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Sherlock BBC _Indian

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I love your art, but I'm going to have to agree with rassomega on this. It is definitely cultural appropriation. It happens a lot, especially in the artist community and I think it is a conversation that has not been had enough within artist circles. The short version of it: often times white people in our history have incorporated cultural practices, ideas, and customs without acknowledging and profiting from those ideas, all the while exploiting POC. 
It shows a vast amount of cultural and historical cluelessness that works towards stripping POC of ownership of their ancestral inheritance, as images such as this one work towards distorting theirs.  I might suggest that you read the work of authors like Hooks and Sarah Ahmed to understand why:

poetry.rapgenius.com/Bell-hook… ( Hooks) 

books.google.com/books/about/Q… ( Ahmed)

If you doubt this, how would you feel, if somebody stole all of your work, claimed it as theirs,  and your voice was drowned out by their ability to gain more followers than you did? It's essentially a very similar situation. Granted, my analogy greatly undermines the issues of racism that this is inevitably intertwined with. To blatantly state what POC(People ff Color) might feel offended by, you used a religious, Native War Bonnet and centered a white man at the center of its discourse... Ignoring a history of slavery, rape, and pillaging of the lands of natives by white men of history who's historical impact can still be felt by the impoverishment of these groups of people to this day.

Still like your work, but terrible concept.