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Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte
Just because my points are going over your head does not mean that they are irrelevant. I am not surprised that you don't see the irony of me arguing with you over the preservation of African American culture when you are the poster boy for assimilation at it worst.
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...but please forgive me if I am unsuccessful.
I understand your points perfectly. Stepping is for black Greeks (if they're on good behavior, maybe all blacks) ONLY! Preserve the black culture by hoarding it, while at the same time flaunt it like you're the NBC peacock. If anyone who "doesn't know the culture" (whatever the _________ that means) asks any questions about the culture, smooth over the subject by sidetracking it on what we're really all about, because what they see, they really don't understand.
Lemme tell you something, Skee. Once upon a time I could've been your twin brother in terms of Black mentality. I shared the same issues on stepping and Black cultural preservation that you did. I was SO MILITANT (HOW MILITANT WERE YOU???!!!)
*Thanks, I needed that*
I was so militant that I would've made Michael Evans (Good Times) jealous. Then one day I grew up. I saw the light. I realized that the world is much much bigger than home and black people. And then I realized why I hated living in the 90s. It wasn't because the 90s was a bad decade. It was because my mentality on white culture was fornicated up. I realized that the very same white folks that was trying to help me better myself I was verbally kicking in the ribs because I was so determined to show them "how black I am". It was also at this time that I gave myself to God.
Skee, I know your pain and I feel your pain, really. But life is too short to be pissing it away because of anger and the fear of whites who might "steal our culture".
Yes, I am the poster boy for assimilation. Assimilation into the HUMAN race, the CHRISTIAN race. You wanna take my black card. Here you go, you can have it *takes "blackness card" out of my pocket and flings it into the audience.* I don't need it where I'm going. And furthermore, when I have departed from this earth and the Lord asks me to account for my actions and misgivings, I can guarantee you that one of the questions He will not ask me is, "Were you loyal to Black people?", but rather, "Were you loyal to My people?"
I said it before, and I'll say it again: "It's not that serious!"
*RM takes Charles Nelson Reilly's pipe and extends it while standing at the edge of the stage*
Now put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, Skee.