did your parents ever teach you anything about black culture/history ??

[Just like bruddas]

Nope

 

[cole phelps]

The average black adult doesn't know anything about their history either. Outside of the bullshyt they teach in school (we were slaves, Harriet Tubman was a railroad conductor, Lincoln set us free, then MLK gave a speech), the average black knows absolutely nothing about our history in this country.

If you ask the average black person to tell you about black history and not mention MLK, X, and Harriet Tubman they'd be like

I agree and its sad, we lost our original African culture/history lets not lose this one.

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

You can tell which posters haven't had that

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I agree and its sad, we lost our original African culture/history lets not lose this one.

I don't think we really lost it, it's still out there. The problem is we're depending on a system whose job it is to keep is subjugated to educate us.

Reminds me of this X picture I frequently post:

 

[Raava]

Yup, my parents were older so they were from that integration/ civil rights era. Learned and was exposed to a lot.

 

[Inglewood]

Damn right they did. They participated in the civil rights movement too!

 

[Groanman]

Pops told me that if my credit was straight.....sista.
Pops told me that if my credit was shyt pasta......white chick.

 

[Bsmitty156]

My mom didn't really teach me but just shared experiences/atmosphere of blackness. She was a history major and civil rights attorney for awhile so had tons of black history books by black authors. I spent most my time as a only child reading them all.

She would tell stories about being bused into school down in Pensacola with bricks thrown at the buses til her fam sent her away to Chicago til things cooled down. Idk why they thought Chicago was safer tho.

 

[Nasty_Nate]

Hell yeah. I'm thankful for it, but lets not get it twisted at all, that shyt wasn't fun . My pops is from Alabama... I remember me and my cousin, too young to even remember how old we were watching documentaries and with him sometimes on the klan and shyt... nikka was like

Him: "That was RIGHT DOWN the way from me! in the heart of Alabama. "


Him: " Ciroq!!! Pay attention right here, this shyt happened in MY fukkING HOMETOWN "


Me: "You mean to tell me, this was happening when you were a little boy? "


Him:




Me:






I seriously had nightmares some nights about the klan busting our windows with torches and shyt.... I distinctly remember watching Rosewood... all kinda shyt. He was on some other shyt. I was gon learn that day .

My parents were the same way. They grew up in rural Mississippi during the 50's, 60's, and early 70's. They used to make me read books and write book reports during the summers. I hated it when I was a kid, but now I am grateful for it and will probably do the same when I have kids.

 

[DrX]

i got my phd in cacs just by getting older

 

[god shamgod]

Yea.I remember having to watch eyes on the prize,roots,went to see malcolm x and read the book as a teen and my pops use to school me on how black people on tv get typecasted into pimp,hustler,gang banger,prostitute,criminals etc and other ignorant roles and showed me hollywood shuffle that movie was hilarious to me when I was a kid and I understood the message about whites having black actors always play negative type roles and how they have them act super dumb & talk with more jive and all that extra shyt.I was schooled on all types of other things too

 

[DreadHead P]

my parents took me to the Blacks in Wax exhibit when I was a kid

 

[kp404]

Yep, my parents used to make me watch black history movies and docs as a kid and I grew with that pride...love them so much for doing that :sadsteve:

 

[Van Glorious]

No....Mostly everything I know was self-taught. My parents didn't even talk about our family history and culture.

 

[Idaeo]

My parents went to segregated schools, went to court to help integrate VA schools, etc so they definitely taught me and my siblings about our history. My dad always had us in the Smithsonian museums...especially the "From Slavery to Freedom" exhibit they used to have in the museum of American History.

They sat us all down and watched the WHOLE Roots series as well...I think we had it on VHS