Two sisters, same womb
Birthed and raised in separate lands
A bond so tight breached by the Atlantic Ocean
One raised in the United States
The other stayed in native Africa
Same motherland
Conceived by the same parents
Raised in different homes
This leads me to ask,
What is my culture?
I am "culturefull",
I am African American
I am not African
In the way that I have family that has emigrated from the mother of continents
Nor am I American in the way that the American default for the rest of the world is white
But
I am African in the way that my features and very soul are alive
And I am American in the way my family has toiled this soil and served this country for generations
Furthermore,
Though American,
I never where the red, white, and blue
Because American pride
Seems too patriotic for a country so ignorant
So in a way, I am something whose beauty has been meticulously put back together, while some pieces remain lost on the journey
In the same way of understanding that without both titles -African and American- my two stories are not complete
I am both in a sense, to the way I am neither
A honor to my origin vs a reflection of my past
What am I?
I ask myself this sometimes
A Soulann,
a specific ethnicity of American often misunderstood
I am African American
Nov 26, 2025
Nov 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM UTC
Two sisters, same womb
Birthed and raised in separate lands
A bond so tight breached by the Atlantic Ocean
One raised in the United States
The other stayed in native Africa
Same motherland
Conceived by the same parents
Raised in different homes
This leads me to ask,
What is my culture?
I am "culturefull",
I am African American
I am not African
In the way that I have family that has emigrated from the mother of continents
Nor am I American in the way that the American default for the rest of the world is white
But
I am African in the way that my features and very soul are alive
And I am American in the way my family has toiled this soil and served this country for generations
Furthermore,
Though American,
I never where the red, white, and blue
Because American pride
Seems too patriotic for a country so ignorant
So in a way, I am something whose beauty has been meticulously put back together, while some pieces remain lost on the journey
In the same way of understanding that without both titles -African and American- my two stories are not complete
I am both in a sense, to the way I am neither
A honor to my origin vs a reflection of my past
What am I?
I ask myself this sometimes
A Soulann,
a specific ethnicity of American often misunderstood
I am African American
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