your section on the Mielle issue really resonates with how I feel about the sudden surge of interest in Asian beauty. A lot of these influencers review things like sunscreen or skin products that are catered to Asian skin and preferred aesthetics and complain about how it doesn't fit what they're looking for. Well duh, it's because they're not the target audience. Although, I am glad that a lot of Asian beauty companies are sticking to their guns and not changing their target market/audience despite the current hype coming from the West/Europe.
@@AyaaAcademia This is part of the reason that we keep getting left behind. We adjust the bar for them when they are not doing it for us. Many eastern cultures are not as pliable and willing to forsake what they work on just to fit what is going on on the other side of the world
That you're a racist Moron who appropriates white culture...and is so stupid she doesn't realize...that was my favorite part of your video showcasing your lack of intelligence 😉
I was wondering if you could do a video on black woman being seen as “aggressive” too often my non black friends would call me scary or aggressive for just getting a little excited and extra or literally just existing I had a friend that when we were first becoming friends she said that she was scared of me when all I was doing was standing near her. I don’t know why I feel so affected to be called scary when if someone of another race did the same thing is would be goofy or funny
@@CamrynElyse Exactly. Black culture goes back to Moses (Ahmosis) and Sephora (Ahmose-N). It goes back to Queen of Sheba (Karomama of Semna) and King Solomon (Siamun). We are royal priests and priestesses of the Most High. 🙏🏿✝🕎
and then on top of that, if you say something in aave that was a “trend” that “died out,” people call you out on it as if you haven’t been saying it your whole life
We as black people also need to take accountability. We put these people on by cosigning and entertaining their antics. Recently that period uh girl. Seeing black people, especially women, duet with her was embarrassing. She's mocking what she thinks a black woman is and she had black people encouraging her. The same for that catch me outside girl. Whereas there are black women who are naturally like that and they are ridiculed at every turn. Black is beautiful as long as it's on a non-black woman. Sad state of affairs.
@@meeunice You are clearly of African descent. But your skin is literally white. I guess from a Darwinist standpoint you would be considered a part of the Black race; but from a biblical, or even just a color standpoint, you're white. I think your whiteness is to be celebrated and embraced. Albinos are so beautiful.
@@MiguelDLewis nigga u sound so slow.. so by ur logic, are lightskins white?? skin color is a part of racial features but its not jus skin color. its face features, nd hair texture too. black ppl come in every shade nd i cant believe im explaining this to a BLACK person..
@@norii0353 Don't call me the n word please. I respect you so please respect me as well. To your question, yes, people who are called "lightskin" from a Jim Crow 'One-Drop Rule' perspective are actually white or yellow. From a Darwinist or Jim Crow perspective, morphology is a part of race but I'm not a Darwinist. I'm a Judeochristian. We of African descent are mostly black but there are black Asians as well. The Dravidians and Jarawa of India and the Papua and Aeta of Southeast Asia are also black. From a Judeochristian/Messianic perspective, black is a skin tone, not a race. Example: Queen of Sheba was black and King Solomon was a "redbone" but they were both Africans.🙏🏿✝🕎
1:05:40 . I think we need to do a better job at gatekeeping. Not everything needs to be put everywhere. And sometimes our people are so open and want to share when not all things needs to be shared
This right here❤❤ Not all things are to be shared no matter who, or what it is. We need to learn to go hard. And not give an inch, respectfully. Example: A yt woman at work known for her DJ style, and wearing braids, and always dating our men, recently had a daughter. She went around asking us if we had any ideas on how and what to do for her child’s hair. I told the women in my office, you better not tell her anything! We’re all in and 30’s and 40’s getting our credit straight to buy houses. She just bought a house and a new car. She’s not sharing. We’re not sharing. Don’t let anyone use, or prostitute your culture for their gain. Personal or professional. Tell them Google it. ❤
I think we need to realize how powerful our opinion is. Once we deem something as cool, it is. We really need to be mindful on who we give our attention and energy too. Most people wouldn’t blow up unless we comment on it. I think we should start paying it dust
Our opinions and tastes are considered cool and people want to be a part of it, when it comes to pop culture items. Our opinions about things like the wage gap, police brutality, environmental racism, the blatant ignorance of our missing black women, men and children...? White people, decked out in FUBU, AAVE lingo and baby-hairs: "Who? What? You hear something?"
So, I was doing research for a presentation a couple of years ago and found a Nielsen report that says 73% of non-Hispanic whites and 67% of Hispanics believe that African-Americans influence mainstream culture.
EDUCATION TIME A lot of stereotypical black body language grew out of how many people in the slavery Era had to hide their thoughts and emotions. Facial expressions and body posturing was a form of nonverbal communication. In fact, it plays a role in why black people tend to obscure their faces (by turning around or covering their mouths) when they laugh at something hilarious.
Yes because covering your mouth when laughing is almost exclusively a black trait. Yall take anything a slap a black people did it first label on it. The gays do it too with “ that actually derives from drag culture”. Just bc black people did it doesn’t mean others didn’t.
I very much hate the fact that our way of talking gets attributed to gen z as a whole. Like recently I saw a video where this pc guy used "sus" and was like "omg I sound like gen z" being ignorant to the fact that we've been saying sus for years.
The piece about the gatekeeping is CLUTCH. I find it very interesting that certain fitness and sport spaces are gatekept to keep the older/heavier/nonwhite people out of them. But the minute something is suggested even remotely adjacent to those spaces geared toward the people originally excluded, the palm pilots wanna rise up and be LARGE TYPE ANGRY that we create something for ourselves. Bc it's discriminatory. I'm also old enough to remember when the "black hair care aisle" was Pink Lotion, Sulfur 8, Jheri curl stuff and two different kinds of ultra sheen. Stuff that they would NEVER use. Funny how times change but Paul Mooney's words still ring true: "Everybody wants to be a n**** till it's time to be a n****"
Not only the black gaze but the colorism aspect as well. The amount of people that talked down on BW features and stereotypes praised these same women for profiting off a caricature of us. I personally felt like it was jealousy along with deep rooted colorism. People really hate us out of their own insecurities. It’s 🤢
Jealousy is correct. Fear fear of things they do not understand is the cause. Maybe we will one day understand what exactly it is about us that is hated this much.
Thank you Camryn for making this video because I’m so sick and tired of these culture vultures. Before y’all Arinators come attack me I love her music but that whole 7 Rings song was a hot mess. Also her during that era was trying to emulate like she was a racially ambiguous girl. That really benefited her because that song is her most streamed song and gave her way more mainstream success. Now that “Acting black” is not profitable anymore and she’s a mainstream artist now look at her now she’s toned down her tan, hot rid of her high, long ponytail, not talking in AAVE because another thing I noticed is during the Thank You, Next era in her interviews she didn’t talk like herself and used a lot of AAVE. I’m not hating I’m just saying things I’ve observed and noticed.
Was Septimius Severus a culture vulture when he became a black Roman emperor? Was Yasuke a culture vulture when he became a black samurai? Was Alexander de Medici a culture vulture when he became a black knight and ruler of Italy? 🧠🤔
@@MiguelDLewis But one is addressing a position in government. This video is not about that. And he assimilated and wore their clothing as did other Africans who lived in Greece, Rome, etc.
@@4knewt505 Even outside of the gov, was Joseph Bologne a culture vulture when he became a classical composer? Was Kahinde Wiley a culture vulture when he became a classical oil painter?
@@MiguelDLewis I'm sorry. This video is primarily about aesthetics. I do admire your very apparent intellect. I'll be looking up some of these. I'm a military librarian so this is intriguing.
