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nefertiti--edgeskinky

There's a fine line.

ok a few things.

1. Mehndi (henna) is a tradition north africa has shared with india (among many other traditions) for centuries. Even the fact that it has so many different names points to it having several points of origin. These North Africans took these traditions with them where ever they went (or were taken). Hell, my family that is still in Guyana dress JUST like this for Diwali. You cant appropriate a culture that already belongs to you. But yall tried it tho

2. Appropriation demands that you have the POWER to erase culture and cultural context, which black people simply do not have in the same way white people do. But yall tried it tho

3. You cant be strong and wrong at the same time. The same device yall use to spew bullshit has Ms. Google RIGHT there on it for the low low price of free. And she LOVES answering your dumb ass questions, employ her. I’m real tired of explaining simple shit. But yall tried it tho

4. Dont come for Beyonce on my watch. Ever! But yall tried it tho.

asanteroyalty

Hmmmmmmmmmmm insight

lucidnee

you can literally be POC and still cultural appropriate we’ve had this discussion it’s wrong. She wrong. Wrong

i-sucked-dick-on-accident-deact

I’m about tired of this “well everything came from Africa so we can’t really appropriate anything” bullshit like STOP. My own brother who is black did an “Indian” themed wedding with turbans and the whole lot and it was still just as disgusting as a white person doing it. The video isn’t “as bad” as Iggy Azalea’s random Indian video but it is still bad??? It still gives people that “come to India to find yourself” feeling, it’s still unsettling, it still NEEDS TO BE TALKED ABOUT. She still needs to be held accountable. Y'all so fucking stupid it drives me nuts ugh

khiroshige-deactivated20221210

i’m laughing because beyonce’s not north african OR guyanese, “power” is never a necessity for cultural appropriation to be harmful which is why we come for no black poc who appropriate black culture with the swiftness and idk what to describe those last two points as other than “my feminism is intersectional only if no one criticizes my fave”

nyokoko

Beyonce not even North African like ?????? She is none of the cultures expressed in this video????? What is wrong with y'all????

das-umilaut-deactivated20160827

”Appropriation demands that you have the POWER to erase culture and cultural context, which black people simply do not have in the same way white people do. But yall tried it tho”

I need to address this.

You can still appropriate a culture if you are a person of color.

People go after non-black POC who use AAVE all the time. Or call them out for appropriating hairstyles. There’s a whole trend of East Asians pretending to be “Gangsta” by appropriating black culture—hairstyles, clothes, music, etc.—and they’re constantly being called out.

Black people may not have the same power as white people to decontextualize culture, but they still feed into that power structure when they act like this. The same way K-Pop idols feed into that power structure when they appropriate AAVE or put on fake dreadlocks or try to act “gangster” in photos, videos, and appearances.

If a Bollywood video surfaced in which the characters were appropriating Black culture, you (being OP) would be slamming Bollywood in seconds. You’d be calling Desis racist, accusing us of feeding right into White Supremacy. But since your fav is now being called out, you’re saying that Black people don’t have the power to erase culture.

I am disappointed.

nyokoko

And can we talk about how she’s trying to evoke the Hamsa with her hand gestures? The Hamsa is a religious and cultural symbol and talisman. But she’s basically feeding into this pseudo-hippie Bohemian ~*Mystical India*~ stereotype by using it as an aesthetic embellishment. The song is shit and has nothing to do with the religious imagery in this video. It’s just a bunch of white dudes using India as their emotional and spiritual playground, AS USUAL.

But Beyonce is literally not Desi nor is she Hausa or North African. Just because Africans also use henna does not make this remotely okay because she’s appropriating Desi culture SPECIFICALLY in this instance. Like she is not above fucking reproach.

nefertiti--edgeskinky

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa

Again. Not exclusively desi. You don’t have to know for a fact that your ancestors are n. African in order to follow their customs. Especially the ones we brought with us during the Slave trade. As I have been saying, Indian and indo-Caribbean (which is where these Africans with these customs are from) still heavily participate in what you would call “desi culture” and we would call info-Caribbean culture. Of course she is not above reproach, but people need to stop acting like these very rituals, garb, head jewelry etc are not part of OUR culture too.

And as I’ve said over and over here, if I see something that sways my opinion, for instance finding out she was just being an appropriative dummy, I’m 100% willing to change my mind. Right now all I am seeing is people who can’t seem to understand the overlap over Indian culture with that of Caribbean people. We coexisted with indo-Caribbeans for so long that some of our customs are indistinguishable from theirs because indo-caribbeans ARE Indian. I’m really tired of seeing THAT being erased. We’re people too and outer culture looks pretty much just like that.

be-blackstar

But she’s not Afro-Caribbean either so how many more ethnicities are you going to project onto Beyoncé?

sleepnoi7es

Op a dumb ass lmao

nefertiti--edgeskinky

your opinion doesnt feed, fuck, or finance me. I’m not worried who you believe is a dumb ass. thanks though.

sleepnoi7es

Op a dumb ass lmao

baddestheaux

Is it bad I’m blind to anything Beyoncé does wrong

nefertiti--edgeskinky

She does do shit wrong. I just dont see it for this one.

bullcityblessing

She wrong for this..let’s just acknowledge it and move on. .

weloveshortvideos

When u ask a white dude does he like Nicky Minaj

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godmuva-deactivated20200902

Why people ask me shit like “how was work?” or “how is school?” like work is work, school is school, I would rather be on a yacht right now while gettin some dick but here I am