One
of the most
important discoveries
of the human spirit was naïvely anticipated when, through certain religious
symbols, man guessed that the polarities and the antimonies could be articulated as a
unity.
The dap originated during the late 1960s among black G.I.s stationed in bases in the Pacific and throughout European during the Vietnam War and was an
important symbol of black consciousness, identity, and cultural
unity during a time
of racial unrest.