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Country music

Barbershop music

Blues

Bebop

Boogie woogie

Delta Blues

Disco

Doo-wop

Electro

Funk

Go-go

Gospel music

Groove

Hip hop

House music

Jazz

Jug Band Music

Negro spirituals

Neo soul

New Jack Swing

Quiet storm

Ragtime

Contemporary R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rock & roll

Skiffle

Soul music

Southern Rap

Spiritual

Swing

Techno

Trap music

PBR&B

Zydeco 

That these were all created by African American people. These revolutionary and groundbreaking genres that have had an immeasurable impact on a global scale were born of our culture as African Americans. Not only are we trendsetters, we are innovators who will craft a new art form then turn it on it’s head a hundred different ways. Nobody but us is “changing the game” as they say whenever some white, nonblack person of color or non AA black deigns that they want to dip their toes into our culture. Never let them tell you otherwise even though they’ll try revising history to say “We were always there” when we know they were doing the same thing as their white counterparts and looking down on what we created as “Devil’s music”. They have no claim. The sheer fact that every non African American is greedily scrambling to lay claim to what we made is proof enough that not only do we have a culture but it’s a rich, beautiful and dynamic one. 

So you know those news stories about how Millennials don’t buy enough breakfast cereal or paperback books or homes or whatever the hell that Boomers are complaining that “kids these days” don’t spend money on?  And y’all are like “LOL, no cash my pal”?  

I think there’s something more insidious going on.  You see, they thought they had you.  Forget the Saturday morning cartoons of my childhood, they had Disney Channel and Nickelodeon feeding you ads all day long.  Your generation got advertising in your schools.  Your parents took you to prosperity doctrine spewing MegaChurches (it’s Mega so it’s gotta impress the kids, right?).  

They thought you were going to be their generation of super-consumers.  

You are generations distant from the great depression, and the 1979 energy crisis.  Boomers want to pretend that the 2008 housing bubble wouldn’t affect the little kids.  And plus, we had grown past the era of Yankee thrift and hippie DIY frugality.  Right?  And there was no mopey Kurt Cobain glamorizing thrift-store flannel shirts.  You guys were going to out-consume the Boomer generation.  They were sure of it.

Those think pieces?  They’re Boomer disappointment that you have found value in something other than your place as a mindless consumer.

And yeah, I’m not going to pretend that y’all have more cash than you do.  It was fucking idiotic to think they were going to raise a consumer generation without having to pay them the money they would need to buy even life’s necessities.  And I could write a book about how my generation was complicit in destroying the old values around work and loyalty that left your generation screwed.  Really, I’m genuinely sorry for the mistakes we made.