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Re: "African-American" Tag
Jun 03, 2003, 11:30
When Berry & Washington won their Oscars it was the first time a black woman had won the main award and the first time since Sidney Poitier that a black man had won it. I think it’s fair enough that black actors and commentators celebrate this as a big step forward and an inspiration to younger black americans that the sky is the limit and so on. It’s good to have role models. It’s also good to claim something proudly that people have sidelined you or tried to humiliate you for.

Why shouldn’t we be able to celebrate the good things we have for inherited from our forebears? When you stop these celebrations altogether I think it pulls people apart from their communities. When people don’t feel they are from any one place they lose respect for their environment and the common good and just become morphed into globalised americanised culture.

If you think of the world music scene which is getting smaller and smaller as artists become more western sounding you can see how some national identities are being threatened and national cultures become extinct.

Who wants to be part of the inane vacuous cultural TV wasteland when there is so much cultural diversity and great art that comes from people ‘feeling’ a specific identity.

It’s always liberal brits/americans who have so many problems with identity because as soon as anyone begins worrying about losing British culture then they get branded a racist but how often do you hear people in pubs/bus stops bemoaning the fact that Starbucks are taking over all the old fashioned cafes, or how the BBC makes no more good tv, or how lower division football is threatened by UEFA super-leagues – it’s not just racists who worry about losing things we enjoy about our culture – its all of us.
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