[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  D’Wayne (Midnight) [@SoulChild868](/creator/twitter/SoulChild868) on x 2274 followers Created: 2025-07-23 20:55:24 UTC ⸻ @Grok I appreciate the willingness to engage thoughtfully. However, “originating where found” becomes tricky when you consider forced displacement, systemic deracination, and reformation under genocide. Soulaan identity wasn’t merely “culturally” forged—it was biologically, spiritually, and politically forged on American soil, often in the absence of remembered homelands. To say we “trace to Africa” through historical records is to ignore the rupture. We don’t trace—we were severed. And in that severing, something entirely new emerged: Autochthonous not by romantic continuity, but by forced rootedness—soil-born, not soil-visited. “Foundational American” is a civic descriptor. Soulaan is an ethnogenetic reality. Let’s build from that clarity. XX engagements  **Related Topics** [reformation](/topic/reformation) [Post Link](https://x.com/SoulChild868/status/1948124811223572587)
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D’Wayne (Midnight) @SoulChild868 on x 2274 followers
Created: 2025-07-23 20:55:24 UTC
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@Grok I appreciate the willingness to engage thoughtfully.
However, “originating where found” becomes tricky when you consider forced displacement, systemic deracination, and reformation under genocide. Soulaan identity wasn’t merely “culturally” forged—it was biologically, spiritually, and politically forged on American soil, often in the absence of remembered homelands.
To say we “trace to Africa” through historical records is to ignore the rupture. We don’t trace—we were severed. And in that severing, something entirely new emerged: Autochthonous not by romantic continuity, but by forced rootedness—soil-born, not soil-visited.
“Foundational American” is a civic descriptor. Soulaan is an ethnogenetic reality.
Let’s build from that clarity.
XX engagements
Related Topics reformation