@@4knewt505 Yes, these black men adopted aesthetics that were of different cultures. Look at paintings of black knights like Cosimo de Medici and Alexandre de Medici. Look at marble statues of black Roman emperors like Severus Dinasty. I think there's even a Japanese woodblock painting of Yasuke wearing his samurai armor with his tribal African armor. Saint Maurice also wore armor consistent with the Roman centurion aesthetic, even though he was a black medjay. Could all these great black men of world history also be called "culture vultures"?
How hard is it to respect someone's culture? This is never an issue until we speak on it, then suddenly everything is for everyone. But say you like spicy food or tacos and here they come with the "you think you're Mexican". Like get out of here with that backwards nonsense 🤦🏾♀️ Also stop supporting these same folks gentrifying the culture and then crying about it later. You should already know how they are by now. Now we see them wearing the socks with the slides, braids, bonnets. They're so quick to holler "it's 2023!" Yeah it is, so from here on out put some respect on our name, culture, speech, hair, style, skin tone, and everything else associated with us. PERIOD!
In my opinion: they still have the "plantation massa, slave" ways about themselves. In their most basic and primal subconscious part of their brains, they still believe black, especially Black Americans, as 3/5ths of a human. They have been conditioned to think of us as products. This is why you got white people, who will scoff/mock/straight-up deny Black-American cultures and/or our contributions to the formation of the United States. It is why they think it is okay to invade our personal space. This is why wypipo think they have the right to touch strangers' hair without permission. It is why you see white people thinking they're entitled to approach black strangers and demand answers to their questions. It is why they demand proof that we "belong" to certain places.
Thank you thank you. I see people partaking and DISRESPECTING (bcuz you can partake and be respectful) black culture and will talk about how people shouldn’t disrespect their culture and when you bring up black culture they’re like “it’s just hair, I’m just talking blah blah it’s not that deep” why is our culture not that deep but yours is. And then they like to say “because no one even knows we exist” that is NOT an excuse
I said this in another comment but it’s very interesting that black culture is really the only culture that people fight to overstep and impose on. There is no such discourse m/thing happening with Japanese, Chinese, Mexican etc culture. (If there was, people would go CRAZY attacking/clowning on the person imposing.) But black people have to fight tooth and nail and feelings are dismissed when it comes to calling out people overstepping.
@@kiki13451 EXACTLY!! whenever it’s relating to black culture it’s “not that deep” “not that serious” but when it comes to other cultures they go all out. I’ve even seen black oeople do this too. Aiding in your own demise 🤦cause these same people will mock black culture but completely uplift and gatekeep others with no hesitation.
I like Marley, who's goth and lives in L.A. Been watching her for years. She has her own makeup/fashion brand. She's a trip and fun to watch. Her channel is Marley, the Glam Goth. She's on social media as well, but I don't use any of that, so I don't know what those are.
As a black person born to haitian parents and not raised in mostly black american neighborhood, even i have the respect not to just take up black american culture 'just for trends' and understand its a culture, a culture that everyone seems quick to take a peice and make money from and joke around but not love the people who made their life better.
Thank you so much for this! It's really grating when others from the diaspora insist on "getting the best of both worlds~🎶" from their own culture--that more or less remained in tact after colonization (especially yours! Mad respect for telling those Europeans to get out and stay out🤣)--and then siphoning off of African-American culture when it's convenient because "we all black". There is a significant cultural difference, and I wish it was recognized more...
beautifully put they love bring up that tired yellow wig, and I have never worn blonde hair EVER, but they take on a laundry list of traits. It' s like this, Bollywood gets to be prideful and scottish people can wear their kilts but when we have pride for shaping popular culture we get looked down upon, because gawd forbid black people are innovative.
I would like to put my 2 cents in an as a Haitian immigrant. Growing up, I was always told that “Black Americans” were lazy and uneducated and squandered their privilege to grow up in a country like the U.S. I was told not to associate with them because of the way they spoke and acted. This kind of thinking sets us all back
Ive gotten that, but not from my direct family but the outer hatian community. My parents never understood this as they understand the hatain history and don't want to act like the french elite. still, they didn't understand english so they kept to learning the default english.
My parents are Jamaican immigrants and they do the same thing a lot of the time. They talk down on black American people and invalidate the issues they have just because they didn’t grow up with the same racism. I used to think racism didn’t exist to black people but now I realize that it is still prevalent and comes In Different forms and ways.
damn this is a magnum opus. you should be so proud of yourself for making this video. this should be required reading for every white person in north america fr
They have waves! we have curls and coils, but thats the setup to be able to call our hair kinky and nappy which again are terms we now use as endearing but was not originally was not meant to be the case.
I’m sorry but if my son came home from school and his hair looks like a hot rock was taken to it and he’s crying, the way I would’ve whopped everyone’s ass. The 6 o clock news would’ve been wild.
I think it’s kinda unfair. Cause I see a lot of black women rocking weaves and wigs that’s not even comes close to their own natural hair texture . You don’t hear other races complaining about that.
The part about AAVE 😭 so true and it’s annoying. “Be for real” and “it’s giving” are so ruined. Everyone on twitter keeps using it. Even Vibe is ruined!! I can barely use it anymore. I especially don’t wanna use “Slay” anymore. AAVE also finds it’s way into other languages. I’ve seen Asian Americans using it, which is cool that our culture spreads, yet I wonder do they know where it comes from? Do they know the people these words originate get berated for using it?
Regarding natural hair care. There is a reason why WE have our kinds of beauty supply stores and THEY have a Sally’s. I don’t understand how they don’t get it.
I’m really not a fan of the term AAVE and choose not to identify with it but the way Black slang becomes popularized (almost overnight it seems) is still staggering to me. I’m old enough to remember when “woke” was only a term Black ppl used and then, boom! lol
I remember reading an essay (or maybe a snippet from a book) that basically said AAVE has its roots in Southern white dialect. It’s not that black slaves couldn’t grasp ‘proper’ English, it’s that no one around them (Southern whites) were speaking proper English. So Black folks learned the English that was being spoken around them, Southern white English, which pretty much has the same grammatical rules as AAVE. The essay in so many words eluded to the fact that the whole AAVE idea (though not called that at the time) came from white folks trying to distance themselves from both black folks and southern stereotypes so they were basically like “this is how BLACK people specifically talk because they’re too dumb to speak ‘proper’ English” knowing good and doggone well exactly who we learned to speak English from…them lol. So it kind of has racist roots. Tbh, I didn’t look into the topic that much after reading that essay so I don’t even know if it’s completely true but it makes sense to me because I’m Southern and always noticed (with the exception of specific slang and with a tad different accent) white Southerners talk the same way as Black folks lol. And ever since then, just couldn’t get down with the term AAVE. I just call it a Southern rooted dialect most of the time to hold white slave master accountable. Of course, I’m not talking about Black slang, words like “cap”, “woke”, “pick me” are slang specific to the bc and I see it as different from AAVE
@@amateurastronomer9752omg i was just thinking this! i live in the south and phonetically white & black americans sound extremely similar so i assumed that it also came from white people w/ accents. but there are differences ofc, but one i want to look into is how they vary across the US other than the south
@@niloticnya Yeah, that would be interesting. Idk much about it but I will say my mom and her side of the family are from the Midwest and they don’t speak what would be considered AAVE (I.e: I don’t have think I’ve ever heard them say ‘ain’t’ lol). They are in touch with common black slang and then there’s black slang specific to their area. So yeah, I don’t think all black people speak the same, which I guess could be another critique of AAVE.
