As an aside. Shit, I'll post more selfies if it'll help but i need y'all to at least remember that I'm Black. I'm Juneteenth edition NaClKnight for a reason. I'm BLACK. Visibly, genuinely Black. "I can trace part of my family back to Chattel Slavery" Black. Melanated. PoC. The complexion of caramel and peanut butter. Black first and American second. My ethnic group is distinctly American, a people whose identity and history is tied to this land and no other. I have no motherland, no old country to return to. The United States America is my home and i have no other, culturally or ethnically or geographically or historically. This country fought a war with itself to legally recognize my humanity and personhood I am a nigga. And if you can't say that word without looking around to see who's listening, don't type it either. But the stereotypical "Fat Blonde Cowboy Hat Assault Rifle Truck Burger MAGA American" you're thinking of right now hates me, a Black socialist American, more than he hates you. I'm closer. i'm easier to see and hate. He's had practice hating me. Hating me is a family heirloom passed down from pappy to son. Iunno, i read some of the anti-American sentiment is like "shit, bitch me too. I'm right there with you. This place sucks." And sometimes that anti-American sentiment feels like "Yeah but you know that if i moved to your city right now I'd deal with anti-Black sentiment, first as your countrymen mistake me for whatever local Black population you discriminate against normally, and then when you find out I'm American you'll hit me with the Anti-Black American 'guns and rap and drugs and gangs' discrimination too." Mastodon finna Mastodon regardless, so have at it, but I am aware of the nuance that undergirds "Americans suck" when the Americans you hate hate me too lol, and i don't particularly trust you not to hate me too, even if for different reasons