Do you think the Pro Black Era is dying or now getting started?

[agpxknt]

Hard to say where this is going. At least its 'cool' now to be 'woke'

Yeah i'd say its trendy now

 

[Lannister]

As long as the Trump era continues, it's going nowhere. Especially considering the past few years, racist White people have been getting more bold and outspoken, and we saw groups like the Alt-Right rise.

For a while there, a lot of people were actually thinking we were in a Post-racial society. However, the rise of police shootings, Obama's 2nd term winding down, and the advent of Trump, White people have been wyling out and showing their ass. Letting minorities truly know where they stand.

 

[Aba_juggin]

Dawg, I am Nigerian and West Indian. First born generation American.

WE have no choice here but to assimilate or attempt to assimilate into AA culture, and that's largely in the hood. AAs hold the monopoly on blackness in America. Come on man...it's not like there are throngs of affluent predominantly black suburban enclaves for black people of all walks of life (AA, African, West Indian) to move into that aren't in PG Country MD or all the way out in TX.

I was just sick of black bougie motherfukkers trying to assimilate with cracker culture...that's what was in my parents neighborhood.

Nobody's forcing you to assimilate. And blacks don't have a monopoly on blackness if they don't profit from it and if their slang clothes and music are easily stolen and replicated worldwide. I take things I like from both cultures and make into something unique. I love hiphop and basketball but in 2017 it's not something unqiue to black culture it's up for grabs for everybody. I think if you don't profit from something and other people are able to profit from your culture at your expense there's something wrong. How many black mariachi singers are there ? Country singers ? Hockey players? Urban clothes designers? We need to start MAKING MONEY!! This culture shyt is up for grabs in 2017. African Americans are apart of the conveyor belt of cultural capitalism in which whatever they do thats innovative gets sucked up into popular culture and profited by from everybody but black people. How many black meccas exist in American. Black shooping centers? Black neighborhoods? The list goes on. And also if people expect you to assimilate into black hood culture then people are shot society is shyt because you shouldn't be forced to assimilate you should be your unique self. Now since you're of African descent you can appropriate the culture but you shouldn't feel forced to fukk that

 

[Jatigi]

It's a cyclical fad. Nothing more. Wenching, bucking, c00ning comes too naturally to most.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Only time nikkaz are pro black is when the media is promoting a cop killing an innocent black person. After a few weeks it dies down. There's still a swirling and pawging epidemic. Only real pro black era to me is the 60s/70s where black people were literally trying to make strides in there consciousness. To me it's dead especially when all black people got beef from each other from all different African Diaspora's, black man vs black women, light skin vs dark skin etc. Once I start seeing black people totally shift in conscience and come together as a nation under God and go by the millions back to Israel to take it back then were sayin somethin until then

Baby Boomer black people gave up the Dream for white sexual/trickle down wealth access

 

[Pit Bull]

I'm pretty sure OP's a cac.

But it's only getting started. Actually, it never went away.

Being pro your race is not a fashion statement.



I'd say the early 2000's were still pro-black.

The dark age really came around the mid-to-late 00's. The period of 07/08/09 al the way up until Trayvon Martin was just a horrible era. I remember being in my "anti-ignorance" phase as a kid it was so bad.

Lil Wayne and Obamaterrible fukkin years. Easily the worst years of my life.

These are the years when the roles reversed back to blacks being docile cowards and cacs being hardbody. This when cacs started using the n-word in front of black people with no fukks to give. Worldstar hip hop

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

Im pro black by default ( thanks Dad). I cant rely on "movements" and opportunist that flip flop. Although I don't personally subscribe to everything mainstream has propagated as "black culture" I feel that the only way to have ownership of our own culture is simply to keep it in us. Were too "open" to the idea of others being around, sharing our heritage when they would be reluctant to reciprocate( unless at a cost). Self preservation people. It the ONLY way

 

[Grano-Grano]

What we have a lot in 2017 is a lot of "Pro Black" people who date outside their race 100%, don't support Black business, c00n every chance they get, shyt on lower income Black people, indulge themselves in white/ pop culture, shyt on the opposite gender of their race, put the LGBT shyt over their race and plenty other outta pocket shyt while claiming to be "ProBlack"

/End thread.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Nobody's forcing you to assimilate. And blacks don't have a monopoly on blackness if they don't profit from it and if their slang clothes and music are easily stolen and replicated worldwide. I take things I like from both cultures and make into something unique. I love hiphop and basketball but in 2017 it's not something unqiue to black culture it's up for grabs for everybody. I think if you don't profit from something and other people are able to profit from your culture at your expense there's something wrong. How many black mariachi singers are there ? Country singers ? Hockey players? Urban clothes designers? We need to start MAKING MONEY!! This culture shyt is up for grabs in 2017. African Americans are apart of the conveyor belt of cultural capitalism in which whatever they do thats innovative gets sucked up into popular culture and profited by from everybody but black people. How many black meccas exist in American. Black shooping centers? Black neighborhoods? The list goes on. And also if people expect you to assimilate into black hood culture then people are shot society is shyt because you shouldn't be forced to assimilate you should be your unique self. Now since you're of African descent you can appropriate the culture but you shouldn't feel forced to fukk that

what is your ethnic background?

 

[Dameon Farrow]

It's a fad just like it was in the early 90s. It's running out of steam primarily because of folks doing way too much with it. A lot of examples of it right here on this forum.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Thread actually has some interesting posts in it. But there are folks in here saying the whole thing is trash because op may or may not be white. Two of the biggest so called pro black posters here are so obviously white trolls pretending to be black it isn't even funny. And they get an eternal pass for some reason.

There's a middle ground in all this 'woke' shyt. As usual, the coli professors aren't trying to hear it.

 

[Aba_juggin]

what is your ethnic background?

Nigerian why you ask?

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Nigerian why you ask?

You mentioned you "take things from both cultures"

And two. Your notion that since Afram culture is heavily appropriated, that it isnt our culture anymore. Which is false

 

[Aba_juggin]

You mentioned you "take things from both cultures"

And two. Your notion that since Afram culture is heavily appropriated, that it isnt our culture anymore. Which is false

Well can Nigerians claim Afram culture ?

 

[pete clemenza]

This Instagram/social media era is also making a lot of people hate and become jealous of each other as well