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I hear that almost daily, you disrespect me........................ how can i disrespect you, i dont know who you are, you got to earn my respect before i can dis you
It is very easy for a stranger to treat someone with disrespect. It happens. It's happened to me.
You do not appear to be aware of how strongly black men and black women in America have tried to maintain husband-wife/father-mother families in America despite slavery and racism.....
Not nay more than city wise guy/ thug culture. So no. In fact you will find what is called black culture varies by region has much a white culture. Which you think is best depends on you. Martin Luther king was raised in the southern bible belt as its called and Sharpton was in the NE; you judge which was raised in better culture by out come as far as black cultures.
Martin Luther king was raised in the southern bible belt as its called and Sharpton was in the NE; you judge which was raised in better culture by out come as far as black cultures.
Since you brought it up...
When you consider that without a doubt one of the greatest non-violent human rights movement arose from a so-called "southern redneck culture" and gave birth to not only Martin Luther King, Jr, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Fanny Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, John Lewis, James Bevel, Andrew Young, Medgar Evers, Hosea Williams, Gloria Richardson, and Dorothy Height it kind of makes you wonder why we haven't produce more Afro-Americans infused with southern redneck culture?
When you consider that without a doubt one of the greatest non-violent human rights movement arose from a so-called "southern redneck culture" and gave birth to not only Martin Luther King, Jr, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Fanny Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, John Lewis, James Bevel, Andrew Young, Medgar Evers, Hosea Williams, Gloria Richardson, and Dorothy Height it kind of makes you wonder why we haven't produce more Afro-Americans infused with southern redneck culture?
It's not that american blacks "emulate" southern whites, it's that they are largely part of the same culture.
Lil Wayne and Jeff Foxworthy are both from The Deep South, yet I doubt very much they share the same culture.
If African Americans and Whites in the U.S were so culturally similar to each other, African American/White couples would be the number 1 most common interracial combo in America but it's not. Statistically on average Whites are more likely to mix with Asians and Latinos than they are with African Americans.
Im not a fan of Sowell either, but he is basically correct on this. The cultural and personality traits that many uneducated black Americans regard as authentically "black" have their roots ironically in rural white "hillbilly" subculture, not anything African. It frustrates me that liberal black thinkers do not also generally seem to understand the importance of criticizing and deconstructing backward & narrow notions of "blackness" as well as other internal cultural flaws.
I have a hard time understanding inner-city Blacks who use a lot of slang. Same as Hillbillies and Rednecks with deep accents so I can see the connection.
You missed my point. I did not say that matriarchal family formations do not exist in African tradition. I said that the presence of such family formations among the American families descendent from slavery is not a carryover from that African tradition.
The prevalence of female-headed families among those descended from slavery in America is the result of the slavery itself and the century of racism since. Black women today do not chose to be single mothers because of a fondly remembered tradition handed down from Africa.
You do not appear to be aware of how strongly black men and black women in America have tried to maintain husband-wife/father-mother families in Americadespite slavery and racism.
What happened after the 1950-1960 when marriage rates peaked Black and White women, then totally collapsed for black women?
I have a hard time understanding inner-city Blacks who use a lot of slang. Same as Hillbillies and Rednecks with deep accents so I can see the connection.
Yet interracial dating/interracial marriages between hillbillies/rednecks and ghetto Blacks from the hood is extremely rare. If they were so culturally alike they would be racially mingling with each other a lot more.
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