# Vic Mensa Says The Division Between Black Americans And Africans Is Manufactured

An episode of [Earn Your Leisure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1450211392), 27 Jan 2026, 8:37.

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In this powerful clip from Market Mondays, Vic Mensa joins Rashad Bilal for a candid discussion that dives deep into identity, unity, and the divisive narratives that have shaped perceptions among Black Americans and Africans. Vic Mensa shares his personal story of being mixed race—his father from Ghana and his mother from America—and addresses the complexities and sensitivities surrounding his background. The conversation shines a spotlight on the manufactured divisions between Black American and Black African communities, which Vic Mensa argues are perpetuated to prevent collective empowerment. He credits Black Americans with creating the most influential culture globally, and points out the economic and population growth on the African continent, emphasizing the transformative potential if both groups unite. Vic Mensa challenges the anti-African narrative often found online and calls attention to similar misunderstandings pushed by some Africans about their Black American counterparts. Together, he and Rashad Bilal unpack the harmful stereotypes spread by media, confronting issues that impact identity, history, and self-worth within both communities. The clip ends with a heartfelt appeal for unity, stressing that true freedom and advancement can only be achieved when Black Americans and Africans come together—recognizing their collective strength and shared heritage. Tune in for an honest conversation that pushes past division and encourages us all toward unity, empowerment, and cultural pride. **Hashtags:** #VicMensa #MarketMondays #BlackUnity #FBA #AfricanDiaspora #BlackCulture #Identity #MediaNarrative #RashadBilal #Ghana #BlackHistory #AfricanEmpowerment #Unity #HiddenColors #Empowerment #CultureClip See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

