Rapper (sort-of) kilted

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I'm a white boy myself, so I'm just going on hearsay, but I understand that a fair number of Americans of African descent feel isolated from any actual African culture, because it just wasn't handed down by their ancestors.

Slave masters frowned on that sort of thing and tribes were deliberately mixed together and families broken up so that the slaves would lose their cultural identities, tribal knowledge, and sense of where home was. The theory being that slaves were less likely to attempt to escape if they didn't have a home or group of people to escape to.

Some of them adopt bits of other cultures because they think it's interesting.

Just like people of every other cultural group.

Also, some freed slaves took the family names of white folks they lived around, resulting in a fair number of Southern blacks with Scotish names... and they look to Scottish culture as their own, because they don't know where their ancestors actually came from.

More often it was that slaves were given the surnames of their masters -- sometimes because they were direct offspring, or to identify them as property. Many Blacks have last names like, "Washington", "Jefferson" or "Ramsey", but most of us don't know the details of how we got those names.

So my guess is that this guy thinks kilts look sharp, and included them in his video. A decision I wholely support.

Very cooul!