This was a very enlightening discussion for me. I live in an African country so I am thrown at the vitriol when white people wear their hair in black styles. We just giggle behind their backs here and move on but I get the context. We do have some remnants of colonialism that dictate how children in government schools wear their hair. Even then, in my high school people produced doctor's note to be allowed to wear their hair long and relaxed (not a joke) I mean they were lying but the school administration let it go.
I appreciate you sharing and being honest enough to admit that you don't really get it, instead of saying people are making it a big deal. I also don't get something: "We just giggle behind their backs here and move on". When you say that, it seems to convey that you don't agree with them doing it either and don't find it something to support or be proud of. So, if you also don't like it, why is it confusing when African-Americans also don't like it and express that? Is it because they make it a point to say it to the women's faces? I'm genuinely curious because I know the culture of some African countries is very nonconfrontational.
@@MimiRox13 Its more because they look ridiculous than that we are annoyed by it. We don't face any persecution or maltreatment because of how we choose to wear our hair (Maybe dreadlocks in the 90s but from other black people) so there's no resentment for that. Colonialism, we're still mad at.
I am a black girl from South Africa (context?) As I was watching these I remembered last year I did bantu knots with coloured hair. When I was don’t I was like, this is giving Amber from The Tribe, (a white girl from an Australian tv show). I used to watch it when I was younger. Sure I have since seen videos and tutorials on how to do them, I learnt the name from these tutorials made by African American women. When I do them with my hair I don’t compare myself nor am I reminded of Amber but when I did them with extensions she was the first person I felt I ‘embodied’ I was close to posting that comment after doing them but I thought back on the implications and decided against it. Sorry for tue rambling, I was thinking about this as I watched your video. Great video by the way
You should check out the movie Undercover Brother. It’s one of my favorite movies it’s so funny lol came out years back. The villain is a white man who low key wants to be black
“nOn-bLaCk pEoPlE hAvE cUrlY hAiR tOO” hello white woman with curly hair here. They make hair products for different levels of curls, if I used an oil for kinky hair my hair would fall out. Come on now this is just common sense.
Thank you. My best friend has curly hair. Not wavy but curly so does her sister. They can’t use all products made for “black hair” because it does damage. Curly hair doesn’t equate to African hair. Even Africans with looser curls still have a different hair type as white people with curls. Like I swear when ppl say that argument they just want to talk 🤡
As a black girl who always had to look at Black culture from the outside looking in as in my in-person communities I was not welcomed and then I was plucked out of it into a predominantly white and Southern Asian community. This conversation is always interesting to me as I do not know where I should personally stand in it. And I don't mean in the case of where I stand of gatekeeping and keeping some Black culture for the black people because I firmly believe you should every and all cultures have things that nobody else get encroach on to we should as well. But I mean how does that leaves me in terms of inheritance of this culture as I was never really accepted into it until I've become an adult and it's already been been alienated to the point doesn't even look like my own culture to me anymore.
I kind of agree but don’t. I was alienated growing up by my black culture and I feel like it depends on some people. Like I didn’t actually start accepting my culture until I moved to a predominantly white area and was treated as…black. Unlike when I lived in a black area I was treated as white/Asian.
I totally agree. I think it's so weird how on the internet it's literally impossible to tell who is black and who isn't because everyone is using black slang to seem cool ... It's so cringe that my culture is being watered down to internet slang ? Ew
I have to be honest, I am a white European girl that used words/phrases like "period", "sis", "slay queen"... English is not my first language and using the internet for over a decade had a huge influence for my casual way of talking English. I didn't know these originated from AAVE, I thought it's just the current slang for people of my age or younger. Thank you for bringing awareness of this topic, I didn't want to appropriate, mock or steal from people with a different background than mine.
I suppose it's not really using it that's the problem, but more so that people use it and forget where it originated from, and the go on to discriminate against black people. So as long as you understand the significance, then that's all that really matters. Also saying this as a black British girl, I can understand how living in Europe we end seeing American culture and AAVE, and just copying it because it's what's popular. So I get it.
the girl at 1:03:19 explains the example I hear too much when it comes to asian cultures. Just cause you can wear a kimono for example doesnt count as 1. its not being renamed into something else and giving other people the credit, 2. They have their direct home country and old roots to go back too. 3. from what I get from their vlogs there actually is push back for cultural appropration and 4. Asian americans have gone trough similar things and there for push back even more knowing exactually it is, usually a mockery, where as non ameriacn asians are confusesd as to why their american counterparts are upset. This still doesn't even cover all the msess up things that still happen to various indigious and/or island tribe nations.
🤓 watched it all to the end, and all I'm gonna say is thank you so much for spreading this knowledge. Also, awesome editing and presence, your channel should grow so much larger, you do amazing work
I thought we left the term “slay” in 2017 but it came back and it makes me cringe every time they use it especially when they use it as a noun when it’s a verb 😐
This is just a question, I am a black AFRICAN, and I have been TERRORISED and straight up harassed for using AAVE...is it just limited to African-Americans?
I don't condone people being unkind to you at all, but I can understand their frustration--especially if you're coming from where I think you're coming from. If you're thinking "We all black! What's the issue?" THAT is the issue. People of African descent are not a monolith. The frustration from the African-American community comes from firstly not being recognized as people (slavery), which has subsequently led to not being recognized as a legitimate distinct people group/separate ethnicity with our own history and culture (by way of people stealing AA culture and labeling it as "American Culture" as if the origins are nationwide and ambiguous). Whether or not you realize it, you are complicit in that second part when you don't make the effort to distinguish between general American Pop Culture and what is specifically African-American in origin. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I would guess that if you were Yoruba Nigerian and someone attributed your culture to someone who is Habesha Ethiopian because "it's all African, right?" it would rub you the wrong way. That's how people in the African-American community feel ALL THE TIME. I hope this clears some things up.
About the hair care products, I saw a video a few months ago about Mielle specifically but when companies change their formula to address their new audience aka non-coarse hair. I was like it's fine that you're getting more business, love that for you, but instead of changing the formula and completely abandoning your core customers, why not create another line for this new set of people with different hair needs? Why is that so hard? Edited: the first video at 43:13 is the vid I watched and commented on
I absolutely do care about them wearing our styles. Ik some of us don't but different strokes for different folks. But yes it does bother me. 💯 % I speak for myself.
I'll admit, when some East Asian people wear afro-textured hair, I can't tell if they're really Blasian (Black/East Asian biracial) or just culturally appropriating Black people. It's difficult to tell sometimes, because some Blasian people have an East Asian phenotype but afro-textured hair.
I’m in the middle of the video but My thing is we just need to start taking legal actions and stop accepting these weak apologies and the funds gain from the music industry, social media influencers, biracial/multi racial cultures, etc will go towards reparations for ADOS ONLY
Also is it ok to use AAVE only if you are black?? If you are raised in a white neighborhood but you are black ?? I have been called white washed so many times by other black people, is that ok??will you make a video about that ??
This is a hot take, but I don’t think black people as a whole have a “culture” here in the US. The reason I say this is because a black person living in a urban area may not have the same lingo or lifestyle as a black person living in the suburbs. Not only that, but living in an urban area isn’t only a black things (since other races live there as well), which is why we see Hispanics and other people using the same lingo, styles, etc. Since America is so diverse, we also have different types of black peoples with their own cultures from their own countries.
Black people in America don't speak for the entire Black diaspora which is why when Black Americans speak on Black culture, it's specific to Black Americans. Also, just because someone is born in the suburbs or not in an urban area, it doesn't mean that they aren't a part of Black culture just because they don't speak AAVE or have the multitude of experiences most Black people have. They themselves are Black and American, thus, they are a part of Black culture; the same culture their ancestors set in stone for them and us. Non-Black people living in urban areas amongst Black people, yes, they'll hear and speak within the AAVE per their region. If you were born in China, you'd also speak Chinese. That's a given. However, there exists within AAVE a deeper grasp of the language because it is natural to us as it's a dialect we've heard from birth. So when others speak it wrong, we know.
