African-American and "African" are not the same type of culture

I don't get this... A product of its own problems...

What did you think was going to happen when you enslave, discriminate, segregate, redline, "povertize" and not give a voice to a group of people over a 400+ year period?

A culture is going to form around that... A culture that is build around those common denominators. Slavery, segregation, discrimination, lack of political representation, poverty etc etc.

Where do you think the "baby mama" culture from... It comes from the slavery days. Mom, pop and kids were property and they could be sold/bought off any any time. So black people developed a culture around this buying and selling. "VISITING RELATIONSHIPS" aka baby mama culture.

Oppressive judicial and political systems that can't be overtly racists that because "we ain't racists now, it's not a cool look now" remember the atwater quote...

"You start out in 1954 by saying, "N-word, n-word, n-word". By 1968 you can't say "n-word"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N-word, n-word". So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the back-burner."

Yea, why are acting surprised when for 400+ years you done tried to take the self worth of a group of people and then turn around and demand that they act "white" ... You know ... building strong cohesive families, focusing on education and developing solid work ethic is considered acting right. I mean for 400+ years you tried not to educate them, broke up their families, and had them work in the shittiest of jobs ... Then you got the nerve to say "act white!" Motherfucker they done developed a culture out of all the bullshitery that they have faced. And that culture has given us gospel music, r&b, soul, country, jazz, hbcus, rap etc etc.. ie the black culture/experience.

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