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I hesitate to comment as a white person but I'll try to explain cultural appropriation. The minstrel show isn't appropriation. It's straight mockery. It can be tied into appropriation but blackface isn't really the same thing. Cultural appropriation is taking a cultural tradition and adopting it as the name would suggest. The example I use is rock and roll. It's an outgrowth of the blues and was invented as a style of blues by artists like Chuck Berry. Here's a familiar song originated by a black blues performer that was appropriated by a white artist and made more popular than Big Momma Thornton could have ever achieved:

This is regarded as the first rock song (just so I don't give sole credit to Chuck Berry):

Cultural appropriation can become outright theft as when it comes to rock music. It probably won't happen like that again now that minorities have a voice moreso than in the 50s. Apropos of nothing last time I tried this speech, I think on reddit, I was told there are still a lot of black rock and country, another blues outgrowth, musicians and that's not the case compared to rock now being the music of white people. It can be like minstrel shows when frat boys have pimps and hos balls. It can say "What I do or what I am is acceptable when you do it but not when I do it?" White girls with dreadlocks would fall into this category and so would Vanilla Ice's album sales during the nascent years of hip hop as pop music. It can say "Who we are is amusing to you?" Pimps and ho balls and the occasional stereotypes that pop up about Asian culture.

It's a real thing and it can be a real problem. When white girls wear dreads? Well not really in my opinion. When it borrows with disrespect or just because what one group's doing seems cool so we're going to do it? Yeah, that's more like it. It's about mild offense but it's also about a history of disrespect and cultural whitewashing that goes beyond being offended and continues today. You can say it's all PC bullshit and some of it is and you can put scare quotes around the term but it's a real issue