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Iheoma U. Iruka

Oct 21, 2026

5:07
Yeah.
5:07
The fact that I do understand, unlike many Black Americans whose closest that they could identify themselves is really through the sort of enslavement, if that's even closer, right? They don't have the full direct lineage to who's my tribe.
5:19
Of course, some of that is changing with ancestry and all that kind of stuff.
5:22
I feel honored that I, at least I have a place, a home that I can count on the continent itself.
5:29
So I think that's one, but obviously, I was born here, socialized here in many ways, and so I also have the lens of a Black American.
5:35
I have both the understanding about the, a little bit of the African space, also the Black American space.
5:40
I always have to have the two lens.

6 MINS LATER

11:22
Yeah.

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