@@noahlomax1 Name 1 thing that is apart of black culture that isn’t done by anyone other person in a urban area. Just becuase you are Black, White, or Hispanic, it doesn’t mean anything you do is a “culture”. So if a black person is in the suburbs and does something, that doesn’t automatically mean it’s black culture and it’s evident by people calling them “white washed”. AAVE isn’t something that’s “natural” to all black people becuase again, not everyone is born in a household of people who speak that. It’s something you pick up from culture, which is why anyone who grew up around it and speak it (no mater their color) can pass while someone who wasn’t born in that culture will sound off (which includes black people as well).
I just found your channel and have been binging! You’re content is awesome, saying what needs to be said. You’re not crazy girl You should do a video on racial preferences, how black men treat women, as well as interracial relationships and your perspective I guess on colorism in that sense
you are speaking straight facts in this video. it’s so annoying. but it’s more annoying when it comes to our products. like hair products (ex: mielle oil) and now it’s sold out or it’s not even in the ethnic hair section no more. like they have aisles of products but we can’t even have our tiniest section to ourselves. you can’t call out people on it because they’re like “you’re so sensitive” or “it’s just [hair, necklace, trend]” but it’s not a trend when you can’t go home and take it off. it’s not a trend when people used to bully you for it. another thing i face, i really hate how i feel like i can’t participate in black culture because i don’t look black enough. i’m half mexican (mom) and half black (dad), but people would be like “you’re not black” but my curly hair be throwing them off and then they stop saying that when they see my dad 🤦🏽♀️
I really need kpop stans to watch this video because it's really annoying how many "NewJeans created/popularized the y2k trend" kpoppies y2k has been around since before NJ was even thought of. Or "Jessi created/popularized long acrylic nails" no, no she didn't black women did...
I was wondering if you have or will make a video on middle class , upper class blacks vs blacks that live in poorer neighborhoods??? I feel like this is an unsaid self hate where both groups hate each other and it’s not based on light skin or dark skin it’s literally based on the have and have nots 🤷♀️
WE BLACK MEN BLACK WOMEN ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! WE ARE ORIGINAL.LEADERS SWEETHEARTS THE LIVING BREATHING EXAMPLE OF ALL THINGS WWWONDERFUL. EVERYONE WANTS TO BE US
I think there is a deeper conversation about what is and is not black culture just because black people do something doesn’t/ shouldn’t automatically make it culture tired of Mfs making it seem like drill music and murder is just apart of black culture.
Genuinely why would anyone who doesn't have a black hair-type buy products made specifically for black people and then complain that it doesn't work for them? I'm Asian-American, and I cannot fathom doing that, because...I know that isn't for me! I know it would destroy my hair, because it's not formulated for my hair type--so why buy it and make it harder to get for the people who it actually works for? It doesn't even make sense.
I hate the fact that I can’t relate to any of the things she said in here I’m a light skin girl but when I was in first grade I walked into my school with long box braids with beads at the end and I was the only girl that would wear that stuff because the other black girls that were in my class they were stray their hair they put on silk presses and relax Siri I was the only girl that wore my natural hair and I was the only one who would wear braids in the first time I did it while everyone was just amazed they all wanted to touch it and hold it and they wondered where did I get it from I think I broke the cycle what somebody care to elaborate
@@Hellomydear-qn3bl I'm black man and wore a fade cut at one time. Actually the fade comes from white men..not blacks. Short hairstyles in general like the buzz cut and box cut is from Greeks and Romans. Blacks wore their hair long long or bushy historically
It’s profitable to use black culture. We need to shame non blacks for being what they use. However it’s a lot of black people who literally say it’s not that deep. Or it’s ok that Becky has braids. Unfortunately, due to slavery and the conditioning we’ve gone through over time, we can’t agree on a single solitary point. Not one. We don’t even all agree that we should all get reparations. I have seen black people say they don’t need them. Or they rather get it out the mud. Thanks for this. It was right on point. And stop letting non black women say their face is beat. I hate when non black women use anything if ours.
what was your favorite take from this video? I'm curious👀
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AAVE is a myth. “Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.“ - Proverbs 16:13🙏🏿✝️📖
your section on the Mielle issue really resonates with how I feel about the sudden surge of interest in Asian beauty. A lot of these influencers review things like sunscreen or skin products that are catered to Asian skin and preferred aesthetics and complain about how it doesn't fit what they're looking for. Well duh, it's because they're not the target audience. Although, I am glad that a lot of Asian beauty companies are sticking to their guns and not changing their target market/audience despite the current hype coming from the West/Europe.
@@AyaaAcademia This is part of the reason that we keep getting left behind. We adjust the bar for them when they are not doing it for us. Many eastern cultures are not as pliable and willing to forsake what they work on just to fit what is going on on the other side of the world
That you're a racist Moron who appropriates white culture...and is so stupid she doesn't realize...that was my favorite part of your video showcasing your lack of intelligence 😉
I was wondering if you could do a video on black woman being seen as “aggressive” too often my non black friends would call me scary or aggressive for just getting a little excited and extra or literally just existing I had a friend that when we were first becoming friends she said that she was scared of me when all I was doing was standing near her. I don’t know why I feel so affected to be called scary when if someone of another race did the same thing is would be goofy or funny
I hate how everything we do and how we look gets turned into a trend. And we get zero credit for it 😒
Why should we get credit for the culture of rednecks and British peasants? We’re capable of greater levels of astuteness and sophistication.
girl, me too...it's highly tiring, especially considering we have been largely discriminated for a lot of it in the past!
@@MiguelDLewis what?? those adjectives and black culture are not mutually exclusive...
@@CamrynElyse Exactly. Black culture goes back to Moses (Ahmosis) and Sephora (Ahmose-N). It goes back to Queen of Sheba (Karomama of Semna) and King Solomon (Siamun). We are royal priests and priestesses of the Most High. 🙏🏿✝🕎
and then on top of that, if you say something in aave that was a “trend” that “died out,” people call you out on it as if you haven’t been saying it your whole life
We as black people also need to take accountability. We put these people on by cosigning and entertaining their antics. Recently that period uh girl. Seeing black people, especially women, duet with her was embarrassing. She's mocking what she thinks a black woman is and she had black people encouraging her. The same for that catch me outside girl. Whereas there are black women who are naturally like that and they are ridiculed at every turn.
Black is beautiful as long as it's on a non-black woman. Sad state of affairs.
You look albino to me.
@@MiguelDLewis and? I'm still a black woman. I have every right to have an opinion on black matters. Hence the "we".
@@meeunice You are clearly of African descent. But your skin is literally white. I guess from a Darwinist standpoint you would be considered a part of the Black race; but from a biblical, or even just a color standpoint, you're white. I think your whiteness is to be celebrated and embraced. Albinos are so beautiful.
@@MiguelDLewis nigga u sound so slow.. so by ur logic, are lightskins white?? skin color is a part of racial features but its not jus skin color. its face features, nd hair texture too. black ppl come in every shade nd i cant believe im explaining this to a BLACK person..
