White People Wonder

sigh okay.

* hater alert*

so there's this youtube video of this cute white girl 'Elyvna' dancing to coupe decale.
I've had this video posted on my FB profile page so many times, or tagged to posted links of them. There's a couple reasons for this...those who know me well enough know that I am a decale head. Like that's all I pretty much listen and dance to (although I'm moving away from that now, another story for another day).

Okay so back to the video. I'm hella mad that there's 362 comments and 113 thousand comments. Lord, okay so she's cute... she's getting it. I watched the video the first time and was like "whoa it's weird cos I think she's more of a mimic genius than a good dancer". As someone who's watched the Jessy Matador video too many time to count, I'm thinking her rhythm is a bit odd/off but her execution of the movements are spot on.

Okay so to my main point. How come when white people do something that we ('colored' folk) do everyday, then all of a sudden they become the shit for it?

Drives me crazy.

lol.. i had to get that off my chest after this convo with my friend i was like alright this is a blog post...

me: that white girl coupe decale is still 'viraling'...it's crazy

facebook doesn't really make the world that small after all

friend: I think "spreading" is an appropriate term.

me: how come my friends are still posting it...lol

friend: "viraling" doesn't make sense. clearly none of them read what you post....

me: lmao. well i'm saying so it's like i haven't posted the video

but hella people have posted and like tagged me on it, or like drawn my attn to it or post it on my page.

friend: 'cause they know you are a white girl?

me: lol mostly it's like especially now that fb is like twitter'ish

no one reads anyone's page. and i keep seeing oooh look at this awesome best dancer

friend: you should be glad that they know you are the originator of coupe decale

me: lol. as if. like there's black kids tearing it up now the white girl is famous

friend: can we get her to dance something about healthcare?

me: for real

friend: well, to be fair, i think the reason the video is intriguing is that it seems so out of place for her to be doing it and she is concentrating so hard

me: lol that's what i'm saying and you're saying but not what most pple are saying

friend: but of course there is a deeply prejudice sentiment underlying that

me: decale is still a novelty to mainstream so most people don't even have a context

to be like she's just copying not creating
friend: you gonna attach a video comment with the real deal?

me: lmao i'm not the best decale'er...which is my point

friend: oh, I didn't mean you, someone else

me: there's whole countries of hungry African kids ripping it and we not rich enough to video them (lol)

friend: If only all those starving African kids had laptops so they'd be able to share in rich cultural exchange that is you tube...

And of course responses to this will be whatever. I'm a hater (what's new?) but it's not about the girl so much as the responders to the video. That's who I got beef with.

Uhuh,
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