Abstract

When you revisit for a moment the view of everything with inter city Americans in terms of their racially imposed status, we become aware of the fact that the harsh reality of the social and economic injustices have failed to keep African Americans -clear of the cultural mainstream; African Americans are in fact one of its major tributaries. In fact, had there been no blacks, certain creative tensions arising from the cross-purposes of whites and blacks would also not have existed. Not only would there have been no Faulkner; there would have been no Zora Neale Hurston, who reached West Indian folklore in Haiti, writing Their Eyes were Watching God in seven weeks. . Thus, also, there would have been no Langston Hughes, who authored Mule Bone; divorces Sheen. Without the presence of Negro American style, our jokes (Monique) our music (N.W.A.) (Niggaz With Attitude) even our sports (Michael Vick) would be lacking. Or what about the birth of "soul." An expression of American diversity within unity, of blackness and whiteness, soul announces the presence of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testimonies. If we can cease approaching America social reality in terms of false concepts as white, nonwhite and intercity culture, and think of these matters in the realistic manner of Western pioneers confront the unknown prairie, maybe we can begin to imagine what the United States would have been, with out blacks in America.