[Personal Responsibility]

White musicians have been “appropriating” black music for decades. From Elvis to Led Zeppelin to Eminem. This is nothing new. She should learn some history and stop trying to sound cool by using the latest outrage catchphrase.

[Impala64ssa]

White musicians have been “appropriating” black music for decades.
By the same token, James Brown was a huge fan of country music, he called it "the White man's blues".

[Fred Hayek]

Amazing. Rock, country music, classical music, and opera is racist, and if white people listen to any other music it is expropriation of the culture of oppressed peoples.

I listed to metal, and as a result I have been at times called a white supremacist (when half the members of the band Suffocation is black).

[fr_freak]

White musicians have been “appropriating” black music for decades. From Elvis to Led Zeppelin to Eminem. This is nothing new.

That may be true, but "black" music didn't come into being from scratch. The inventors of the blues used "white" music and "white" instruments, made an adjustment and created their own variation (blues). Then white people took that variation, used it, tweaked it and made their own variation (hard rock). And on and on back and forth. That's the way civilizations work. That's also why the blues could only have been invented in the USA. Africans didn't play guitars. Nobody gets to claim to be the originator of anything in this world, except God.

[KarlInOhio]

White musicians have been “appropriating” black music for decades. From Elvis to Led Zeppelin to Eminem. This is nothing new.

Funny line from Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of "The Horror of Party Beach": Well, they stole this music from black people, but black people were gonna throw it away anyway.

[driftless2]

"white musicians"

Back when the Beatles were big in the sixties, a number of black scribblers/whiners claimed that they, the Beatles, owed their success to recording some black songs like "Twist And Shout" and some other obscure black songs.

TAS was the only cover I can remember that became a big hit for the Fab Four. They were already huge when they recorded it, and it wouldn't have made a dent in their popularity if they hadn't. Ditto for some of their other obscure black covers that never did anything.

Just another reason for black people to hate Evil Whitey...even if Evil Whitey was Evil Brit Whitey.