What is the Black Community?
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What is the Black Community?
As a conservative, I’m told I don’t understand the “Black Community”. Many Blacks talk about the “Black Community” but cannot define what the Black Community is. Similar to Matt Walsh, asking “What is a Woman?”, I am asking, “What is the Black Community?”, and what qualifies you to be a member?
I’ll define the Black Community, by using the words of Calvin O.L. Henry from a 1995 article. He states the Black Community is Black America, and members of Black America are citizens of the United States of America. Community is a concept that goes beyond the color of one’s skin but is the experience of being Black in the United States.
The Black Community is a society whose culture is waiting to be re-defined. This concept is not designed to ignore other Blacks in the Americas but to evolve the strength and power of Blacks as citizens of the United States of America. He goes on to discuss the need for Blacks to hold political leaders accountable for changes needed to empower the Black Community.
He discusses education as being a tool that Blacks must use for social change, to educate their youths, and to correct the miseducation of and about the Black Community. Accountability and taking on leadership roles are discussed as well. Henry points out that as Blacks work at becoming agents of change, they must be aware of those in the community used to divide the Black community.
This general definition of the Black Community is not what is being shared today. The Black Community is divided and unsure of who they are. “You ain’t Black” if you don’t agree with the current edicts of the Black Community. The Black Community is not open to conservative voices. A Black conservative cannot be a part of the Black Community and many times is symbolically removed from the community for “not being Black enough.”
A gentleman named Marlon Browne, recently made some strong points about what the Black Community is. He said today’s Black Community is made up of poor uneducated Black people. It is comprised of unwed mothers with children from multiple baby daddies. Their homes are in the worst parts of town but very close to the abortion clinic most of them have visited.
Attempting to get a good education and leaving the projects for a better life is frowned upon. Wearing pants that sag below your ass and clothes that expose your tits and asses are signs you are a member of the Black Community. Twerking, cursing, calling each other “nigga”, listening to rap music that glorifies sexual promiscuity, drug use, and killing each other, solidifies your membership.
Blaming everyone but yourself for where you are in life, is a badge of honor. Worshipping Barak Obama, Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, and the like, brings you high praise. Ultimately, always voting Democrat secures your lifetime membership in the black community.
Mr. Brown asks a simple question: why are these qualities associated with the Black Community?
Why, as Black Americans, don’t we say, “You ain’t Black” if you are not a productive citizen, if you haven’t successfully completed high school and are either going to college, joining the military, starting a business, or going to trade school? Blacks should be saying, if you want to be a part of this community, you need to abstain from sexual promiscuity. You need to speak proper English and dress for success in this global environment.
In this thriving community, we need people who are true leaders, who listen to and respect the thoughts and ideas of everyone. In a prosperous Black community, we don’t call each other “nigga”, and we praise any Black person who has achieved success. We don’t sit on our hands waiting for government handouts, nor cower behind wrongs done to Blacks decades ago using that as the reason we can’t succeed today. We stop saying successful Blacks are an oxymoron.
This Black Community does exist, but the mainstream media and our so-called Black leaders, who are living the American dream, don’t believe it’s something you can achieve living in their “Black Community”.
If the Black Community continues to be defined as a group of people who have no hope, who can only make it from the crumbs thrown to it by the government, then the Black Community will continue to be a group of people I don’t want to be associated with.
Until the Black Community starts to see themselves as better than they are told they are, they will never achieve the success they are looking for. In that regard, I’m okay not being black enough for Biden and the Black Community he panders to. I’m okay being a part of the thriving, striving, achieving Black Community progressives choose to ignore. Biden’s Black Community has no place for me.
The real Black Community accepts me, is willing to work with me, and show me how in one generation I can change the entire trajectory of my family.
It's time for the Black Community to decide who they want to be.
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What is the Black Community?
Yes! You're reading my mind. Our ancestors would be turning in their graves if they saw what we have allowed ourselves to become. 60 years after the March on Washington and we have devolved. We had more respect for ourselves 60 years ago when we had significantly less opportunity, less education and fewer resources. What really bothers me is the older generation. They are no longer leading and are instead poor examples to follow. Where are our well-dressed grandmothers who wouldn't be caught dead with a bonnet or nightgown outside of the house? We are black Americans who have come so far. I remember when we had something to emulate. Those of us who remember, have to take the community back. I may be a conservative, I am not a victim. I am an inner city, fire hydrant open in the summer, penny candy, all-day salon Saturday, big mama having, Def Comedy Jam loving, hip hop head, clean sneaker wearing, church hat and Sunday-best BLACK woman. This is my community and I will hold my head high, recalling the intelligence of Angelou, the ground-breaking of Dr. Ben Carson, the Olympic dominating Carl Lewis and singing Lift Every Voice and Sing that we all learned alongside The Star Spangled Banner, not in place of it.
What is the Black community? What is the White community? What is the Asian community?
How many thousands of news stories have we seen in the last half century that referenced Black or African American “leaders” who the journalists tell us were speaking on behalf of the entire “community?” Who are these leaders politicians and journalists so confidently anoint as the authorities of Blackness?
I’m white and old I’ll be damned if I can think of a white “leader” that spoke on my behalf or my “community” whatever the hell that might be. I thought we were trying to move away from this type of generalizing but it’s just another form of stereotyping dressed up as something else.