Is "Black culture" destructive?

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For me I think black culture is horrible. Yes I know I'm black. The way we are portrayed in the media is disgusting. Black culture promotes drugs, women and crimes in music and in tv shows. If you listen to a rap song it is all about the same destructive content. Gangs and violence aren't things to be proud of or "flexing" about. Almost every black show I watch makes black people look stupid, like criminals or they do drugs. The Black image in the media is completely destructive to us as a group. Because of the media we put out to the world, internationally people actually think most black people act this way and see us as a joke or less than. We as black people need to change our image. Black children consume this trash and think it's okay to mimic the behavior. We can't expect people to respect us when we advertise our bodies and worship materialistic things, instead of finding value in education and intelligence. Black people can't keep complaining about discrimination, when we continue to bring it upon ourselves. So do you think black culture is destructive?

CocoXD · Accepted Answer

I believe that the early forms of rap and soul music were good parts of black American culture (I’m assuming you are talking about black American culture) also gospel music. Black culture today is absolutely trash but I won’t agree that gang violence and promotion of drugs is exclusive to black American culture but yes it is a prevalent part.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I think it's unfair to chalk black culture up to all the negative aspects...

AdmiralBailey · Accepted Answer

My guy @BlackMaleYou were just talking about this. There's also no positive images of black couples in media. It's always struggle love and the girl is masculine and loud.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

The troubling parts are the crimes that black people commit against other black people and the dismissal of successful black people, excluding athletes and musicians.

curiousnorway · Answer

There are no such thing as "black culture". Culture may be common in certain geographical areas like continents or countries, and among some groups of people. But no race owns a culture. People can join and leave a culture as they please. Your skin color don't determine your culture.

Many black people in the US plays jazz, soul and blouse music. It's not considered trashy at all and is highly respected music. Many classic music fans also likes jazz. There are also many blacks and whites in the Hip hop genre, so it's not a racial genre and has encouraged many young people expressing their emotions. Singing and rap has helped many shy, but musical people.

The ghetto and criminal cultures you're talking about isn't "black culture". In my country Norway we've a few similar groups too, but they're mostly white and blonde. The criminal cultures are universal and people of all races are members of them. Your socioeconomic background affects you more than your race if you're going to join or not. Same thing applies to speaking ghetto, AAVE or street. It's something everyone are capable to learn if they wants to.

In my country we also have street/ghetto sociolects. We've kebab-Norwegian which are a sociolect consisting of Norwegian, English, Arabic and many other languages, that many immigrants speaks. We also have a prison-sociolect. It's the Norwegian version of the Southern accents like redneck. Half of the speakers are white and the other half are "colored".

There are no such thing as black culture.

MlleCake · Answer

I'm an outsider, so my opinion is from that perspective. I think that black culture is varied and has good aspects as well as negative aspects. I think the same can be said of any culture.

I appreciate why you don't want the gangsta/criminal aspect to be the only part of black culture that gets portrayed.

But if it's any consolation, this middle aged white lady doesn't think that black culture is just about gangs and drugs. No matter what the media portrays, I know the culture is deeper than that.

madhatters4 · Answer

i don't think black culture promotes this. i think different cultural subsets promote things negative or positive.

Starrk · Answer

The issue with your premise is that Black Culture is very broad. When people usually think of black culture, they usually focus their attention on the culture that is perpetrated by low income Black Americans. First thing first, culture is not defined by what a small portion of people within a group does. It is defined by what is common among the majority (or at least the average) of that group.

If we were going by your logic then White Americans' culture should be based entirely on how people in trailer parks behave, which is not good.

Black culture includes everything from Music (Rap, Pop, R&B, Rock) to soul food, history, language, religion, fashion, art, literature, dances, hairstyle and all types of trends that exist in the black community.

