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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so true:

"There’s no longer the belief that black people are racially inferior but that black culture is inferior."[/quote]

Oh wow. Such a true statement[/quote]

In examining my feelings, I feel like what I "think" I know about black culture is inferior-- but I also acknowledge that those perceptions are based on stereotypes. I think in my heart of hearts I see all my middle class black friends and family (and I have many black friends and am connect to a black family) as exceptions to black culture and not the rule. In my head I think of 2-parent, college educated, upwardly mobile blacks as embracing white culture. Totally unfair and most probably wrong -- but when I read this sentence it got me thinking and I think this is what I really feel underneath.

I need to work on this.[/quote]

That's great insight, and totally right. If you can't look at the Obamas or Beyonce and see "Black culture," then you are probably defining Black culture to mean only negative things and assuming anything positive (even the stuff that's explicitly Afrocentric) is borrowed. [/quote]

This is off topic, but related to what you're talking about, PPs-- if you're white, try reading Debby Irving's book [i]Waking Up White[/i]. It's clarifying soooooo much for me about my assumptions, why I have them, and the reality/history behind them. There is so much I've been oblivious to. There are knowable, systemic reasons for the chasm in prosperity between whites and blacks in this country, and knowable, systemic reasons why upward mobility has been out of reach for communities of color. There's a very short chapter early on about the GI bill that was incredibly eye-opening.

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