Black American culture is global because American culture is global. And thats not a bad thing at all. It has shown that globally certain things among Black people are universal. It's stupid when people from any group try to turn it into a designation of who is Black and who isn't. And that's mainly what I see from ADOS/FBA people. Them telling non American Black people that they aren't Black. That's not to say foreign Blacks haven't taken on some of the negative imagery that gets portrayed, but it also goes both ways as there still is alot of ignorance taken in on non American Black people too. And it feeds those idiots who promote this nonsense
There is nothing universal about Black people. Black people is a made up category that White people threw us in to manage us. They did the same thing with Latinos and Asians and even themselves. The demographic categories are not about innate cultural relatedness but administration of people and the economy.
Black American popular culture being global is a bad thing. It reduces Black Americans to caricatures and it allows ignorance of a particular ethnic culture that was created through the experience of American slavery and cultural mixing with Europeans to exploited for profit at the expense of an intact exclusive cultural identity. America used native Black Americans as advertisement to the rest of the world because we are a cultural imperialist delicacy.
Let's put it this way, how many times White Americans have been said to not have a culture by non-White Americans where motherfuckers out here wearing Ralph Lauren and speaking American English? The same cultural invisibility that White Americans face by non-Whites is the same shit that native Black Americans face. Our culture is taken as a default American culture, while every other African descended group gets to keep their particulars exclusive to them, which keeps their identity whole.
See, thing that nobody wants to admit is: Non-American Black people get a status boost off of looking like American Black people and they found a meager position in the consumerist popular Black American culture to be advance in other parts of the world, not just America. They can talk like us, sing like us, read our literary greats to find an understanding of themselves, jack our politics, but they are notus. And their own local culture will never reach the heights ours reached globally because there is no active leading empire behind it.
The same way Latino and Asian American felt about Black Americans in the 60s during the Civil Rights movement and still, is the same way that the Caribbeans and Africans feel and you can go on Twitter for the past 20 years and actually see it. Our primacy is hated and our presence is tolerated out of necessity. We are the gateway to assimilation as a non-White person in America.
And if you were in NYC in the 70s, 80s, it was there too. It always was there, we just can engage with it more, because there's more Black immigrants now. Through the engagements, everyone is learning their place in America and the world at large. We are learning that Black is a meaningless category when it comes to people and culture.
