Why is American culture so "black"?

[Anonymous]

As a foreigner I really don't get it. Aren't blacks only like 13% with Hispanics making a much larger %? Watching your TV one would think America is a majority black nation LOL.

[Anonymous]

The most common American mentality.
1. Black Americans are Americas most favorite minority.
2. America is black and white culture dominated and a white/black nation.
3. Blacks constantly complain about representation. They don’t want to be represented based on population percentage. They want to be mostly represented by vast majority percentage. The NFL is 80% black and they were complaining it wasn’t black enough. Meaning there was too many white coaches and white quarterbacks. That is starting to change where it is becoming more black and black.
4. America is a white and black supremacy nation where you have two political parties that advocate for either white or black people. The far right caters to white people and tries to protect them from becoming racially mixed in the future. The fat left advocates for blacks and tries to dominate the country with black culture. This is more so dominant than anything else. The younger generations of Americans are more pro black today than ever before.

[NamerOfStars]

A lot of American culture is produced by a relative handful of production centers; if you were asking this question fifty years ago, you'd've wondered why American culture is so Jewish.

Not helping matters is how stupidly political things have gotten; thirty years go, we had the Fresh Prince Bel Air, whose entire core cast was black; nobody cared. Nowadays, it'd be praised by the "diversity" crowd (who don't actually want diversity, but are terrified of being accused of racism) and criticized by the "racist" crowd, who aren't actually racist but don't think the world is, either. I, at the time, didn't care; I was more into playing with blocks and trying to figure out how words worked.

[Asker]

Interesting. I guess everyone is afraid if being called racist these days.

[Babygirl_S]

Americans are obsessed with gigantic hips like Kim Kardashian. Most Indian guys would vomit.

[inhua]

because white people are considered "racist" in America and black people are considered the "recipients" of such racism so the culture is trying compensate for such

basically there is no white culture in America. just black or Asian/Hispanic culture and the whites are either gravitating towards one or gravitating towards the other

[RolandCuthbert]

You are not a foreigner. You just "Whiteboychill" playing around on the net.

America is a multicultural nation. We don't have one culture. You have a racist obsession with "Black" people which makes you unable to appreciate all the other cultures we have in this nation.

[Asker]

No friend, please don't project on to me. I am just trying to understand why America has such an obsession with black culture? Is it wrong to call black people "blacks"? This is the sort of thing I don't understand. You seem to have all kinds of rules for portraying, speaking with and speaking too black people; that don't exist for other aspect of your culture. Why are blacks such a unique subset? Black people also seem so angry all of the time, which is also odd as the larger culture seems to celebrate black people at every opportunity.

[RolandCuthbert]

Dude, you are lying. Why lie? What is the purpose?

No foreigner could arrive at such a conclusion if they were actually foreigners. Because;

1. Most foreigners don't even define race, the way that brain dead American racists define it.

2. Most foreigners use cultural designations when speaking about groups of people. A foreigner as an example would refer to themselves using an ethnicity or other label. Thus enabling them to see Americans as a collection of cultural groupings.

3. Leading to the thing that showed your hand. . . the obsession with skin color. Just because a person has darker skin from your point of view does not mean they are African-American. Because there is no such thing as some global "Black" race. David Oweloyo might be "Black" from your point of view. But the truth is he is from Britain. So is Idris Elba, Daniel Kaluuya, etc. Even Trevor Noah is South African. Zoe Saldana is Latin. It is just that right now, we have an influx of entertainers who are darker skinned from other nations, cultures, and ethnic groupings.

Just because in your eyes they registered with some racial grouping does not mean they are apart of the same culture.

And it follows that just because someone does not fit the stereotypical mold for being "Black", will mean we do not consider them to be African-American.

[Asker]

@rolandcuthbert. You see, this is the anger I have observed and I don't understand why. What is it you want? What will make you happy? Are you capable of being happy? The tone of your post leads me to believe you really hate white people. Am I wrong?

[RolandCuthbert]

You are just another lying troll. I laid out my argument perfectly.

And you responded with a bunch of stereotypical racist tropes.

"Whiteboychill" go back watching your interracial porn. You have not fooled a soul.

[Asker]

@rolandcuthbert. Is it a stereotype that you have a lot of anger?

[HighValue]

Liberals that run most media in the USA hate Whites and Asians. They also mostly think Hispanics don't exist based on their small representation on TV.

[RolandCuthbert]

HIspanics have an entire media industry.

WTF?

[HighValue]

@RolandCuthbert On English speaking networks they are very underrepresented. Same goes for movies.

[RolandCuthbert]

That's insane. When you have your own media, why do you need someone else's. I put this question to "Black" folks everyday. I know people who complain about media, but refuse to watch "Black"-owned media.

This is all just silly nonsense. If anything, we need to copy the Hispanic model.

[Asker]

@RolandCuthbert Is there not a network called "Black Entertainment"? I didn't realize being called "black" was considered derogatory.

[RolandCuthbert]

BET is one freaking channel.

There are four freaking Hispanic networks, Univision, Estrella, Telemundo and Unimas.

Even Koreans have three channels in the U. S.

Where did I say "Black" was considered derogatory? I keep explaining to raciologists, that race does not exist. So when I say "Black", I mean African-American Culture.

What you mean by the term "Black" . . well. . . it isn't like you have ever thought much about what you mean. So that's kind of a different conversation.

[BCA6010]

What you're actually seeing is Hollywood and media industry culture; not cultural realities in the "real world" of America.

[lightbulb27]

TV has become all about appeasing the interests of a given subset of america.

America looks nothing like what you see on TV, they make the fringes look like the norm.

[exitseven]

everyone in show biz is tripping over each other to show that they are not racist.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

It's not. Maybe you are watching channels that are for a black audience i. e. BET.

[Asker]

Just watching parts of your super bowl it seemed mostly to be about black culture.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

You mean the Super Show? Next year it might be different. Rihanna is a black artist.

[Anonymous]

Because they complain the loudest and liberal politicians use them as a tool.

[ibodi]

Therefore they want whitewash

[SmokinAces2000]

This must be a troll post

[NostalgiaSenpi]

Yeah, ok.