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What Folks Get Wrong About Cultural Appropriation
When it comes to the exhaustive debates about the validity of cultural appropriation, we’ve basically heard it all from those speaking from experience, and the privileged poachers who love to fight back with “Black women straighten their hair and color it blonde.”
And if you think the “privileged” who wield those weak ass comments are mostly non-Black folks, you might need to prepare for the brutal truth.
It’s hard to accept the fact that influencers who are positioned in places of authority with the armor of massive platforms for extra volume, end up misusing their blessed station by recklessly miseducating the masses.
The Breakfast Club is the well established morning radio show that has evolved into the hub of social interaction and endorsed exposure to the culture, for ambitious contenders like Democratic presidential candidates, who need to convince Black folks that they can be champions of equal rights up until election day.
The rest of the glitzy traffic consists of an array of notables who have performed in ways that merit their admittance to what is undeniably a vital space for enlightened conversations and spirited debates.
So, when the rambunctious gang of three, Charlamagne tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy routinely hit wrong notes when discussing…
