When I look back at old photos of Harlem in the 20s and 30s, I see a lot of happy faces. People in their finest attire, laughing, studying, getting along with everyone. It begs the question. What happened?
Personally, I have always been a supporter of civil rights, but when you see those pictures you have to wonder if black culture would have kept flourishing if brown v board never happened.
But black culture is not the only thing on the decline. White culture, since the 1960's hasn't faired much better. It seems everywhere you go in America some degenerate is there to greet you.
I prefer to dream of an American renaissance. One where everyone stops talking about race and quotas, and what the federal government can do for them. I also dream of an America where people can speak one sentence without using teenage exclamations and/or profanity, and where the adults learn to dress themselves properly.
That would be step one. Because I don't expect drugged up lunatics, with shorts at their ankles, and vocabularies so elementary that every other sentence includes the word muther*****, to be producing a renaissance anytime soon. At least, not the type of renaissance you would want to promote. We might soon, however, win the historical award for the "golden age of losers".
Why should there be a "Black Culture" or a "White Culture"? A White urban person from New York City is infinitely different from a White Appalachian coal miner. Blacks from the inner cities are different from suburban Blacks. In fact, the culture and mores of the inner city Black and the poor Appalachian White are not really that different in terms of literacy, out-of-wedlock births, poverty and poor health care. America has gone from a melting pot mentality to a Balkanized tribal mentality: Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, Male, Female, Trans, etc. I wish we could just all be "Americans".
I agree with you wholeheartedly, an American Renaissance is exactly what we need.
"America has gone from a melting pot mentality to a Balkanized tribal mentality"
America was never a "melting pot. It is a salad bowl. Melting pot assumes blending and intermarriage. Both models of multicultural societies have contradictory aspects:
- in a melting pot there is no cultural diversity and sometimes differences are not respected;
- in a salad bowl cultures do not mix at all. And know this, in spite of the movies and TV shows, interracial marriage rates are actually still quite low, accounting for just 12% of all marriages in 2015, up from approximately 6% in 1980, according to the Pew Research Center. Black-white marriages are particularly low, making up just 1.8% of all marriages. (Black woman and white man pairings, are the least common of all race-gender combinations.)
Beyond these numbers, societal acceptance of ethnically mixed unions is tepid at best. While most Americans support intermarriage in surveys, opposition to racial mixing is very real, especially the idea of it happening within one’s own family.
Respectfully, your concept of melting pot and mine are different. Regardless of the concept of intermarriage of any sort, be it religious, ethnic or racial, we are moving away from the tendency to accept and interact as individuals, to an "us vs them"
When I look back at old photos of Harlem in the 20s and 30s, I see a lot of happy faces. People in their finest attire, laughing, studying, getting along with everyone. It begs the question. What happened?
Personally, I have always been a supporter of civil rights, but when you see those pictures you have to wonder if black culture would have kept flourishing if brown v board never happened.
But black culture is not the only thing on the decline. White culture, since the 1960's hasn't faired much better. It seems everywhere you go in America some degenerate is there to greet you.
I prefer to dream of an American renaissance. One where everyone stops talking about race and quotas, and what the federal government can do for them. I also dream of an America where people can speak one sentence without using teenage exclamations and/or profanity, and where the adults learn to dress themselves properly.
That would be step one. Because I don't expect drugged up lunatics, with shorts at their ankles, and vocabularies so elementary that every other sentence includes the word muther*****, to be producing a renaissance anytime soon. At least, not the type of renaissance you would want to promote. We might soon, however, win the historical award for the "golden age of losers".
Yes. The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
Why should there be a "Black Culture" or a "White Culture"? A White urban person from New York City is infinitely different from a White Appalachian coal miner. Blacks from the inner cities are different from suburban Blacks. In fact, the culture and mores of the inner city Black and the poor Appalachian White are not really that different in terms of literacy, out-of-wedlock births, poverty and poor health care. America has gone from a melting pot mentality to a Balkanized tribal mentality: Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, Male, Female, Trans, etc. I wish we could just all be "Americans".
I agree with you wholeheartedly, an American Renaissance is exactly what we need.
"America has gone from a melting pot mentality to a Balkanized tribal mentality"
America was never a "melting pot. It is a salad bowl. Melting pot assumes blending and intermarriage. Both models of multicultural societies have contradictory aspects:
- in a melting pot there is no cultural diversity and sometimes differences are not respected;
- in a salad bowl cultures do not mix at all. And know this, in spite of the movies and TV shows, interracial marriage rates are actually still quite low, accounting for just 12% of all marriages in 2015, up from approximately 6% in 1980, according to the Pew Research Center. Black-white marriages are particularly low, making up just 1.8% of all marriages. (Black woman and white man pairings, are the least common of all race-gender combinations.)
Beyond these numbers, societal acceptance of ethnically mixed unions is tepid at best. While most Americans support intermarriage in surveys, opposition to racial mixing is very real, especially the idea of it happening within one’s own family.
Respectfully, your concept of melting pot and mine are different. Regardless of the concept of intermarriage of any sort, be it religious, ethnic or racial, we are moving away from the tendency to accept and interact as individuals, to an "us vs them"
mentality.
Thanks Black Snake.