
Originally Posted by
Total_Blender
I could spend all day discussing the native African influence that is present still today in Black culture.
A lot of Southern "soul" food traces its origins back to the methods of cooking that native Africans were using in Africa.
Without native African rythms and musical call and response structures, we would probably still be jamming out to Bach and Handel and partying like it was 1759.
And the way Black people speak is also a unique cultural characteristic. They don't speak the way that they do from a lack of intelligence or even from a lack of education. And this has been proven because the differences between the way that African Americans speak and regular American vernacular English occur in consistent patterns, similarly to the differences that happen between our speech and the speech of people from the UK or other places where English is spoken.
I think the term "racist" gets thrown around a little too much. I don't think anyone on here is racist as much as they are unwilling to develop a critical approach or an analysis that goes any deeper than "get over it" or "Black people voted for Obama just because he's Black".