What prevents the south from getting active like the east and the west with black movements ?
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They don't hear you though
When My dad was in the air force he used to take me hunting with the white people he worked with til he got a promotion to a squadron with damn near all black people and went hunting with them instead
Do any of you brehs hunt
One time my dad and uncle let me get a day out of school to go sit in a fukking tree
What the hell
What the hell
Wasn't going to respond at first but I will. I'd like to rephrase what I said. I've been reading Taylor Branch's books on the Civil Rights Movement - Parting The Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan's Edge - so that affected my response. I was just trying to point out the fact that the majority of movements by African-Americans have been led by college graduates (this is what I meant by black intellectuals). I look at people like MLK PhD, W.E.B. DuBois PhD, Ralph Abernathy Masters degree, and Malcolm X (a voracious reader), Kwame Toure Bachelors (voracious reader).
Now when I said the south, I don't mean southern cosmopolitan cities in the south like Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Houston or Dallas but rather the rural south. Like the place highlighted in this washington post article -Why a poor Southern city’s only hope was a Chinese company moving in. Apologies for the wording.
iFightSeagullsForBread
The Working Class Hero
Only thing East Coast Brehs was known for is biting literature and philosophy from the Midwest.And this ain't a shot at Clarence 13x.
After doing some googling, it seems that my entire initial post was wrong lol. More college educated blacks are moving to the south (specifically the cities), than ever before. South Draws U.S. Blacks. Living in the DMV all my life had skewed my perspective.
Doobie Doo
Veteran
I came in here to say something like that. Segregation was such a major part of the South it remains today even if it's no longer on the books. When I first came to NC at 18 and lived on campus at the HBCU and the surrounding community was black neighborhoods I would go weeks without seeing white folks other than an occasional white student around the law school and a few white faculty members. We don't have the as much black/white integration as they do in the North and West.
Family Man
Banned
The whole premise of this thread is bullshyt. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of black activism knows that the south is active and been active.
AFRAM GLORY
Superstar
Black folk actually THRIVED off of segregation in the south. We had sustaining agriculture,churches, schools, corner stores/markets, barbers shops all off in our hoods. Every hood that is. I never interacted with cave people til high school. My older kinfolk NEVER had to interact with cacs unless it was work related or medical.
Crack era killed that stability and now our schools are "magnet schools" and outsiders are infiltrating the hoods. Aside from that there's always been an unspoken understanding. You stay here and I'll stay over here. Tension occurs round my way but mainly only arises off dumb shyt like politics and that confederate flag.
Born and raised in the south and never received the nikka treatment till I headed out west to cali. The south will always be the big homie to you hatin ass clowns. And most of y'all finding your way back here anyway
Crack era killed that stability and now our schools are "magnet schools" and outsiders are infiltrating the hoods. Aside from that there's always been an unspoken understanding. You stay here and I'll stay over here. Tension occurs round my way but mainly only arises off dumb shyt like politics and that confederate flag.
Born and raised in the south and never received the nikka treatment till I headed out west to cali. The south will always be the big homie to you hatin ass clowns. And most of y'all finding your way back here anyway
End Cruelty
Yuffie butter!
The south was always active. It just doesn't get mass media coverage anymore.
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
As a brotha from baltimore that got schooled at Morgan state, umd, and Hopkins I totally understand. There's a lot of educated black folks around 495 and 695. It's damn near the norm.
That said hearing black people talk about hunting is kinda wild to me
When I think of nikkas in camouflage I usually think of the boot camp click
Do nikkas from the south really be hunting like that?
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
I was just talking about this with my mom last week. She was born in 1955 and grew up in Madison county Florida and saw the integration thing from the eyes of a lil girl.
Anyways somehow she started talking about small black owned mom and pop shops that existed in her segregated town and how they slowly went out of business once the white owned businesses slowly starred "accepting" black customers.
Kinda broke my heart tbh
Its not really about us being passive. First of all everything is more spaced out. Where I'm at, small towns are 35 miles minimum apart from each other. So you're driving a good 40 min to be apart of a "movement" that let's be honest won't change shyt.
Secondly the Black Church has a stronghold as much of the community is organized around it. We already know what the Southern Black Church preaches so I won't get into that...
Secondly the Black Church has a stronghold as much of the community is organized around it. We already know what the Southern Black Church preaches so I won't get into that...