Yeah, it's more that America's "homegrown" culture largely appropriates the art of POC (and in particular black Americans) throughout American history. Pretty m

Yeah, it's more that America's "homegrown" culture largely appropriates the art of POC (and in particular black Americans) throughout American history. Pretty much all forms of popular music (i.e. country, rock, hip-hop) can be traced back to black Jazz musicians. Black people's experiences -- even when whitewashed -- are fundamental to the idea of "American-ness" for all Americans. It's also incredibly reductionist for anyone to identify a person by their ancestry like the centuries in between didn't happen, and ignorant to assume that reconciling one's current circumstances with one's ancestry isn't a well-explored topic (if anyone is interested, Google "double consciousness" to get started on the last 150 years of American philosophy).