@@norii0353 Don't call me the n word please. I respect you so please respect me as well. To your question, yes, people who are called "lightskin" from a Jim Crow 'One-Drop Rule' perspective are actually white or yellow. From a Darwinist or Jim Crow perspective, morphology is a part of race but I'm not a Darwinist. I'm a Judeochristian. We of African descent are mostly black but there are black Asians as well. The Dravidians and Jarawa of India and the Papua and Aeta of Southeast Asia are also black. From a Judeochristian/Messianic perspective, black is a skin tone, not a race. Example: Queen of Sheba was black and King Solomon was a "redbone" but they were both Africans.🙏🏿✝🕎
1:05:40 . I think we need to do a better job at gatekeeping. Not everything needs to be put everywhere. And sometimes our people are so open and want to share when not all things needs to be shared
This right here❤❤
Not all things are to be shared no matter who, or what it is.
We need to learn to go hard. And not give an inch, respectfully.
Example: A yt woman at work known for her DJ style, and wearing braids, and always dating our men, recently had a daughter. She went around asking us if we had any ideas on how and what to do for her child’s hair.
I told the women in my office, you better not tell her anything! We’re all in and 30’s and 40’s getting our credit straight to buy houses. She just bought a house and a new car. She’s not sharing. We’re not sharing. Don’t let anyone use, or prostitute your culture for their gain. Personal or professional.
Tell them Google it. ❤
@@tantig5923that’s right sis on code
I think we need to realize how powerful our opinion is. Once we deem something as cool, it is. We really need to be mindful on who we give our attention and energy too. Most people wouldn’t blow up unless we comment on it. I think we should start paying it dust
Our opinions and tastes are considered cool and people want to be a part of it, when it comes to pop culture items.
Our opinions about things like the wage gap, police brutality, environmental racism, the blatant ignorance of our missing black women, men and children...?
White people, decked out in FUBU, AAVE lingo and baby-hairs: "Who? What? You hear something?"
So, I was doing research for a presentation a couple of years ago and found a Nielsen report that says 73% of non-Hispanic whites and 67% of Hispanics believe that African-Americans influence mainstream culture.
EDUCATION TIME
A lot of stereotypical black body language grew out of how many people in the slavery Era had to hide their thoughts and emotions. Facial expressions and body posturing was a form of nonverbal communication. In fact, it plays a role in why black people tend to obscure their faces (by turning around or covering their mouths) when they laugh at something hilarious.
thank you for this!!
Yes because covering your mouth when laughing is almost exclusively a black trait. Yall take anything a slap a black people did it first label on it. The gays do it too with “ that actually derives from drag culture”. Just bc black people did it doesn’t mean others didn’t.
@@Song_about_a_girl fun fact: the word "exclusive" was actually not used AT ALL in the og comment. I wonder where you got that from? 🤔
@@Song_about_a_girl who was talking about gays though ?…like huh
@@Song_about_a_girl be quiet Laila.
OVER AN HOUR OF CAMRYN LET'S GOOOOOO
hiiiiiii harriyanna!!!!
I very much hate the fact that our way of talking gets attributed to gen z as a whole. Like recently I saw a video where this pc guy used "sus" and was like "omg I sound like gen z" being ignorant to the fact that we've been saying sus for years.
THIS, Seeing wp use the lingo they call ghett0 is insane, then they try to claim it for themselves,
The piece about the gatekeeping is CLUTCH. I find it very interesting that certain fitness and sport spaces are gatekept to keep the older/heavier/nonwhite people out of them. But the minute something is suggested even remotely adjacent to those spaces geared toward the people originally excluded, the palm pilots wanna rise up and be LARGE TYPE ANGRY that we create something for ourselves. Bc it's discriminatory. I'm also old enough to remember when the "black hair care aisle" was Pink Lotion, Sulfur 8, Jheri curl stuff and two different kinds of ultra sheen. Stuff that they would NEVER use. Funny how times change but Paul Mooney's words still ring true: "Everybody wants to be a n**** till it's time to be a n****"
Girl….this is probably one of your most thorough videos you’ve done..like ever..this was too good. 👏🏽👏🏽
❤💅🏾 i try😅
Not only the black gaze but the colorism aspect as well. The amount of people that talked down on BW features and stereotypes praised these same women for profiting off a caricature of us. I personally felt like it was jealousy along with deep rooted colorism. People really hate us out of their own insecurities. It’s 🤢
Jealousy is correct. Fear fear of things they do not understand is the cause. Maybe we will one day understand what exactly it is about us that is hated this much.
Thank you Camryn for making this video because I’m so sick and tired of these culture vultures. Before y’all Arinators come attack me I love her music but that whole 7 Rings song was a hot mess. Also her during that era was trying to emulate like she was a racially ambiguous girl. That really benefited her because that song is her most streamed song and gave her way more mainstream success. Now that “Acting black” is not profitable anymore and she’s a mainstream artist now look at her now she’s toned down her tan, hot rid of her high, long ponytail, not talking in AAVE because another thing I noticed is during the Thank You, Next era in her interviews she didn’t talk like herself and used a lot of AAVE. I’m not hating I’m just saying things I’ve observed and noticed.
Was Septimius Severus a culture vulture when he became a black Roman emperor? Was Yasuke a culture vulture when he became a black samurai? Was Alexander de Medici a culture vulture when he became a black knight and ruler of Italy? 🧠🤔
@@MiguelDLewis But one is addressing a position in government. This video is not about that. And he assimilated and wore their clothing as did other Africans who lived in Greece, Rome, etc.
@@4knewt505 Even outside of the gov, was Joseph Bologne a culture vulture when he became a classical composer? Was Kahinde Wiley a culture vulture when he became a classical oil painter?
@@MiguelDLewis I'm sorry. This video is primarily about aesthetics. I do admire your very apparent intellect. I'll be looking up some of these. I'm a military librarian so this is intriguing.
@@4knewt505 Yes, these black men adopted aesthetics that were of different cultures. Look at paintings of black knights like Cosimo de Medici and Alexandre de Medici. Look at marble statues of black Roman emperors like Severus Dinasty. I think there's even a Japanese woodblock painting of Yasuke wearing his samurai armor with his tribal African armor. Saint Maurice also wore armor consistent with the Roman centurion aesthetic, even though he was a black medjay. Could all these great black men of world history also be called "culture vultures"?
How hard is it to respect someone's culture? This is never an issue until we speak on it, then suddenly everything is for everyone. But say you like spicy food or tacos and here they come with the "you think you're Mexican". Like get out of here with that backwards nonsense 🤦🏾♀️ Also stop supporting these same folks gentrifying the culture and then crying about it later. You should already know how they are by now. Now we see them wearing the socks with the slides, braids, bonnets. They're so quick to holler "it's 2023!" Yeah it is, so from here on out put some respect on our name, culture, speech, hair, style, skin tone, and everything else associated with us. PERIOD!
In my opinion: they still have the "plantation massa, slave" ways about themselves. In their most basic and primal subconscious part of their brains, they still believe black, especially Black Americans, as 3/5ths of a human. They have been conditioned to think of us as products.
This is why you got white people, who will scoff/mock/straight-up deny Black-American cultures and/or our contributions to the formation of the United States. It is why they think it is okay to invade our personal space. This is why wypipo think they have the right to touch strangers' hair without permission. It is why you see white people thinking they're entitled to approach black strangers and demand answers to their questions. It is why they demand proof that we "belong" to certain places.
THAT PART 🗣️🗣️💯💯💯 THEY GET LOUDER FOR THE DUMBASSES IN THE BACK 💯💯🗣️🗣️🗣️
Thank you thank you. I see people partaking and DISRESPECTING (bcuz you can partake and be respectful) black culture and will talk about how people shouldn’t disrespect their culture and when you bring up black culture they’re like “it’s just hair, I’m just talking blah blah it’s not that deep” why is our culture not that deep but yours is. And then they like to say “because no one even knows we exist” that is NOT an excuse
I said this in another comment but it’s very interesting that black culture is really the only culture that people fight to overstep and impose on. There is no such discourse m/thing happening with Japanese, Chinese, Mexican etc culture. (If there was, people would go CRAZY attacking/clowning on the person imposing.) But black people have to fight tooth and nail and feelings are dismissed when it comes to calling out people overstepping.
