Actually everyone now, suburbs or ghetto, are new blacks. 70 years ago our parents and grandparents (or great grandparents to some of you) came from the rural South. My mom grew up raising their own chickens living in an all black rural community in the south.
Those comments come from white supremacy. To them, we can't have various influences in our culture, we have to come from one place and act like a certain set of characteristics or else we aren't "typical black". White supremacy and the people who submit to it reduce and stereotype us instead of understanding that we are a varied and multifaceted people and always have been. Being multifaceted is part of personhood and telling us we can't be black is taking our humanity away. They are allowed to come from rural parts of the world, the suburbs, the city. They're allowed to listen to all kinds of music, go to school or stay home, go through teenage years and act like stupid kids, then wise up and become adults. They are allowed to grow and change. A person in the Appalachian mountains in a trailer is just as white as a wealthy NorthWestern tech entrepreneur.
But we are fake black unless we come from 1990s Inglewood and if we aren't we are removed from our culture. FOH.
I think yall are harping on this idea of socially typecasting Black people into one 'mode', and that's absolutely right, White supremacy holds our very sense of 'Blackness' to a rigid set of stereotypes that they use to further oppress us,and non-white groups have appropriated that set of thinking and been subsumed under the broader ideological school of White supremacy, no arguments here at all.
However, that's not necessarily what the Asian dude was speaking to above (Admittedly, I didn't real every comment, but the one I cited atleast). his observation was more about the disconnect that I spoke to between the various (And relatively 'new') socioeconomic masses in the Black sphere and the ideological shift that's come as a direct result of that. and further, how it's extremely prevalent on TheColi, ironically since this is supposed to be the paragon of Black discourse on the interwebs.
When you talk about Inglewood in the 90s as a means to juxtapose the two 'extremes', you're further playing into that in a sense by seperating yourself (A black man/woman) from another Black man or woman based with wanton disregard for our own history (There's a reason why Inglewood or Detroit has the issues it does, and it's not because 'ghetto people live there' or some shyt, which is often what these arguments boil down to, and that's a white man's talking point.)
Migration and cultural shifts are foundational elements of a people's identity, and in our short history(post slavery) that's been doubly true, but my issue stems from the often white supremacist attitudes of certain Black people, the Asian dude just picked up on it too is all.
note: I've lived in just about all socioeconomic classes as a Black man, so I'm not just talking shyt to nikkas for the sake of it.
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...specially that shyt they was saying about their white fathers
had to #getout
as cacs, so it’s fukk Jin and his potluck crew.
