I’ve come to the realization that it is not as simple as “oh we were stripped of our culture by white people.” Like no… We have culture. We always have had a culture. It’s been morphed and transformed into what fit our current situation but it has been continuous from Africa to now. And if you know how and where to look, you can still find things that have remained the same over all these years.

African American culture:

-hip-hop, rap, jazz, rocknroll, blues, r&b

- AAVE (African American Vernacular English) aka urban slang

-pan african flag

- big loop earrings, gold teeth, du rags, gold jewelry

-step dance, krumpin, clownin

-cornrows, braids, afros, locs, high/ low top fades

-talking loud

-talking with our hands

etc etc etc Please add whatever else you feel is African American culture.

I know I missed a lot of stuff I can’t think of right now and you may not agree completely with my list because we’ve been conditioned to believe that our culture is “ratchet” unacceptable and uncivilized. That anything we do or create is negative nd wrong. However, ask yourself this: if we had our own land, just for ourselves separate from white America, would you still consider these cultural attributes unacceptable or negative?