Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

I am less upset by the lack of licensing fees because, you know, this is how the world operates off of our shit, than I am of the very real possibility that a generation of folks are going to grow up thinking crip walking is a kpop invention.

I remember when Serena (or was it Venus?) got fucking PILED on for doing a 2 second C-walk. The pearls got clutched till they turned into diamonds.

And yes, Kpop puts out some cute shit and does more to integrate styles, but...there's a fine line between homage and appropriation.

Or.... we can acknowledge the long history of black folks creating forms of expression, that have gotten us harassed and downright killed. That later on get accepted into the cultural zeitgeist once they get their stamp of approval from white people in other groups.

 

Your first response to a thread about cultural appropriation is fragility.

It's an especially wild response after what just happened at the olympics.

We should gatekeep more, except we don't have the power to do that since nobody in this world respect us except us.