I have a friend who's fuckin neck deep in curating african music that nobody else from the west would have ever touched with a 10 foot pole. He's helping brilliant artists who'd otherwise go totally unknown publish records in the west. he does dj sets and plays their music. People all over the world fucking love it and would've never known about it if it. but he's white and is also making a living from this, so every once in a while he has to put up with getting a set canceled because of some asshole (not necessarily always black people either, just whoever feels like trying too hard that day.) Because you know there's some extremely attenuated link to some thing that resembles another thing that happened back in history and like stuff and fuck context.
so that thread is setting me on fire
edit: not that i'm saying he's persecuted or something or that this is frequent, but it's just an example of how the wrong pocket of idiots work against their own interests every once in a while.