@usincommon: How Black culture gets stolen in plain sight: "I watched how as these magnificent hood peacocks was creating this language, we told them that it was remedial and then it became cultural and then it became bankable... Even now when you think about nail art, how now this is part of pop culture, but when girls were wearing it, it was ghetto. It was trash. Everything that we create at the onset of our creation, it's demonized and then it becomes popularized and then it becomes monetized. But not by us." — Kim Latrice Jones, NYT bestselling author & filmmaker #BlackCulture #CulturalAppropriation #BlackCreatives #NailArt #blackart