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[0:43] Speaker 2: What I really appreciate about what y'all been doing, man,
[0:47] Speaker 2: is the presence that you're.
[0:53] Speaker 3: Building on the continent. Man. You know what I'm saying.
[0:55] Speaker 2: It's like it's so necessary and people need to see
[1:00] Speaker 2: it from you too. You know what I'm saying, Because
[1:03] Speaker 2: obviously I have a voice and my own my own lane,
[1:07] Speaker 2: but as an African that's like mixed race, and you
[1:14] Speaker 2: know what I mean, I've got ways for people.
[1:17] Speaker 4: To discredit the situation.
[1:21] Speaker 2: Discredit my opinion as it pertains to Black American people.
[1:25] Speaker 3: I mean, especially in the age of FBA.
[1:27] Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, But can we talk about that?
[1:29] Speaker 4: I know, my bad, can we talk about that?
[1:31] Speaker 3: Though?
[1:32] Speaker 4: I want to hear vixed. I'm glad you brought that up,
[1:34] Speaker 4: because Vic, if you don't know his background, his father
[1:37] Speaker 4: is from Ghana and his mother, your mother is from America.
[1:40] Speaker 3: Right, yeah, she's white, white America.
[1:42] Speaker 4: So in all right, this is a very sensitive topic
[1:46] Speaker 4: right now.
[1:48] Speaker 1: Hureka, she don't do it to read I Love you
[1:52] Speaker 1: hitting colors one through twenty.
[1:54] Speaker 4: You know, I think.
[1:56] Speaker 2: They got like hundreds of thousands of.
[2:01] Speaker 4: Computers, but they got their first AI bods. Boy, FBA,
[2:06] Speaker 4: don't do it? Love you? How is that for you?
[2:11] Speaker 4: How is that for you?
[2:13] Speaker 3: I think it's really funny. I like, I kind of
[2:16] Speaker 3: have a good time with it. You know what I'm saying.
[2:20] Speaker 2: The division between Black American people and Black African people
[2:24] Speaker 2: is manufactured.
[2:24] Speaker 3: It's an agent of the state. The division between black.
[2:29] Speaker 2: Vision, between Black American people and black African people is manufactured.
[2:33] Speaker 3: It is an agent of the states. It's used to
[2:36] Speaker 3: keep us.
[2:37] Speaker 2: Divided so that we don't unify Black Americans with the
[2:40] Speaker 2: most culturally impactful with the most impactful culture on the planet,
[2:48] Speaker 2: with Black Africans that are the fastest growing population with
[2:51] Speaker 2: the most resources. They don't want Black American people, the
[2:55] Speaker 2: most culturally impactful group on planet Earth, to link up
[2:59] Speaker 2: with the most resource rich continent, which, as you guys
[3:03] Speaker 2: obviously know, is the only place where the birth rates
[3:06] Speaker 2: are on the rise and will be the majority of
[3:09] Speaker 2: the human beings. And if you look at places like China,
[3:13] Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like when the population increases and.
[3:18] Speaker 3: Certain certain moves are made, I mean to to economically.
[3:25] Speaker 2: Benefit from that. I mean, the possibilities are we just watched.
[3:29] Speaker 2: The possibility is so fucking massive. And what the powers
[3:33] Speaker 2: that be really don't want is that Black American people,
[3:38] Speaker 2: who have been able to just in this past hundred
[3:43] Speaker 2: years man like dramatically change the landscape of culture globally.
[3:50] Speaker 2: You know, they don't want us to connect, you know
[3:52] Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And that's where that's where I find
[3:55] Speaker 2: my greatest criticisms with FBA is not FBA as an
[3:59] Speaker 2: idea of foundationally black Americans, Like I believe whatever you
[4:04] Speaker 2: want to call it, that Black American people are obviously
[4:09] Speaker 2: their own culture.
[4:11] Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
[4:11] Speaker 2: They are their own I mean, they have their own cuisine,
[4:15] Speaker 2: they have their own dialects, they're basically their own language,
[4:18] Speaker 2: their own literature, their own contributions to science.
[4:21] Speaker 3: Technology, math are everything. You know what I'm saying.
[4:25] Speaker 2: But was it Malcolm X that said, uh, if a
[4:29] Speaker 2: kitten gives birth in an oven, does it give birth
[4:35] Speaker 2: to cookies?
[4:36] Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
[4:37] Speaker 4: Like with that, Malcolm X, a beanie seagull?
[4:40] Speaker 3: That would be funny if I mixed up, Malcolm, if.
[4:44] Speaker 4: You put pictures in the oven, not make them biscuits,
[4:46] Speaker 4: biscuits biscuits funny?
[4:50] Speaker 2: I do think I don't know bo both con.
[5:00] Speaker 3: My big point, though, man, is that, like.
[5:03] Speaker 2: I just think that, like the group online that is
[5:08] Speaker 2: pushing an anti African narrative, it's just misguided and I
[5:12] Speaker 2: feel like they're misguided by design though you know what
[5:15] Speaker 2: I'm saying, in the same way that the Africans online
[5:18] Speaker 2: that are pushing an anti black American narrative are misguided.
[5:21] Speaker 3: They're misguided by design.
[5:22] Speaker 2: Like I've had these conversations in Africa many times when
[5:28] Speaker 2: African people will ask me, they say black Americans. Why
[5:31] Speaker 2: are they so aggressive? And you know what I mean,
[5:34] Speaker 2: why are they so angry? And why can't they figure
[5:41] Speaker 2: out how to rise in society? Like Africans are often
[5:45] Speaker 2: colored with so many negative stereotypes of Black Americans because
[5:52] Speaker 2: the media has painted Black Americans in yeah, I mean
[5:56] Speaker 2: and intentionally derogatory light in order to keep them exploited,
[6:00] Speaker 2: you know what I mean, and in order to make
[6:02] Speaker 2: the world feel like but I guess, yeah, my point
[6:06] Speaker 2: being that it's just two different strokes of the same
[6:09] Speaker 2: brush because at the same token, like, uh, the media
[6:14] Speaker 2: has and continues to paint Africans as having no contribution
[6:19] Speaker 2: to history, saying that the Pyramids are created by you know,
[6:25] Speaker 2: aliens or goddamn motherfuckers look like Brett Farv, you know
[6:29] Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like, just because they don't want to
[6:33] Speaker 2: acknowledge the greatness of black people.
[6:36] Speaker 3: And so you know what I mean.
[6:38] Speaker 2: I appeal to like both to both FBA and to
[6:44] Speaker 2: African people of the continent to you know, recognize our
[6:49] Speaker 2: our necessitated unity, Like we don't get free until we
[6:53] Speaker 2: all get free.
[6:54] Speaker 3: You know That's how I feel.
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