NTBCW "Nègres blancs d'Amérique" - real
FLQ alienation amidst an ocean of
anglophone culture. A
wigger is a
whiteperson who adopts the trappings of what he/she imagines is the "style" of black
Americans. Not new:
jazzers, from Mezz Mezzrow to
Steve Lacy to
Joe Zawinul, as well as
radio's Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden ("Amos and Andy") were/are "honorary
African-Americans". They were legit; they
lived blackness, to varying degrees, even, in some cases, suffering the same abuse and
alienation that would have befallen someone born in a
Harlem tenement. Wiggerdom tends to be a left-handed compliment: a
dilettante's crypto
racism.
The 20th Century contains many mainstream borrowings from black culture. That won't change. But that's a different thing from adopting a persona based on some stereotype - even if that stereotype is reified by persons of your acquaintance.
I'm a cultural tourist; I can whip up a paragraph of old 70s/80s B-Boy slang to enliven a dull writeup. I can appropriate phrases from French and German. But I'd never IRL try to pretend streetness or Germanness. I'm me. Ethnicity without portfolio. A four-eyed United Colours of Benetton in jeans, bare feet, and hair down to my shoulders (pending a haircut). See No Colour. Or, to borrow an ancient Reebok line: U B U.
Don't be a cryptoracist.