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To: Righting
"negritude"

Is that anything like "caucatude"?

13 posted on 07/23/2008 9:05:06 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Keep the change.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

negritude ; (also Negritude)
noun
the quality or fact of being of black African origin.
• the affirmation or consciousness of the value of black or African culture, heritage, and identity : Negritude helped to guide Senegal into independence with pride.
ORIGIN 1950s: from French négritude ‘blackness.’

Learn something every day, don’t you?


16 posted on 07/23/2008 9:08:18 AM PDT by Sundog (Hussein . . . B. Hussein or S. Hussein?)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"negritude" was a Trojan horse planted in the 1930s to the African elites in Paris (the same time when Communism was planted to European elites). Negritude elebrated "blackess" in the terms of white aestetics and was engineered to fail, not to liberate Black people and Black art.

The miserable results of post-colonial Africa can be directly traced to the Negritude movement.

18 posted on 07/23/2008 9:13:57 AM PDT by DTA
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To: Jeff Chandler

Both those terms show how silly it is to think in terms of race as opposed to culture. If you meet Dominicans or Jamaican or Brazilians who have African blood, each of them will say they are culturally Domincan or Jamaican or Brazilian not by their skin color. And I’d agree with them. Among “whites”, there are cultural differences between Italians and Spanish, forget about Italians and Swedes. Even in the US, there is a cultural difference between Montana and Rhode Island


30 posted on 07/23/2008 12:05:52 PM PDT by Cronos ("Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, CAIR)
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