i don’t think her point was that black americans are the sole definition of black culture, at least i didn’t take it that way; moreso just that black american culture is its own thing, that its origins are rooted in & of or even tied to other culture(s) is somewhat academic to that fact. i can also understand the frustration of how (on a surface level anyway) easy it is for other black peoples to assimilate into black american culture but the reverse is not generally true. obviously the influence & imminence black american culture has is an altogether different thing and flip side of that position is that it is easier to access because it is just more visible; having just come back from my first trip over to nigeria, this really stuck out to me how easily conversant people were about aspects (black) american culture. while not always deeply or ‘correctly,” it vastly trumped the little knowledge i had of theirs, even having much more access to/awareness of some nigerian culture than an average american...
while i don’t really agree with her perspective, there are parts that do make sense to me...i don’t think her an idiot and anecdotally, i feel like her viewpoint is probably closer to the mainstream opinion of black americans than an outlier; if perhaps not stated/worded with the same venom/vitriol...
