Make entertainers out to be professors. 
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CinnaSlim
Queen of Swords
Air conditioning, pull out couch, hairbrush, toilet.... I mean Google is your best friend, but that's just to get you started.
Cringe beyond belief. There are components on the Hubble Telescope invented by black people and the best thing they come up with is Traffic Light. Case of black people going to college and not even remotely thinking of taking african american studies to learn about their own people.Why is it somebody always brings up the Traffic light, gas mask, peanut butter trifecta
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Too tired to think of something witty to say...
I wasn't even going to read this thread because I anticipated the amount of ignorance that was going to be in here. But some of you guys can articulate your point well. I'm happy to see people are having decent dialogue without it being a million pages of people calling each other c00ns.
With that being said Lupe was just trying to push limits.
I don't understand him wanting to thank white people for their contribution to society.
I think he was just trying to stir up stuff. Get a conversation started and it made him look like a bit of a troll.
New blacks ya'll... LOL
With that being said Lupe was just trying to push limits.
I don't understand him wanting to thank white people for their contribution to society.
I think he was just trying to stir up stuff. Get a conversation started and it made him look like a bit of a troll.
New blacks ya'll... LOL
1. Do you guys consider hip-hop sampling non-black music as a form of cultural appropriation?
Cultural appropriation means dominant/privileged culture taking from marginalized oppressed culture. Ex Riff Raff corn rows when blacks have been fired and disciminated against banned from school for wearing the same hair style.
Ex. Hip Hop samples have come from Jazz, Rock and Roll, R&B, Gospel, Techno etc. which are all black music in orgin. On the other hand black Hip Hop artist has sampled from Classical music with orgins in Europe and music coming from Asia or Asian films, plus borrowed from Asian culture, like RZA from Wu-Tang has done.
In the case of the RZA a black American recording artist, producer, apparel company owner, actor and film director he has a huge life long interest in Martial Arts and other parts of Asian culture in his image, music, books and films. I think that is cultural appropriation even though he does utilize it to draw parallels to being black in America (Having a a code, valuing 'the struggle' ,overcoming adversity,etc,) He also mashes up Asian culture with black culture in his music to bring a "new genre" and renames Staten Island Shaolin.
2. I don't consider black women wearing weaves cultural appropriation but assimilation. Different cultures in America take on the dominant group's beauty standards in terms of hair, clothing etc to survive.
3. Black people I think in the commercial area may be capable of appropriation,, but many blacks have ancestors that involves other races and ethnicities- Native American to Latin America olot of it by way of the slave trade that reached those cultures.
Does Pharrell rocking a Native American head dress on the N.E.R.D album cover a case of cultural appropriation? Yep
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Lupe fiasco is always being extra.
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He would protest a pizza shop by buying everyone in the area so pizza
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He would protest a pizza shop by buying everyone in the area so pizza
Lupe is bushes status 
dude has no clue about what cultural appropriation is then. Culture and Science are totally different things.
dude has no clue about what cultural appropriation is then. Culture and Science are totally different things.
Sarah Boone inventor of modern ironing board
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N before that, We use to iron our clothes, on white womens asses
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Dirty_Jerz
Ethiop
1) Yes, it is, as oppossed to cultural misappropriation.
2) Yes and no. If it's clearly used to copy another womans culture it is. If it's used in the style of her own ethnic origin, it isn't. The idea itself of wearing a weave or wig is shared between all women of all cultures in general. Though like most things I'm sure there are outliers.
3a) Of course yes. I see it all the time on here in fact. Plenty of black people love the idea of living in a capitalist system, practice athiesm and have seperated themselves from their ethnicity by form of attire.
3b) No, you do have to be in a position of power to misapproriate though.
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That happened a long time ago. You need to forgive breh
Blackout
just your usual nerdy brotha
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what kinda half-baked-quasi-intellectualism is this?
his logic is that the kkk won't respect him because of his skin, but will (in theory) respect his inventions regardless of his skin?
sounds like your intelligence is being pimped, and your skin color, and humanity are still being disrespected.
it's an idea, but not a logical one...just filler garble bloopity boop...which is why twitter was the perfect medium for it
his logic is that the kkk won't respect him because of his skin, but will (in theory) respect his inventions regardless of his skin?
sounds like your intelligence is being pimped, and your skin color, and humanity are still being disrespected.
it's an idea, but not a logical one...just filler garble bloopity boop...which is why twitter was the perfect medium for it
Lupe just tries too damn much at times. Dude makes you just shake your head at some of the things he types and says.