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SO your examples that Blackistan is widely used is a Blog with 10 followers, A facebook page with 16 likes, Another blog with 6 comments, A youtube video with 778 views, And an Urban dictionary post with 39 upvotes.
Thank you for proving my point that no one uses the term.
Well, that was on the first of at least ten pages returned by Google.
However, the term defines a situation that bears discussion.
At the individual level, a black person (young man, young woman) needs to decide what he or she must do to secure a viable future.
A "Blackistan" can be defined as a neighborhood that is not currently life-sustaining and isn't likely to be in a person's foreseeable future. If it's going to take generations of external resources and effort to change the neighborhood, then that individual's only viable option is to get out.
There is nothing wrong with individuals facing that fact and getting out. It's not as though it's their "native homeland," after all.
One quick point about this. It's not "parallel." They have the same danged roots. "Southern" culture is an "honor-based" culture, although it's a superficial honor.
I know it comes from the South. All the more reason I said they have parallels. The current ghetto culture has roots in redneck culture.
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"Suh, you have impuned mah dignity, and Ah demand satisfaction!"
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The southern elite gave up the gun duels long ago, but southern redneck culture--and black culture that emigrated from the south--is still immersed in it.
Like "soul food" is just southern food eaten by blacks in the north, Aaron McGruder's "n*gga moment" is only assciated with blacks in the north, but it's part of the basic culture of the south--they have their "redneck moments" that are the same thing.
And that culture went to the cities, and via segregation, was basically kept in the inner city, and was incubated. Escaping such a culture involved getting an education. Thomas Sowell wrote an essay about it.
That "moment" you speak of, it happens with southern Blacks as well. I've been around people who fit the "redneck" culture, and many of them bullied me in high school. They were as bad as some of the Black kids who fit the "ghetto" culture. My personal experiences show me that both ghetto culture and redneck culture are pretty much the same.
1. 10 pages of results , I want you to think about that before you respond.
2. Google search results are ordered be relevance. That means the top links you posted are the ones with the most views,comments, follows.
Again, thank you for proving my point.
If you want to call the hood "Blackistan" then do it, but stop lying like it is a term used by everyone.
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If you google Blackistan, you see that no one actually uses that term.
Which was definitely your lie, because if you Google "Blackistan" you do find others who actually use it and that I did not originate it, and you knew you were lying.
Oh, then you tried to qualify your lie claiming I said it was a "term used by everyone," which was another lie because I never said any such thing.
You are the liar, bud, and your lies have been archived for future reference.
BTW, I clearly delineated between "Blackistan" and "Hood," but you were too busy engineering lies to notice that, I guess.
Don Lemon said Bill O'Reilly didn't go far enough. How could Bill O'Reilly go any further without insulting people?
And with Black culture, it is a question of which segment of the Black population?
When one looks at "Black culture", so many people are reducing it to "thug life". No one seems to consider jazz, R&B, and the blues are part of this. No one considers that gospel music is part of it. No one ever considers the church. Not a mention about writers such as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Langton Hughes. No mentioning of Cornel West, Bill Cosby, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Tavis Smiley, or Tony Brown. The #1 thing that often comes to mind for many is "thug culture".
Bill needs to worry about uplifting his poor white people
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