Does America treat Black People fairly?

[Warpy]

15. I have to say that when I moved out to NM

and saw suburban white kids with saggy shorts and backwards ball caps with boom boxes and trying to keep up with NYC rappers, I had to giggle a bit.

However, if they go on to write it and manage to write some good stuff, hooray for them.

Kids will try to imitate cultures they're not part of and most of the time, it looks like parody and we get to laugh at them. A few of them might have the talent and put in the time to do a creditable job in that cultural art form and that's a good thing.

I remember the resistance toward using black dancers in ballet. Now most US companies have a few black faces among the sea of white, at least if they go for the best dancers instead of merely the whitest, and nobody considers it a parody of "white culture." Likewise, a few white dancers have gone on to do decent break dancing.

Art has always been very fluid, inspiration being found across many cultures. Culture, itself, isn't that immutable, as the American experiment has found across both North and South America.

I'd have to say it's not a question of treading lightly as it is of treading competently.