I was with you up until the end.
"white people have historically innovated through theft — and then benefited from it."
Black people get to make hyperbolic absolutist statements like this out of their trauma and grief. But we don't get to talk to each other this way because 1) self-hate is not a sustainable motivation for allyship and 2) Like any absolutist statement, it can be falsified by a single counterexample. And the counterexamples are many.
I'm not going to get into an expansion on point 2, since ya'll can take away my Progressive Card if I do so. However, for an expansion of point 1, and for better ways to talk to each other, see:
PS - yes, Lovett's song is pretty cringey,. Just looking at the lyrics, it seems to be a pretty poor example of inter-racial artistic collaboration. But do we judge a genre by its worst examples, or by its best?
