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Originally Posted by Dionysus
I'm convinced there's some black beat that most black people hear, and a few of us do not hear it.
It goes way beyond a preference for hunting or skiing, or not.
I don't know what you mean.
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LOL. The Black beat is just like the commonalities that other races, ethnicities and cultures share with one another. You hear some of it but you don't have to hear 100% of it to know how to identify. The biggest thing is to not appear so detached that you seem judgmental and holier than thou. That works both ways, though.
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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
Nope, didn't grow up in a predominantly Black community.
Yes, I understand what they meant now, when I was 17 not so much, because the things I grew up doing, most of the Black people I knew did as well. It wasn't so weird that my father golfed because most of the men in our family and most of his friends did. We camped with other families. Again--nothing that didn't seem "Black" to me. But, for those people, it was like I had three heads.
I see now, 12 years later, that it was more a reflection on them and a limited scope of what it meant to "be Black." As a high school senior, however, it was a different experience.
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Blacks of higher socioeconomic status will do things like golf and traveling (camping should be reserved for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts as far as I'm concerned
). However, since most Blacks of higher SES are first generation well-off, older Blacks are fully aware that what they enjoy doing is not what they were socialized to identify as Blackness. As a younger Black person you wouldn't have known that so you didn't know what the hell those Blacks were talking about.
I think it's important to note that Blacks of higher SES do not abandon the racial and cultural identifiers of Blackness. And when Blacks of higher SES think they have fully assimilated and fully identify with whites of higher SES, they are reminded of the instances where Blackness carries more weight than SES. The -isms aside, there are still things that some Blacks of higher SES will not do that some whites of higher SES fully identify with.
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