In a recent post for The Root, Thomas Chatterton Williams, wrote about how he saw black American culture being dominated by stereotypes. The crux of this was expressed in the following graph, "We have been, for a while now, caught up in a vexed zeitgeist in which, for African Americans, racial integrity overwhelmingly equates to embracing the narrow values of the black street culture of the past three decades: hip-hop culture. Or, to put it another way, to be black in a 'real' way nowadays is to more closely resemble Jay-Z or Carmelo Anthony than James Baldwin or Thurgood Marshall."

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