AS OF 12:OOAM SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 2018, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN. A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IS A FINANCIAL ECONOMIC CRISIS FOR THE COUNTRY. A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN CAN BE CAUSED BY VARIOUS REASONS, THE REASON FOR THIS SHUTDOWN IS A DISAGREEMENT ON BUDGET SPENDING BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. THE PREVAILING DETERMINING ISSUES ARE IMMIGRATION AND MILITARY SPENDING. DEMOCRATS ARE HOLDING THEIR POSITION IN OPOSITION AS LEVERAGE TO NEGOTIATE FOR THE DACA (DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS OR DREAM ACT) PROGRAM, WHICH GRANTS IMMIGRATION PROTECTIONS TO MORE THAN 700,000 IMMIGRANTS BROUGHT TO THE UNITED DTATES AS CHILDREN. CUTTING THIS PROGRAM COULD LEAD TO THE BREAK-UP OF MANY FAMILIES ESTABLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES  THROUGH DACA, AS FAMILYMEMEBERS WHO WE'RE TREATED AS CITIZENS UNDER THE PROGRAM FACE THE CHANCE OF DEPORTATION TO A PLACE THEY'VE NEVER CALLED HOME. ON THE OTHER HAND REPUBLICANS ARE HOLDING FIRM ON THEIR POSITION THAT, MORE MILITARY PROTECTION FOR THE COUNTRY IS OF UPMOST IMPORTANCE. THESE PROTECTIONS WOULD INCLUDE THE BUILDING OF A WALL BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. REPUBLICANS PROPOSAL WOULD ALSO INCREASE MILITARY DEFENSE SPENDING FOR SUPPLIES AND INTEL.

AS OF NOW, THE GOVERNMENT IS WORKING TO PASS A TEMPORARY BILL THAT WOULD KEEP THE BILLS PAID THROUGH FEBRUARY 16,2018. ONE DEMOCRAT WAS WILLING TO CROSS THE LINE AND END THE SHUTDOWN. DURING THE SHUTDOWN MANY AGENCIES THAT SUPPORT THOSE IN NEED ARE THE SERVICES TO BE EFFECTED AND FELT MOST DIRECTLY BY THE PEOPLE, SO COMING TO A RESOLUTION IS IN THE BEST INTERST OF BOTH PARTIES. ALTHOUGH THE POST OFF , AIRLINES, IRS AND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARE STILL RUNNING AT A MINIMAL CAPACITY WITH FURLOUGH'S, MANY ARE ON LONG TERM FURLOUGHS WITHOUT PAY AND THOSE IN THE MILITARY CONTIUE TO WORK WITHOUT PAY. AS OF THIS EVENING SUNDAY JANUARY 21, 2018, IT SEEMS THAT THE TWO PARTIES MAY HAVE COME TO SOME FORM OF AGREEMENT IN TIME FOR A 1:00 AM VOTE SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY MORNING JANUARY 22, 2018. DEMOCRATS IN EFFORTS TO END THE SHUTDOWN FOR THE SAKE OF THE ECONOMY WILL AGREE TO A VOTE MOVING THE TEMPORAY BUDGET FORWARD, WITH THE PROMISE OF A VOTE ON THE DREAM ACT ON FEBRUARY 8TH, JUST A WEEK BEFORE THE SCHEDULED VOTE ON THE BUDGET FEBRUARY 15TH. AT THIS TIME IT SEEMS THE DEMOCRATS ARE WORKING HARD TO END THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BUT ARE LEARY ON THE REPUBLICAN'S FOLLOW THROUGH ON PROMISES TO ADDRESS ISSUES OF IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS MATTER IS ONE EVERYONE WILL HAVE TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON, THE OUTCOME COULD MEAN SIGNIFICAT CHANGES TO THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. IT MAY BE A LITTLE TOO EARL TO POINT FINGERS TO BLAME BUT THE DIRECTION IS DEFINIETLY MOVING TOWARDS THE REUBLICANS, LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW.

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THE 1920'S SAW A BOOM IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE WITH A CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC MOVEMENT, HISTORY LATER CALLED  THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. DURING THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, AFRICAN AMERICANS SAW  CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERANTIONAL AFRICAN PEOPLE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. THANKS TO THIS MOVEMENT A NEW PERCEPTION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS BEGAN TO EMERGE AS ARTISTIC, SOPHISTICATED  AND INTELLECTUAL. MUSIC BEING ONE OF THE KEY COMPONENTS OF THE RENAISSANCE, BECOMING VERY POPULAR AMONG WHITE CROWDS. INTELLECTUALS AND SOPHISTICATES BEGAN TO DEBATE THEMESE OF RACISM, ETHNIC PRIDE AND OTHER ISSUES AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE FACED DUE TO THE POST SLAVERY FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC STURGGLES. LACKING INSTITUIONS AND ORGANIZATION TO ASSIST AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE POST SLAVERY ERA, THE PEOPLE  WERE PREVENTED FROM THE SUCCESSFUL PUSUIT AND PROGRESS OF THE PROMISE OF PROSPERITY OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.
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​FAST FORWADING TO TODAY, 2018 ALMOST 50 AFTER THE ASSASINATION AND ON THE BIRTHDATE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. A FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, WHO GAVE THE FAMOUS "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH. A SPEECH WHICH SEEMED TO ECHO THE "DREAM DEFERRED", BY  WELL KNOWN  HARLEM RENAISSANCE'S POET, LANGSTON HUGHES. ONE MIGHT SAY, WE HAVE  BEEN EXPERIENCING A NEW RENAISSANCE, WITH THE REEMERGENCE OF ARTIST, THE SOPHISTICATED AND INTELLECTECTS, CHANGING THE PERCEPTION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ACROSS THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, ON THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL. AT THIS CURRENT TIME ONE CAN SEE HOW THE AFRICAN CULTURE IS GAINING RESPECT  AS MANY CULTURAL APPROPRIATIONS ARE EASILY RECOGNIZABLE IN TODAY'S SOCIETY. CULTURAL APPRORPIATION IS ALWAYS A SIGN OF ACCEPTANCE AND INTEGRATION OF ONES' CULTURE INTO THE PREVAILING CULTURE OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. SOME OF THOSE APPROPRIATIONS ARE RECOGNIZED IN THE FASHION, MANY DESIGNS THAT ARE POPULAR TODAY ARE INSPIRED BY THE CULTURE OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. MANY OTHER FORMS APPROPRIATIONS CAN BE SEEN IN THE ARTS, SUCH AS MUSIC AND OTHER WORKS, ALSO IN ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS, DUE TO THE EFFECTS OF GENTRIFICATION ON A GLOBAL LEVEL, THE CULTURES WITHIN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA ARE ALSO BEING ASSIMILTAED INTO THE SOCIETIES THEY INDWELL. SO IT SEEMS WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF A NEW THING A NEW RENAISSANCE. A RENAISSANCE OF THE AWAKENING OF THE COLLECTIVE ONENESS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND THE LOVE FOR THOSE WHO WE KNOW ARE FAMILY, TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT OF LOVE WHICH WILL MOVE US TOWRDS OUR HIGHER PURPOSE AND THE PUSUIT THEREOF OF THE PROMISE OF PROSPRTIY AND THE SO CALLED "AMERICAN DREAM'.

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