Whether white or black, those cowboys would have been wearing bowlers, not “cowboy hats”, anyway. So someone of any race wearing a cowboy hat would only be ironically misappropriating… a Stetson marketing campaign.
There were a lot of black cowboys. They weren’t all black. Many cowboys were people who had been displaced by the Civil War, including former slaves and ex-Confederate soldiers. It’s unfortunate that the black cowboys aren’t recognized by popular culture.
A bowler isn’t best hat for someone who works in the sun all day. The fact that the bowler was the most popular hat in the west during the cowboy era doesn’t mean that cowboys wore them. Most westerners weren’t cowboys.
So someone who wears a cowboy hat is actually misappropriating a sombrero.
They’re dying off now, sadly, and soon the world may no longer know anything about this bold experiment. They need a revolution, and a revolution needs a leader. The world needs a gaucho Marx!
So, my question to all of you: When the Nazis fled to Argentina when the situation in Europe got too hot, were they appropriating that from the Jews?
My US$0.02 is that it’s faked. I don’t think that –had they really been in conflict- she’d have pulled him back down the stairs for more “discussion”. Nor do I buy him starting his *apology *with a cite from Egypt.
Also, (as **bobkitty **mentioned) they crack a smile every now and then.
I only watched the video and did not read the story.
If it were faked, I doubt that the guy with the dreads would have filed a police report. Also, the guy doing the recording (I don’t know if he’s a friend of dreadlocks guy or not) reported it to the campus security.