Because the families that didn't go the "great migration" north have land/property/roots that they we are loyal to. Also why dealing with racist cacs isn't difficult...everywhere is black people be on some "wow a racist" type shyt.... we stiff arm and kim.
We call this culturally assimilationism and a simple tactic to appear unseparate from the dominant culture in these northern areas. In a way... a loss of unique black culture, masked, or forgotten. It's not all bad, but I can understand why the false superiority will manifest tho.I'm not downing black people in the south. Both of my parents are from the south. I just recognize, from my experiences with northern and southern blacks, the the former always seem to be more learned and sophisticated. My mother told me that they started their family up north because they preferred the culture of black people and the opportunities. They also felt we'd have a better education up north, which I don't disagree with.
Toasting wasn’t exclusive but it all originated in the South. The point is, it’s stupid for AA’s outside of the South to diss the same place that the shyt they do originated from.
G-funk has (east central) midwest origins.
The chit’ling circuit doesn’t ring a bell? Nor does James Brown?
There are some but that's not where funk came from.
Basically what I said in another thread. Good post.Same here, first generation, grew up looking up to folks from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, etc, made me who I am. The hell I look like dissing the South?
On the subject of this thread, this has been an issue for some of us since the Great Migration. Some saw the migration North as the beginning of a new Black identity, so disassociating with the South was a necessity to forging a new urban based identity that wanted little to do with our “country” past.
Let’s be real, from about the 1960’s to the early 2000’s the urban North had a monopoly on what was considered new, Black, and cool. Not to mention there was a strain within some of the so-called “conscious” movements that developed up North that held disdain with anything Southern. So eventually Soul Food became Slave Food, Southern speech gets mocked and viewed as ignorant slave speech, “Country” becomes an insult, Hoodoo gets written off as crazy shyt the old folks believe, Northern Blacks become “militant”, Southern Blacks become “meek and docile”, etc.
nikkas basically got seddity and adopted White viewpoints but justified it under the guise of being “conscious”, “militant”, “educated”.
Yea, I honestly knew what it was with him when finding out he was “half” AA. When those who aren’t native to the US or have parents not native to the US say the things they say about the south or AA’s, I figure they either got it from white folks, they’re just copying what AA’s up there say (because that’s who they try to model themselves after), or they got it from their non native parents.
Go play somewhere.
I'm explicitly talking about Southern ghettoes, I prefaced that in the previous sentence.
have at it