@@kiki13451 EXACTLY!! whenever it’s relating to black culture it’s “not that deep” “not that serious” but when it comes to other cultures they go all out. I’ve even seen black oeople do this too. Aiding in your own demise 🤦cause these same people will mock black culture but completely uplift and gatekeep others with no hesitation.
Ngl the points you made triggered some pent-up anger I have concerning these issues fr
the clip of the girl in her bonnet talking about aave is POWERFUL
truly! coulda shed a tear cause that was RAW!!
So proud of Aliyah Core being a thing 🤭 finally some black alt representation. The palm tiktok girlies are MAD 🎉 and they can stay mad 😂
me too!!
I like Marley, who's goth and lives in L.A. Been watching her for years. She has her own makeup/fashion brand. She's a trip and fun to watch. Her channel is Marley, the Glam Goth. She's on social media as well, but I don't use any of that, so I don't know what those are.
As a black person born to haitian parents and not raised in mostly black american neighborhood, even i have the respect not to just take up black american culture 'just for trends' and understand its a culture, a culture that everyone seems quick to take a peice and make money from and joke around but not love the people who made their life better.
Thank you so much for this! It's really grating when others from the diaspora insist on "getting the best of both worlds~🎶" from their own culture--that more or less remained in tact after colonization (especially yours! Mad respect for telling those Europeans to get out and stay out🤣)--and then siphoning off of African-American culture when it's convenient because "we all black". There is a significant cultural difference, and I wish it was recognized more...
beautifully put they love bring up that tired yellow wig, and I have never worn blonde hair EVER, but they take on a laundry list of traits. It' s like this, Bollywood gets to be prideful and scottish people can wear their kilts but when we have pride for shaping popular culture we get looked down upon, because gawd forbid black people are innovative.
I would like to put my 2 cents in an as a Haitian immigrant. Growing up, I was always told that “Black Americans” were lazy and uneducated and squandered their privilege to grow up in a country like the U.S. I was told not to associate with them because of the way they spoke and acted. This kind of thinking sets us all back
Stfu come south ur still seen as black
@@Shineynsparkles Dang Ik that. I’m just saying that’s what my parents taught me. Not that I thought it was right
Yeah my boyfriend is African and many of his family members look at AA like we’re beneath them.
Ive gotten that, but not from my direct family but the outer hatian community. My parents never understood this as they understand the hatain history and don't want to act like the french elite. still, they didn't understand english so they kept to learning the default english.
My parents are Jamaican immigrants and they do the same thing a lot of the time. They talk down on black American people and invalidate the issues they have just because they didn’t grow up with the same racism. I used to think racism didn’t exist to black people but now I realize that it is still prevalent and comes In Different forms and ways.
damn this is a magnum opus. you should be so proud of yourself for making this video. this should be required reading for every white person in north america fr
you're too sweet🤍😭
They have waves! we have curls and coils, but thats the setup to be able to call our hair kinky and nappy which again are terms we now use as endearing but was not originally was not meant to be the case.
I’m sorry but if my son came home from school and his hair looks like a hot rock was taken to it and he’s crying, the way I would’ve whopped everyone’s ass. The 6 o clock news would’ve been wild.
Same. That pissed me off so bad! 😡 😡
A simplification but ITS WILD TO ME to want to wear a hairstyle a group of people sometimes used to escape your ancestors......LIKE WTF?!
yes, exactly...funny weird.
It was already bad but when you put that was it’s even more atrocious.
Agreed
I think it’s kinda unfair. Cause I see a lot of black women rocking weaves and wigs that’s not even comes close to their own natural hair texture . You don’t hear other races complaining about that.
@@selb2153 Relevance not found but a strawman was
COME ON SOURCES
How quickly they switched when they got the position they wanted and it no longer benefited them . Like actors in a movie … 😒
billie eilish👀
@@CamrynElyse and I ooop
The part about AAVE 😭 so true and it’s annoying. “Be for real” and “it’s giving” are so ruined. Everyone on twitter keeps using it. Even Vibe is ruined!! I can barely use it anymore. I especially don’t wanna use “Slay” anymore.
AAVE also finds it’s way into other languages. I’ve seen Asian Americans using it, which is cool that our culture spreads, yet I wonder do they know where it comes from? Do they know the people these words originate get berated for using it?
I think black people do try to speak out, but nobody gives a damn or are listening smh
please do longer videos like this one! I really enjoyed it!
Regarding natural hair care. There is a reason why WE have our kinds of beauty supply stores and THEY have a Sally’s. I don’t understand how they don’t get it.
Facts
Child they're not ready for this conversation tho 🙄🥸
You did the damn thing with this video man. Left no some unturned, left no crumbs, I mean just… thorough af and I loved every minute
I’m gonna leave multiple comments bestie 💗
you're the greatest.
I’m really not a fan of the term AAVE and choose not to identify with it but the way Black slang becomes popularized (almost overnight it seems) is still staggering to me. I’m old enough to remember when “woke” was only a term Black ppl used and then, boom! lol
how come you choose not to identify with the term 'aave'? i'm very curious!!
I remember reading an essay (or maybe a snippet from a book) that basically said AAVE has its roots in Southern white dialect. It’s not that black slaves couldn’t grasp ‘proper’ English, it’s that no one around them (Southern whites) were speaking proper English. So Black folks learned the English that was being spoken around them, Southern white English, which pretty much has the same grammatical rules as AAVE. The essay in so many words eluded to the fact that the whole AAVE idea (though not called that at the time) came from white folks trying to distance themselves from both black folks and southern stereotypes so they were basically like “this is how BLACK people specifically talk because they’re too dumb to speak ‘proper’ English” knowing good and doggone well exactly who we learned to speak English from…them lol. So it kind of has racist roots. Tbh, I didn’t look into the topic that much after reading that essay so I don’t even know if it’s completely true but it makes sense to me because I’m Southern and always noticed (with the exception of specific slang and with a tad different accent) white Southerners talk the same way as Black folks lol. And ever since then, just couldn’t get down with the term AAVE. I just call it a Southern rooted dialect most of the time to hold white slave master accountable. Of course, I’m not talking about Black slang, words like “cap”, “woke”, “pick me” are slang specific to the bc and I see it as different from AAVE
@@amateurastronomer9752omg i was just thinking this! i live in the south and phonetically white & black americans sound extremely similar so i assumed that it also came from white people w/ accents. but there are differences ofc, but one i want to look into is how they vary across the US other than the south
@@niloticnya Yeah, that would be interesting. Idk much about it but I will say my mom and her side of the family are from the Midwest and they don’t speak what would be considered AAVE (I.e: I don’t have think I’ve ever heard them say ‘ain’t’ lol). They are in touch with common black slang and then there’s black slang specific to their area. So yeah, I don’t think all black people speak the same, which I guess could be another critique of AAVE.
AAVE is a myth. Read “Black Rednecks” by Thomas Sowell. They want to deny our access to economic opportunities by associating us with redneck culture.
This was a very enlightening discussion for me. I live in an African country so I am thrown at the vitriol when white people wear their hair in black styles. We just giggle behind their backs here and move on but I get the context. We do have some remnants of colonialism that dictate how children in government schools wear their hair. Even then, in my high school people produced doctor's note to be allowed to wear their hair long and relaxed (not a joke) I mean they were lying but the school administration let it go.
