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Dignity and Pride The Relevant and Important Backstory of The Dap
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that whenever a Black person does something, it’s usually cool and changes the world. Just look at TikTok. Or “Gen Z slang.” And, oh yeah, pretty much everything else. • Even a simple handshake in the literal hands of Black folks becomes a vessel for flyness, authenticity and cultural solidarity. There’s a reason why people remember (and replicate) Will and Jazz’s iconic handshake more than 25 years after the series finale of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. • But one greeting, in particular, speaks volumes about the time period in which it was created and its origins play a major role in concretizing its place in American history. • Black soldiers serving in Vietnam created the “dap,” which stands for dignity and pride, in the face of “prejudiced commanders or NCOs” as “manifestations of solidarity occurred frequently throughout the military and were an important assertion of social identity for black GIs,” per David Cortwright’s Black GI Resistance During the Vietnam War. • READ MORE: https://www.theroot.com/dignity-and-p...
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