I honestly, beyond all the shit I post, try to be open minded about race. I don't like being closed minded, because I realize that black people are not bad people. However whenever I hear about black culture, I always think of rap music, I think about the violence and crime that is often associated with the music, plus the history of slavery. I mean a lot of good music has come from blacks, like blues and jazz, which is actually good compared to hip hop. Now a days it just seems like black culture in general, as a whole, doesn't really have much redeeming value to it.

I mean, I am just really sick of always hearing about how black people have it so bad, then watching videos of them attacking cops, attacking people who have a confederate flag, starting fights on world star hiphop.com, it's just difficult to find much sympathy for all the blacklivesmatter# stuff. I really want to be open minded, tell me some good things that I should think about when I think of black culture, because as a whole, whenever I think about it just annoys me. I like being open minded about other things and honestly, I am being dead serious when I say that it sort of upsets me that I have trouble with this issue.

All the most intelligent people in the world who I have witnessed are all about equality in race and stuff. I am just supposed to accept these differences in race, but sometimes I just have to wonder, why bother giving so much sympathy when all I hear is bullshit? It's either they're being attacked or they're attacking others, just fucking shut up. They even have their own way of speaking, even though they have been part of american culture for generations, so it's just difficult to even feel comfortable speaking to them sometimes.

black culture is p. shit tbh

the nigga flip

The same could be asked about white culture,  it's just a shame it doesnt exist.

Grits are aight.
So is purple drank, I guess.
A brotha introduced me to Hennessy, so I guess that's cool too.

Quote from: DAS THROWBACK on July 19, 2015, 06:01:12 PM

Grits are aight.
So is purple drank, I guess.
A brotha introduced me to Hennessy, so I guess that's cool too.

My nigga

It's called lean though

lean is pretty bad tbh

First in regards to the way we speak, we do this because during slavery and even well after slavery ended, you'd be killed for being able to read. Generations of black people were denied education, and it took until the mid 20th century to give black Americans good infrastructure for education, which was miles behind what whites had. So it's no surprise Ebonics is a thing.

Second, we don't really have much of a culture. Well black people like Africans do, but not black Americans. What culture can one have when you're brought in chains to a new world and then having to adopt the norms of the race that enslaved you? Over generations black culture that originated in Africa degraded due to integrating with whites. It simply couldn't be preserved.
The culture that we did build in America was either suppressed or stolen (like how most black music was ripped off by whites often).

Our culture today, at least from what I can see, mostly revolves around our sense of community, Christianity, music, and racial unity. We also have a love for comedy. Other than that it's really just American culture.
Also black culture isn't just violence and ignorance, but the media always portrays us like that so I can't be surprised when people think the way they do. The American media will never tell you how great and prosperous other parts of the world are. It breaks the  ethnocentrism.

Well put.