This also speaks for me. I wonder if these people are willing to throw us all out of our blackness or if it’s only VP nominee Harris.

If she goes, so does Shirley Chisholm, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Ciseley Tyson and others. Many Black leaders/icons have Caribbean roots. https://twitter.com/tify330/status/1294282225480081409

I’m just curious. Is Busta Rhymes not Black anymore?

What about Colin Powell, is he suddenly not Black anymore too?

Queen Mother Cicely Tyson is the epitome of Black Excellence. Daughter of West Indian parents.

Malcolm X, mother from Grenada.

I’m just throwing this one in. Big ups for Jamaica. Black people around the world claims this one.

Jamaican born rapper Heavy D’s blackness was never questioned. Not ever. He was embraced in American hip hop culture as one its icons who helped frame it.

When Rihanna made history with the “First Luxory Line by a Black Woman”, did they question her blackness?

Mr @HenryLouisGates said it much better than I have.

https://twitter.com/henrylouisgates/status/1294298736085078018?s=21 https://twitter.com/henrylouisgates/status/1294298736085078018

First BLACK male actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. He was born in Miami but is Bahamian-American.

Civil Rights icon and King of Calypso, Harry Belafonte. Born in NY of Jamaican parents.

Day-o! Daylight come and me wan go home.

Stokley Carmichael was the founder of the Black Panther Movement. An original freedom rider and promoter of Black Power . Born in Trinidad.