The original Post gets me heated because it based on the assumption that Middleclass Black People model themselves after there White COunterparts. thats hogwash for the following reasons.

1. White Culture does not equal American Culture.

Sure Middle Class Black People exemplify American Culture, but American Culture respresents contributions from a variety of cultural sources not just white culture (btw what is white culture? arguably it does not exist). European, Asian, Latin and African all are cultural sources of American Culture. to say that adopting AMerican values is adopting White values, overestimates European cutural contributions and underestimates other groups cultural influences.


2. African-Americans are not a completely seperate class of Americans wholy distinct from American Culture (Visual:Two seperate Circles).

The truth is that African-Americans are merely a Subset of the larger group Americans. (Visual: A circle within a Circle). As a Subset we possess a lot of the characteristics of the larger culture. It seems to me a lot of the time that the Afrocentric hate to admit that they have more in common with White Kid from New Jersey, than a Black person from the Sudan.




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