I appreciate you sharing and being honest enough to admit that you don't really get it, instead of saying people are making it a big deal. I also don't get something: "We just giggle behind their backs here and move on". When you say that, it seems to convey that you don't agree with them doing it either and don't find it something to support or be proud of. So, if you also don't like it, why is it confusing when African-Americans also don't like it and express that? Is it because they make it a point to say it to the women's faces? I'm genuinely curious because I know the culture of some African countries is very nonconfrontational.
@@MimiRox13 Its more because they look ridiculous than that we are annoyed by it. We don't face any persecution or maltreatment because of how we choose to wear our hair (Maybe dreadlocks in the 90s but from other black people) so there's no resentment for that. Colonialism, we're still mad at.
I am a black girl from South Africa (context?) As I was watching these I remembered last year I did bantu knots with coloured hair. When I was don’t I was like, this is giving Amber from The Tribe, (a white girl from an Australian tv show). I used to watch it when I was younger. Sure I have since seen videos and tutorials on how to do them, I learnt the name from these tutorials made by African American women. When I do them with my hair I don’t compare myself nor am I reminded of Amber but when I did them with extensions she was the first person I felt I ‘embodied’ I was close to posting that comment after doing them but I thought back on the implications and decided against it.
Sorry for tue rambling, I was thinking about this as I watched your video. Great video by the way
You should check out the movie Undercover Brother. It’s one of my favorite movies it’s so funny lol came out years back. The villain is a white man who low key wants to be black
I’m a Brazilian English teacher and you are amazing!!! I am going to learn about AAVE, I’ve never heard about it till this very moment!
“nOn-bLaCk pEoPlE hAvE cUrlY hAiR tOO” hello white woman with curly hair here. They make hair products for different levels of curls, if I used an oil for kinky hair my hair would fall out. Come on now this is just common sense.
Thank you. My best friend has curly hair. Not wavy but curly so does her sister. They can’t use all products made for “black hair” because it does damage. Curly hair doesn’t equate to African hair. Even Africans with looser curls still have a different hair type as white people with curls. Like I swear when ppl say that argument they just want to talk 🤡
I'm gonna like this comment for two reasons: 1. thank you, 2. you have Odo as your userpic.
Mielle has actually been sold and is under a new company :[
yep, i saw that!!
I go to a PWI and every girl at this school would be guilty of this
chiiile brit barbie got signed to a record deal! I was so disappointed...
As a black girl who always had to look at Black culture from the outside looking in as in my in-person communities I was not welcomed and then I was plucked out of it into a predominantly white and Southern Asian community. This conversation is always interesting to me as I do not know where I should personally stand in it. And I don't mean in the case of where I stand of gatekeeping and keeping some Black culture for the black people because I firmly believe you should every and all cultures have things that nobody else get encroach on to we should as well. But I mean how does that leaves me in terms of inheritance of this culture as I was never really accepted into it until I've become an adult and it's already been been alienated to the point doesn't even look like my own culture to me anymore.
I kind of agree but don’t. I was alienated growing up by my black culture and I feel like it depends on some people. Like I didn’t actually start accepting my culture until I moved to a predominantly white area and was treated as…black. Unlike when I lived in a black area I was treated as white/Asian.
Girl I can watch you allll dayyy💕💕
love you!!🤍
Thanks!! I was about to put viewing the video off but then I felt in my soul you needed this view NEOW! Lol
I totally agree. I think it's so weird how on the internet it's literally impossible to tell who is black and who isn't because everyone is using black slang to seem cool ... It's so cringe that my culture is being watered down to internet slang ? Ew
Exactly, black culture is being watered down so bad it’s embarrassing.
I have to be honest, I am a white European girl that used words/phrases like "period", "sis", "slay queen"...
English is not my first language and using the internet for over a decade had a huge influence for my casual way of talking English. I didn't know these originated from AAVE, I thought it's just the current slang for people of my age or younger.
Thank you for bringing awareness of this topic, I didn't want to appropriate, mock or steal from people with a different background than mine.
I suppose it's not really using it that's the problem, but more so that people use it and forget where it originated from, and the go on to discriminate against black people. So as long as you understand the significance, then that's all that really matters.
Also saying this as a black British girl, I can understand how living in Europe we end seeing American culture and AAVE, and just copying it because it's what's popular. So I get it.
@@jtm881true
So glad I clicked on your video! You’re doing the lords work girly!! 💕💕💕
This is not the lords work
Ima have to watch this in chunks bc its so spot on that im getting pissed 🤣
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the girl at 1:03:19 explains the example I hear too much when it comes to asian cultures. Just cause you can wear a kimono for example doesnt count as 1. its not being renamed into something else and giving other people the credit, 2. They have their direct home country and old roots to go back too. 3. from what I get from their vlogs there actually is push back for cultural appropration and 4. Asian americans have gone trough similar things and there for push back even more knowing exactually it is, usually a mockery, where as non ameriacn asians are confusesd as to why their american counterparts are upset. This still doesn't even cover all the msess up things that still happen to various indigious and/or island tribe nations.
🤓 watched it all to the end, and all I'm gonna say is thank you so much for spreading this knowledge. Also, awesome editing and presence, your channel should grow so much larger, you do amazing work
I thought we left the term “slay” in 2017 but it came back and it makes me cringe every time they use it especially when they use it as a noun when it’s a verb 😐
K-pop Stan’s every damn day those idols do something normal.
Sunny Hostin. Enough said. Thank you for this video, honestly people need to hear this! 🎉
This is just a question, I am a black AFRICAN, and I have been TERRORISED and straight up harassed for using AAVE...is it just limited to African-Americans?
I don't condone people being unkind to you at all, but I can understand their frustration--especially if you're coming from where I think you're coming from. If you're thinking "We all black! What's the issue?" THAT is the issue. People of African descent are not a monolith. The frustration from the African-American community comes from firstly not being recognized as people (slavery), which has subsequently led to not being recognized as a legitimate distinct people group/separate ethnicity with our own history and culture (by way of people stealing AA culture and labeling it as "American Culture" as if the origins are nationwide and ambiguous).
Whether or not you realize it, you are complicit in that second part when you don't make the effort to distinguish between general American Pop Culture and what is specifically African-American in origin. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I would guess that if you were Yoruba Nigerian and someone attributed your culture to someone who is Habesha Ethiopian because "it's all African, right?" it would rub you the wrong way. That's how people in the African-American community feel ALL THE TIME. I hope this clears some things up.
We’re different people, but that doesn’t mean you should get harassed. Us black Americans have been disrespected for using AAVE.
They do the same thing to the gay community. Especially the drag community which also borrows a lot from us.
this video is giving me motivation to study
Watched this from start to finish 👏🏾 amazing content ! Very informative.
About the hair care products, I saw a video a few months ago about Mielle specifically but when companies change their formula to address their new audience aka non-coarse hair. I was like it's fine that you're getting more business, love that for you, but instead of changing the formula and completely abandoning your core customers, why not create another line for this new set of people with different hair needs? Why is that so hard?
Edited: the first video at 43:13 is the vid I watched and commented on
Your makeup is so pretty!
I absolutely do care about them wearing our styles. Ik some of us don't but different strokes for different folks. But yes it does bother me. 💯 % I speak for myself.
Gotta code switch when you be in court
I'll admit, when some East Asian people wear afro-textured hair, I can't tell if they're really Blasian (Black/East Asian biracial) or just culturally appropriating Black people. It's difficult to tell sometimes, because some Blasian people have an East Asian phenotype but afro-textured hair.
In my best AAVE; Chile you ain’t nevah lied!
I really enjoyed this! You did an awesome job.
