Great question.
I feel WE are allowing it.
I know way too many cats from the "Old Days" of the music industry. Both from the performing and business end. We all talk about how today's music scene has become a creatively lazy attraction for young Black people.
And that many of these young Blacks have no sense or respect of Music History. This attitude has given Whites the perfect opportunity to swoop on into the various musical genres we once dominated.
I do tend to give Euro-Whites a slide to a degree only because in many cases, their love of the music tends to come more out of historical respect than their American counterparts.
But unless WE take the same approach to our musical diaspora that many Whites do, then we can no longer complain.
And I'm sorry.
But sampling a chorus, bridge, line, etc from a CLASSIC late 60s/early 70s Soul/R&B/Funk song doesn't represent respect. It represents creative laziness.
And that's even worse than what the latest so-called Blue-Eyed culture vulture is doing in my book.