Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a comment from a December 2025 One54Africa YouTube podcast entitled "Black Brits vs Black Americans". That post corrects part of the Foundational Black Americans (FBA) position that people of Black Caribbean descent didn't contribute to Black American history and culture.
The content of this post is presented for history and socio-cultural purposes.
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Thanks to the commenter who is quoted in this post and thanks to YouTube's One54Africa podcast for providing a forum for these types of discussions.
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SUMMARY OF THIS PODCAST AND ITS DISCUSSION THREAD
The name "One54 Africa" refers to the fact that the one continent of Africa has 54 nations.
Here's part of the summary of this podcast.
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"One54, hosted by Akbar and Godfrey, is a first of its kind podcast spotlighting the untold stories of African entertainers, athletes and business leaders. Through unfiltered conversations, this podcxast reveals the challenges and culture clashes of growing up African in America."
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Here's my overview of this One 54Africa episode and the discussion sub-thread that this showcase comment is part of:
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This podcast episode focuses on whether Black Britons or any other Black people such as Black people from the Caribbean and Black Africans should be casts in theater, television, or movie roles as historical or fictional African Americans or should those roles be reserved for African Americans.
In addition to that subject, the comment that is showcased in this pancocojams post debunks the FBA (Foundational Black American) belief that the only contributors to "Black United States history and culture were Black people who were enslaved in the United States and their descendants. According to FBA*, this population doesn't include any people of Black Caribbean descent. Therefore, according to FBA, the only people who are FBA should be eligible for movie, television, or theater acting roles that portray FBA people (i.e. the population that is still widely referred to as "African Americans".
**** WHAT DOES FBA MEAN? Here's my brief overview of FBA (Foundational Black American) :
"FBA" isn't an organization but is a lineage based designation that is increasingly used in Black American social media and in other Black frequented online spaces, particularly in Black American social media..
According to FBA spokespersons such as its 2021 founder Tariq Nasheed, the referent "African American" should no longer be used and should be replaced with "Foundational Black American". "Foundational Black American" refers to a Black person who can trace their lineage to one or more ancestors who were enslaved in the United States. Black people whose ancestors were enslaved in the Caribbean or in South America aren't FBA).Also, Black people from Africa or Europe aren't FBAs.
Furthermore, FBA believe that Black people who aren't FBA (based on that definition) have a different lineage, history, and culture from FBAs. One derogatory referent that FBAs use for those non-FBA Black Americans, particularly those who came to the United States after World War II is "tether". "Tether" is used particularly used by proponents of FBA as a slur for Black people and their descendants who fled their homelands in the Caribbean, Africa, or elsewhere to emigrate to the United States.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/10/what-word-tether-means-to-foundational.html "What The Word "Tether" Means To Foundational Black Americans (FBAs)" for more information on this subject.
*Full disclosure: I use the referents "African American" and Black (Black American).
According to the FBA definition given above, I would not be considered a FBA because I can't trace my ancestry to someone who was enslaved in the United States (My father who adopted in Michigan and I don't know his biological roots and my mother's parents are from Tobago and Barbados). Furthermore, I very much disagree with the positions that are held by Tariq Nasheed and other FBA spokespersons
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SHOWCASE COMMENT
from @igotfiveonit7903, January 2026
"This is jealously
No one disrespected your fragile ego
It's so fragile
You saw someone make money and thought
"How can I benefit from that"
It's pathetic
These are individual talents
Black British people are not buying up land that black
Americans own
You don't even own the job
But you are upset because someone from somewhere else can do
it better
Trying to cut down the competition
FBA culture ain't even FBA culture and you ask people from
New York
Is this American culture
They will tell you no
They ain't rocking with that Tariq nasheed BS
This is Bronx or wherever culture
Remember half of black British people are Carribbeans
We have cousins in the Bronx
My grandad died in the Bronx
We talk to these people
East coast
West coast
The West coast maybe FBA culture
But that east coast stuff is not FBA at all
Biggie
DJ KOOL herc
Lil Kim
Foxy brown
Cardi B
Nicki
All the stuff that are popular now
Is not American stuff
I don't know why these people won't acknowledge the
Carribbean people who made waves in your community
Acting Sidney
First black man to win was a Bahamian
Slick rick
MF Doom
This FBA stuff is so ahistorical it's crazy and Nigerians
and Africans like to push this stuff because they want Carribbean people out of
the picture
Put as a Carribbean
I'm not letting Americans run wild with this
I'm going to keep you straight when your ego gets out of
line
You FBAs are wilding
Go do research on the civil rights movement
Harry Belafonte
Frantz Fanon
Kwame Tru
You'll see numerous Carribbean leaders
Of course they helped as the Carribbean are just a
collection of Islands right next to America
No beef Africans
It's just proximity
Maya Angelou was part Trinidadian
Collin Powell
Half of Mike Tyson
Floyd Mayweather grandfather
Every step of the way when there has been 10 African
Americans saying no
There has been 2 Carribbeans saying
"Nah man, don't let em talk to you like that"
Again sorry Africans
We came out of slavery in the mid 1800's
100 years later a civil rights movement
That is one life time
There just wasn't much time
Africans only start leaving Africa in the 1980s in any
meaningful way
The war in Nigeria and a war in Somalia
20 years later 2000
Everything is basically present history
An you notice most Afro Canadians are Carribbean
That's why drake is always doing dancehall
And half of the black British
To places in the British empire
Why am I teaching a history lesson
Do some research"
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Which other people of Caribbean descent can you think of who contribute (contributed) to African American culture but aren't mentioned in this comment?
Which Black British people can you think of
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