Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl01180)

At 10:14 PM 5/20/96 -0400, you wrote:

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>>Would you say that black culture, as a thing in its own right, in
>>America, is mature and highly-developed, or in its infancy? I'd say
>>that it's in its formative stages, and that it will take many generations
>>for something unique will evolve.

I really have to address the above statement, the spirit of Martin Luther
King will have my ass for breakfast if I don't. And I wouldn't blame him. It
is absolutely an egregiously  racist comment to describe Black Culture" as
immature, or in it's formative stages!

Blacks as people, are the same race whites are..HOMO SAPIENS! ergo they are
equally mature and developed as people.

But culture is socially based and so we have to say this: What Eldon calls
"Black Culture" in it's home base of Africa is as old, or in many cases
older (Egypt was primarily negroid) than so-called White Culture", by which
Eldon clearly means 'European Culture".

Now, Black American Culture has been developing for over 400 hundred years
ever since the Africans were forcibly transported to America and enslaved by
those "advanced" Europeans. And the Africans had to create their own culture
out of what came to hand. This is and was a tremendous accomplishment and
they are to be admired for it, the "Whites" just transplanted Europe to the
New World and promptly used their "European Mature Culture" to wreck
genocide on the indigenous population. Certainly the African American's
creation of a hybrid culture that is viable and full of music and love, is a
sign of great maturity. Their patience with the whites is also a sign of
maturity.

Will that do Martin?

alexis.
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