American’s getting clowned on Twitter for calling Sean Paul a culture vulture

[HarlemHottie]

I can't wait for the next foreigner to say something stupid about US culture. I see based on this thread that it's perfectly acceptable and not at all divisive to shyt on an entire country for the words of one person.

Can't wait. See you there!

 

[MajesticLion]

If you ever have any doubt about how deep this infection goes...

 

[Mugenight]

So one broad=Americans now?
You now I try really hard to stay out of diaspora war shyt but some of y'all muthafukka's are making it extremely hard.

 

[Macallik86]

The rest of the world typically isn't as segregated as the US and so I think there is a struggle to bridge the gap sometimes and Americans can project some of their personal race views onto every situation.

On a related note, Chinese Assassin had the mixtape scene on lock for 5-10 years growing up... also Black Chiney and for sound clashes (aka the original Versuz battles), David Rodigan.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Bet a Jamaican cant go to China, Europe, or Israel and be accepted like that.

Yall just weak

Chinese have been in Jamaica since the 1800s, I believe. Long before the country gained Independence.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I actually raised this question a couple years ago.
Why did Jamaica, a 95% black country, allow a nonblack to become it's biggest music export after half white bob marley?
That shyt is crazzy when you think about it
between them and south Africans, I don't know who like to claim their country is a rainbow nation more. Colon ng is severe between these two

We (Americans) gravitated to his singles. I'm sure colorism and attractiveness played a part in his success in America but that wasnt due to Jamaica.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

They're embarrassed that their biggest artist was a non black cosplaying as a lightskin with braids

nothing wrong with that statement that sister said

His handlers definitely had him rocking cornrows for a reason

 

[010101]

fools don't know what a culture vulture is..........*

 

[UncleTomFord15]

@ posters in here insulating that Sean Paul is considered some type of musical hero in Jamaica. Sean Paul is no where near viewed as "that guy" musically by actually Jamaicans.

 

[Savvir]

Nuggas wanna clown tethers then start dictating the diasporas race dynamics.

Is it oochie Wally or one mic?

 

[banner34]

I dont understand what's wrong with that woman's statement. The replies are adding shyt the original tweet never said.

Sean Paul is an Asian/white jew who made a career pretending to be a light skin Jamaican with braids.

Sean Paul came up through dancehall ranks

 

[banner34]

Honestly, just blame the kids or chronically online people who didn't grow up during Sean Paul's peak.

During his peak, nobody.....and I repeat....nobody gave a damn about this stuff. In NYC, both West Indians and Black Americans partied to Sean Paul's music. His ancestry or looks didn't even come up in any conversations. And Sean Paul was accepted in hip hop and R&B circles, hence why Beyonce made that song with him.

This is just chronically online Twitter babble rage baiting for engagement.

Yup and this was a 1998 classic

 

[Shadow King]

They let this cac rock though

This niqqa was white!?!?!?

 

[DonB90]

I guess if nationality is more important than ethnicity to you.


When most people think of Jamaica, they think of people of African ancestry, not mixed Chinese and Europeans who's history in Jamaica dates back a single generation.


But if Jamaicans are ok claiming basically anyone, who am I to say anything.

Only wierdo Americans claim distant lands as their ethnicity. While simultaneously being mocked by whatever nation they claim as not being one of them





Sean Paul is a Jamaican. Black, white, Asian, whatever, the man is full Jamaican. Its not a race its a nationality/culture which he was born and raised into. Just like being born an American

This thread really went on way to long for such a simple concept.

 

[5n0man]

Sean Paul came up through dancehall ranks

I never denied his musical impact, and neither did the original tweet. Nobody accused him of being a culture vulture.

The original tweet just stated that we all grew up thinking Sean Paul was a biracial Jamaican with African ancestry, only to learn that he isn't even a little bit black.