A group of South Sudanese soldiers patrol the streets of Juba on January 2, 2014. South Sudan's army has set up a probe into the killing of 'innocent people,' the government said on January 2, in the wake of grim reports of ethnic slaughter and atrocities, as South Sudan's warring parties prepare for peace talks in Ethiopia aimed at ending the conflict.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The death tolls are huge and the individual incidents gruesome. One estimate says nearly 10,000 people have been killed in South Sudan in a month of warfare, while in neighboring Central African Republic combatants in Muslim-vs.-Christian battles have beheaded children.

Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a very violent start to 2014, with raging conflicts in South Sudan and Central African Republic, as well as continued violence in Congo, and attacks in Somalia and Kenya.

Compared to decades past, Africa and its people are suffering from fewer conflicts today, but several recent outbreaks of violence are cause for concern, said J. Peter Pham, director of the Washington-based think tank Africa Center at the Atlantic Council. The conflicts also lack strong international peacekeeping, he said.

"Peacekeeping in Africa, whether under the formal auspices of the United Nations or those of the African Union, suffers today from the same two limitations which they have been burdened with since the very first U.N. peacekeeping mission, the 1960-1964 operation in the Congo (ONUC), namely lack of political will resulting in a weak mandate and lack of adequate forces," he wrote by email.

The conflict that broke out in South Sudan on Dec. 15 saw violence radiate across the country as ethnic groups targeted each other. Shortly afterward Uganda dispatched troops and military equipment to aid South Sudan's central government from breakaway units of that country's military.

http://www.9news.com/news/article/372914/347/Africa-sees-violent-deadly-start-to-2014-

Are those the same Africans the American Negro takes their name, African American.

They can proudly watch and sing the song, This is my Country.

With a twist.

This Is My Country


This is my country! Land of my birth!
This is my country! Grandest on earth!
I pledge thee my allegiance, Africa, the bold,
For this is my country to have and to hold.

What difference if I hail from North or South
Or from the East or West?
My heart is filled with love for all of these.
I only know I swell with pride and deep within my breast
I thrill to see paint the breeze.

With hand upon heart I thank Allah For this my native land,
For all I love is here within her gates.
My should is rooted deeply in the soil on which I stand,
For these are mine own African States.

This is my country! Land of my choice!
This is my country! Hear my proud voice!
I pledge thee my allegiance, to Africa, the bold,
For this is my country! To have and to hold.






Hey. It's their bizzness if they want to whack the heads off'n them kids, no?

Allow me to reiterate to newbies, before they gets they panties in a wad, my stance on not giving value to the term African American.

I know negros, many, Ii have watched their kids grow up. NONE of them are from Africa and will slit yer throat if you refer to them as African American.

They get highly offended.

Some prefer being referred to as negro, negrita, morena if, their race is ever questioned.

yes, just like germans living in America take their 'name' from others in history who were from that region too,,



its a geographical distinction, and they all have their share of violence and injustice,,,,as well as their share of heroes and caring ,,,


negro is the name Spaniards gave dark from Africa
black is the name also not self determined but given by others
African American is a name some blacks chose for themselves

whatever the title, its understood what it refers to just the same
personal preference for which label is indicative of very little

This is pure bull. All you have in these countries are sheeple and bullies. At birth they all start off equal but what about the parents teaching them right and wrong, doesn't happen.

Well it is time for the people to fend for themselves, maybe if a couple of hundred thousand more get butchered, the people will learn to stand up and take care of themselves.

This is not a war of country against country but tyrants against the people and as so, none of the world's business. If they can't take care of themselves, then I guess they are doomed to oblivion and the problem will solve itself.

Black in Spanish is negro and white is blanco. So it is not a name given by the Spanish but a description. Again, you have no clue of what you are speaking about.

"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
- Thomas Jefferson

And what the hell is an African American? You are either African or American, anything else means you are neither.

America is a very unique, a mix of many cultures and ethnicities all mixed together by a common cause, the desire for freedom. While it is but natural to maintain your culture and customs within the family, you do not truly become an American until all else is surrendered to the concept of acceptance of being free to make your own choices.

But it is the prejudice of people like yourself that wants to keep driving that wedge of your prejudicial feeling and thoughts that someone owes you something that prevents that acceptance. When you think you are a slave, then you are a slave.

But fortunately, the majority of the blacks in this nation stand tall and describe themselves as a man, a free man able to determine his own fate.

I can't understand that Hyphenated American-Bit!
One is either American or German!And that holds good with any other Ethnic Group!
Can't be both!
Can't serve two Masters!
You'd have to lie to one of them!

you do not truly become an American until all else is surrendered to the concept of acceptance of being free to make your own choices.






except the choice of identifying yourself,, that you must let the mainstream decide for you....lol


the point is , African American is a label that some people choose to keep the tie to their heritage in a country that for CENTURIES did not allow them to do so, OR to be 'fully american'

again, the bully decides when its time to 'play fair'

'we aint hitting you no more, we quit, so now WE decide that you should stop too,,,lol)


aint gonna happen, no matter how much anti America guilt tripping people try to spout,,,

semantic debates get tiring

AMERICAN, GERMAN, MEXICAN< all denote personal nationalities,, not races


RACES were defined by people according to ANCESTRAL history,,

one can be BOTH American, AND African American

just like they can be BOTH American and white

or American and Female,,, they are different categories of description,

In that case, I can call myself a Negro-American? Beings my negro ancestry ain't from Africa? I have been a Black American now fer abou 20 minutes. I'm starting to feel the effects of slavery and am so oppressed and downtrodden. When the Gubamen gwyna send me my compensation and 40 acres. I'll take mah mule medium rare, please.

