Critique of Black Culture

[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

What exactly is a people?

My use of "people" in this case refers to people who have a shared ancestry, history and culture.

What do Italians have to be proud of?

What do Spaniards have to be proud of?

What do Chinese have to be proud of?

What do blacks have to be proud of?

Each group has plenty to be proud of...off the top of my head, the Spaniards and Italians can claim Columbus, the Chinese helped build railroads out west and blacks have brought us different types of music and food.

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Each group has plenty to be proud of...off the top of my head, the Spaniards and Italians can claim Columbus, the Chinese helped build railroads out west and blacks have brought us different types of music and food.

A bit of a disparity in scale eh?

[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

A bit of a disparity in scale eh?

How so?

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by sycamore

How so?

What exactly is contributed by black culture that seperates it from other cultures? What sets it apart so much that people are willing to kill each other over it? What is so important that people are willing to generate an arbitrary and unnecessary divide in american culture based on it? Is it some great change in paradigm that is shaping a better tomorrow? A new math that gives us the Unified Field Theory? An easily learned language that will make all men brothers? A weapon so hideous that all cultures agree to end war?

All I'm asking, and this applies to all of the associated parties, is what is so important about skin color that it's necessary to make up cultural differences when it's more important that we generate a set of synergistic commonalities instead?

[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

What exactly is contributed by black culture that seperates it from other cultures?

You essentially already asked this question in a previous post, which I answered.

What sets it apart so much that people are willing to kill each other over it?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean here. How do you know that people are actually killing each other over black culture?

What is so important that people are willing to generate an arbitrary and unnecessary divide in american culture based on it?

I believe that black and other minority cultures developed due to a forced divide by the powers that be back in the day. If there was any arbitrariness involved, I would say that it was on the side of the powers that be. Those cultures remain today because they provide a rich history and legacy for those people not necessarily covered by mainstream culture...plus they preserve the culture and help ensure that it continues. And I don't think that's a bad thing.

All I'm asking, and this applies to all of the associated parties, is what is so important about skin color that it's necessary to make up cultural differences when it's more important that we generate a set of synergistic commonalities instead?

See my response above. I'm not sure that synergistic commonalities are so important.