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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?
The good and admirable aspects of black culture DID NOT come out of southern redneck culture. Now maybe certain religious aspects may have a connection, but that's been bad for blacks...not good.
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.
Can't understand any of them so I could care less about their culture. They seem to be in contention for who can appear to be the biggest buffoon.
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.
"Familiarity breeds contempt." How in the world can you ignore the history of "intimate hostility" between the two? Considering the history--nearly as long as the Anglo settlement of the US itself--it's actually a wonder there is any African-American/White intermarriage at all.
One factor not mentioned was the social cost of the "Great Northern Migration." That was a migration of young blacks who by and large did not take their "culture keepers"--older family members, especially grandmothers--with them. So the social instability of the urbanizing blacks during that time was even more unstable than the writers of the article realize. The traditional culture of "home" remained in the South, while blacks in the North grew a culture of rootlessness.
This culture of rootlessness was far more susceptible, then, to the same external pressures that sent even white marriage rates plunging. What affected white marriages adversely affected the already fragile urban black families to an even greater degree. Black families are essentially "the canaries in the coal mine"--and problems seen in black families should be closely heeded by white families as well.
One factor not mentioned was the social cost of the "Great Northern Migration." That was a migration of young blacks who by and large did not take their "culture keepers"--older family members, especially grandmothers--with them. So the social instability of the urbanizing blacks during that time was even more unstable than the writers of the article realize. The traditional culture of "home" remained in the South, while blacks in the North grew a culture of rootlessness.
This culture of rootlessness was far more susceptible, then, to the same external pressures that sent even white marriage rates plunging. What affected white marriages adversely affected the already fragile urban black families to an even greater degree. Black families are essentially "the canaries in the coal mine"--and problems seen in black families should be closely heeded by white families as well.
Yep, those who see it as a black only problem are wrong. We are all on the same boat and we are all stronger together whether we admit it or not. I have my life vest, but I feel for those who don't, black or white.
The good and admirable aspects of black culture DID NOT come out of southern redneck culture. Now maybe certain religious aspects may have a connection, but that's been bad for blacks...not good.
Says you; but Martin Luther disagreed as do many others. Sharpton and the thugs looting and burning certainly were not his followers. They have more in association with the big cities mobsters than anything else. Wise guys as they are called. Check out mob wifes they are male versions. of their wifes.
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.
Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats are culturally similar, yet they're not known for mingling with each other or getting along with each other.
Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats are culturally similar, yet they're not known for mingling with each other or getting along with each other.
Jeff Foxworthy and Lil Wayne are both from The South. How are they culturally alike? How do they share the same cultural values? Jeff Foxworthy is not fluent in Ebonics while Lil Wayne is. Jeff Foxworthy has been married to the same woman for 20 years while Lil Wayne has several baby mamas because all of his kids were born out of wedlock.
Also most Bosniaks are Muslim while most Croats and Serbians are Christian. That is a pretty big cultural difference. No wonder they don't get along.
"So ... what does this have to do with the ol’ redneck culture? Plenty.
The roots of this crisis do not go back to Africa, but to the old South. Few of us remember this, but at at one time, the dominant influence in the old South was a chaotic culture that came from pre-18th Century regions of the British Isles, namely, 1) the Scottish highlands, 2) the “midlands” – the anarchic region between England and Scotland and 3) what is now Northern Ireland. Before the formation of the United Kingdom, these regions were unstable, lawless, violent and uncontrollable. Most southern Whites can trace their roots back to these regions."
Not only the south, that chaotic culture was the dominant influence of all the colonies. I would add a fourth group to those three, London's poor. England gave the original land grants to it's wealthy citizens, everybody else was an indentured servant, apprentice or hillbilly/whatever. Unless they were fairly recent arrivals, all American whites can trace some, if not all, of their roots back to those regions.
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