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Originally Posted by louder
I mean, at least he made a joke about his own people's history. It would've been much worse if a non-black person made that joke, to be honest.
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This is what's I was getting at when I said that I didn't have a right to have a problem with his use of "Strange Fruit." It would be kind of fucked up for me to criticize or even question how a black American chooses to re-interpret that song. It doesn't belong to me.
That's my decision. Same with Apartheid, not that I had any problem with that one. But ... it's not my place to question HOW "Strange Fruit" is introduced to a new generation of music listeners. It just isn't.
And you know, in the Kanye forum where I also brought this up, I explained the song's history and a lot of people told me they had no idea where the song was from. They didn't know the history behind it. Now they do. Why? Because Kanye's music started a discussion.
Also, the response has overwhelmingly been "no this is not I bad taste" among other Kanye fans.