ladyfresh: dominickbrady: Get outta town. That’s so African. When people talk about African-American athletes strutting, dancing, etc before and during a game I often wonder if they think about the cultural connections to such things. When you tell that kid throwing up signs that represent anything from his dorm to his college major to his old neighborhood to stop doing so, you’re not just telling him to have decorum. You’re telling him his cultural expression is irrelevant.
And I get a little upset (I realize I’m off on a tangent) when the powers that be or colleagues in the media pretend like they don’t see this. All you’ll hear about English Soccer or German Soccer is centered around a sort of quasi-ethnographical narrative.
Oh, the Germans are machine like? Precision? Okay. But we of the African diaspora can’t be our expressive selves and that expression can’t in it’s own way be a mechanism for innovation, technology and the sort. It’s just that “fun” stuff that “those” people do—over there.
Dogged, battles were wages with deep rivalry on the continent for centuries. And all the warriors were armed with was style. But nah, that aint valid in a western sensiblity.
That rant came out of nowhere and probably makes little sense. But I aint deleting it.
healingsakina:blackxenergy:maxshreck:curiouskangaroos:blackfashion:
Le Sapeurs are an African based gang that place supreme importance on fashion, sophistication and a gentleman’s code of conduct. And though they’re not dangerous (they abhor and reject violence above all else, probably because it might scuff the wingtips), they’re still a gang. It’s just that they’re less like the ones from Compton or Southie, and more like the ones from Michael Jackson’s “Bad” and West Side Story. See, they do routinely engage in “fights”–they just do it Zoolander style. That’s right: They have walk-offs.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-strange-real-life-gangs-that-put-the-warriors-to-shame/#ixzz0tCqcEMoy
