re: Do real people give a shite about "cultural appropriation?"

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Where do you think we live? A melting pot?

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Yes we do and its beautiful. But in doing so, I think its fair to respect each individual cultures history. How is that a problem? We do we just have to use them as prop for some financial gain?

Its as if you can't do both...when you can, and plenty of artist do. the trash/phony artists don't.

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saw people saying this shite on twitter the other day.. They were saying something about how him not being black he shouldn't say he is "bringing the funk back" or some stupid shite. I saw it trending on twitter. Some black folk was saying that, other black folk were telling those black folk to shut up because they were embarrassing themselves.

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Who ever was saying Bruno can't sing that is Exhibit A or alt-left/way too far left/leftist extremism that is beyond trash.

I can't stand it either. Bruno has even homage and praise to those great artists that have come before him; he's an authentic dude who respects the culture (and therefore its people) and the art form.

This is when I hate the left, then they just say dumb and stupid shite. I remember once someone told me that Beyonce and other black female artists was only for black people, and thought it was quite honestly one of the dumbest things I've ever heard come out of an educated persons mouth.

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Its as if you can't do both...when you can, and plenty of artist do. the trash/phony artists don't.

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so basically if you/"the culture" doesn't/don't like a non black artist practicing a predominantly black art, it's disrespectful and needs to stop?

it sounds like childish bitching.

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Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

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Exactly. I guess they want reparations for that too.

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so basically if you/"the culture" doesn't/don't like a non black artist practicing a predominantly black art, it's disrespectful and needs to stop?

it sounds like childish bitching.

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Well no, but some critics are like that. There are gonna be some AA that just hate because they don't want a non black person singing their art form. They are weary of their reasons for doing so. I think those people suck but their sentiments come from a real place that needs to be consider but they still suck.

Mostly its about authenticity. Authenticity to the AA community is a REAL issue. Are you down with them or are you just using them for profit? this is a group that has been sold for profits, sold out by Uncle Toms, embarassed by shucker and jivers in minstrel shows, etc. You can't separate their history from their thought process. Authencity is a form of survival.

You ave to understand black people and their history to get it. Clearly here, no one does or cares to or thinks its a matter of importance. Thus you'll never understand the gripes. I'm Not saying you don't understand it GreatLakes.

The gripes can be overblown though. I think JT and Bruno get unfair criticism. JLo too

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Its as if you can't do both...when you can, and plenty of artist do. the trash/phony artists don't.

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Bull-fricking-shite. What if the Tolkien estate or Miyamoto sued an author or developer respectively everytime they took something from their respected playbook? Then fantasy and video games would dead as genres.

And speaking of Miyamoto, here's a great example of cultural appropriation gone right. Miyamoto envisioned a game where a guy was climbing up a building to save his girlfriend. He couldn't get the rights to Popeye, so instead he just decided to take the plot from King Kong and call it "Donkey Kong".

Universal then decided to sue them saying it defamed their brand and demanded they be decommissioned. Fortunately the lawsuit failed, and in response we got Mario, Donkey Kong, and the Nintendo Entertainment System. With your mentality, then how dare they do such a thing, and video games would be dead as a whole.

That's a small of thousands of examples.

If people got it, they wouldn't come to half of their conclusions.

Thats not even remotely the same. We're talking about an american company and a native japanese production.

No one here was enslaved, beaten, sold, raped, murdered, terrorized or had their original cultures and religions ripped away from them. They are not comparable, and never will be.

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You ave to understand black people and their history to get it. Clearly here, no one does or cares to or thinks its a matter of importance. Thus you'll never understand the gripes. I'm Not saying you don't understand it GreatLakes.

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So in your fricked up mind, should white people be allowed to cook dishes on their own that have historical black origins? What about tacos? White people didn't come up with them, so can we make tacos on our own, or are we a bunch of racists for doing such?