AP: "Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots"

[basquebromance]

Cultural appropriation is stupid

et tu, AP?

Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots

For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland.

apnews.com

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Jesus...so hopping on a flat log and riding a wave is so deeply enrooted in their culture that whites performing the activity is wrong?

How about whites turning that log into a sleek, fast, modern fiberglass craft? Or perfected the art of riding? Or turning the activity into a multi-billion dollar industry?

Fuck off haters.

 

[excalibur]

It was whites that popularized surfing and modernized it.

AP and the test of the MSM can go fuck themselves.