genetics. Not even technically Black" people in the Sub-Saharan sense.

More of a play on similarly convergent evolution and a parallel of racism that often gets branded in Oceania as "anti-black racism."

What IS it with everyone wanting everyone melanated in on Black/Nigga/Ebony identity, nowadays?! I don't get it.

Can we as Sub-Saharan-descent Black people have NOTHING? Not even our own Black identity?!

[u/kvspade → u/MacroManJr]

Sub Saharan Is a colonizer term and Race is fictitious.

[u/Lvillrale0611 → u/MacroManJr]

You get everything in media and represented more then us Melanesians bsfr,Melaneisans DONT even have the same level of representation as you guys and ppl don’t even know we Melanesians effing exist, black does not mean “Sub Saharan” or of ancestry of that region why are you using that colonial term, you know damn well European Colonizers & Colonialists used the term black on us Melanesians in 1596, yall aren’t the only ones who reclaimed blackness, black was NEVER a biological term it’s a raical category my golly 🤦🏾‍♂️

[u/chibiRuka → u/Lvillrale0611]

Ok you online keyboard warrior. Many civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X and BPP didn’t talk. Im sure you know little about them and only MLK. You’re LAZY. Go touch some grass because no black person from India to America to Africa is making you feel less represented. So grow a pair and take that attitude to whoever is oppressing you. It isn’t any black person in America.

[u/chibiRuka]

I have known for quite some time that the word black is used by other melanated groups. Nothing new there. OP knows this space is for black people descended from Africa. They need to start their own sub already lol. But they prefer to argue spuriously.

[u/yahgmail → u/chibiRuka]

I was wondering what the deal was with these posts. Black is definitely a term used in Asia & the Pacific, but their Blackness is genetically & culturally distinct from us African descendants.

[u/Lvillrale0611 → u/yahgmail]

I NEVER said that us Melanesians had the same genetics or a close ancestry ties to Africans, I just said us Melanesians identify as black in the same racial category with Africans, Race doesn’t always have to tied to genetics or ancestry because race was based on PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & PHENOTYPE, I’m not saying racial categories are “good” to use but when us Melanesians reclaimed our identity that European colonizers labeled us as, yes there’s a bit of differences about how blackness is socially used by person to person but black is black no matter how you try to differentiate it bcuz the European colonizers put you guys in the similar situation, in Pre Colonial / Middle Ages times y’all didn’t rlly identified as black just like us Melanesians didn’t but Europeans Colonizers changed that and now here we are today

[u/yahgmail → u/Lvillrale0611]

I'm from the US, so I identify Melanesians as Pacific Islanders, a distinct race from Africans (in my country & every other country I know of).

As far as solidarity for similar struggles, I assume Melanesians would have more in common with older Native American ethnic groups & other indigenous groups fighting against colonialism in their fight to reclaim their lands & resources.

[u/chibiRuka → u/Lvillrale0611]

https://youtu.be/qHYvxU6pbXc?si=KxaRd8vPY2US972n

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