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Rev. Fred Denial
I'm a Baby Boomer vintage Editor & Writer with nearly three decades in publishing. I’m often blunt - being PC is something I neither aspire to nor appreciate.
I wrote the article from the perspective that appropriation is a real issue.
Matthew Reyes
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Yep, I consider it to be pointless. It isn't appropriation, it is assimilation, which is one of the necessary steps toward ending racial conflict. Appropriation is a not a slow process, it is a deliberate, often forceful seizure. That hardly applies to generations of blending musical styles.

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    Rev. Fred Denial

    I'm a Baby Boomer vintage Editor & Writer with nearly three decades in publishing. I’m often blunt - being PC is something I neither aspire to nor appreciate.