What is Black American Culture? (inspired by The Salon)

[Dwolf]

The Salon

 

[Red Shield]

Think about it. Most of our existence in this country has been defined by outright oppression. The church is big in our community but we were forced to be Christian. Our traditional food is essentially slave food. They took jazz from us in less than 30 years. Rock n roll even faster. Ww2 vets wanted to fight and came home to nothing. Generations thinking they need to dress, talk, and act a certain way around white folks. Hip hop is the first thing we created that is thoroughly black. We took all that oppression and created something over forty years old. Created our own rules and said shyteven older blacks were shook from. Can you imagine a WW2 saying fukk the police?

Don't think they ever took Jazz from us. Rock n Roll I agree with though.

 

[Blackout]

wtf.... this simply isn't true. There was physical segregation for sure but Black American culture has been dominating America since the the 1850's. Where do you think HillBilly music came from?






or what the early minstrel shows were trying to imitate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Plantation

We dominated with segregation still in tact.

Its how Elvis Presley stole our style

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Soul food is essentially slave food breh.

What else have we created that is as black as hip hop?

Older blacks were the ones who lightened their skin and conked their hair and watched what they said around face. Hip hop generation was the first to say fukk all that we're gonna do shyt our way. Don't get name wrong the seeds were planted by Malcolm and the Panthers. Hip hop is the flower. It's the first thing that we can uniquely call our own

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Of course we have African influences in us. It's in our soul. But we have been stripped of so much that hip hop is the one thing that was built entirely free of the white man's thinking. Of course we added our own thing to Christianity. Of course our food has some African influences. Of course we took those instruments and created a new genre but none of those things defined the majority of our people like hip hop. Y'all can't name me one thing as thoroughly black as that

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Of course we have African influences in us. It's in our soul. But we have been stripped of so much that hip hop is the one thing that was built entirely free of the white man's thinking. Of course we added our own thing to Christianity. Of course our food has some African influences. Of course we took those instruments and created a new genre but none of those things defined the majority of our people like hip hop. Y'all can't name me one thing as thoroughly black as that

Sorry man but the stuff you're posting is crazy

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Sorry man but the stuff you're posting is crazy

Can you name one tho

Everything up till then had some white influence in some way shape or form.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Modern music, ubran/street wear, soul food, Southern baptist churches, HBCUs, AA literature/art/movies and the vast array of dances.

This idea that AA don't have culture is dumb and idiotic, and honestly, AA culture is just as rich as most places claiming to have "their own culture"

I'll let @IllmaticDelta and @K.O.N.Y @Anghellic put in work though

to add on

Dance. AAVE and Urban AAVE. That intangible black identity that permeates throughout our population that naturally comes to us. The cool factor we're known for. Fashion and urban fashion

edit-Actually some of these overlap yours

Folklore and Oral traditions
Gospel
Shout Bands/music
Negro spirituals
Dance
HBCU
Baptist-Holiness-Pentecsotal church
Fashion
Food
Regional subcultures
Blues
Zydeco
Rock/Rock n Roll
Gullah-Geeche
Louisiana Creole
Black Indians
Mardi Gras Indians
Afro Seminole
Funk
HipHop
Jazz
Jazz funeral
Religious subcultures
Hoodoo
Voodoo
Brass Bands
HBCU bands
Black Cowboys/Rodeos
Speech/Dialects
Slang
Soul
Disco
House music
Electronic dance
Rural related culture
Civil Rights
Black Power/Pan-Africanism/Afrocentrism

...plus many other things

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Can you name one tho

Everything up till then had some white influence in some way shape or form.

Blues

A comparison between the Upper West African influenced Blues and the lower West/Central African drum based Cuban music

 

[HideoKojima]

Modern music, ubran/street wear, soul food, Southern baptist churches, HBCUs, AA literature/art/movies and the vast array of dances.

This idea that AA don't have culture is dumb and idiotic, and honestly, AA culture is just as rich as most places claiming to have "their own culture"

I'll let @IllmaticDelta and @K.O.N.Y @Anghellic put in work though

This.
AA culture is the most visible black culture in the world. More than any African country's culture. Its global, influential and known.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

no disrespect but the thread is Black American culture not African

@IllmaticDelta

 

[IllmaticDelta]

no disrespect but the thread is Black American culture not African

@IllmaticDelta

That (Blues) was black american culture and there is nothing "white" or Euro about it.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

half of american culture is black american culture, maybe more.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

That (Blues) was black american culture and there is nothing "white" or Euro about it.

The blues also didn't define how we talk, dress, and act either

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Some would say Its an American sub-culture instead of an independent all-encompassing culture of its own but you can say that about literally everything. American cuIture is a 'sub-culture' of western civilization. I just think people are so used to shytting on black people, they don't realize it.

Pretty much this.