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1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2013, 12:59 PM Mar 2013

Thank you, Melissa ...

It needed to be said ...

"That ain't the Harlem Shake ... What it is a 'cultural misappropriation'!"

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Thank you, Melissa ... (Original Post) 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2013 OP

Her show was excellent today. Evergreen Emerald Mar 2013 #1

Indeed malaise Mar 2013 #2

Wow, that's messed up. bettyellen Mar 2013 #3

Evergreen Emerald

(13,069 posts)

1. Her show was excellent today.

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 01:15 PM

Mar 2013

She also discussed the treatment of Quvenzhane Wallis--the youngest
female to ever be nominated for an Oscar. There was a sexual joke made about her at the awards and a tweet by the Onion during the awards that called her the C-word.

It should be evident that young children should be off limits. Would they have treated a white girl the same way?

malaise

(268,713 posts)

2. Indeed

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 01:21 PM

Mar 2013

I posted the English Royal Ballet's version Friday or yesterday - they steal everything.
The English rugby team's official song is the original 'negro spiritual' Swing Low Sweet Chariot - it started out as a racist chant against the first Afro-Brit rugby player and ended up as their official song.

http://www.elyrics.net/read/e/etta-james-lyrics/swing-low-sweet-chariot-lyrics.html

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

3. Wow, that's messed up.

Reply to malaise (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 01:42 PM

Mar 2013

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