[Ryanicorn]

the obsession with wanting to be offended is going way to far

[M A R C]

I believe she handled it very well and classy.
She wasn't trying to be racist or appropriate anything. It didn't look like she was making a mockery of black culture.
She was just wearing a hairstyle that she personally liked.
And she's 12.

The people on twitter are reaching.

[Clump]

Do you think her father had to look up a Queen Latifah-style beauty shop to take her to?

[P!nkism]

I'm sorry but this is just too much
It's just hair, I mean if she were like "I look better with this hair than black girls/guys" i would get it, but the girl just did her hair as she liked. Does she not have the right to do so without getting hate for cultural appropriation?
And what does #BlackLivesMatter have to do with some random girl's hair?

[Heroine]

tbh it's basically the same thing as when white girls go to the Caribbean and get cornrows. Who cares??

[Venus Temple]

She got braids.. I just don't see the problem

And haha I love the intro

[aphdkd]

Lisa Simpson teas

[Rogue]

Originally posted by aphdkd

Lisa Simpson teas

[Jaxsin]

The OP's intro. yo i'm screaming sjhdfkfld

[BLaCKPoWeR]

Originally posted by SLAYANNA NAVY

Well if this is cultural appropriation is it also racist when black girls wear blond wigs/weaves?
Dumbest thing ive seen.

*sucks teeth* no n*gga!

The difference: Black hair is shamed, White hair is glorified. Black people adapt White hairstyles because their natural hair is universally shunned as ugly/dirty-looking and unacceptable for work/improper/etc. White people adapt Black hairstyles because they can and they don't care how anyone feels about it.

[BLaCKPoWeR]

But I'm not horribly offended by her. She's only 12 lol

[@michael]

When you waste your time fighting about a little girl's hair, people probably aren't going to listen to you when something big happens. It's like a "boy who cried wolf" situation. It's important to let your voice be heard, but you need to save it for the big stuff, or else the people who you are trying to affect will not care.

[danitykanelover]

wow, i guess black people invented everything.
there is too much ignorance in this country from every race, black people need to realize they can be just as biased as white people can be.

[aphdkd]

Originally posted by danitykanelover

wow, i guess black people invented everything.
there is too much ignorance in this country from every race, black people need to realize they can be just as biased as white people can be.

[BLaCKPoWeR]

Originally posted by danitykanelover

wow, i guess black people invented everything.

You're damn right we did. (and yes box-braid is an African innovation you ass hat don't be sarcastic!)

there is too much ignorance in this country from every race, black people need to realize they can be just as biased as white people can be.

You need to realize that this is neither here nor there.

this lil girl is jus a lil girl doe leave ha

[Nikolai.]

It's not that serious, it's just hair. Black women get weaves to make their hair look straight, so is that racist against Asians and white people? Like gtfo, hair doesn't hurt anyone.

[danitykanelover]

Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR

*sucks teeth* no n*gga!

The difference: Black hair is shamed, White hair is glorified. Black people adapt White hairstyles because their natural hair is universally shunned as ugly/dirty-looking and unacceptable for work/improper/etc. White people adapt Black hairstyles because they can and they don't care how anyone feels about it.

so because other people have found black hairstyles ugly and dirty, this girl who admired them can't have that same hairstyle??? its like ur mad because she looks better or something (i'm not saying she does, just thats what your tone says).

all in all i just wish every race could get along and actually become the melting pot that america is meant to be where everyone share cultures and people learn from one another. honestly things like twitter and instagram make that more and more hard to achieve, giving hateful people an outlet to have ignorant people listen to them.

[danitykanelover]

Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR

You're damn right we did. (and yes box-braid is an African innovation you ass hat don't be sarcastic!)



You need to realize that this is neither here nor there.

this lil girl is jus a lil girl doe leave ha

every race has innovations related to their culture.. should we all just keep them to ourselves and not share with anyone else? think of how silly that sounds.

i need to realize? nah, i think you need to realize ignorance knows no color.

[RudeBoyy]

Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR

*sucks teeth* no n*gga!

The difference: Black hair is shamed, White hair is glorified. Black people adapt White hairstyles because their natural hair is universally shunned as ugly/dirty-looking and unacceptable for work/improper/etc. White people adapt Black hairstyles because they can and they don't care how anyone feels about it.

I agree, I wish black influential figures would wear their natural hair to try and change the stigma but I guess they find weaves Irreplaceable.

Originally posted by ♥CEB♥

Well, why do you think so many black girls go through so much trouble to make their hair "look like white girls?"

When it is ingrained in young women's heads that black hair is ugly, ghetto, unruly, etc. it really isn't a huge shock that those same black women would go out of their way to spend hundreds of dollars buying the beautiful, "good" hair. Or spend money to chemically straighten their hair. Or have to start a god damn movement just to get people to appreciate the hair that grows out of their own scalps.

People did entirely too much on this girl but the whole black girls appropriating Brazilians, Russians, etc. because of weave is a ridiculous counterpoint. Because this white girl rocking box braids does not carry with it the years of social conditioning that make many black women resort to weaves, wigs, and perms in the first place. "Beyquisha". Calling Rihanna's dreads ugly and ghetto. ****** trying to set up petitions for Blue to get her hair done. Too many times I have people with no edges ask me "and when are you going to do something with that head of yours?"

The fact of the matter is that this white girl can take out the box braids and wear her natural hair texture and still be considered beautiful. But let a black girl take her weave out or pull off that wig and Kunta Kinte comments are thrown around. That is the real issue at hand.

Unfortunately, when it comes to black people it is never "just hair." It is actually a very sensitive issue. And I think that is why so many reacted strongly to this girl's box braids in the first place.

(And let me just say that there is nothing inherently wrong with weaves, wigs, and perms.)

clockT. This thread obviously wasn't made for discussion though it was made to make fun of people and make the claims of racism/appropriation seem illegitimate.

[Tymps.]

Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR

But I'm not horribly offended by her. She's only 12 lol

Thank you

Like if this was on a grown woman it would be pretty offensive. But she's literally 12