Black Farmer Calls Out Liberal Racism In Powerful Facebook Message

[stevenleser]

328. I'll continue to read more about it but I think I understand what is attempting to be implied.

I just disagree with the implication. Each of the examples given in your link is problematic and indicates racism without the "appropriation" aspect. Another thing that bothers me is what is it that people think a culture "owns" about itself? I would argue the answer is nothing.

Example 1 talks about the Washington "Redskins". That is a simply a slur on American Aborigines. We don't need another concept to find that objectionable.

Example 2 is really about poor people being pushed out of their former neighborhoods which has happened just here in NYC multiple times to various ethnicities. It then attempts to say that since some of the folks that were pushed out were Latino and that there are now Latino restaurants owned by white people that are being attended by white people there is something wrong with that. I find that assertion very odd. Gentrification is an issue in most cities in the US.

Example 3 Uses an example that says it was cool and beautiful for one of the Kardashians to wear cornrows and yet too ethnic for African American people to do the same. Let's put this another and more simple way. You have racist people who don't like to see African Americans wearing their hair the way they want to wear it. What the Kardashians do or don't do is really not the issue.

Example 4 Is an example of really trying too hard. The issue there is that "the system" discriminates against women and minorities. I am 100% on board with that. But the example of a white woman who is into native American spirituality and opens a business regarding that is completely besides the point and really IMHO distracts from it.

Example 5 "It Lets Some People Get Rewarded for Things the Creators Never Got Credit For". If I write a piece of music or paint a painting based on a style from a group in our society that is marginalized, I'm the person who should get credit for creating it. A painter painting in an impressionist style owns the work he created. He doesnt owe impressionist painters who came before him much of anything.

Examples 6&7 Are more simply stated that negative stereotypes are racist.

Example 8 is example 3 over again.

Example 9 Doesn't make sense at all.

My experience as a mixed race person who simultaneously identifies with all of my heritage and also none of it is that people put way too much emphasis in and are too serious about their heritage and culture in terms of identity and imparting some kind of ownership or belonging. And sure, having been discriminated against multiple times (generally separately) for no less than three aspects of my heritage it can put an emphasis on that but it isn't who you are.