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Jesus Christ, this sub really is white ppl co-opting black culture while being racist against blacks.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills (1959) put it this way: “The sociological imagination [perspective] enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography.” By history, Mills meant that each society is located in a broad stream of events. This gives each society specific characteristics—such as its ideas about the proper roles of men and women. By biography, Mills referred to the specific experiences that give individuals their orientations to life. In short, people don’t do what they do because they inherited some internal mechanism, such as instincts. Rather, external influences—our experiences—become part of our thinking and motivation. In short, the society in which we grow up, and our particular location in that society, lie at the center of what we do and how we think.

The fact that you are denying the history of black America from your perspective of it, in order to overlook what historians call the “vicious cycle” where each of the major social institutions through discriminatory practices contributed to the discrimination and exclusion of Black Americans in other institutions and organized life, shows that you are a closet bigot, blaming black people while ignoring the historical role white America had in creating their conditions. This isn't the past either. Wells Fargo was fined $175 million for charging higher lending fees for minorities from 2004 through 2009. But we shouldn't factor that into our judgment of how their poverty is their fault, right? Fuck off with your shortsighted, anti-sociological perspective in order to maintain your sense of white superiority.