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Cause everyone wants to be us.Why is black culture such a prevalent topic...?
Seems like everyone has an opinion on us...
This was very interesting. 2 hood dudes walk up on Jay Morrison and the way it plays out shows we could be interfacing to educate and get things done. What y'all think?
Something to think about in consideration for the title of the thread:
Since English has came about white supremacy is constantly flipping words, given them split meanings etc.
In spanish white is blanco, which is where you get blank from in english. Blank because the melanin deficiency or w/e
The word has been took, flipped, and put on us and now we refer to ourselves as black which essentially means a being that lacks (b-lack) something (in this case melanin)
In most parts of the world anything referring to us usually had variations of moor- , negro-, or mel- in the root word.
Just an idea but maybe a thread update with melanated culture discussion thread would be more appropriate.
This was very interesting. 2 hood dudes walk up on Jay Morrison and the way it plays out shows we could be interfacing to educate and get things done. What y'all think?
Cause everyone wants to be us.
They study us, emulate us, and then tell us they are better than us at being us
Article on black owned banks: http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/curr...ustry-news/support-growing-black-owned-banks/
Because of a period of relative isolation in rural areas, the Gullah developed a culture that has preserved much of their African linguistic and cultural heritage from various peoples, as well as absorbing new influences from the region. They speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and influenced by African languages in grammar and sentence structure. Properly referred to as "Sea Island Creole," the Gullah language is related to Jamaican Patois, Barbadian Dialect, Bahamian Dialect, Trinidadian Creole, Belizean Creole and the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Gullah story-telling, rice-based cuisine, music, folk beliefs, crafts, farming, and fishing traditions all exhibit strong influences from West and Central African cultures.
Christ is a religious archetype, that probably originated in ancient Egypt. I fail to see how that has anything to do with black people in this country. Africa traditionally, especially West/South Africa is traditionally polytheistic. They had Gods for fertility, harvest, war, etc etc.
Egypt is not representative of the cultures African Americans were taking from. There's no OPINION here, African Americans were not taken from Northern Africa or Egypt.
You people?
Where do you think the concept of a Christ came from? What do you think Israel means?
Isis
Ra
Elohim
Is-ra-el. .
That kinda makes my point.Just wanted to correct your scholarship...
The word Israel is from the Greek translation of Hebrew yisra'el, which means"he that striveth with God". Its basically a Semetic word from the Afro-Asiatic language tree.
Isis is a the Indo-European/Greek name for the goddess "Auset" or "Iset" which has no ties to the Hebrew language tree.
The point is that is a poor way to transliterate the word Israel. You wouldn't use words from different time periods and cultural traditions and throw them together in the English language like that. Just like how a lot of 5%ers wrongly teach that ALLAH means Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head. It's kind of a pseudo way to go about etymology and linguistics.
But at the end of the day we can disagree. As long as we keep things civil and intellectual.
Where do you think the concept of a Christ came from?
Melchizedek?