Yes, there are lots of issues with Black culture, but there's a lot of great things as well. As someone mentioned about the best way to enslave people is to allow them to enslave themselves. That's absolutely true and that is why people know that the way things are in the black community is by design. Design of who? Design of people who were threatened by the prospect of black people having the same rights as them and as a result, did everything in their power to limit those rights.
So now people are having to work from further behind to move beyond those problems that have existed since slavery and even afterward. And unfortunately, yes, there are issues culturally that now exist. The fact that a kid is ostracized by his peers for being smart, and told that they are "acting white" or "talking white". That's completely ridiculous. People are trained to think that they are automatically doomed to not do as well or not be as educated as whites. Or that by doing well and reaching high achievements, this is them impersonating someone who isn't themselves. Or that they are not in-line with who they're supposed to be.
The thing is, you don't change black culture by forcing assimilation with White culture. You change it by making it acceptable to be black, and embracing differences rather than teaching someone to ignore a major part of who they are. Make it an expectation that Blacks are to be educated rather than a huge shock and surprise. By getting rid of the stigma that the "default" and "normal" "standard" is white, and that if you aren't standard or in the majority something is wrong with you. Instead of us being all things for all people, we often make people be like us and assume our way is better, instead of figuring out a common way. It is going to take time, and it is going to take cooperation from ALL people for this to happen. People have to stop reinforcing these stereotypes, and black people need to hear voices coming from people other than our own community saying that we are expected to achieve, and that our presence matters. Actions should follow.
Stop second-guessing and discounting all of our achievements when they do happen, and encourage people to keep up the good work! We know that there are issues that still need to be addressed, we don't need you to tell us that. Black people shouldn't have to open threads online to defend their education level or see a bunch of disparaging and quite frankly very hurtful comments that are overgeneralized statements. This happens on such a large scale it is ridiculous. Quite frankly-- it is exhausting to have to block that out all of the time, and that's just being real.

It's going to take for people to lean in and actually learn about why people are the way they are instead of making instant negative judgements about them. The burden always comes on Black people who attempt to make White people understand them, instead of meeting people where they are and taking the initiative to try to understand your black coworkers and community members. We all have to learn to love and accept people for who they are and what makes them different, while also seeking to see the commonalities in all people. We pretty much all want the same things even if we have a different approach to doing it. Subcultures are created when a group becomes or feels isolated within a society, so stop isolating and cultures will shift.

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Posted by creppeln

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Posted on 2/2/19 at 11:29 am to oogabooga68

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Again, in an overwhelming number of cases, there are black people and a Political Party that claims to want to help black people, running those Districts.....

So how would things be different if the district were run by non-blacks and non democrats?
Do you ever think that the people who most often end up running those distracts are also the people who mostly show an interest an engage in the communities to begin with? If you want to run things, engage with the community in a way that'll make a difference. Be a part of the community...

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White Conservatives (which let's be honest, black people have been brainwashed into hating) are NOT holding you down.

People use black people as pawns the way white conservatives use poor whites as pawns.
And if they're not holding anyone down, then what specifically are they doing to help the situation? Since clearly if affects everyone.

And for the record. The rich white who have obtained most of the power in the country have been trying to divide poor whites and blacks since the beginning. This was an attempt to not allow the two groups to combine together and overthrow their power because it was way more of them. That's why Black codes were enacted after Bacon's rebellion, to mitigate the threat against the ruling class. They purposely did things to set apart poor whites to cause them to focus on differences between them and blacks rather than commonalities.
Unfortunately, you can see this worked and is still working there's a whole group of people willing to vote "conservative republican" even if financially it doesn't benefit them as much as it benefits the ruling class. Much in the same way there are Black who will vote democrat by default without vetting the candidates. But I digress...

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