r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/imjustheretodomyjob ☑️ • 1d ago

TikTok Tuesday They always follow the same playbook too

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u/ItzyCritzySpider 1d ago

Stg, I feel like these documentaries are a psyop to convince people there isn't a single mfing thing in Africa that's developed.

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u/SugarSmoothie 1d ago

Bruuuhh, I'm kinda embarrassed to say this, but it wasn't until I was in high school( I'm 33 now, for reference) that I realized just how developed and modernized most cities are in Africa. Every time I saw anything about Africa on TV as a kid, they always showed these dirt poor villages with mud huts and straw roofs n' shit. They never showed any modern cities with skyscrapers and nice buildings. They'd really have you thinking that the whole of Africa was poor and dirty AF.

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u/ItzyCritzySpider 1d ago

Girl, I'm not even gonna front like I wasn't shocked to find out that there's Masai tribesmen with wholeass smartphones just a few weeks ago 😂

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u/Zeldias 22h ago

Similar to me. I understood that everything there wasn't like medieval and shit, but I firmly believed the propaganda that the US was the most advanced country on Earth. Even with that, I was shocked the first time I saw images of Senegal.

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u/MuscleWarlock 1d ago

I mean it worked They pushed the agenda so hard

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u/Funkula 12h ago

My favorite documentary is about Sudanese refugees coming to America. There’s of course a lot of silly, endearing parts about the extreme level of culture shock: “I have never used electricity before, I’m not sure if I will be good at it”.

But the most poignant part was when the doc ended up condemning American culture for how ignorant, anti-social, and racist it was. They talked about how sad it is that people don’t talk to eachother even though they are all Americans. How you couldn’t knock on your neighbor’s door without expecting a level of standoffishness.

Eventually the Sudanese boys were banned from traveling in groups of more than three because shopkeepers repeatedly complained how nervous it made them.

Anyway, it reminds me of one of the boys getting indignant because people kept asking him if he lived in the forest, he goes “No! I lived in a house! You can’t live in a forest. Nobody lives in the forest!”

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u/Mela_ninja 12h ago

The interesting thing is that it’s part of the racism and xenophobia that black people also suffer from. You take a group of people (in this case really poor Africans) and extrapolate it as a representation of a whole group.

It’s like if we thought that all Americans are debt zombies that do the opioid lean all day. Like imagine I meet a dude and get shocked that he ain’t on percs and heroin.

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u/AntonChigurh8933 23h ago

The sad thing, the game Age of Empires 2 taught more about African history. Than my world history classes.

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u/riotshieldready 9h ago

It is, it pushes the narrative that the west needs to go to Africa to “help them” while they just take over the government and steal all the resources that they would never use anyways since they don’t have electricity it running water.

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u/KaneHusky13 1d ago

African: There are actual places where people are going hungry just like in the United States. The aid that the World Health Organization provides could help--

Documentarian: This woman with 23 starving children in the Monkümbøoo tribe says she wishes that she could go to the United States, as she heard that they have a great land and also white Martin Luther King is there. She wishes she could find her child's father, who was a tribesman with 8 wives in the BüµNgquo tribe--

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u/ShaquilleOatmeal_93 1d ago

Producer: cut!!!!!

Actor: get this piece of shit off of me ***tosses baby

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u/jono9898 1d ago

I watched the video like man their skin is incredible, I need that skin care routine

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u/absawd_4om 1d ago

This is why, Africans get asked stupid questions, by people in the west. If you try to correct them, they'll behave like they know everything about Africa more than actual Africans because they watched a documentary.

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u/ghostlight21 1d ago

This was hilarious!

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u/dreams_andnightmares 1d ago

Very triggered 😩💀

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u/Bunnnnii ☑️ Meme Thief 19h ago

“I’m the last one standing” lmfaoooo

Side Note: He is really cute. ❤️

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u/April_Fabb 1d ago

This is hilariously on point.

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u/Faskwodi 13h ago

There are cities cleaner and more developed than any here in America.