Cultural Identities

It seems to me that whatever culture that one is a part of determines the type of person they are destined to be their entire lives. This is true for many people and it was true for me until I decided that I wouldn't allow society put me in a box of which I could never break loose. Growing up in the "hood" there is a certain swagger that consists of wearing baggy clothes, sagging pants and wearing the same clothes two to three days in a row. If you came back to the crib with better clothes than everyone else with your pants pulled up and around your waist you automatically have money and have changed in the perception of the streets. Don't go back there saying big words or articulate your words then you've assimilated into the white man's world. This is true for me everytime I go back home and try to reconnect with the neighborhood and old friends. It seems that this is the case for many people who have decided to take owness for their own education and live in a world outside of the perpetual box of ethnic inferiority. They either talk white or their not "down" with the hood. Nonesense, this system is designed to keep people seperate so that they cannot oppose the injustices of society.

The whole idea of cultural identities is a idealogy of separatism. When black people are separated because he is from another neighborhood or city than I am should not come between us building a better community for the future of our race the children.

We as Africans in America don't even recognize our brothers and sisters who live in Africa as black and vice versa. The conquest of the mind starts with creating a sense of solidarity with being alone so that the group won't organize and attack on one is easier than attack of the group.

Come together as one regardless of Culture.


P.e.a.c.e.