African vs African American

Fresh and Fit feel some type of way when people say they're not Black. As someone who's mom is from Kenya and dad is from America, I get where they're coming from. I personally like the fact that they don't have a tendency to separate themselves from the people of African origin in America, and they don't think they are intrinsically better, only through culture.

The problem is that as a society we can’t decide if Black means:

a) looking like the average person in Africa

b) anything pertaining to the culture of African slave descendants in America

The guys at F&F are going by the 1st definition. The reality though is that although lookin African may affect your first impression, usually once someone sees/hears you're not acting ghetto they will work with you. They think of you as something different.

Technically once Jim Crow laws were abolished, that was officially the time physical attributes like skin color and hair texture stopped representing cultures like Black and White. From that moment on, we decided that Dr Dre is white whenever he sells his companies to Apple, and Eminem is Black whenever he raps. People kept that Jim Crow mindset for a while but now I think that mindset is starting to die off.

Conclusion:
F&F is wrong to claim they're Black because they look African, but they are right to claim Blackness when doing black stuff (wearing big chains, listening to rap, saying "nigga" )