Black Popular Culture

I feel like black popular is one of those things that can become such a touchy subject.  I previously touched on this topic in a class and the question of what is blackness vs what is whiteness was brought up. Personally, I don't think that there is such a thing as white popular culture, latino popular culture and so on and so forth especially in relation to media. I do think however, that it is created by us in the way that if a white person was to wear one thing or even rap it would seem fine, artsy and say things like " Oh he/she is just trying to be unique and express him/herself" but, if a Latino or black man or woman wore the exact outfit all of a sudden it's described as "ghetto", "uneducated"  and people would then say " He/ She is just looking for attention".

I also want to touch on the subject of (cultural) hegemony, again, after previously talking about in a multicultural class, it's very easy to get carried away into the lingo of separating white and blacks. Especially when it comes to the media and even more especially when it comes to power, white power to be exact and white privilege.  I think it's important to realize both of these ideas tend to play a part in the media, not all the time but most, and it's kind of annoying.  What I mean in that, these ideas of white power and white privilege make it easier for whites to get ahead, minorities, or in this case for the sake of the reading, blacks are not given the same chance in pop culture and sadly it's because people don't like the way they look and because that person is black. 

It's this contraction of ethnic hierarchies that have always controlled and managed what is popular culture today.