In the case of Serhat Tanyolacar, an African American lectures a Turkish immigrant: "I don’t understand why a non-black person can appropriate black people’s pa

In the case of Serhat Tanyolacar, an African American lectures a Turkish immigrant: "I don’t understand why a non-black person can appropriate black people’s pain to teach a lesson about racism." Did she not also thereby "appropriate" the artist's message, another minority? Is she not appropriating the sole victimhood at the hands of the KKK, which has also been racist against other races, anti-Catholic, and homophobic? Her response is basically that Mr. Tanyolacar is too white to have a legitimate voice in this[0] (please don't thoughtlessly retaliate with this link.) Although it's reasonable for a black person to interpret a KKK message as primarily anti-black, and my opinion would be discounted on the basis of my own race/gender/orientation... it's just sad to see rampant labeling and subdividing of people even among self-professed shared victim classes, assigning out who has legitimate pain and who doesn't, narrow-minded focus on one's own problems while simultaneously professing a motivation to help others, etc. We all have pains, we've all been somebody's victims, we're all aggressors sometimes. P.S. I find the work in poor taste, and it sounds like it at least should have been labeled better. This is merely a comment on the tactics used to dismiss and discredit the artist. [0] https://twitter.com/krw18/status/541105260098371584 https://twitter.com/krw18/status/541105260098371584