{"id":65950,"date":"2018-02-14T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65950"},"modified":"2018-02-13T21:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T03:38:30","slug":"appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65950","title":{"rendered":"Appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Aliza Worthington&#8221; describes herself as &#8220;Brooklyn-bred, Baltimore by choice, music snob, history nerd, family-obsessed, friend-dependent, amateur glassblower, passable dancer, &amp; since age 40, a writer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She may have had a point until she hit that last clause.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Worthington &#8211; a honky &#8211; writes a piece in the ever-more-loathsome &#8220;Medium&#8221; entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@AlizaWrites\/black-panther-is-not-for-us-white-people-94f6c73bc46\">Black Panther\u201d Is Not For Us, White People<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"e3fa\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--h3\">I\u2019m gonna stop just short of telling white people NOT to see it. To be clear, I hope this movie makes A BAZILLION GAFLILLION SCHMATRILLION dollars opening weekend, and wins every single award possible. Speaking to my fellow white people, though, can we please consider letting Black people have this joy without us ruining it for them with our presence?<\/p>\n<p id=\"34de\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">We have ruined, and continue to ruin so much for Black folx.<em>[That&#8217;s right.<\/em>\u00a0Folx<em>.\u00a0 She is that dumb &#8211; Ed<\/em><em>]<\/em> Yes, often just by inserting ourselves where they are rightfully trying to enjoy their greatness in peace, and without our white nonsense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Worthington:\u00a0 \u00a0do black \u201cfolx\u201d (#VomitInMouth) need\u00a0<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">your\u00a0<\/em>help defending their culture?<\/p>\n<p id=\"de1d\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll rise as one and offer their &#8220;thanx&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Or, if you get tickets, and you notice it\u2019s sold out, and some Black folx are outside bummed they weren\u2019t able to get tickets, give your tickets to them and go to Applebee\u2019s instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How very, very twee.<\/p>\n<p>It just has to be tough, being both a honky\u00a0<em>and \u02c6&#8221;<\/em>authentic&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0Well done.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Worthington:\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to exercise that greatest &#8220;white privilege&#8221; (I choose to call it &#8220;freedom&#8221;, and invite everyone of all races to partake in it) and go wherever I damn well want, do what I want, and mock your appropriation of the voice of American blacks.\u00a0\u00a0<em>They don&#8217;t need your help<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Aliza Worthington&#8221; describes herself as &#8220;Brooklyn-bred, Baltimore by choice, music snob, history nerd, family-obsessed, friend-dependent, amateur glassblower, passable dancer, &amp; since age 40, a writer&#8221; She may have had a point until she hit that last clause. Ms. Worthington &#8211; a honky &#8211; writes a piece in the ever-more-loathsome &#8220;Medium&#8221; entitled \u201cBlack Panther\u201d Is Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,374,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-social-justice","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65951,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65950\/revisions\/65951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}