The Black Experience in America is Unique
Unique Americans
The experience of blacks in America is unique. They are considered foreigners to almost all the citizens; this is as a result of their history. They as well have been cut from their native motherland, which is also a reason why they are considered to be foreigners. Despite all these, there is a similarity in their culture, with the most considered dominant groups who are the Americans. Some of the cultures deemed to be similar include but not limited to: finding their way of eating, what their beliefs are as well as their way of worship. There is some difficulty in the black’s names, and there is a part of and apart from society.
For several years, blacks have often sought to take their place with the whites to quest their dreams. To most of the Africans, this venture seemed to them to be tiresome and next to impossible. However, still, some succeeded. Those who succeeded might as well have done so through acquiring higher education as well as in the working profession sector. And through all these, they learned and adopted such a lifestyle as the Americans, and as a result, they are entitled to some of the benefits as well.
Different sought of responses have come up recently as some of the Americans argue that the more the Africans learn about their society and their members included, the less they should encourage their members to accept their principles and beliefs. These responses have come up due to persistent and continuous designation and relegation of those considered being in the inferior status (Awad, Kia-Keating, & Amer, 2019). Most of these values were meant and believed to be for typical Americans, for instance, on individual achievement due to his/her hard work. But it will be fleeceable to assume that all these problems might and will be solved just by maybe allowing and giving admission to black children to white schools and maybe saying opening neighborhoods with the blacks. Most of the people have failed to accept how unique black experience has been over the years. They consider the idea that blacks should be integrated but not segregated. This problem has been seen and observed by different bodies concerned, such as the liberal integrationist found in universities, civil rights, and governments. Despite the fact of recognizing all that, these people fail to understand some of the points such as the cultures that were as a result of the whites during and after the slavery period.
Most of the integrationist found it challenging to accept that integration and segregation are at one point in a logical and opposite order. These people like the segregationists who think about the relationship between blacks and whites in a very keen and intelligent manner. Their viewpoints have been illustrated using the ‘dogma of liberal social science.’ For instance, in America, Dilemma Negro is considered to be an exaggerated American. While as per the historians, they think Negro as, ‘a white man in with black skin.’ This is also seen through different studies such as New York City, which as to them, Negro is nothing but an American (Kelly, 2019). This is pointed out when James farmer, who is the founder of racial equality, once said that we [Blacks] learned that America couldn’t be color-blind. It would have to become color-blind, and it would only become color-blind when we gave up our color.
The African Diaspora Revisionist Interpretations of Ethnicity, Culture, and Religion under slavery
When the cultures of Europeans and Africans can be seen in terms of equality, this process can bear more fruits. The Africans who entered such mentality, it is true that they are not static in their states; therefore, so much can be done to provide color to the African-Americans. Despite the anthropological approach which tends to explore the formulation of a distinct society in the context of slavery, several types of research have been added to the historical view (McTaggart, & O’Brien, 2017). For instance, while there were slaves in America, those left in Africa lived their daily and healthy lives. They had to adapt to slavery in America as well as adjusting their cultural values and religious beliefs. But they should have maintained their clear vision of the African development more so on the rapid evolution to Africans once they had arrived in the American lands. Through these developments, the fresh arrivals of Africans in America will find its roots and at least come to an end. This will make the creolization process at least stop or come to an end entirely; thus, the European-African culture will be perceived to be of equal importance to every individual.
As I had stated and suggested that most of the enslaved Africans at times tend to interpret their experiences in terms of the contemporary world of African. Instead, these enslaved Africans should understand that their situation in America can be used to take full control of political, social, and economic conditions in different parts of Africa. Therefore, it is right to say that the slavery requirements were shaped by the slaves themselves through their background and personal experience; thus, there was a transfer of expertise during slavery times. These enslaved Africans brought political issues and lived interpretations of their conditions with them rather than new cultural survival tactics, which are quint and symbolic. This makes it look more awkward that during periods of growth and prosperity, most of the immigrants were coming from Africa as slaves. As a result, the Americans individual colonies ended up receiving slaves from almost the same places in Africa. Therefore, they ended up updating their information and rekindling memories, forcing the Africans components, that is, the slaves to cultural adaptations under slavery. How these enslaved Africans interpret their conditions as a whole in the Americans and the Islamic world, all lies in the heart of the African contribution to the process of creolization, the form of resistance, and the extent of accommodation with the slave experience. Therefore, the degree in which linkages with Africa were maintained or declined into insignificance needs to be established. Apart from being slaves, Africans in the diaspora are considered to belong to the immigrant population, therefore, constituting to refugee communities as they are identified with communities that maintain the link with their communities where they originated from in a variety and different ways (McTaggart, & O’Brien, 2017). For instance, enslaved Muslims in Bahia considered themselves as belonging to the world of Islam; their educational system and common prayers were not “survivals” but active attempts to maintain and extend that world.
References
Awad, G. H., Kia-Keating, M., & Amer, M. M. (2019). A model of cumulative racial-ethnic trauma among Americans of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent. American Psychologist, 74(1), 76.
Kelly, S. (2019). Cognitive behavior therapy with African Americans.
McTaggart, N., & O’Brien, E. (2017). Seeking Liberation, Facing Marginalization: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Conditional Acceptance in Hip‐Hop Culture. Sociological Inquiry, 87(4), 634-658.