It’s Mississippi

Yes Ma’am

When we talk about black music around here, we talk about it as a monlithic block - music created by black people for black people, with white people seen as intruders, thieves, appropriators. never as artists in their own right, who simply love the music they play and play the music they love.

Taylor was actually a pretty confused person herself. She was just lucky there was no 24/7 news cycle and social media back then.

Thank you. That is so cute. No one has called me ‘fragile’ in a long time, since I’m a pretty big dude. ‘White’ is actually spot on. You might want to watch your step, so you don’t slip on all that dripping condescension.

This is a simple equation - you want access to my club and thereby access to my networking system, meaning money, power, influence? Fine, there you go. In return (quid pro quo) I want access to your exclusive club, at least the opportunity to join if I want to. If it’s true that those all female clubs were a reaction…

But it also wondered what would happen if women were actually let in the billiards club before “our time”:

This made me smile. It reads like low life do nothing white nobody male DARES to interrupt successful black woman. You’re not familiar with either Damon’s career or we have vastly different opinions about what constitutes success. He shouldn’t have interrupted her, though.

I guess, these will be displayed at Times Square any day now

Both Kelly and Mack have since been removed from the legislature’s ethics committee

Or he did it, bc he knew that people would talk about it afterwards (Hotters and all). Sometimes, serving chicken wings is just about...serving chicken wings.

No, white musicians playing black music is not ‘stealing’, just like Jessye Norman singing a Wagner opera is not ‘stealing’. Violating copyrights, working parts of other songs into your own songs, ‘borrowing’ parts of lyrics and using them as your own is stealing though. Btw it’s cute how you to try to incorporate…

Why would a fashion designer of all people try to pull a stunt like this, just to stay in the closet? Is it because the fashion industry is such a hetero bro fest with designers like Lagerfeld, Ford, Gaultier, Jacobs, Valentino and so many other super hetero bros?

Where and when did Carney accuse someone of stealing from him? White did. Yes, you can claim someone stole from your music, bc 100% of all living musicians did not invent the musical genre of which they are part of. They still write songs. Sometimes others copy those songs or part of it. A commenter claimed that these…

What should they then do, put out a disclaimer before every song about the origins of Blues? Is it ‘stealing’ when contemporary white musicians play the Blues and ‘following in the footsteps’ when black musicians do it? If hip hop artists had to explain the origins and even the source material they are oftentimes…

Writes something stupid. Gets called out on it. Claims it was all said in jest. Doubles down on it with mock caps lock rant. Just on the internet...

Then just tell me, has “stealing from black musicians from the 30’s” a positive or negative connotation for you? Does this not imply that these guys do something wrong and should stop doing it (=stealing from black musicians of the 30’s)? Weird, how ‘stealing’ can be read as something negative, huh?

I dunno what made me think that this was about cultural appropriation, maybe it was “stealing from black musicians from the 30’s”?

You’re right. White people should just stop playing music whose origins can be traced back to black musicians. Absolutely no black music for whitey! The same is of course not true for black artists who want to perform music written by white people, like classical music or classical ballet (Misty Copeland anybody).…

It takes two for a dudefight. Reading from these tweets, there was only one dude itching for it. Why calling both out?