This is facts and growning up pan African you’re not thought about ethnic pride at all. I was taught ethnic pride was just tribalism and that black Americans shouldn’t be proud of our history in America at all. People who called their self pan African use to tell me to my face that “black Americans didn’t have culture” that “America isnt our home we have to go back to Africa” that “soul food is a slave food” like imagine a YT supremacist and take his talking points about black American but then change it a little so that after you’ve diminished black American culture you uplift African cultures and say how those cultures are better we have to go back to that. It was only when I was like 14 when I woke up that this was all nonsense and I started studying black American culture on my own
It’s a real life thing too. Anybody Gen X or younger that goes to college can see it firsthand. It’s crazy how awful our interpretation of it is compared to other countries. We view it as being “born again” & being cleansed, others see it as political mobility first