Chet Hanks’ Cultural Appropriation Has Gone Too Far

The actor/artist’s janky Jamaican accent and “White Boy Summer” highlight the importance of Black people telling their own stories

Hal H. Harris
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5 min readSep 7, 2020

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Chet Hanks, son of Tom Hanks, has become one of the most polarizing culture vultures across the World Wide Web. And honestly, it was kind of funny at first. You…

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Hal H. Harris
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Black on Both Sides. Medium Writers Challenge Winner. The founder of Established in 1865. I Tweet @Established1865. E-mail is hal.harris@est1865.com.