Hip hop originated under conditions of socioeconomic oppression that existed as a direct consequence of white supremacy.
If you want to get into the finer details of the innovation and inspiration behind the origin of the "sound" of hip hop and how that not long after melded with the lyricism, dancing, fashion, art and cultural norms that created hip hop as we know it today and have for the majority of its existence, then that's always a dope discussion to have, but I don't think it is in any sense whatsoever, debatable that the the poor and disenfranchise black people saw it as a powerful movement to push back against those that oppressed them in self expression.
That's a very simplified way of putting it, not that it would be unprecedented, because a lot of people wouldn't want a man to curate a museum dedicate to women's suffrage, or a non Native American to curate Native American history at a museum dedicated to it, or a non Japanese person to curate Japanese history for a museum dedicated to Japanese history.
Of course those things do happen, but they're wrong also.
There should be nothing outrageous about saying a white woman shouldn't be the one curating a black art form at a museum dedicated to black history.
There is no evidence of that, and even if it was the cause, if it took a white woman to make a hip hop section happen, then that would only strengthen my argument that black voices should speak on behalf of black culture.
Have we gotten to the point where you're denying hip hop is black culture in a thread where people have issue with a white woman being hired to be an authority on black art?
On an issue that is clearly controversial? No, I would think that something so controversial leading to such passionate discussions on race and cultural appropriate is not a non issue. To me, that would seem very obvious.
