Zendaya discusses appropriation of black hairstyles
Do you have any advice — and I could be wrong here — for how celebrities like Kim Kardashian or Katy Perry can wear a style that's been traditionally black one? Is there ever an appropriate way to do that? Or is it better just stay away from those looks?
ZC: I don't know. I really don't know. I would be careful, I would definitely be careful. I don't know if there is an appropriate way — that's not something I can answer.
My girl Amandla [Stenberg], who is super dope, brought up another problem. She wished society loved black people as much as they love black culture. That's the truth. The credit gets taken away from us when we make certain statements or when we do certain things.
That is the frustration. People want to be around for the positives and the things that we bring as far as culture, but they don't want to be around when we have problems or when we're getting shot in the streets. You know what I'm saying? You have to be there for the whole experience. You can't just decide when you want to be a part of our culture.
Honestly I don't give a **** if white women wear braids & stuff, it just rubs me the wrong way when the media praises them for it like they're doing something groundbreaking.
It's completely ignorant, especially when black women with those very same hairstyles are looked down upon.
why do people use stuff that white men invented if they don't like it (computers, iphones, lightbulbs, bread etc.) we don't cry "appropriation!11!" like who cares
we're all human at the end of the day? what happened to equality?
but her response basically meaning that she doesn't give a f, let me stream her new single
. People want to be around for the positives and the things that we bring as far as culture, but they don't want to be around when we have problems or when we're getting shot in the streets. You know what I'm saying? You have to be there for the whole experience. You can't just decide when you want to be a part of our culture.
why do people use stuff that white men invented if they don't like it (computers, iphones, lightbulbs, bread etc.) we don't cry "appropriation!11!" like who cares
we're all human at the end of the day? what happened to equality?
but her response basically meaning that she doesn't give a f, let stream buy her new single
wasn't the first attempt at bread made in Egypt and wasn't the apple company made by a syrian man ,Steve Jobs (unless we are going with the whole "arabs are white" thing of course)?
but ya i agree... ppl are sharing their culture all the time.
there is cultural appropriation of course but kim and katy's braids aren't really it I think...
but they don't want to be around when we have problems or when we're getting shot in the streets. You know what I'm saying?
This is where it gets messy because if you actually look at the stats, Blacks initiating violence against whites is like 90 something percent of all interracial attacks which leaves violence from whites against blacks at less than 10%.
you do have to be careful because you have to look at the full picture not just whats making headlines.