You may be black but you are very ignorant of Black Culture if you think it is only made up of violence, gangs, and drugs ( which by the way can be found in just about in other group). I would highly recommend you do more research on black culture.

windknowsmyname · Answer

hahahaha no black culture ain't bad, look up other culture they either copy or doing worse. oh so black culture have sex and move to the next, tell me more about having more than wives is not as bad? look at vines, tiktok, musically, Instagram and so on tell me Asians ain't doing same dances we do. oh but they look better doing it. right. violence, drugs, crimes, GIRL! your whole government system who had white people destroyed an entire country with war, controling drugs, and crimes goes unpunished. i can go on about with other cultures do thats way worse than ours but you get how they are over looked but when we do its a bad thing. oh white guy killed someone, he's mentally ill we must study him. black guy. nah, going jail now! lol. im not racist just this stuff is on the news act like we the only ones. every wsnted Obama to blk stereotype but couldnt.

RolandCuthbert · Answer

Wow! This comes from the little one having a pity party about being dark-skinned. The funny thing is, the mythical "Black" race does not have one culture. It has literally thousands upon thousands. Don't categorize us all under one heading simply because you do not understand us. The Senegalese immigrants in my group would not claim to be members of African-American Culture. I don't claim to know anything about Jamaican Culture. My niece is married to a young man from Togo, obviously that relationship is an intercultural one.

You are only 15 years old. You need to understand the difference between the mythology of race and the reality of culture.

ChurchOfIron · Answer

Ghetto black culture is destructive, certainly. 35%-50% of the homicide in the U. S. are committed by black perpetrators, and usually black victims. Considering that black people are only 12% of the population, this is an astounding number. Namely due to gangs, but also just generally in poor, urban areas. Other areas of crime are also disproportionately black, though.

It's true that needs to change. And personal responsibility is a big thing. But it's also a social issue which needs social help.

It's a difficult issue, all around. And fuck if I know the solution. Better education for the poor would probably help a lot. But at the same time, parents have to teach their kids that education matters.

ak667 · Answer

Perhaps now sometimes, but that wasn't always the case, you know. Harlem used to be a safe neighborhood with people keeping their doors unlocked. This is a kind of modern phenomena. I'm very big of a fan of Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams in trying to figure out what might happened in the past half a century or so from an economics standpoint.

Celtero · Answer

Not just the black race, but to all the other races it's spread to as well.

boggboss · Answer

No one could argue that we kill out own people better then anyone else

Miristheiss · Answer

They have a big problem with fatherless homes. That leads to an endless cycle of problems.

SketchForger · Answer

When you live in Chicago, you get to experience it a lot more than the average city.

It's the the point where my older brother actually knew Chance. Chance doesn't really promote violence as much as "most" black rappers do. But one of the things that you need to understand is the culture behind gang mentality, and how it's mostly a result of sociological in-grouping. And I groups can't really be prevented when the socio-economic side exists.

Anonymous · Answer

I know I'm gonna be called a racist, but the reality is, blacks ruin every place they touch.

Camden
The Caribbean
South Africa
Zimbabwe

These were all safe and prosperous places until blacks took control of them. Now they're over run with crime, drugs and poverty and are among the most dangerous places on earth.

I can only think of a few black countries in the Caribbean and southern Africa that are decent.

MasterKey18 · Answer

I have no real problem with black anything. They should sometimes drop their attitude and stop being so defenseless and sensitive.

Janessa2021 · Answer

You should be aiming at the at media not your culture 😂just because that's how black people are perceived doesn't mean thats how they are tf. If it's so horrible why are people appropriating it so much?

Pink2000 · Answer

I love black culture. It’s the best culture... as a black woman you should know better than to talk about your on mind to a website full of racist ☺️

4465loveyou5577 · Answer

African American culture is not; thug culture that has permeated African American communities is.

thottttiana · Answer

Yes. That’s why I’m bleaching my skin and changing my name to Linda.

Anonymous · Answer

Hip hop culture maybe? It seems very materialistic and over the top.

JWALKER843 · Answer

Not only is it destructive to black people but since black culture is so popular in the states its causing destruction within all the races.

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