If a person challenges the practices of a culture, say for example the cultures of cannibals. They thought their culture was completely reasonable and they had been doing it for a long time. Unlike a persons skin color (sometimes called race or ethnicity) we can change our cultures. We are not stuck for example being cannibals without the ability to change.
So if I or anyone challenges a culture on its behavior and we say we don't think it is a good idea and present the reasons why. A person does not have to change, yet the issues we find with the culture have been pointed out. We may even have pointed out some bad things that likely are happening to a person due to the consequences of cultural actions. If they choose to stick with the culture and do not want to alter it or even ditch it completely then they are left with being responsible for the consequences of their choice. This is a choice. We can all make choices. When it comes to our skin color we cannot.
So attacking a culture is not about racism. It is about attacking behaviors, ideologies, and beliefs. Some people may not like this. If they happen to be the popular movement backed by the media and powers that be they likely will be able to make any attacks look bad. They may even call it racism, though it isn't, as it has nothing to do with race. They can get away with it when backed by popularity or power.
Though the thing is that most of our conflicts at some level actually are cultural in some way. In fact, racism itself is just part of a culture. We are not born with hate and superiority feelings towards other races. As with all cultures it is learned, or evolves from watching some popular person.
Why did I bring this up? I just wrote a piece about culture potentially being the actual causal factor in abnormal amount of deaths for blacks due to police killings rather than it actually being a racial issue.
The person said I was attacking black culture. That could actually be insulting to black people. Why? It presumes that black people are unchanging and only have one culture.
In reality black people have many cultures and are likely part of just about every culture. Culture does not necessarily require a person be of a specific race or color unless an aspect of that culture is in fact racism. Most cultures are open to pretty much anyone to be part of.
The culture I described in my post did in fact mostly arise from certain black neighborhoods in the United States in the 1980s. It has evolved and expanded since that time. Yet, it isn't "black culture". Many people have embraced that culture of all colors, races, ethnicities, etc. It also has evolved and mutated over time as cultures do.
Yet there are many different cultures embraced by black people. A lot of them do not embrace that particular one at all. In fact, the things we are complaining about today don't seem to be as much of an issue prior to the arrival of this culture. Though it is possible they were an issue and just under reported at the time. I wouldn't state that is the case though, as it would require actually looking and finding out.
The gang aspect did exist prior to the 1980s culture. Yet the 1980s culture was fueled by both a new music, and a new dance which set the world on fire. It spread like wild fire due to the uniqueness of this new art. The arts themselves are quite wonderful additions to the world, yet the sentiment and attitude that also seemed to hitch a ride with the art might actually be a causal factor for why blacks kill so many blacks, and potentially why there is a higher chance of a fatal interaction with law enforcement. This is a speculative hypothesis on my part. I explain why I am saying this in the other post.
I did want to state that RACE and CULTURE are not intrinsically interwoven UNLESS that culture is racist in nature.
The culture I am referring to is not racist in nature.