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Originally posted by RihannasVeryOwn
It isn't just white women. Cultural appropriation does not start or end with white people, it would be offensive for any person of any ethnicity other than Native American to wear the headdress.
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NO it isnt. When you live in a society that is made up several different cultural backgrounds, they are going to cross over each other and people are going to gravitate to it. That's not appropriation, that's appreciation. In that case every white rock band in existence are ****ing racists, and need to cut Chuck Berry and Ike Turner a check.
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Native Americans go through racism and discrimination in America just like black people or Asian people or South American people do. Those people can all be proud of their respective heritages but they will still be subject to racism whether or not they do.
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And whooooo gives a crap? If they dont like it then **** em. For a country that's so vocal about pride, the only time you choose to express it is if you have zero opposing opinions, which is unrealistic.
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That's why the theory that a black man in a suit won't be treated like a black man in a hoodie and a durag is dumb and plain ignorant.
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And deservedly so. As somebody who enjoys dressing in all black sometimes, I will be looked at, at nighttime, like I'm gonna rob a house, but I know what I'm about. As Dave Chapelle said, You may not be a *****, but you are wearing a *****'s uniform. I'm not gonna show up in a interview looking like a GTA character. Time and place for everything.
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To use your example, a black man being shot for wearing a dashiki while a white man is able to wear it no problem is absolutely racism and not mutually exclusive! It happens all the time! The police are threatened by his black skin and will put a bunch of warning shots in his back just because, let's not act like there haven't been plenty of examples of this recently.
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I'm really trying to get the connection here. Like really trying. What you call "cultural appropriation" has been the societal norm here for about 40 or 50 years; eat the food, sing the songs, take the holiday off. wear the clothing, take part in the rituals. that's why I find it wierd that Muslims don't celebrate Christmas in the US (last I checked). Like it doesnt matter what religion you are, we're gonna celebrate Christmas and Eid same way. And I'm proud of that. That's how globalization works.
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And in terms of your no enemy argument, it is plain ignorant to say women aren't held back in society and treated like second class citizens all over the world because of patriarchy,
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Nope don't believe it. Have you seen a women's prison in Saudi Arabia? Have you seen the men's prison? Did you know that Sharia law dictates that in a marraige household if the wife works, that that income is hers and ONLY hers, not even the kids are privy to it? All the household responsibility falls on the husband, even to pay for her to get to work is on him. But wait women cant drive so men are evil bastards that just want to oppress women. Admittedly there are fringe groups all over the world, but lets not act like its only women going through it. Pretty sure if it wasnt for "patriarchy" society wouldn't have gotten this far, because there wouldve been a lot of pregnant cavewomen who died trying to hunt wolly mammoths.
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or non white people aren't put in prisons in numbers disproportional to their numbers in the population because of the white establishment,
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This is true, but let's not act like black folks in inner city neighbourhoods arent out here doin dumb ****.
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or poor people arent kept poor by the elite who make them work minimum wage jobs and pay them only a quarter of their productivity, because the truth is they do, all the time. There are plenty of examples of this and I'm puzzled as to how, as a black man, you think they don't
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Youre poor (not you personally, of course lol) because of your decisions. Yea I said it. Hell my parents said it. Now I'm not rich I live in the hood, but how much exactly do you expect to earn frying chicken in KFC? If you dont like the situation youre in, do something about it, or at least work on doing something about it. I wasn't raised thinking the "<insert majority race here>" or "the elite" or "the system" could hold me back from doing something I wanted to do.