Black folks' perspective on "afrocentrics"?

Well, it's complex. Although I don't really promote racial nationalism, I do understand the phenomenon.

For the overwhelming majority of black people's time in the US we were taught we were nothing but dumb jungle bunnies who'd done little to contribute to world affairs.

In the 1950's research began to be shown that this wasn't really true.

Well, like anything, things can easily be blown out of proportion.

In a few decades -mostly within the black community- things went from "blacks have done nothing significant" to "every significant advancement in world history was founded by us"...the truth, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle.

My opinion is: collectively, blacks and whites have never been that close (in the US). Sadly, I doubt this will change in any of our lifetimes. Why? It's just to politically useful for us to be at odds with each other (divide and conquer).

However, individually, this isn't the case. People make friends with whomever seems friendly.

A lot of people who don't have relationships with people of different races tend to have odd views of races/cultures and tend to lump masses of people together as "the same" because it's intellectually easy to do that.

What's worse, imo, is people tend to mix race and culture together as though they were the same thing...

Anyhow, that's where, I feel, a lot of these attitudes come from. "They (the other racial scapegoat) is the cause of this problem or that problem and history proves they always were that way and therefore they will always be that way."

Bigotry=Collectivism. I tend to find that although cultural differences abound, they're not THAT far apart and because of that view, I prefer treating people as individuals.

TL;DR--because that's what people do when they view everything in terms of race.

BTW--we still tight, Bruh lol

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