Discussion: School Forbids White Student From Wearing Dreadlocks - Page 4

Ascension

Maybe I need to do some research and read up on how people that don't have naturally kinky/curly hair with locs/dreads get their hair in that state, because the assumptions I make gross me out a bit. It just seems filthy and matted to me on someone whose hair doesn't coil and doesn't have the ability to lock into itself without something else in it to keep it bound together.

Oh and she looks ridiculous tbh.

LuLuDrops

Utah? Chances are the lead person on the school committee is Mormon and got pressed that the good sis converted to Hinduism

LDS Temple, what's good?

Eggy.

She looks TRAGIC

Cap10Planet

Maybe because they look ****ing atrocious. I mean, the bangs are straight and the other part are dreads?

Iris

I just want to be free, I just want to be me
And I want lots of friends that invite me to their parties
Don't wanna change, and I don't wanna be ashamed
I'm the spirit of my hair, it's all the glory that I bare

I am my haaaaaaaaaair

Shinning

She looks a damn fool omg

Ascension

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Originally posted by Cap10Planet

Maybe because they look ****ing atrocious. I mean, the bangs are straight and the other part are dreads?

Revolution

Vertigo Stick

She'll thank them when she's older

cheeto

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Originally posted by B'Day

Black girls who 'relax' their hair are not trying to be appropriating 'white women's' hair. Your logic is DUMB. First of all, black hair is kinky, very curly and it's hard to maintain. It's THICK. When you comb it, it HURTS. Relaxing it makes your hair straighter, easier to maintain and makes it more thin. SECONDLY, nobody is trying to have the white woman's hair. Not everybody wants to be you. If you're talking about the texture white women have, Latina's and Asian's also have that texture but they have a THICKER texture. That texture is not specially belonged to white women. Everybody in the world has that hair texture expect black people. That's what makes us unique. Just like Asians and their unique beautiful shaped eyes.
STOP speaking about stuff you're clearly uneducated about.

Grumpy Gills

It looks a damn mess, you have to take care of dreads

.:Allen:.

She should be allowed to wear her hair like that if she wants, whether it looks bad or not. It's not distracting.

Bey_Rihstan

They're assholes but they're lowkey doing her a favor

Bey_Rihstan

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Originally posted by B'Day

Black girls who 'relax' their hair are not trying to be appropriating 'white women's' hair. Your logic is DUMB. First of all, black hair is kinky, very curly and it's hard to maintain. It's THICK. When you comb it, it HURTS. Relaxing it makes your hair straighter, easier to maintain and makes it more thin. SECONDLY, nobody is trying to have the white woman's hair. Not everybody wants to be you. If you're talking about the texture white women have, Latina's and Asian's also have that texture but they have a THICKER texture. That texture is not specially belonged to white women. Everybody in the world has that hair texture expect black people. That's what makes us unique. Just like Asians and their unique beautiful shaped eyes.
STOP speaking about stuff you're clearly uneducated about.

****ing. DRAG

Nutitle

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Originally posted by Gedamara

I just want to be free, I just want to be me
And I want lots of friends that invite me to their parties
Don't wanna change, and I don't wanna be ashamed
I'm the spirit of my hair, it's all the glory that I bare

I am my haaaaaaaaaair

Gaga her endless impact

Zoraluv

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Originally posted by dannyboy

You guys are awful. I understand you shading popstars, but small girls?

You have no sense of decency

And they claim white racism doesn't exist

it doesn't lmaoo

Also it's weird that just because its in the news that a white girl can't wear dreads everyone loses their **** when its been happening to blacks for a awhile now

konaa

Good.

yts always trying to put those dead, lifeless, haystack needles in a twist.

mosspillows

lmao that little girl looks like an Oddish

"But Lincoln Academy, which has a dress code policy that prohibits unnatural hair colors and distracting styles, asked Cunningham to remove her dreads." <<<< This doesn't anything about race. Her hair was probably just distracting kids from lessons bc they were too busy dragging her to pay attention

kyogul

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Originally posted by B'Day

AGAIN, no **** Sherlock, I got your 'logic' but YET you chose to involve relaxing and black hair. Do you not know how sensitive the topic of black hair is? And no, not necessarily. White people having dreadlocks has nothing to do with black people relaxing their hair

you clearly didn't, and you still don't get it now. the entire point of my saying that was to showcase how stupid it was--and here you are taking it seriously. that's enough proof to show you didn't get the message

and you may consider it sensitive, but I don't, nor do I have to. I see no problems with black women relaxing their hair; it's their choice. But in rebuttal to the stupid logic of white girl wearing a popular black style = appropriating, then the same line of thinking can be used vice versa (for blacks). Sorry to say but, your feelings don't null this.

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Originally posted by FAME.

Except this still isn't comparable. The reasoning behind alot of black people straightening their hair, and other things like that (aside from the ones B'Day listed) is because of the white standards of beauty that they are forced to be subjected to and have been implemented into our society since the beginning of time. Black people are basically brought up to believe that their skin, hair, features, etc aren't beautiful and are subconsciously taught that white standards of beauty are the norm and are beautiful. Do you even know how hair straightening began? Black women were basically FORCED to straighten their hair because their real hair was considered ugly, unkempt and unacceptable. Till this day you can't get some jobs with an afro or dreadlocks

It goes beyond trying out a style because they think it's "cool" or "trendy"

So no, the "same logic" can not be applied because it's not the same whatsoever.

Except it is comparable. You've done nothing in this post except list more reasons--which I was already aware of--and have yet to actually get to the point. Black women do it for a plethora of reasons, such as wanting to be seen as more acceptable and to have hair that's easier to deal with. That's all fine and dandy because it's their choice. But why can't this white girl have dreadlocks so she can feel closer to her religion?

Even if this girl wasn't doing it for religious reasons, I'd still advocate for her because it's her ****ing decision. The thing about decisions is that it's ok for them to be superficial; not all of them need this grandiose underlying purpose behind them to be "valid". Her wanting dreadlocks to feel closer to her religion is no more vain than a black girl relaxing her hair because so she can take care of it more easily.

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Screaming at all those white tears