"seems that white folk are way behind black folk on lotta different level"

I don't think its about being behind or in front, its just a matter of each person knowing their history and their own culture and recognizing and understanding the differences.

Thats why its important to understand the history if words too.

The whole thing of "blck consciousness" and "once we were kings" says "we had a unique regal identity before we became niggers".

Black people have such a long history of being classed as "niggers" that it has affected their identity and self perception and black consciousness is a struggle against this.

The word "Nigger" didn't change its meaning after the 60's, look at NWA, and public enemy and the whole of hip hop culture. Defiance and secession from the system is at the core of it - and if you can make eough money to become an independant statem you can boast about what you have and why you don't need anyone else etc.

Yes its solidarity, but the mentality is like solidarity on a chain gang, or among prisoners in a gulag. It is honest solidarity founded on what is perceived as a realistic view of the world.

We are prisoners together, we understand each other, we support each other in struggle and song, we're all we've got.

There are black activists who fight this menatality tooth and nail because they see it as being self imposed bondage when the goal is to be set free.