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You are equating culture with race, as if there is some uniform, common culture shared by all black people.
Culturally, there is more of a connection between black Americans than white Americans. It is a unique situation that derives from the circumstances already discussed, but it is also not homogenous or narrow (don't put words in my mouth if you don't like it). It is in some ways as if black itself is a nationality/ethnicity because most African Americans don't know their full heritage as a result of slavery. But we've been over this before. For black people in America, there is an overlap between race and culture.
That is true with not only with respect to African Americans descended from slaves -- whose "culture" may vary widely depending on a ton of socio-economic and geographic factors, but even more so when current immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, or elsewhere are added into the mix. The cultures, even the ethnicities, to some extent, are actually different.
So are you saying that the African Americans who descend from slaves in this country DON'T have a culture?
Every black person does not share in the same urban hip-hop cultural affiliation that the media jams down our throats. That's a stereotype.
Nobody said any of that.
Of course, that exact same criticism applies to "white pride". Given that white people don't all have the same culture, that term also devolves into meaning nothing other than pure race. Both terms amount to having pride in a skin color, which is something over which none of us have a shred of control. It's racist at its core. The term is probably more pernicious than "black pride", but we're just talking degrees of racism at this point.
Honestly this is so stupid. There is a fundamental difference between the meanings of white and black pride, which we've gone over. Acting like they are just the same thing on a spectrum of racism is ignorant of reality.
Race and culture are not inextricably linked. There are is some correlation, but that correlation is continually weakening over time, as it should.
Once again this is the divide of color-blindness. You are ignoring and erasing the experience of black Americans to say we should move past it instead of accepting and celebrating our differences. Black people have a culture in this country and they don't have to give it up in order for us to progress as an equal society.
You won't agree with the things I said and we'll go in a circle. In a few weeks we'll have the same argument.