00:00I do think a lot of times our initial reaction is outrage like we're very
00:04frustrated especially when it comes to a cultural appropriation or co-option of
00:08the culture and you know we want to defend ourselves and we want to demand
00:14that acknowledgement of you know whether it's black women as the originators of
00:20that culture you know what's the productive way to do that because I do
00:23think that sometimes it can get very hairy and it can oftentimes scare people
00:27into ever trying again when cancel culture occurs in its worst state then
00:32we can't learn from each other right so like people are very afraid to like make
00:38a mistake sort of on the internet so they just won't speak at all now I think that
00:42with social media and with Twitter and Instagram it's a nice place to have the
00:49initial conversation but you know you could easily take it offline and speak in
00:55real life and that's what I'm always eager to do and I think that that's
01:00always a solution for me so I think a lot of things can be lost in translation
01:04in Instagram or in Twitter but just do it with video or something of the sort that's
01:09a way to solve that issue I feel like this probably sounds awful but um I kind of
01:17don't mind when Twitter drags somebody for appropriating our culture I know it can be
01:22scary for them to want to try and you know discover and experience new things but I do
01:28think you do have a responsibility to know what you're trying or know what you're getting
01:33into because I feel like that excuse always comes back like I didn't know and they're
01:38like you know those tears and I'm just like not here for it so that's that's um my stance
01:45more or less on it is you should still do your homework and if you don't you might get dragged
01:51and take that as a lesson to learn because you obviously got dragged for a reason and
01:54people are seriously outraged for me you know I think it's tricky about that though is that a
01:58lot of people who are part of cancel culture don't do their homework when they're about to cancel something
02:04and I'm like so having like working at Elle working at all of these mainstream magazines
02:09a lot of cancel culture is like well if they just had a black girl on staff that wouldn't
02:14have happened and I'm like there are areas like there are so many did anyone google my face like I
02:22don't
02:22think so it's that sort of thing where I'm like we all need to do better we all need to
02:27do our homework
02:27before we just like pop off on Instagram and I think we also have to be really careful how we
02:33do
02:33choose to cover that right because I've been in a lot of situations like where it's like oh the
02:39Kardashian wore something and she's calling it man-to-nots right and she's getting dragged on
02:44black tour she's getting dragged everywhere she should be getting dragged like I am not a proponent like
02:48let's just put that out there but I will say there have been times where I'm like they're like well
03:00Maya I think you should cover that and I'm like okay I do think that we should educate our readers
03:05and we should educate and we should put this on social but we should also not only cover the bad
03:11things right not only cover the negative things this is the media we don't want everything that
03:15when we google to be about oh culture appropriation or oh you know this person was dragged I think
03:21also even when we reshare we you know regram things and we use all of our own platforms we
03:27just need to be very deliberate in our language and just make sure that although yes we are educating
03:32people and yes this is bad and this should not happen but here is the solution right right no that's
03:39that's so real
