Why are AA's the only group in the diaspora who are told get in tune with their culture?

[UserNameless]

practicing what?




every cultures, roots/traditional ways (in it's pure original form) diminish to some degree over time but that's why, you preserve and take it back to oldschool so it never leaves

Practicing the root elements of the “culture” ... only a few ... and those few are often in residence at a university or a museum or a historical spot .



I honestly don’t see many taking it back like that anymore ... even many of the churches aren’t seeing old spirituals anymore ... that’s really disheartening ... you gotta go to an old persons churchg or church in the country to hear old spirituals now. Some of the lil storefront churches still doing it with younger worship leaders ...


Listen man I’m all for preservation of black culture ... but I don’t see that in most black, middle class households of newer parents in their mid to late 20s and 30s ... you are seeing a resurgence of what’s now woke parenting where there’s documentation on FB and IG of black history and Afrocentricity being promoted to their children ... and that’s cool ... that’s still not really common like that , but I thing the “woke” wave can reinspire preservation and history teaching and active practicing of black cultural elements in black households.


Just wanna be clear, I appreciate what you’re trying to convey and teach.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Practicing the root elements of the “culture” ... only a few ... and those few are often in residence at a university or a museum or a historical spot .

roots culture/trad ways will always be there and practiced more when you're with you own people/in informal, settings

I honestly don’t see many taking it back like that anymore ... even many of the churches aren’t seeing old spirituals anymore ... that’s really disheartening ... you gotta go to an old persons churchg or church in the country to hear old spirituals now. Some of the lil storefront churches still doing it with younger worship leaders ..

spirituals are alot older but they still sing the old afram hymns in the modern churches mixed with modern gospel

Listen man I’m all for preservation of black culture ... but I don’t see that in most black, middle class households of newer parents in their mid to late 20s and 30s ... you are seeing a resurgence of what’s now woke parenting where there’s documentation on FB and IG of black history and Afrocentricity being promoted to their children ... and that’s cool ... that’s still not really common like that , but I thing the “woke” wave can reinspire preservation and history teaching and active practicing of black cultural elements in black households.


Just wanna be clear, I appreciate what you’re trying to convey and teach.

you gotta start somewhere.....remember it was these younger often middle class, "woke" types (they were woke before woke became a thing) that single-handedly put the natural hair movement on which then lead to a global expansion/takeover from the usa to latin america/carribean/africa

 

[UserNameless]

you gotta start somewhere.....remember it was these younger often middle class, "woke" types (they were woke before woke became a thing) that single-handedly put the natural hair movement on which then lead to a global expansion/takeover from the usa to latin america/carribean/africa

Yup and I’m so glad that has happened and continues to happen.

So glad little black girls are wearing braids and beads WITH the aluminum foil at the tips.




For the culture, y’all

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Nobody’s practicing that



But yes the root is still there , but dying as well. If you don’t agree with that, you’re delusional .

Be a cognitive dissonant fool brehs.

 

[UserNameless]

Be a cognitive dissonant fool brehs.

Share some insight brethren ...I’m just telling the truth ... now you share your truth .

 

[cjlaw93]

AA OR NOTHING..we got our own culture

Africa

 

[Kerkum]

Kats take our ideas and put they name on it...

 

[get these nets]

I am actually serious. The connection between African and AA culture disappeared a long time ago. AA culture is more similar to Western European culture now

This is wrong.
This is a long thread and I'm hoping somebody here has already pointed out the obvious reasons why this is wrong. In case they haven't, here it goes. African regional and ethnic culture(S),plural, from various groups have merged and blended in the diaspora. AA culture is a distinct culture made up of this composite of African culture(s) (plural), adaptations to living HERE, completely new forms of music,art,food,worship,communication developed HERE, as well as parts of the overall American culture which has developed here.

Most West Africans who come here can pick up the similarities from their own specific culture if they spend enough time around AAs.

Also, because of the legal segregation of the races until roughly the 1960s, AA culture was able to develop,grown and expand with minimum input from the mainstream "White" culture here.Before then, the main influences from white culture was AA cultural reaction to laws and actions taken by Whites. And since AAs have been here longer than most of the white groups, it's not a stretch to say that AA culture has influenced white American culture more than vice versa.

Don't confuse rap videos and whatever mainstream media is promoting at the time with all of what AA culture encompasses.