Culture, Sub-Culture And Black Self Genocide pt2

CULTURE, SUB-CULTURE AND
BLACK SELF-GENOCIDE  PART II

Last week I discussed the fact that the Black man in
America is without any distinct cultural hereitage he can call
his own; and that the reason was that, a group of people must
first and foremost possess a “society that accepts them
before a culture can validly exist. It should also be noted that
the white man who lives in North America – has never had
and never will have what can be called an American culture.
The most they can claim to have is an American way of living
which leaves much to be desired. What we have in America
can be summed up from a political standpoint as a “racist
institution” that is utilized to insure “white supremacy”; and
from an anthropological standpoint it is said to be a “culture
complex”. What is a culture complex? With regards to
anthropology (which is the study of man and all his activities
politics, law, economics, etc.) a “culture complex” can be
defined as, “An integrated system of culture traits organized
about some nuclear interest”. What could be a more vivid
description of American racist philosophy? The crucial
difference between the Black and white experience however is
the fact that white, so-called Americans, have always had the
opportunity to trace and keep strong kinship ties with their
original cultural hereitage and Blacks in America have not. Out
of this understanding of what a culture complex is, we can
clearly see, it is the Indian and the Indian alone who possesses
an authentic American culture.
Therefore to talk about a white American cultural heritage
or a Black American cultural heritage bec0mes – in reality – a
misnomer. We must again think in terms of a “culture
complex” made up of many ethnic groups
groups who have origins in
Europe, Asia, and Africa – Europe being the oppressor and
exploitor who formed the “culture complex” but who now
live within the same geographical territory, making up what
should be called a “white social institution” (United States)
rather than a distinct cultural and/or social entity per se.
Through simple deduction and objective rationale it should
be very clear that the Black man in America –
just as the European or Asian –
must also have a cultural heritage and
origin that can meaningfully relate to us and our people –
since we now realize that heritage cannot be American, any
more than we are.
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Could the denial of such an identifiable cultural hereitage
be the cause of minimal progress – as a social entity
Black people in America? If the Indian is the only true
American, what then, ethnically speaking, is a Black in
America?
I will attempt to shed some light on these and other
questions next week in part III of “Culture, Sub-Culture, and
Black self-genocide”.