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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
I definitely can see where SKEEphistAKAte is coming from. And maybe not so much from the standpoint of the origins of stepping, but the fact that we (blacks) and our culture is constantly viewed as some form of entertainment for others (i.e. dancing, singing, rapping, etc.) and that's it.
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....is that REALLY how our culture is being viewed, or is it that entertainment is
primarily what we as black American's perpetuate to the world is all we're good at, at the expense of education, science, politics, etc?
Quite frankly, I am not so naive to believe that we (collectively speaking) as black Americans perpetuate our ability to excel in areas other that entertainment nearly as much as we would like to believe. While I am by no means throwing cold water on the numerous acheivements of black Americans, past and present, I am being annoyingly realistic when it comes to outside ethnic perceptions of us here and now.
Just something to think about...