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Name: TGen

Comment: I love this post. Didn't think I would because of the title, but I do. Just a couple things to add: 1) Black MUSIC (hip-hop does not count, sorry.) and 2) The communal aspect of Black culture. No other people is as community-oriented as we are. We call each other "sisters" and "brothers," even though we're becoming more "me"-oriented in this capitalisitc society, at our core, we're family-minded, we look out for each other. We are the most forgiving, giving, sacrificing people imo. I know these are stereotypes but by and large, I think they're accurate. Good post Darryl, and Happy Thankgsgiving!

Name: PhrozenPharaoh

Comment: Excellent post!

Name: tanglebabe

Comment: Love it!! Love it!!!

Name: SweetieDarlin

Comment: Wonderful post Darryl. Have a fab Thanksgiving. Passing this article on. To add the list, no other race not only survives hard times but does so with grace and a healthy sense of humor. Yes a lot of black humor is vulgar and demeaning but our humor gets us through the roughest times and leaves the other folks asking why the hyell are we laughing. I noticed that black folks laughing pizzes white folks especially while our office was working on a pariticularly grueling project---we were cracking jokes back and forth just to keep from saying screw it all I'm out---white folks were like they couldn't possiblity make their deadline, they always seem to be laughing which means they are serious---We met our deadline early and did it well.

Name: oldsoul

Comment: I'm thankful for Being Black and thankful for this article...especially for the points on these so-called "holidays". Hey, everybody has the right to choose but it's always good to know why we choose what we choose and the effects our choices have on us and others. And Hip-Hop Is Black Music, btw, whether some want it to be or not. The old "negro" spirituals were disdained in a similar fashion based largely on embarrassment, ignorance and programmed/projected slave mentalities. If it hadn't been for those old spirituals, I'm interested in knowing how we would have made it thru-- we were communicating with a "private" language that was either understood, misunderstood and/or feared. Although things are looking up, we Black folk just may need that type of tool again in what people call "the future". It's good practice to be careful about how you label (judge) a thing...get to know it - all of it or as much as you can - then at least you can make educated statements about the situation instead of following popular opinion. If we've learned anything from the election that we were so fortunate to experience, we should have re-learned that a lot of what we see, hear, feel and even taste in this country ain't what we think it is. Happy Happy! Keep skribblin D...

Name: MOTHERSHIP

Comment: Hey, D, That's why I love you so much you put it right in the middle! LOL! I love bein' Black, hell, I'm the blackest sister you ever want to know. I revel in my royalty. You put it down and layed it down. Now if we can just stop runnin' around sleepin' with white folks, we'd be cool. It's an abomination against the ancestors and I don't give a hell how they try to make excuses for it and exactly for the same reasons you wrote about as well. Hip/Hop rap music is our creation, urban poets. Oldsoul, you said it best. I'll hollatcha over the holidays. Until then, be blessed.

Name: MelodyCool

Comment: Wow, this in the best contribution Darryl has ever made!

Name: Exmun

Comment: Darryl, I love the post. This was a straight winner. I loved the line "you can’t keep white folks out of Soul Food restaurants where grits and greens are done just right." True indeed. Here's my addition. BLACK ATHLETICISM. As a race, we don't have a lock on athletics. But all can agree that when we get down on the sports field, there isn't anyone who can touch the grace and poetry of a Black athlete doing his or her thing. Nothing. BLACK SLANG. Never has the world seen a people so inventive that the language literally changes daily, because we just can't stop creating new ways of saying the same things. BLACK HOPE. No people have hoped so much of others and received so little in return. This dovetails with resilience. We are resilient... almost to a fault. Great piece D.

Name: Conrad

Comment: Darryl, this was one of the most beautiful, thought-provoking, well-written articles it has been my pleasure to have ever read. (And I've read thousands!) You expressed my feelings and prospectives better than anyone other than myself could have ever, ever done. Please, please keep up these good and timely articles that are so needed by our community!

Name: barnone

Comment: brother james, u were def on point. i'm really feeling u. and i wholeheartedly agree. everything that is "hip" was born out of african-american culture. the brooks brothers suit wasn't a suit til brothers started wearing them. greatest golfer, greatest hooper, greatest singer, greatest actor, most brilliant mathmatician, greatest surgeon, and soon to be...the greatest prez. the list just goes on and on. just 2 bad we don't recognize. but then that's part of the trick. every1 wants 2 b like the black man, except the original black man. what 2 do. it is what it is.

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