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Originally Posted by 4MYPEOPLE
...it is not suprising to me that we do not have a firm "cultural" identity...
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From your entire post where I garnered this one statement, first, somebody has told you a pack of lies. I am not even beginning to joke...
You have "bought into" the concept that African Americans come from a "DEFICIENT" culture.
- Highest criminality rates
- Worst health outcomes
- Lowest academic acheivers
- etc.
What you are "witnessing" is what "they" want you to believe and what "they" want you to buy into... And you have "bought into it" "lock, stock and barrel". You have been "bamboozled", "jacked" and "punk'd".
You need to ANOINT yourself of YOUR history and REVEAL in it: The Good, The Bad and The Fugly... Then, you must not be ashamed of it.
Moreover, you ain't the representative for the "race"--nor as I... Why defend pathetic negroes? And especially, you, without thorough education--spell that Utamaaroho...
Most African Americans do not have a firm "cultural identity" because there has be a blatant extermination of the African (spell that Black, if you need a reference) family structure. The young people have no role models and barely know THEIR history. Moreover, young people have no self-esteem or self-confidence and the support systems absent.
Some of my Pan-Afrikanists friends would say, you need to be "Re-Afrikan Centered".