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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL
*Retiring from hiatus for two seconds*
I didn't see the Sir Fidel shirt as a an adoption of a minority culture by elitist white groups. All of black culture is not ruined by a single hip hop reference on a Phi Mu t-shirt. As a "race" we have far bigger concerns.
I see it as an adoption of popular culture just as they would use "Wizard of Oz" theme or "Sex and the City" or a "How I Met Your Mother" theme. It's just what's hot in the streets right now to say "____ is my home boy" or whatever the kids are liking right now. The so called "hip hop" culture is what many young people are into and PNMs and others see these references and think it's "super cute" as we'd say down here.
It's not like they'd one day print a shirt saying "This N**** right here is my home girl" or something. At least not anyone with common sense.
Would I buy that shirt? No, but that's because it's ugly and we have way cuter things with more pink on it, not because I find it racist.
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This. All of this. much more eloquent then i was being.