babeobaggins:

You know what, I think the problem is people don’t understand why mackelmore getting awards and recognition for being a rap artist is problematic.

Now, on it’s own. It’s not. It’s just fine. But for mackelmore to get awarded over black artists and gay artists who have been doing it longer, if not twice as long as he has is where it becomes a problematic.

Mackelmore being deemed this righteous, conscious, gay ally is a problem because there are actual black gay rappers who will never get the attention he is getting for exploiting their culture as a white straight man and that’s the problem. Mackelmore is getting rewarded for taking other peoples culture’s, he is being hailed as the only conscious rapper as if Mos Def and Common were not rapping while he was still playing with toys. Rap is black culture, but no one likes when black people do it. That’s too “hood”. So when Mackelmore popped up everyone was happy to welcome him with open arms even though there are so many black men and women who not only rap about real life but about political issues as well, but that doesn’t matter because they are not white straight men. Mackelmore is not gay or black. So for him to be rewarded for things that black and gay people have been punished for is problematic. It is disgusting and unfair for someone who does not understand the struggles that come along with the cultures he tries to market himself with to be rewarded while the people who grow up with these cultures and deal with the struggles being gay and black bring are ignored and pushed aside because no one wants to listen to a sob story unless it has a white, straight, face and that is why it has to end.