[allenu]

The language used in the post just feels so mechanical, like "black people are great because they've contributed to culture a lot, and we want to get involved with more culture, so it's a good reason to get together with black people".

Maybe I'm alone in reading it this way, but it comes across as treating black people as this "other" that can only be approached through "culture" and not as neighbors, friends, and people you know and work with.

[fastball]

I read it in the same way, and it just felt really off to me.

Also just factually incorrect. I'm fairly certain "most fashion" in the US has not come from the Black American community. A lot, sure. Most? Name me a top 10 fashion brand that is run / was started by a person of color.

[sincerely]

I think the idea is that fashion is innovated by black people and then commercialized by the (white) fashion industry? Not really sure myself

[toomanybeersies]

You're not the only one. It came across as cultural fetishisation to me.