I cannot appropriately respond to you because I have been muted on the thread, so have a PM.

As to your response, I do understand what you are saying, and I do understand the context of what you are saying, but that doesn't seem to be the points the article focuses on.

The article spends quite some time focusing on the "punching up" and "punching down", it does not focus on the appropriation, frustration, or anything of that sort. It seemed to me to be very specifically saying that "white people should not make these jokes because they are supposed to be making fun of white people".

    Those lines (and many others that I could have included, if I had room) were all sourced from the online accounts of Asians, blacks, Latino/as etc. Share them, and you gain membership in a club open to all people of color, a space impervious to white hegemony.

    I’m not trying to bar white people from being self-deprecating—far from it. But when a source of solace for people of color is co-opted this way, does it lose all its power? Is it funny anymore? And if it is, is it still OK to laugh?

    It’s why LGBTQ comedians can make fun of straight people, why single people can make fun of married people, why women can make fun of men. If you are a black person in the 1800s, and there’s a white man who owns you, beats you, and tears your family apart, then it’s totally fine to crack a joke about his waistcoat to your friends.

This isn't an article about frustration with white people changing the meaning of jokes, which honestly isn't a negative thing in the first place, outside of the fact that it shows that we still aren't quite understanding each other as a culture.

And why complain when something that was looked at as bad is now being accepted, even if that acceptance is of a different version? It is that changing and moving of ideas that cultures become more close, more connected, and more tolerant of one another, and it is not a bad thing.

This is the racial equivalent of the idiots on 4-chan/reddit who go around to those people on facebook and yell at them for using "their" memes incorrectly. There is nothing harmful in doing so, and the original meaning of those things will still exist in the cultures they originated from.

    when white people become aware of cultural developments in black communities, it almost never ends well

I honestly want to know where the "bad" ending is. The idiots making twerking videos are just that, idiots. "bling" being changed meaning isn't something that is going to harm or put down black people, even if it is a missed chance at creating understanding.

You know what a good article would be, about how opportunities to create understandings are missed.

    No one even claimed black people were powerless, that's not even a point of the article.

I had shifted to commenting on the common rebuttals to things like I had said, such as "racism requires you to have power along with being prejudiced", not so much on the article.