Black Culture Discussion Thread

[tokes99]

He made a lot of good points in here. One of the things they touched on is the whole breeding thing. I don't buy into that thinking that we dominate athletic sports cuz slave masters made us this way. I think in their ignorant minds they thought that's what they were doing but I strongly believe that their were Moors that could jump like LeBron and and run like Adrian Peterson.

Same. Africans have always been dominant physically. What group of people have been able to survive 1000 plus years of Arab slavery plus another 400 years of chattel slavery.

If anything, it shows how strong African DNA is. Even after 400 years of rape and mixing with Europeans African Americans are still dominant physically. Africans in general dominate physical sports, not just African Americans.

to add to some complexity to this line of thinking, all africans are not the same; the peoples of Africa have the most genetic diversity such that genetically Africans are more similar to other people's than another person of African descent...

also there are some theories about why some of these differences in traits exist, some have to do with the environment that our ancestors lived in, closer to the equator longer limbs to more efficiently deal with the heat (which is theorized to be why east africans make such efficient runners -along with living at high elevation), colder climates stockier bodies. there is also a theory about west africans having more fast twitch muscle fibers (those responsible for explosive movement as opposed to slow twitch which are more geared towards endurance) as a result of adaptation for malaria-the sickle cell...it is a very fascinating explanation

so no, what slavers did in terms of breeding doesn't account for the "dominance" of those of African descent in sports, for those things traits were already there; though it may have made it more likely for the children to survive? the other part of the equation as far as the over-representation in certain sports go, is socio-economic...

it is a slippery slope to talk about the "strength" of DNA , after all it was this type of rationale that led to eugenics...

 

[gwap]

it is a slippery slope to talk about the "strength" of DNA , after all it was this type of rationale that led to eugenics...

agreed. This type of talk has to place in a reasonable discussion.

 

[tommyicerocking]

http://76crimes.com/2014/01/30/21-varieties-of-traditional-african-homosexuality/

this link is for all those anti homosexual law and homophobic in Africa

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

if you haven't already seen this great interview of an activist of LGBT rights in Uganda drops knowledge

 

[Quincy McCall]

Dudes was clean as hell, a year removed from the death of Malcom X... dope piece for anyone whose never heard

The Dapper Rebels of Los Angeles, 1966

In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a six-day period, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured and over 3,438 arrests were made. In 1966, LIFE magazine revisited the site of the worst riots America had ever seen in its history. The photo essay depicting the region’s ‘fearsome street gangs’ however, turned out more like a fashion shoot for dapper style…

Decked out in preppy cardigans, high-waisted rolled up trousers and Wayfarers to boot, these young men of South Central Los Angeles were an unmistakably dandy bunch in contrast to the considerably oppressive environment they were living in.

The African-American community in Watts came to its boiling pointing in August 1965 after years of police discrimination, exclusion from high-paying jobs and residential segregation. Racially restrictive covenants had kept 95 percent of Los Angeles real estate off-limits to the black and Asian communities which severely restricted education and economic opportunities for them.

Where the black community could buy homes in American suburbia and live out the middle-class dream, significant racial violence escalated. White gangs bombed homes and burnt crosses on the lawns. In response to the assaults, black mutual protection clubs formed and became the basis of the region’s fearsome street gangs.

In the 1960s, the LAPD was especially known for its police brutality against the city’s Latino and black residents. The police chief, William Parker actually made it a policy for officers to ‘establish dominance’ over young black and Latino teens and pre-teens as a way of showing who was boss. Frequent beatings, wrongful arrests, assaults on women became the norm for the African American community. On the night of August 11th, the intimidation and racial injustices backfired and the Watts’ African American population reached breaking point.

The riot started after a young African American was pulled over by police officers for suspicion of driving under the influence. When the driver’s family got involved, they were arrested too, including his mother. Local residents gathered and the situation intensified.  What starting with yelling escalated to hurling rocks, bricks and whatever they could find at the police. Twenty-nine people were arrested but it did not end there. By the following night Watts was in flames.

Rioters armed themselves and passionately shouted, “Burn baby burn” and “Long live Malcolm X.” Fires raged for four more days. A civil rights activist, Bayard Rustin wrote, “the whole point of the outbreak in Watts was that it marked the first major rebellion of Negroes against their own masochism and was carried on with the express purpose of asserting that they would no longer quietly submit to the deprivation of slum life.”

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/03/the-dapper-rebels-of-los-angeles-1966/

 

[AEA18]

 

[tommyicerocking]

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/an-o...s-been-in-south-carolina-for-four-decades-729

 

[illwill8710]

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/an-o...s-been-in-south-carolina-for-four-decades-729

My religious people. Ase

 

[ackdaquick]

What's up with this dude

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[iamjusayn]

Same. Africans have always been dominant physically. What group of people have been able to survive 1000 plus years of Arab slavery plus another 400 years of chattel slavery.

If anything, it shows how strong African DNA is. Even after 400 years of rape and mixing with Europeans African Americans are still dominant physically. Africans in general dominate physical sports, not just African Americans.

It's the melanin. Everything eventually ties back to physiology.

 

[trueprada]

Franklin Armstrong, of "Charlie Brown" fame, turns 47 today! 

 

[Quincy McCall]

 

[C.Magneto]

What's up with this dude

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Polite a legend tho.

Shot to out to AA Rashiid and the Red House.

 

[trueprada]

 

[trueprada]

NAACP Begins 860-Mile Justice March From Selma to Washington D.C. 

http://t.co/G711YPZIFS

 

[trueprada]

 

[AEA18]

 

[trueprada]

1938 stand-off between the KKK and African American residents of Lakeland, Florida.

 

[AEA18]

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

African-American women been straightening, relaxing, perming their hair for years because they were told their natural curls weren't "professional" or "office appropriate". And now that said environments are finally accepting black women's" natural" hair, white women wanna jump on the bandwagon?

Now this....THIS is some ********. They literally try to steal everything.

 

[rich]

African-American women been straightening, relaxing, perming their hair for years because they were told their natural curls weren't "professional" or "office appropriate". And now that said environments are finally accepting black women's" natural" hair, white women wanna jump on the bandwagon?

Now this....THIS is some ********. They literally try to steal everything.

Sometimes it just gets to point were just can't do nothing but sit back and laugh this. Black women have every single feature that is deemed as beautiful yet get there image and likeness has been deemed as inferior while every other culture extracts from them. The mind games they play with us is just 

 

 

[trueprada]

 

he go in on crack era 

 

[$tatus $ymbol]

1938 stand-off between the KKK and African American residents of Lakeland, Florida.

my hometown. Cray

 

[AEA18]

 

[trueprada]

"If #blacklivesmatter is the Word, then #Ferguson is the Word made flesh." - Rev. Sekou #Ferguson #UnitedWeFight 

 

[trueprada]

very powerful