[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by KareBear

Leona Lewis is not a member here

[BambiStar]

Messy.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Big Smoke

Honestly I'm kinda half trolling at this point

It's working.

[Flare]

Originally posted by OhRly?

Just because someone has a bigger voice, that doesn't mean you shouldn't speak sis
Calling an hairdo a cultural issue is dumb imo, since culture is a dynamic and we could go back in history and find several different cultures sharing the same patterns, values, aesthetics and so on.

We're confusing two different issues in this thread, and that's my point so far

Eh, I don't even care enough to speak out on it. I rather internalize my disliking-s with the world.

With that said, the "cultural issue" at hand is black girls hair not this girl's hair. I think that's where the issues are being mixed up and people attacking her and just being really sensitive towards the issues in general (in light of all the other things happening lately). This little girl shouldn't be top priority but should just serve as a reminder, "black hairstyles" are a controversial topic that should be talked about at some point if you want progress to happen.

[RihSexual]

she looks cute

[RihSexual]

And side note is this cultural appropriation thing only an issue in the America ? because I'm from Trinidad and on Indian Arrival day it isnt an issue to dress up in traditional indian clothes etc and the same goes with the African community no one is trying to STEAL your culture we are simply celebrating it and appreciating also. Y'all do waaaayyy too much.

[KyKy]

Don't black girls maken their hair look like white girls tho ?

[MP2K]

Originally posted by KyKy

Don't black girls maken their hair look like white girls tho ?

Not by choice.

[Big Smoke]

Originally posted by RihSexual

And side note is this cultural appropriation thing only an issue in the America ? because I'm from Trinidad and on Indian Arrival day it isnt an issue to dress up in traditional indian clothes etc and the same goes with the African community no one is trying to STEAL your culture we are simply celebrating it and appreciating also. Y'all do waaaayyy too much.

Lemme quote this again;

Originally posted by RihSexual

And side note is this cultural appropriation thing only an issue in the America ? because I'm from Trinidad and on Indian Arrival day it isnt an issue to dress up in traditional indian clothes etc and the same goes with the African community no one is trying to STEAL your culture we are simply celebrating it and appreciating also. Y'all do waaaayyy too much.

Man (woman, Idk lol)... Thank you.

[Yourfavefan]

I get so confused with cultural appropriation... I really don't know if it's a stereotype that braids are part of black culture or not, or if her wearing the braids are really a mockery/appropriation of their culture...

I personally thought that braids are a little girl thing

[Outlaws]

Originally posted by Jackk

America is weird.

Originally posted by jomarr

!!!!!!!

Like I can't EVEN

It must be pretty sad living there with all these.

!!!!

[MaoMars]

This is ....I have no words
Now a white person can't wear the same hairstyle as a black person that is considered cultural appropriation?
What a ****ing ********

[Su-Barbie-A]

People still don't get that black hair is a sensitive topic that's part of something much bigger.
When black women wear weave/hair extensions or a wig (especially when they can't afford human hair wigs) they are the butt of a joke because it's "ghetto" "trashy" "a ratchet mess", actually, it could be their natural hair and people would still act like it's something ugly.

When white women do the exact same thing, they get compliments. That's when the cultural appropiation thing comes in, when white people stop making fun of black hair and their hairstyles, then they can freely wear whatever hairstyle they want.

Originally posted by Big Smoke

Honestly I'm kinda half trolling at this point

[chilicheese01]

So white girls can't have braids, but black girls can go to Starbucks?!

Racism!

[Callisto.]

Originally posted by RihSexual

And side note is this cultural appropriation thing only an issue in the America ? because I'm from Trinidad and on Indian Arrival day it isnt an issue to dress up in traditional indian clothes etc and the same goes with the African community no one is trying to STEAL your culture we are simply celebrating it and appreciating also. Y'all do waaaayyy too much.

Well you see first the made sure there was little to no remnants left of the original african cultures in the blacks in America first, then the excluded the blacks from mainstream causing them to create their own out of the little bit of mainstream cultured they were allowed, then they mocked that culture and made sure certain aspects associated with it were seen as bad or stupid, then they took parts of that culture they liked slapped a white face on it and marketed to "wider" audiences.

Black culture in America was created because they had nothing else. It's no surprise alot of black people in America take issue when Mainstream culture still doesn't fully accept them and alot of black culture still has negative connotations to associated with them.

[MP2K]

Originally posted by chilicheese01

So white girls can't have braids, but black girls can go to Starbucks?!

Racism!

That was a bad analogy luv and you stereotyped white girls/people a bit don't you think?

[Behava]

Originally posted by Su-Barbie-A

People still don't get that black hair is a sensitive topic that's part of something much bigger.
When black women wear weave/hair extensions or a wig (especially when they can't afford human hair wigs) they are the butt of a joke because it's "ghetto" "trashy" "a ratchet mess", actually, it could be their natural hair and people would still act like it's something ugly.

When white women do the exact same thing, they get compliments. That's when the cultural appropiation thing comes in, when white people stop making fun of black hair and their hairstyles, then they can freely wear whatever hairstyle they want.

Being forced to conform to euro-centric beauty standards (or be unemployed), yet being mocked even then. It's often damned if you do, damned if you don't for black people.

[Luis Jimenez]

Originally posted by Flare

1) They shouldn't do too much on the girl because she does look super young but...

2) If you don't understand why a white person doing box braids, dreads, etc, is an issue, you're beyond brainwashed and probably not as smart as you think you are.

3) The person in this thread going up and down about "There is not black/white/asian culture", I know for a fact that you select to erase your own culture (which is ironically a minority) and act like a completely difference race entirely (based on what you told me in our conversations). So I highly suggest you leave you leave the biases and ignorance out this thread because "white-washing" isn't cute. Embrace who you are, what your heritage is and what it means.

WTF

[♥CEB♥]

Originally posted by KyKy

Don't black girls maken their hair look like white girls tho ?

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.)

[Blue Jeans]

OMG! How could this white girl do this ghetto hairstyle? SO RACIST! She should be FINED and sent to JAIL!!!!11!1!!