"Black Americans should stop appropriating African culture"

[The Devil's Advocate]

Cruising Facebook and ran into this article... since we can't post full articles, link is at the bottom

Thoughts?


"You take a cultural dress, mark or trait, with all its religious and historical connotations, dilute it, and bring it out for occasions when you want to look ‘trendy’."



Ask yourself, how exactly is that any better?

I’m not trying to start a war, but I would just like you all to realize the hypocrisy of seeing someone wearing a Fulani septum ring, rocking a djellaba, painted with Yoruba-like tribal marks, all the while claiming that this is meant to be respectful. It’s a hodgepodge, a juxtaposition, a right mess of regional, ethnic and cultural customs and it screams ignorance and cultural insensitivity.

Yes, that’s right, even when worn by Black people.

I know it looks cool and the wearer looks unique, but if you look at it for what it is, it’s still cultural appropriation.

It’s basically like a White Australian guy with dreadlocks, Ta moko, wearing Batik. They are all Islanders after all. So he’s not being offensive, right?


If you’re not from an African tribe, please leave off wearing the tribal marks. Otherwise you’re participating in the very thing you vehemently speak out against.



https://thsppl.com/black-america-pl...frican-clothing-and-tribal-marks-3210e65843a7

 

[rantanamo]

leave their culture alone. They leave our culture alone.

 

[Menelik II]

 

[Afrodroid]

In :mjrmx:

 

[Karb]

 

[Claudex]

It’s basically like a White Australian guy with dreadlocks, Ta moko, wearing Batik. They are all Islanders after all. So he’s not being offensive, right?

Because difference between a black american and a white australians is practically non-existent.
Come on breh, don't be giving these dumbasses your clicks, let them drown in the obscurity of the internet.

 

[bouncy]

So let me get this right.

When Blacks in America DON'T want to associate with Africans, we are told that its out fault that both groups don't get along.

When Black Americans want to connect to where they came from before slavery, we are told its cultural appropriation?

AND this is only done because some went at whites for doing it?

Sounds like Africans are the police for whites, or just don't like Black Americans. Which one is it?

 

[The Tanzanian Prince]

I never thought I would say this but...don't ever let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do. Do as you please folks

 

[AndroidHero]

Dumb article, but I wish we would stop calling ourselves Nubian, since Nubian is an actual ethnic group in Egypt and Sudan/

 

[timeless]

Unfortunately, not all of us know which tribes our ancestors came from, but we do know they came from there. I hear a lot of them Africans love us, cause we are like distant cousins. That poster is probably in an interracial relationship with the whole "wyte people can do it too" thing.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Because difference between a black american and a white australians is practically non-existent.
Come on breh, don't be giving these dumbasses your clicks, let them drown in the obscurity of the internet.

i had to click it breh... they know exactly what they are doing with these type of titles

now reading the whole article, i can understand their point.. it'd be one thing if we studied what these garbs meant and why and when they are worn

but it seems like any nikka from brooklyn will get a bootleg dashiki and start rocking it, not knowing where it comes from or what it means


now is it equal to what white people are doing... hell motherfukking nah... but i feel the same way when i travel outside the country and see africans dressing like american nikkas in the 90s, using a fake accent to try and bag bytches (true stories)

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Unfortunately, not all of us know which tribes our ancestors came from, but we do know they came from there. I hear a lot of them Africans love us, cause we are like distant cousins. That poster is probably in an interracial relationship with the whole "wyte people can do it too" thing.

article was written by an african sister who probably feels this shyt in her heart.. i was just asking opinions because i've literally NEVER heard this in real life. but reading, i can see her point

i also remember when def poetry was on, an asian woman getting on, shytting on americans for getting chinese tattoos and shyt... saying how you don't give a shyt about us or care to study, but want to steal our language


it's something people don't think about... what they do and wear and say, that came from another culture, that we give zero time to actually care about and learn about

 

[HopeKillCure]

Scared of white people so y'all argue amongst each other

Talk that bullshyte and get tough with each other cause you don't want no smoke with cacs brehs

 

[Lewis Black]

I said a year ago how this "appropriation" shyt is stupid. Now you can see for your own eyes how dumb and petty it is.

 

[HopeKillCure]

The Author is not even African born, it's some UK born bedwench

Wow, ya'll stay finding deflections and distractions to avoid facing white supremacy 24/7,

the only people upset about appropriation are white people because they appropriate every fukking thing on the planet