Capoeira and Culture
"I just don't like Pyrites stealing our culture!"
"You don't exactly look Brazilian to me!"
In Minister Faust's The Alchemists of Kush, an important conversation about ownership and culture arises as the characters are introduced to Capoeira.
Ever since their exposure to Capoeira, Rap and JC dwell on the concept of white folk doing something they feel belongs to black folk. Even though they are entirely unfamiliar with the practice, they feel entitled to it. They are insulted by the fact that a Black instructor is allowing white people to learn Capoeira but openly reference slavery in conversation.
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When is it okay to "steal" culture?
Rap is accused of doing a kung fu pose, which is Chinese. But that isn't the point.
He brushes it off by bringing up issues of slavery that are intertwined in Capoeira.
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