Aight guys I rewrote EVERYTHING, and by EVERYTHING I mean EVERYTHANG.
I'm proud of her breaking out of that child image she had and letting everyone know she is now an adult and she does what she wants and will be who she wants to be. Good for her.
But hey. You can't be yourself if you're approproiating culture that isn't and will never be yours. 😊
Now when I heard she was twerking I didn't pay any mind to it because okay she is shaking an ass she don't have. "What's the problem?" says non-woke 8th grader me. But when I noticed it went deeper than her just twerking I noticed it was a problem.
Being ratchet is considered cool to privileged white people who don't know or don't care to know about the environment that "ratchetness" came from. They think it's cool to talk ghetto and act ghetto but don't understand that this is something that comes from underprivileged communities who are discriminated against and when choose to show this side of them they are shut down and told to keep it to themselves. Yet another race who hasn't experienced the experiences in those communities can do it without shame and won't be told anything by anyone except those who feel offended.
When a black actress (Zendaya and Ciara for example) has dreads it is unprofessional and ugly, but Miley or Kylie Jenner wears it, it's a "trendy", and an "edgy" style. Again, white privileged can use other cultures and make it their own, yet races can't express their own race's cultures. What sense is that?
They fail to understand that just because it's hair doesn't mean it's not important. Do you know how offensive that is to people who actually put in the work, who actually take years to grow out their hair for dreads and all you have to do is put on a damn wig and be accepted immediately? Do you know how offensive that is to black people who have come to hate natural hair because it isn't accepted and want to have kids with white men or women because they're scared of their children going through the same thing? Do you know how offensive it is to black women who have been told for years to use chemicals on their hair and straighten their hair and follow the criteria for European beauty standards? Do you know how offensive it is to black women who have been bashed for their natural hair, fired from their job, suspended or kicked out of school because their hair was deemed unprofessional and not appropriate in such places?
Very fucking offensive.
Cause all you got to do is put on a damn wig and no one look at you twice because it's cool.
She actually said to her songwriters that she wants something "urban" and wants it to feel "black". BUT YOU ARE NOT BLACK! YOU DO NOT COME FROM AN URBAN COMMUNITY! You can't create that feel because you've never experienced that feel. I don't care how hot that beat is, you're saying shit you don't mean because you never experienced it. So hop off that shit. A white girl showing off her moves? Moves she fucking stole! Those aren't her moves. Those are moves black women have been doing for hundreds of years because twerking is actually a dance in many African cultures. And when black women do it, they're ratchet, they're stupid, they're unsophisticated, they need to stop because all they're doing is making a bad image of themselves. Yet here comes Miley Cyrus and it's the best thing on Earth and more while girls should embrace their inner ratchet. Can't embrace an inner "ratchet" if you ain't never lived that "ratchet" life.
So hop off that appropriation bullshit cause it ain't cool.
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