Today, 06:47 AM
:rolleyes: Hogwash. Invisble Man hit the nail on the head. If a black person tells another black person "Where can I find a soul food resturant" we all know what that means. If we say "What HBCUs are in this state" we all know what that means. I remember having a similar conversation with an ignorant white co-worker back in the 1990s. He interjected himself into conversations I was having with a black co-worker on different occassions about our favorite black resturants or what was being played on the black radio station (there was only one in the city at that time and it was owned by a black man) or whatever, and he did his little white supremacist "I would be racist to talk about a white resturant or a white radio station" song and dance. I corrected him by pointing out how he bragged about being "full blood German" and that he would only marry a "full blood German" even though he was dating a "mixed ethnicity" white woman. He was like "Germany is a country and black is not." My response? "We would know what our country is if your people hadn't taken that away from us." Of course then he was ready to distance himself from white people in general. Regardless, this is the point. We, Africans in America, have created our own culture and our own spaces in response to being systematically blocked from yours! And white people try to flip the script by calling our legitimate response to white racism somehow "racist." Do you know there was a black man who was admitted to Harvard back in 1850s? Harvard was pressured by white southern students to expel him. There was an intergrated university in freaking Kentucky in the 1800s! The Kentucky state legislature intervened and destroyed that. We build our own towns, our own newspapers, our own hospitals, our own universities, our own churches and denominations, or own Greek organizations and our own culture simply because we were shut out of yours. And now you lie and pretend that all we have in common is slavery? No. What we have in common is a shared reality as beautiful covering over a painful existence which is no different from the pearl the oysters form around debris that they have to swallow to consume food. And frankly I don't care if you understand it or Anti Federalist understands or Candace Owens understands it (she seems to be coming around) or whatever. When white people stop eating at Italian resturants or going to Oktoberfest or looking for Chinatown then come and talk to me.
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