African American dancing in music videos with the butt going up & down. Whats up with that?
I hope that this isn’t a serious question and you aren’t that clueless, but I’ll answer, anyway. Butt shaking in music videos have only become popular in the last five years? Are you kidding me? That kind of dancing has been around for at least 15 years, with the oldest I can remember being Sir Mix-A-Lot’s/Sir Mixalot’s “Baby Got Back” in the early 1990s. What you’re doing is stereotyping. Go into any club and you’ll see just as many girls of other races as African American girls dancing and shaking. And on top of that, you’re also assuming that every black girl dancing on a music video is African American, when they can be Jamaican, of mixed race, etc. It does all come down to culture. Just as pop is stereotyped as being part of the white culture and hip-hop and the like are stereotyped as being part of black culture – so are types of dances stereotyped to belong to one race over another. It has nothing to do with sex; don’t be ridiculous.