Being they need to be PC,

well, lets check,,,




a member of a dark-skinned group of peoples originally native to Africa south of the Sahara.


if this describes you, you can certainly call yourself a 'negro',,,,
Im suspecting it doesn't describe you though, and no one would believe it did,,,

Im also doubting you have been subjected to being treated like a 'black' person for reasons I cant post as it would be called 'personal'

but there are people who treat blacks differently, and there are the blacks they treat differently

the posts here don't make me suspect you are in the latter group...

So full of crap, just proposing a racist agenda.

Not really, African American is a label that people choose to keep the racial tension at the forefront. It is used to falsely promote inequality with you being one of it's staunches promoters, at least on this forum.

Why is there no proud white-American month?

Why do we put whitey down for being proud?

Why are terrorist Panthers praised and the KKK slammed?

Whitey deserves his month for working so hard to put meat on our tables.

If I didn't benefits from whitey efforts, I'd move my black,deadass back to the land of my people.

really, so these people kept slavery and jim crow alive?

racial tension doesn't 'stay in the forefront' because people choose to identify with African American in stead of the (semantically negative and physically incorrect) 'black' or 'negro' (also meaning black)


what keeps it in the forefront is one group continuing to have the control over another group to determine what their label should be

because historically American culture has bee synomymous with 'white'
its a presumption that call for no further specification,,


I haven't seen anyone here calling others 'whitey' except present company

I haven't seen anyone praise the panthers here either

'whitey', being the majoriy, 'deserves' to have the majority of the educational examples and media definitions of 'beautiful' or 'normal' represented by people who resemble themselves and that's what 'whitey' has,,,

IF my ancestors hadn't fought and worked just as hard as 'whitey' and weren't still working just as hard for their 'beefits',,,, I might choose to move to one of the many lands 'my people' reside

To this very minute. Show me a use of the African American use that does not promote racial tension. Is it the politician that is being politically correct and just can't put aside the prejudice of having a black man just be an American. Or would it be the black man that just cannot accept being equal and needing to have that label to prove the point.

And no, negro in English does not mean the same as in Spanish. In English it denote an inferior class of people while in Spanish, anything black is black, their word negro. But being black or being white is but a descriptive term used to denote a skin color without being racist, not that they can't be used that way.

Really and from where does this great revelation of the controlling factor come from? And to what group are you trying to insinuate is at fault?

this is analogous to political labels 'promoting' political tenson

cant we put aside prejudices of liberal or conservative or republican or democrat and just be 'americans'?


its a label,, just as one might choose to refer to someone as 'black', instead of 'just american'

others, particularly in referring to THEMSELVES, choose the label 'African american'


not everything is personal or someones 'fault' some things just ARE

like the (American) English vocabulary and how it grows

Sang it sistah;

Jest cuz it look white don't mean a thang.

I say I is a Negro, I am.

You cannot say I'm not.

actually, society will not see you as 'negro' anymore than they will see me as 'male'

its not MERELY what we want to state we are, there has to be some other qualifiers as well

'negroes',, according to one post here is an inferior person, I hope you don't consider yourself such,, I don't

black is an absence of light, almost always used as a negative connotation semantically, I don't prefer to view myself with that label either

there are plenty of 'labels' having to do with ancestral history, asthetics and social place,,,,,,,but I relate most to 'African american'

moreso than 'black' or 'negro' or even 'colored',,,,



society will never see you as a 'negro', or 'black' or 'colored,, but you can label yourself that way if you wish,,,

So gee, when this country was founded, it was by Europeans that had developed themselves to a degree to be able to travel across the oceans. And this would be relevant how? If you were native American, I could see a complaint, after all the founders stole from them but that is a whole different thread.



And again with all the prejudicial feelings. It was the Europeans that first settled this country and then fought for it's freedom from England. And during that period of time many nationalities were sold into slavery, but it was predominantly the Africans that were the easiest as they were a primitive people that had no method of retaliation.

And it was the British had the largest settlements, so of course the language adopted was English. That was normal.



And if your ancestors hadn't been captured by other enemy tribes and sold to the slave traders, they would have been slaughtered in their villages in Africa, have you ever stopped to consider that, of course not that would make someone responsible.

And then the slaves were freed. Many took advantage of this and settled on small parcels of land where they were able to take care of their families. But others, ever the slave moved to the north were they were forced into servitude in the industries and paid a wage barely able to sustain themselves. Just look at any major industrial area in the US and you can see the results, the results of bad choices but no, you must blame someone else instead of claiming responsibility and picking one's self up.

So if you are not capable of fending for yourself, why would you think "whitey" or any other race would care. And why is this a major problem in the US but not in Europe, especially England when the slaves there were freed?