There is no such thing as 'black culture'. There are thousands upon thousands of different 'black cultures'. And many have nothing in common with each other. This term is overused, inaccurate, and annoying.
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Look at the transcontinental railroad and you see these three groups competing for garbage wages to work deadly jobs. That’s one reason the Chinese were despised early on, they took the trash jobs the Irish and blacks depended on because no one else would hire any of them.
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When civil rights and desegregation came into play, the other European descendants begrudgingly accepted the Irish as part of the new “white” identity as lines formed over skin colors. And the Irish hated the blacks for “stealing their jobs”. It’s an ugly and fascinating history
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