Is Cultural Appropriation racist?

There is no "Our Culture." We are separate peoples. You can't deal with the truth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/opinion/blow-a-nation-divided-against-itself.html?_r=0

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So was Disco. Big deal.

 

We need a Queer Black Missionary to the White heathens to spread his culture and enrich us all.

 

Cool.
So you want a new Prince album?


Anyway, I think it depends on what culture you're talking about. Black culture is a subset of American culture anyway, they're closer culturally to their white neighbors than to blacks in Africa or even the Carribean, so it's not really all that bad. On the other hand, someone taking culture from people who you have no connection to, and then misrepresenting it as something else would be bad. Hari Krishnas would be something like that (I realize it's also a religion) or Americans who want to do Kabbalah or something like that -- mostly be cause they never bother to understand the content that they're using. It gets kind of silly when Americans pretend to be Buddhist and haven't actually read anything more than Buddhism Cliff-notes -- especially when they try to come off as experts. Or when they pretend to be Kabbalists and don't realize that you're supposed to follow the Torah as well as Kabbalah (at least that's according to Jews). On other fronts like movies and the like, I think so long as you're honest about the source and you're not representing yourself as some type of native or pretending something is authentic when it's not, I'm mostly cool with it. It's one thing to be influenced by Hindu or African music, and another thing to take said music and pass it off as your own (or for that matter take something you came up with and pass it off as authentically from some culture).

 

Long time no see. Where have you been?

 

This is so heavy. Actually worthy of a 3 hour course in a teachers college for Blacks.

 

What you're saying is simply, 'far-out'. No one should take you seriously.

 

Gawd, some people will believe anything.