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In reply to the discussion: White hip hop artist under fire [View all]Kurska
(5,739 posts)"We need different rules for different races, otherwise we're racist" It makes me want to puke.
Thats what these long winded explanations ultimately come down to. Every-single-time.
Heres a better idea, the type of art or performance someone can take part in should not be limited in any way by their race .
Cultural appropriation is bull. Different cultures and societies have been exchanging art-forms and ideas for many times longer than America has existed. When two groups of peoples of different races existed in the same society this effect was even more profound. Apparently all along we were performing some great cultural sin by being like, talking like and creating like our neighbors. If the only people allowed to take part in a cultural activity were the originators the only people allowed to write tragic plays should be the greeks.
Give me a break.