[...] Lastly, the trend of showing off the negative stereotypes of black culture and disregarding the other parts that are involved, demonstrates a lack of understanding and respect for the music one is taking. [...]

Rock and Roll is another great example, while jazz improvisation, blues and R&B were the starting points for the growth of the genre, when artists such as Chuck Berry and the underrepresented Sister Rosetta Tharpe began to play around with the ideas on an electric guitar, you would never know it without going out of your way to learn music history. Elvis Presley is a classic example of someone who was influenced by black music, but reaped the benefits that many of his black influences never enjoyed. Even nowadays, I think we can all agree that rock music is considered to be a white genre, but its history isn't acknowledged by many. It's not like black people aren't making rock music, they just often don't get as much attention because of the forgotten history. If only hip-hop and R&B are considered to be “black music,” then a blog or radio show that typically features “black music” won't include rock music into their line up. Vice versa, a black artist playing rock music may get passed over by a rock blog or radio station because, whether consciously aware of it or not, on some level it's not “real rock” in this gatekeeper's mind. The music industry is just as much about image as it is the music, so if an artist doesn't fit within the stereotypical image one has of a genre or style, they can/are very easily passed over. Rock & Roll definitely has been appropriated by white people in this sense.