Trump brought the Regeneracy, just not in the way he expected.

[Kinser79]

(03-10-2017, 09:48 PM)Odin Wrote:

(03-10-2017, 09:25 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-10-2017, 09:17 PM)Odin Wrote:

(03-10-2017, 09:11 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Finally Odin if you want a group that hasn't assimilated within three generations of arrival....Blacks.  Some of our families have been on this continent or over 400 years.  We aren't assimilated into American culture by and large, we are a culture parallel to it.  I'm an exception that proves the rule.

If you don't like that group Chicanos.  But in their case they didn't cross a boarder the boarder crossed them.

I consider black Americans to have a sub-culture within a greater American culture, not a separate culture. There are a lot of parts of American culture that are the creation of black Americans.

Black Americans disagree with you. Being Black myself I know that I'm culturally different from my White BF and my White Son, just as I'm culturally different from my Jewish neighbor and the Korean Family down the street.

As for those artifacts of American culture derived from Black American culture you'll find that in almost every case it was bleached at least a little bit.

Black Americans were for a long time a separate racial CASTE, which is why I call them a sub-culture, but saying that they are a completely separate culture is just going too far. I guess we are meaning different things by "culture".

Black Americans are pretty much still a separate racial caste.  The Great Society has pretty much insured that.  

When I mean culture, I mean one's inherent blackness.  One cannot escape it.  It is deeper than hip hop or chicken and waffles.  A black man knows he's black down to his very essence.  Just like I'm sure you know you're white down to your very essence, maybe even down to a particular kind of white.