The Bridge; Top 10 Things to Love About Being Black

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5. The Black man's walk. It took years of watching my older brothers and cousins before I could walk the walk of a man that still has all eyes on me when I walk into a room. Eventually, it just came to me naturally. There's a rhythmic swagger of confidence that belongs to my brothers and I and no matter how hard you work to imitate it, you can't walk it like we can.

9. Black dances. Okay, I will brag about the stepping that has emerged from my hometown of Chicago to become a national craze, but not without also bragging about dances from tap to the Boogaloo and Funky chicken to the Wop and the Pop Yo' Collar. Dance mechanically by the numbers if you want to, but Britney Spears is still regurgitating old half-warmed Janet Jackson moves from the 1980's and it ain't half as fly.

10. Black creativity. Take away school music programs and give us old record collections from previous generations and only Black people could create an entirely new musical style based on our natural rhythms and rhymes. Popular rap music may be mostly ignorant in it's content, but the beats are still bangin' and the underground is developing new lyrical styles and content. Who's fresh? African descendants in America, G! Don't front, you know we got you open.

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The Bridge; Top 10 Things to Love About Being Black

People of all races love many things about being Black, and they take those things, trying to make them their own, while too many of us look at ourselves with disdain. I believe that Black people need to change our minds about us and begin to embrace the things th...

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