Africans accuse African Americans of "appropriating" their culture (legitimate criticism?)

[Kitsch]

Zipporah Gene (@shedoesliving) on Twitter

 

[Poitier]

Link me to those Twitter battles. Pls....

Just go on Twitter and type in will smith accent in the search box or African American + appropriation...

 

[Box Cutta]

Zipporah Gene (@shedoesliving) on Twitter

 

[Kitsch]

@Stacker Pentecost

 

[Retired Account]

Do black people live in Thailand?

 

[Insensitive]

These fakkits are at it again Black America, please stop appropriating African clothing and tribal marks. — THOSE PEOPLE

"Black Twitter" has been AA vs Africans the past two days over dashikis and henna


@IllmaticDelta you need to write an article listing all the shyt we've had appropriated from us

This is so corny
The epitome of faux outrage.

 

[jadillac]

I literally can't think of anything AAs took from Africans besides dashikis, which was a 90s thing.

They honestly are just manufacturing shyt to be mad about.

You don't see AAs mad when Africans make hip hop or when slaves and Martin Luther King were played by Africans.

So it's bullshyt for them to turn around and accuse us of this shyt. I'm sure these nikkas are a small minority tho.

Probably. They're on some "I'm purer than you sh*t".....which sounds very much like white supremacists garbage.

And ultimately AfAm culture is is always gonna be similar to theirs b/c......we're back too if they didnt notice.

 

[Poitier]

This is so corny
The epitome of faux outrage.

Probably. They're on some "I'm purer than you sh*t".....which sounds very much like white supremacists garbage.

And ultimately AfAm culture is is always gonna be similar to theirs b/c......we're back too if they didnt notice.

I was actually going to have an educational dialogue with some of the people on there then I saw an African accused AAs of stealing twerking from them after Beyonce went to SA or something so I checked out

 

[IllmaticDelta]

then I saw an African accused AAs of stealing twerking from them after Beyonce went to SA or something so I checked out

 

[Insensitive]

Find the full docu though because because it touched on Rock in general.





yes and no




yes but these styles are made and enjoyed by everyone




Both are black genres that have more whites in them now..ragtime is just older




The people that played rock were marketed as soul/funk..black people know who they are




Prince isn't the only one..I gave you historical context already and modern musicians. Drake's uncle from Sly Stone played a Soul/Funk/Rock hybrid also



he's never mentioned as Rock though

@ Black bass players period.
Larry Graham
Bootsy Collins
James Jamerson

Rick James

If there's one group of musicians that seems to generally go without getting much needed
props it's the people who help to glue together the entire sound and who are monumentally
important in black music.

The Bass
I can't wait to pick up a p-bass

 

[Red Shield]

They are mad at Will Smith playing a Nigerian but are ok with Africans playing MLK and AA slaves in Roots and 12 Years A Slave

@Box Cutta you may be right

Haven't seen anyone pissed at Will about that. Maybe I'm checking the wrong places.

 

[Poitier]

Haven't seen anyone pissed at Will about that. Maybe I'm checking the wrong places.

 

[Kane]

To be fair they seem more mad about the accent than the fact that he's African American.

 

[jadillac]

ccused AAs of stealing twerking

that's lke accusing AA of stealing "rhythm" or "soul". Some things are just inherent in most of us.

 

[Poitier]

To be fair they seem more mad about the accent than the fact that he's African American.

And Brits are mad Idris is "too street"

90% of movies have nonsensical accents