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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Replying to @ZubyMusic
It’s almost annoying as “white culture” which only came into existence as the opposite of its equally non-existent “black culture.”
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Replying to @jameszimmermann @ZubyMusic
The Irish only “became white” in America once civil rights took off, became skin color not national origin. Prior to that, Irish, Chinese, and blacks occupied the bottom rung in society and competed for scraps to survive, which is why they’re still hostile to each other today.
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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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Look back even further to the dawn of the new world and you see the Irish working as slaves and indentured servants until Bacon’s Rebellion. The blacks replaced them after that, too. LOTS of resentment between Irish and blacks as they scraped in the same gutters to survive.
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