Western ways is opposed to alot of traditional beliefs and values.
People had to be enslaved and colonized to adopt things that go against their engrained cultural essence.
So yeah... when black families can't get together like we have always done because we'd rather make money I'd say we're pretty whitewashed.
"We are not stunted in spirit, we are not europeans, we are not Christians that we should invent fables a child would laugh at and harden our eyes to preach them daylight and deep night as truth. We are not Arabs, we are not Muslims to fabricate a desert