
There are multiple ways to merge the paths of different experiences without stepping into the negative land of appropriation. Whether you ascribe to the melting pot theory of American identity or are more of a patchwork quilt visionary, America is largely founded on the idea of multiculturalism and the merging of different paths. That idea plays into deeply racist ideas about black womanhood, the idea being that black women are wanton and lascivious, and cannot control their expressions of sexuality."Ĭultural borrowing is an inevitability. By doing this, she in inexplicably intertwining the idea of sexuality as part and parcel of black womanhood that is, that black women cannot exist without sexuality and vice versa, and that the only acceptable way to be sexual, is to "be black".

She needs to associate herself with black bodies to do it. Ninjacate in Groupthink responding to Jezebel's original article: " Essentially, what Miley has done here is indicate that 1.

Cyrus is the “ring leader,” and women of color are hers to play with however she likes." Magazine: "At one point, Cyrus motorboats one woman’s ass, which adds to the weird, circus-y feel of it all. These women might be her friends, but the general dynamic created is that she is in charge and they are in service to her."

Nico Lang at Thought Catalog: " She doesn’t even know that life.