Yassssss an hour long video ❤
I’m in the middle of the video but My thing is we just need to start taking legal actions and stop accepting these weak apologies and the funds gain from the music industry, social media influencers, biracial/multi racial cultures, etc will go towards reparations for ADOS ONLY
6:05 6ix9ine, Lil Pump, Cardi B
Also is it ok to use AAVE only if you are black?? If you are raised in a white neighborhood but you are black ?? I have been called white washed so many times by other black people, is that ok??will you make a video about that ??
It truly depends on if you use it the right way.
This is a hot take, but I don’t think black people as a whole have a “culture” here in the US. The reason I say this is because a black person living in a urban area may not have the same lingo or lifestyle as a black person living in the suburbs. Not only that, but living in an urban area isn’t only a black things (since other races live there as well), which is why we see Hispanics and other people using the same lingo, styles, etc. Since America is so diverse, we also have different types of black peoples with their own cultures from their own countries.
Black people in America don't speak for the entire Black diaspora which is why when Black Americans speak on Black culture, it's specific to Black Americans. Also, just because someone is born in the suburbs or not in an urban area, it doesn't mean that they aren't a part of Black culture just because they don't speak AAVE or have the multitude of experiences most Black people have. They themselves are Black and American, thus, they are a part of Black culture; the same culture their ancestors set in stone for them and us.
Non-Black people living in urban areas amongst Black people, yes, they'll hear and speak within the AAVE per their region. If you were born in China, you'd also speak Chinese. That's a given. However, there exists within AAVE a deeper grasp of the language because it is natural to us as it's a dialect we've heard from birth. So when others speak it wrong, we know.
@@noahlomax1 Name 1 thing that is apart of black culture that isn’t done by anyone other person in a urban area.
Just becuase you are Black, White, or Hispanic, it doesn’t mean anything you do is a “culture”. So if a black person is in the suburbs and does something, that doesn’t automatically mean it’s black culture and it’s evident by people calling them “white washed”.
AAVE isn’t something that’s “natural” to all black people becuase again, not everyone is born in a household of people who speak that. It’s something you pick up from culture, which is why anyone who grew up around it and speak it (no mater their color) can pass while someone who wasn’t born in that culture will sound off (which includes black people as well).
couod do a vid on tiktok toxic spirituality
Madisyn brown has one!
@@HighAsHeckPriestess Omg thank so much have a nice day 💖💖
They don't wanna give us credit 🤷♀️💯.
I just found your channel and have been binging! You’re content is awesome, saying what needs to be said. You’re not crazy girl
You should do a video on racial preferences, how black men treat women, as well as interracial relationships and your perspective I guess on colorism in that sense
Also I feel like it should be described as "black american" culture since a lot of times that's what we mean when we talk about this. No offense.
🥸 this so the first video from your channel I've watched. I subscribed. Well done! And with receipts 🎉
Great video! Very well done!
you are speaking straight facts in this video. it’s so annoying. but it’s more annoying when it comes to our products. like hair products (ex: mielle oil) and now it’s sold out or it’s not even in the ethnic hair section no more. like they have aisles of products but we can’t even have our tiniest section to ourselves. you can’t call out people on it because they’re like “you’re so sensitive” or “it’s just [hair, necklace, trend]” but it’s not a trend when you can’t go home and take it off. it’s not a trend when people used to bully you for it.
another thing i face, i really hate how i feel like i can’t participate in black culture because i don’t look black enough. i’m half mexican (mom) and half black (dad), but people would be like “you’re not black” but my curly hair be throwing them off and then they stop saying that when they see my dad 🤦🏽♀️
I really need kpop stans to watch this video because it's really annoying how many "NewJeans created/popularized the y2k trend" kpoppies y2k has been around since before NJ was even thought of. Or "Jessi created/popularized long acrylic nails" no, no she didn't black women did...
you just got a new subscriber for this
I'm gonna be real shook if that person isn't black @31:40
I was wondering if you have or will make a video on middle class , upper class blacks vs blacks that live in poorer neighborhoods??? I feel like this is an unsaid self hate where both groups hate each other and it’s not based on light skin or dark skin it’s literally based on the have and have nots 🤷♀️
WE BLACK MEN BLACK WOMEN ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! WE ARE ORIGINAL.LEADERS SWEETHEARTS THE LIVING BREATHING EXAMPLE OF ALL THINGS WWWONDERFUL. EVERYONE WANTS TO BE US
Excellent video...new subbie!!!!!
I think there is a deeper conversation about what is and is not black culture just because black people do something doesn’t/ shouldn’t automatically make it culture tired of Mfs making it seem like drill music and murder is just apart of black culture.
I agree with the overall point but Black people did create drill and it’s not an inherently bad genre of music
Genuinely why would anyone who doesn't have a black hair-type buy products made specifically for black people and then complain that it doesn't work for them? I'm Asian-American, and I cannot fathom doing that, because...I know that isn't for me! I know it would destroy my hair, because it's not formulated for my hair type--so why buy it and make it harder to get for the people who it actually works for? It doesn't even make sense.
The "transracial black women"girl the jumpscare I got looking at her 😭😭😭🙆♂️
And on tiktok it's not just an algorithm it's a person
How can an oil be too oily 😑
I hate the fact that I can’t relate to any of the things she said in here I’m a light skin girl but when I was in first grade I walked into my school with long box braids with beads at the end and I was the only girl that would wear that stuff because the other black girls that were in my class they were stray their hair they put on silk presses and relax Siri I was the only girl that wore my natural hair and I was the only one who would wear braids in the first time I did it while everyone was just amazed they all wanted to touch it and hold it and they wondered where did I get it from I think I broke the cycle what somebody care to elaborate
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Dreads and Afros will be a hair style only worn by Cloud people.
Those arent the only hair style yall copyed fade cut etc comes from black people
@@Hellomydear-qn3bl I'm black man and wore a fade cut at one time. Actually the fade comes from white men..not blacks.
Short hairstyles in general like the buzz cut and box cut is from Greeks and Romans.
Blacks wore their hair long long or bushy historically
@@Hellomydear-qn3bl dreads and afros is how we originally wore our hair. All this other stuff comes from mixing with gentiles
My wyte mom called me ghetto for speaking aave.. I'm mixed 😂
It’s profitable to use black culture. We need to shame non blacks for being what they use. However it’s a lot of black people who literally say it’s not that deep. Or it’s ok that Becky has braids. Unfortunately, due to slavery and the conditioning we’ve gone through over time, we can’t agree on a single solitary point. Not one. We don’t even all agree that we should all get reparations. I have seen black people say they don’t need them. Or they rather get it out the mud. Thanks for this. It was right on point. And stop letting non black women say their face is beat. I hate when non black women use anything if ours.
I know I hate when non whites use stuff we invented like electricity and the Internet
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Nameplate jewlery is litterly worn by anne boylin
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59:56 YESSSS SPEAK ON IT!!!!!! I HEAR THIS A LOT WHEN TALKING ABOUT CA IN THE KPOP SPACE!!!
1:03:00 Stop wearing their weaves then.
Name plate necklaces and bracelets are actually(!!) latin thing and it came from their culture
Basically ww got nothing and r nothing without bw
You should’ve titled this video
“The colonization of Black Culture”
She should make one how she's appropriating white culture right now lol
@@lettersandwordsandstuffs literally no one wants to be white. Please go take a nap
@@twiztdkidd *Asians appear*
@@IceAxe1940they’re mad.😂
“Black culture is getting watered down”😆
You left out Cardi B
The theft of our aesthetic is nothing new. As a little girl, "Bo Derek braids" were all the rage. Go look it up and be infuriated. You know I was.