i dont think people understand why/ how cultural appropriation works and think that black people are upset about other people being inspired by our culture. This doesn't even relate to JB that much..
The problem with cultural appropriation is that A LOT of these things that have been popular in black culture for years & were bashed or looked down upon by other cultures..... suddenly get picked up by white people & all the negative feedback that was attributed to us for doing something just isn't there for other cultures.
On top of the view changing for other cultures, these publications and brands constantly try to give black culture no credit & act as if this person from another culture just randomly created that style or is some kind of innovator.
We have high fashion brands selling $100 durags to white women acting as if this isn't DIRECTLY from hiphop culture... It's not the fact that a durag is something black people find sacred or anything like that, it's the fact that if i was to go out in one it would be considered ghetto/classless & those same designers who boosted the look will be given credit for being edgy & innovative.
Their are publications & in turn plenty of young white women who are convinced that Kim K hairstyle (basically ******* cornrows) were popularized by her & acting as if it's some new style created by middle America. Enough is enough B
