It is, I think, possible to tell a story which is not your own, so long as you say so. “This is a story, as was told to me, and I tell it to you.”
It's not the simple telling of a story that is Cultural Appropriation, it is the theft of the story. It is when you take someone's story and tell it as if it were your own.
That's why the ‘Discuss’ part, though. Is it possible to tell someone else's story without stealing it? Obviously if they agree with the idea of you telling their story, then you have their blessing, but what if they don't? Black Americans can get upset when White Americans tell Black stories, but it's not just that, I think. My impression is that it is when the White author looks like they are presuming to speak on behalf of Black people that gets on their goat, possibly even more than when the story told is simply hostile. And when the response when called on it is “no I didn't”, that rubs salt in.
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It's not the simple telling of a story that is Cultural Appropriation, it is the theft of the story. It is when you take someone's story and tell it as if it were your own.
That's why the ‘Discuss’ part, though. Is it possible to tell someone else's story without stealing it? Obviously if they agree with the idea of you telling their story, then you have their blessing, but what if they don't? Black Americans can get upset when White Americans tell Black stories, but it's not just that, I think. My impression is that it is when the White author looks like they are presuming to speak on behalf of Black people that gets on their goat, possibly even more than when the story told is simply hostile. And when the response when called on it is “no I didn't”, that rubs salt in.