{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "You know what\u2019s a funny, fair and humane bit about #cultural appropriation that\u2019s probably not recognized as such? Charlie...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/87277644463/", "html": "

You know what\u2019s a funny, fair and humane bit about #cultural appropriation that\u2019s probably not recognized as such? Charlie Murphy\u2019s \u201cskins vs. blouses\u201d bit from The Chappelle Show.

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The conceit being that Murphy and a bunch of dark skin Brooklyn/LA guys go all confident into a basketball match against the light skinned Minnesotan Prince and get their asses handed to them.

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Of course, as Canadian Heritage Minutes (and Hoosiers) documented, basketball was a Canadian\u2019s invention long respected as an off-season sport in the hockey belt, and its association with inner-city American blackness comes from the (white) Progressive Era \u201cPlayground Movement\u201d promoting it as particularly suited to the space-cramped northern inner cities that the Great Migration would later fill.

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So then he was like \u201cdamn\u201d and didn\u2019t renounce the sport, but walked off a bit humbled with new respect, and if only we could all say the same.

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