Southern Culture - Black Culture

[LOIE]

I found this interesting perspective on black culture in Ann Coulter’s book Mugged:

“After slavery, most of black America was starting at the bottom rung of social advancement. Not only that, but they had spent centuries in the backwoods culture of Southern hillbillies. Thomas Sowell points out that much of what is thought to be black culture is actually Southern “cracker” culture, imported from the Northern Provinces of the British Isles.

In his book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Sowell traces behavior patterns of various early Americans back to their original regions in the British Isles. Much of the Southern population was made up of eighteenth-century immigrants from the “Celtic fringe” – Scotland, Ireland and Wales. As Sowell demonstrates with a mountain of hilarious examples, the unique cultural attributes of these British highlanders included wanton and brutal violence, hair-trigger tempers, unalterable sloth, illiteracy and a total lack of respect for human life, including their own.

Today the only place we see this culture is on the TV show Cops and in the black underclass.

The people of the Celtic fringe were practically a different species from those who settled New England. Around the time of the civil war, more than 20 percent of the Southern whites still couldn’t read. The very word “cracker” is thought by some scholars to refer to the prideful boasting of the transplanted British highlanders. Remnants of their fighting spirit proved a boon to the U.S. military, but a few centuries ago, their skirmishes included fights that involved biting off noses, gouging out eyes, and ripping off their opponents’ heads. Far from objecting, local crowds would enthusiastically cheer the combatants on. It was in these colorful folkways of the Celtic fringe that southern blacks were marinated for centuries, but today are written about by 21st century sociologists as a specifically “black culture.”

These traits have nothing to do with Africa or the legacy of slavery. The quaint customs of southern rednecks came directly from their Scottish, Welsh and Irish ancestors and were passed on to southern blacks. The East coast-West coast hip-hop rivalry, with its “diss tracks” and shootings and murders, are not a distant echo from the plains of Africa, but a modern version of the Hatfields and Mccoys, with much greater use of the F-word.”

I personally have to wonder why these behaviors were referred to as “hilarious” and “quaint” when white folks did them, and are called something quite different when black folks do them. And why these very same behaviors are taken as proof that blacks are violent, inferior, stupid and unredeemable while for southern whites it was simply part of their unique culture.

I personally have to question why you subject yourself to Ann Coulter's writing. At all.

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I personally have to question why you subject yourself to Ann Coulter's writing. At all.

I only read one of her books as a courtesy to a poster who wanted people to respond to what she said. I do not intend to read her other works.

 

[MyParentsAreProud]

What? White people claiming black culture as their own? What in the Rock n Roll?

Are black people who are educated, who bathe every day, who pull their pants up, who don't rob 7-Elevens claiming white culture as their own?