Am I being racist?

It's just a cultural thing. When I was in school, we had a few black guys who would play hockey with us but their black friends would give them shit for "not playing a black sport".

No one is stopping black people from ballroom dancing, they just don't want to do it. In the last Winter Olympics, there were just under 3000 athletes that competed. Of those athletes, there were less than 50 black people who participated in the events. Was it racism that stopped them? No, they just weren't good enough to qualify and I don't believe many even tried out to begin with.

Yes, it does.

Hip hop isn’t a race, it’s a culture, and anyone that is part of that culture should be able to take part. I’m more bothered by a rich black kid trying to act hood, than a white, hispanic, or Asian acting like others in the environment that they grew up in.

If we are speaking specifically about dancing, it’s an art form and skill, and the best are the best period. I do think it’s a common feeling among black people to think they are the best at singing and dancing, an to be bothered when other races out perform them. But yes it’s born out of racism.

Let me ask you this, do you think black people are culture vultures for being so heavily involved in sports like basketball and football? They didn’t invent it.

I think hip-hop started crossing over from the black community that pioneered it about forty seconds after Afrika Bambaataa hosted his first party. If you want to preserve hip-hop for one demographic, I think you're many decades too late for that. Hip-hop is pop culture.

Ballet is high culture. There's a much smaller pool of dancers and it's incredibly hard to get to the top of the profession. In that regard, it probably has more in common with professional sports than it does other forms of dance.

I think it's probably the case that more people (regardless of background) want to be involved with hip-hop culture than want to be ballroom dancers or ballerinas.

I don't think there should be barriers to entry based on ethnicity or background for any of these things.

It's called appreciation. When people learn about other cultures and customs, they're showing an appreciation of it. Yes it racist when you look at their skin over their talent.

I swear the modern 5 generations are brainwashed into the same prejudices of the past but with different metrics.

Yeah, pretty much. Do you resent blacks playing Beethoven/Mahler/Hayden in symphonies ?

Any idea that restricts basically anything to a 'race' is, pretty much by definition, racist.

But you're probably just a troll trolling, anyway... ;)

Yeah, you're Racist.. Have a nice day 😎

Basketball was invented in 1891 by a white man and it was initially an all white sport. Should it offend me then that it's now dominated by black athletes. I'm Irish. If a black musician wanted to try their hand at Celtic folk songs it wouldn't offend me so long as they were good at it. Cultures are meant to be shared not owned.