African-American Appreciation Thread - Highlighting contributions from our most productive citizens

I wanted to branch out my workout routine and discovered African dance after I tried Zumba.

I love African dance better than Zumba. Fuck the Spics.
 
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Blacks played an immensely important role in the development of modern music that goes underappreciated in the general public because the general public doesn't care about music that's older than a decade, particularly Blacks themselves.

They didn't do it all on their own, most of these genres wound up being dominated by White gentiles or White Jews, but Blacks DID create jazz that grew into the tree of early 1900s popular music, and they created rock'n'roll that grew into the tree of late 1900s popular music, along with other smaller genres that didn't take off in a direction like that but are still worth recognition (and you could probably argue that blues is at least thematically similar to a lot of folk). Hip-hop growing into much of the modern shit too.

Without the interaction of African sensibilities of rhythm and dance ("jungle dance") and European instruments and musical notation you never get the emergence of this huge body of work that the rest of the world has since adopted, and which to me has every bit as much value as culture as the body of European classical music (I agree with something I heard that swing/big band/jazz is the American equivalent of classical, moreso than literal American classical composers are). Black America never had any major contribution to technology or intellectual thought but it has been crucially important in the creation of modern music, like Germans to the creation of classical music or Italians to the visual arts, that earns them recognition in the halls of history regardless of anything else.


Edit: I'll add to that, I feel like the modern Far Right (the vibe around here) has a sad tendency to jerk off oldshit for being old while disparaging modern culture. Before 1900 good after 1900 bad, is the mentality. It tends to come across as very pretentious/insincere (the two go hand in hand) and I think dismissive of authentic American cultural heritage. This applies to visual arts as well, much of what tools like the Nazis were attacking was genuinely high quality.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Blacks played an immensely important role in the development of modern music that goes underappreciated in the general public because the general public doesn't care about music that's older than a decade, particularly Blacks themselves.

They didn't do it all on their own, most of these genres wound up being dominated by White gentiles or White Jews, but Blacks DID create jazz that grew into the tree of early 1900s popular music, and they created rock'n'roll that grew into the tree of late 1900s popular music, along with other smaller genres that didn't take off in a direction like that but are still worth recognition (and you could probably argue that blues is at least thematically similar to a lot of folk). Hip-hop growing into much of the modern shit too.

Without the interaction of African sensibilities of rhythm and dance ("jungle dance") and European instruments and musical notation you never get the emergence of this huge body of work that the rest of the world has since adopted, and which to me has every bit as much value as culture as the body of European classical music (I agree with something I heard that swing/big band/jazz is the American equivalent of classical, moreso than literal American classical composers are). Black America never had any major contribution to technology or intellectual thought but it has been crucially important in the creation of modern music, like Germans to the creation of classical music or Italians to the visual arts, that earns them recognition in the halls of history regardless of anything else.
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Indeed but it's sad Motown with bands like The Supremes and the Temptations and the Sound of Philadelphia had been replaced with the current hip-hop trend who's a POS.
 
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The recent Ja Morant story from the NBA was probably the most talked about thing that has overshadowed the league as far as attention is concerned:


But it says a lot when the rap legend Cam’ron, who was one point known for advocating the “no snitching” rule in his neighborhood, sounds more sane than most talking heads on FOX Sports and ESPN:

 
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Some people might dislike what Ben Stein said about African-Americans.

March 22, 2023

Ben Stein Is Right (Sort of): Black Americans Have 'Never Had It So Good'​

By Selwyn Duke


Recently, actor-cum-commentator Ben Stein was condemned in media for touting the "progress" the U.S. has made and saying that black Americans "never had it so good." One website called his remarks a "racist rant" even though he was, in keeping with his personality, just calmly expressing his opinion. The worst thing about this story, though, isn't that Stein may become a cancel-culture casualty.
In fact, the matter reminds me of philosopher G.K. Chesterton's observation that the worst aspect of duels wasn't that someone might die, but that they settled nothing about who was right or wrong. For as is always the case with these matters, Stein is criticized only for making a politically incorrect assertion involving race — and could suffer reputational and career death because of it — when the real issue is this: was he correct or not?
He surely was, too — for the most part.
Only, the pseudo-elites don't want this issue settled and that known, lest their BLM narrative be debunked.
First off, broader perspective is necessary. As even left-wing Think Progress admitted in 2013, the standard of living worldwide was that year the highest it had ever been in history. America is among the world's lifestyle leaders, too, which means that, at least materially, we're generally living a relative life of Riley.
Note here that man's historical default has been grinding poverty. People lived without our luxuries, including those we consider necessities, and sometimes with a lack of many necessities themselves. They had no plumbing, indoor or otherwise; toilets; refrigeration; modern transportation; effective medical care; insurance policies; or safety net of any kind. They might've had to toil sunrise 'til sunset to eke out a subsistence living.
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Some serious wilding going on here:
Washington plates is the first give-away, but really, it's the shirt that makes this one given what...uh...happens, which I won't spoil:
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Yes, that is a "Black King" shirt with the "A" replaced with a filled in outline of the continent of Africa. :story:
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Of course the dindu has a fucking hi-point. Keep it classy, joggers.
 
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