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Hi my name is Kay

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Montel Thomas straw My pronouns

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are they them and in this

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episode I wanted to talk about

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why you shouldn't participate in

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cultural appropriation. This

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episode was inspired by a

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comment left. My article

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entitled Lin Manuel Miranda

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needs to learn the word. Lin

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Manuel Miranda has several

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different films, plays and

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appropriate several cultures and

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never takes himself out. And

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never takes himself out of

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projects, even if he isn't a

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part of the culture displayed in

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those projects. The comment left

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on the article describing this

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goes to say so you're saying Lin

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Manuel Miranda should live a

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segregated life where he only

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does things associated with his

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answer. She's ancestries. What

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next. He can't eat Chow fun

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because he lacks Chinese

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ancestry. No one can listen to

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Mozart because they're not

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Austrian. Where does this demand

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to live segregated livestock?

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Actually had an amazing response

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to the article when I posted it

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on LinkedIn. Marcus right

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Watson, he him goes to say, he

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says cultural expropriation.

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presumptuously, the majority

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think black people have

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abandoned, abandoned the music

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and style of Little Richard and

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others like him for a rap trap

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and r&b. So what does the

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majority do? Take the presumably

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abandoned black music styles and

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reassigned to white artists, and

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then wheels, these white artists

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out as the real successors to

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golden years of black music,

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because it's quite diabolical.

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When you dig in further. We've

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seen this over time with Justin

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Timberlake with Bruno Mars, so

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on and so forth. People are a

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flop at it when they partake in

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the cultural appropriation, or,

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as Marcus Wright Watson said,

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expropriation of black music and

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culture, but black people are

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not reason. I don't applaud

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people for taking part in any

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sort of cultural appropriation

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is because it's harmful. it

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demeans the culture and never,

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as in its definition

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acknowledges the culture that is

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being appropriated and allows

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people in positions of power to

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maintain that power because none

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of that power is being spread to

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the cultures that are being

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appropriated because they're not

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being acknowledged for the work

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that they did. Well, this helps