Posted by Deltron at gso26-136-204.triad.rr.com on December 10, 2003 at 01:06:30:
In Reply to: Baby Boy posted by DerekD on December 10, 2003 at 00:05:24:
I'm not talking about how the African American culture has developed. The African American culture, past the surface bullshit about bling and guns and thugs and the gayness you get off of LAUNCHAOL, is amazing. Especially when you consider where it all came from: Africa, and Africa's rich cultural history.
I'm TALKING about the bullshit they push on the youth and how it makes them perceive the black culture. I wouldn't think it too off to say that 9 out of 10 white families don't bother with lessons about current culture or the African American's place in our country's development.
Therefore when these kids, barely into their pubes, run into this fake world of guns and glitz, they buy it. They get into the music, see the damn movies (LOVE DON'T COST A THING, SAVE THE LAST DANCE, DRUMLINE), and adopt it as something they can identify with.
Then when they eventually get older, the idea of black culture is less about an in-depth history of a people's struggle to survive on unfriendly shores and more about "that gay shit I was into when I was 12."