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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched both. This is silly - Malia didn't steal from this woman's film. Black girls playing patty cake sitting on the steps is in several films. [/quote]

Are we talking about this commercial?  Because I see kids playing hand games standing on a playground, on a bus, and on a pew.

I would say that the scene in Grace (which is a beautiful film by the way) is much more derivative of the scene in Color Purple than the commercial is derivative of the scene in Grace.[/quote]

Can you link the scene in Color Purple you are referring to? One article linked to one and Grace and the Nike ad were way more similar. I agree that Grace is a beautiful film.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTy9unR5Fos

Can you tell me tell me whether I have the right commercial, and if so which point you think is so similar?  Because I don't even see a porch, so I wonder what I'm missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpVEoYjmZps[/quote]

I agree. The first one (Grace?) reminds me very much of the bit from The Color Purple.  The Nike commercial doesn’t remind me of the Grace bit or of The Color Purple.  As others have said, children — particularly Black girls —playing hand clap games is evocative of a certain culture, and perhaps a certain time.  I wrote a paper on hand clap games and rhymes decades ago, when I learned that this was an aspect of culture and community that not all of my peers in college shared.

If this is all there is, I don’t see anything approaching plagiarism on Malia’s part. If anything, I think that Harris is using this opportunity to promote her own work. We now know her name. She’s getting her 15 minutes at Malia’s expense— and that will follow her.  [/quote]

I don't think hand clap games are unique by skin color.

I grew up as the only minority in a very white lower working class town.  ALL of the little girls played hand clap games.  For us, it was "Bo bo ski otten totten" along with the standard game of Down Down Baby.

Except for my family, it was all white girls playing the hand games.  It was pre internet days, so it is not like they picked the hand games up on tiktok.

Maybe the hand games are more of a class thing than a race thing.[/quote]

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