{"id":42573,"date":"2020-06-25T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42573"},"modified":"2020-06-24T09:50:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:50:45","slug":"qotd-cultural-appropriation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/06\/25\/qotd-cultural-appropriation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Cultural appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>In the ever-widening gyre of what cannot be appropriated without causing offense, now even American heroes are off limits. Apparently, Caucasians are no longer allowed to quote Martin Luther King. While I almost sympathize with the view that too many people of all colors tend to only quote King&#8217;s more saccharine words, it is surreal that some African-Americans would be outraged that others quote such an admirable American: &#8220;MLK <em>belongs<\/em> to us. Do not dare to quote <em>my<\/em> MLK. My Martin Luther King Jr., was not here for white people. Keep his name out your thin-lipped mouth. Y&#8217;all banned forever.&#8221; Belongs? Like a possession? Is the bitter irony of talking about King as a possession \u2014 mere chattel, the private property of a particular group \u2014 lost on some members of the current generation of African Americans? I had thought that, at least since the passage of the 13th Amendment, people could not be owned.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Mussomeli, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimaginativeconservative.org\/2018\/02\/victim-privilege-cultural-appropriation-new-enslavement-joseph-mussomeli.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Victim Privilege, Cultural Appropriation, &#038; the New Enslavement&#8221;, <em>The Imaginative Conservative<\/em><\/a>, 2018-02-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ever-widening gyre of what cannot be appropriated without causing offense, now even American heroes are off limits. Apparently, Caucasians are no longer allowed to quote Martin Luther King. While I almost sympathize with the view that too many people of all colors tend to only quote King&#8217;s more saccharine words, it is surreal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,53,41,13],"tags":[1126,99],"class_list":["post-42573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-culturalappropriation","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58103,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42573\/revisions\/58103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}