Did you read or think about what I said? The very idea of cultural appropriation being bad, put forth by mostly white people, in my experience, is the definition of white people feeling the need to protect those "poor black people" with their supreme and mighty white power. I've never personally met a black person who cares. You want to know what I did with my black friends growing up? Listen to rap, hang out, and not give a fuck about the past racial tensions. How well would we have gotten along if he felt insulted that I enjoyed the music he preferred, a genre popularized by black Americans but set on the foundations of the music of many cultures before them? Where did I tell black people what to think? I stated my opinion that this trend could hurt relations among races. In another comment, I even mentioned that I could understand how many black people may not like it, but that the only way to end the tension is to stop spreading it by placing the blame of the evils of a past generation on those of the current one. Again, I've never met a black person who felt this way. The ones I have met, and no I'm not speaking for all of them or pretending this is always the case, have simply wanted to share their creativity and talents without their music, thoughts, or any other crafts being labeled as simply "black things" by those who feel they are so different and incapable they need protection and isolation from the rest of the country. The only black people I see proposing these things are in my opinion a highly vocal and loud minority of black people who base their careers on the victimization of blacks. Black people are not a homogenous group that all share a belief simply because another black person shouted it on tv or staged a news conference about it. Just because a white guy across the country is upset about something doesn't mean I would be too, simply because I'm white. My friends, many black, like rap and together we like to right our own for fun. Because we are just Americans unified through our similar personalities who happen to be black and white. We appreciate the blending of culture. I guess to you, however, me producing a rap song would just be a powerful white male snatching the sacred culture of a poor little black man. But luckily you are there to defend him. I'll let my friends know that they should instead be outraged, because rap music is inherently theirs as they have the same skin color of those in the communities where it originated, and I do not. You know, because black people are so uniform and distinct from us regular Americans that anything done by any black people is owned by and applicable to all other black people. And I'm the condescending one.