365 Questions--March 11
What is a big lesson you learned recently?
Fun fact--I love to watch interviews. I think celebrities' personalities come out best in that setting. I recently watched Ryan Coogler's interview on Hot 97. The video is below. For those of you who don't know Ryan Coogler directed Fruitvale Station, Creed, and most recently Black Panther. He was really interested to listen to. He's from Oakland. He's not the "I was raised in the hood" but now I'm boujee type. He sounds like he is from Oakland. During the interview he talked about his experience in Africa. Prior to creating Black Panther, he went to South Africa and traveled up the entire continent. Amazing right?
What was really interesting was his experiences with the actual tribes. I think it starts around 35 minutes into the interview. Coogler was explaining how Black people feel detached to Africa because it's not something that is readily accessible for people to learn about. The only thing available documentation wise is slavery documents. There's not way for people to go back to the culture. Crazy thing is, we've been keeping up with the culture the entire time. Stereotypical "Black" things are actually from African culture. He explains it very well in the video.
Society has made Black feel bad for things that make us us not, and we didn't even know that it comes from our ancestors. Society wants us to reject our own culture so that we can be Americanized. Think about how many bad watermelon jokes people have made about Black people. It's all fun and games until int was discovered there was actually a method to the madness. Watermelon is the only fruit that hydrates and gives nourishment at the same time. Or even something as simple as hair. Remember before being natural was a thing? Everybody thought it's better when we all had the fresh roller wrap. It's very interesting to see who we are trained to hate everything that makes us us. Even though everything Black people held to culture was taken from them against their will, the culture still persists.
Be, be, 'fore we came to this country
We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys
There was empires in Africa called Kush
Timbuktu, where every race came to get books
--Nas
Fun fact--I love to watch interviews. I think celebrities' personalities come out best in that setting. I recently watched Ryan Coogler's interview on Hot 97. The video is below. For those of you who don't know Ryan Coogler directed Fruitvale Station, Creed, and most recently Black Panther. He was really interested to listen to. He's from Oakland. He's not the "I was raised in the hood" but now I'm boujee type. He sounds like he is from Oakland. During the interview he talked about his experience in Africa. Prior to creating Black Panther, he went to South Africa and traveled up the entire continent. Amazing right?
What was really interesting was his experiences with the actual tribes. I think it starts around 35 minutes into the interview. Coogler was explaining how Black people feel detached to Africa because it's not something that is readily accessible for people to learn about. The only thing available documentation wise is slavery documents. There's not way for people to go back to the culture. Crazy thing is, we've been keeping up with the culture the entire time. Stereotypical "Black" things are actually from African culture. He explains it very well in the video.
Society has made Black feel bad for things that make us us not, and we didn't even know that it comes from our ancestors. Society wants us to reject our own culture so that we can be Americanized. Think about how many bad watermelon jokes people have made about Black people. It's all fun and games until int was discovered there was actually a method to the madness. Watermelon is the only fruit that hydrates and gives nourishment at the same time. Or even something as simple as hair. Remember before being natural was a thing? Everybody thought it's better when we all had the fresh roller wrap. It's very interesting to see who we are trained to hate everything that makes us us. Even though everything Black people held to culture was taken from them against their will, the culture still persists.
Be, be, 'fore we came to this country
We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys
There was empires in Africa called Kush
Timbuktu, where every race came to get books
--Nas
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