groupthink.jezebel.com: As a black woman, I feel like I owe a debt of gratitude to Mikki Kendall, of Solidarity Is For White Women fame for managing to so perfectly encapsulate years of subjugation of black women by white women. With those five words, she was able to instantly zero in on why Intersectional Feminism is so necessary if the feminist movement is to progress.
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"About how they can expect to be exploited by even their supposed sisters-in-arms. You wanna be down with black folk? With black women? Start by treating us like human beings, not like fucking pokemon"
This is a very compelling point, often we see caucasian performers trying to take on the "urban vibe" with their performance trying to fit in with the black community by attempting to mimic their performance practices. What they should be doing is trying to collaborate. Look at the rock and roll band Jackyl. They frequently perform with rapper DMX neither of them attempt to mimic the other they just combine their two styles for a unique performance and they both have a ball with it.
There seems to be this misconception that if your going to rap or perform Hip Hop you need to sag your pants, have golden teeth and have plenty of loose women around you all the time. Linkin park has integrated rap and even hip hop but still kept their punk rock feel.
I am not going to touch on the feminism side of this argument because I feel I can not give an appropriate opinion to the manner but as a counter argument I will say this. Hip hop is a style and for a person to take on the hip hop style does not necessarily mean they are trying to mimic or mock the black community and style. Its just a matter of taking a style like hip hop and making it your own.
This article is disgusting.
Should we not eat black food either because that means we are trying to be cool or ghetto?
Is it not much more oppressive to say that only black women should be able to shake their butt in front of a camera? I feel that its a fairly degrading act and to say that when white women do it, its oppressive to black women is absurd.
Now I am not saying the performance wasn't sexist, I believe it was. Just not racist. 2chains had lots of women in the background of his performance that night. The only part of them you could see was their butts. Robin Thicke's song is extremely misogynistic saying that the blurred line between rape and consent is too confusing. How is that not the bigger issue here? Miley is certainly contributing to the sexism by getting half naked and rubbing herself all over Thicke while playing his song. But bringing racism into is a stretch.
As long as I've been around "racist" has been the cap to many arguments, and a way to guilt people into giving up their argument. I was once accused of being racist for not being able to help a black woman get somewhere. I did not know the directions and I was only 10. It's being brought into a lot argument where it doesn't belong only because people are too scared to argue back against it. It seems to me constantly bringing it up like this is making the situation worse not better.
I agree with the author of the article. It was not only an incredible crude performance, but was flat out racist. Her use of women as props was outrageous and uncalled for. She objectified these women on national television and it was scarcely brought up by the media who was so focused on the rest of her unflattering performance. It's sad to think that even in today's slightly more accepting culture, that young people are disrespecting and judging people based on the color of their skin.The deep rooted implications and associations in society about people of color need to be changed. The fact that young people are combining unlike ideas because they are so often associated with each other needs to stop. What she, and so many other artists and young adults, is doing is not ok, and will not be tolerated in the future.
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