[Big Smoke]

Originally posted by B'Day

Dress =/= hair texture

A hairstyle is part of your dress though.

You get a rulebook, even in public schools.
If you don't like the rules, go somewhere else. It's that simple.

[RatedG²]

Originally posted by Big Smoke

If it's a privately owned school, they have every right to tell how to dress.

there's a line that is crossed when you tell someone that she can't wear her natural hair. It's like saying if it's a private school they could tell the girl she needs to bleach her skin or she'll be expelled. Same thing, when you tell someone they can't be who they are naturally it doesn't make it right, private or not

[Kyle.]

Originally posted by Big Smoke

If it's a privately owned school, they have every right to tell how to dress.

so youre okay with somebody (probably a white man) forcing children to cut their afros because it's distracting and 'ghetto'?

[KareBear]

Originally posted by Big Smoke

If it's a privately owned school, they have every right to tell how to dress.

Wth. How exactly is a black girl supposed to wear her hair then if a natural fro is wrong? Braids everyday? Perm? Weave? Straighten it with an iron? Buzzcut? Like.....................
As if little white girls with big curly hair get told to change it.

[jhonyguy04]

this is ridiculous.

[NEUTRON]

They look cute on her. This is truly getting out of hand and I can totally agree.

[Callisto.]

They did too much on her, but honestly black hair in general is such a sensitive topic and the fact that some of you even think a black girl altering her hair is the same as a white girl altering her hair just goes to show how little you know about the topic at it's core.

[Newt]

Originally posted by jonasha

I'm telling you to discuss it using a different thread because it's very rude to use this innocent girl as the umbrella for the discussion. She has nothing to do with cultural appropriation or the race problems of our society. I never said to don't discuss, I encouraged the opposite rather, but to do it in a different thread.

I never said that cultural appropriation was BS, you need to stop putting arguments in other people's mouths.

girl shut up, I'm not even talking about you, this was all specifically directed at that Regina person. You can proceed.

[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by Yarotska

I have never heard ANYONE refer to white people with dreads in a positive manner...

Most people I've come across are either indifferent or totally against it, even white people. I've never head anyone call a white person with dreads "cool", "edgy", or "unique".

Same. Having dreads and being whitems is an instant stigma of a drug addict or at least reallllly into weed here

[OhRly?]

Originally posted by Alejandrawrrr

ddd Sorry but if you're not black (African American, in particular) your opinion on this topic is literally irrelevant. While the people who attacked her went way OTT and were out of line, acting like it doesn't exist isn't any better.

Because white people don't experience cultural appropriation?
Or racism?
Or insensitivity?

What kind of dumb logic? Culture is an ever-changing concept. Culture is nothing but behavior, patterns and perceptions. We interact, we are the product of different subcultures.

Should we trace the origin of EVERYTHING you do, wear and like? Because in the end, you might be insensitive and appropriating different cultures without knowing so.

[jonasha]

Originally posted by Newt

girl shut up, I'm not even talking about you, this was all specifically directed at that Regina person. You can proceed.

Then don't quote my posts and reply directly to it if you're not talking about me.

It's like speaking to my face and telling me that you're not talking to me.

[J a y]

Greek and Roman history once again ceases to exist, even dating back as far as the stone age.

It's just because people are culturally aware of the use in the 70s, 80s and 90s that they come up with this nonsense. Like ffs.

[Big Smoke]

Originally posted by KareBear

Wth. How exactly is a black girl supposed to wear her hair then if a natural fro is wrong? Braids everyday? Perm? Weave? Straighten it with an iron? Buzzcut? Like.....................
As if little white girls with big curly hair get told to change it.

How about not go the school at all?

[B'Day]

Originally posted by Big Smoke

A hairstyle is part of your dress though.

You get a rulebook, even in public schools.
If you don't like the rules, go somewhere else. It's that simple.

No, if you don't like the rules, you protest for a change and let your voice be heard. If you go to a private school and you're paying thousands of pounds (or dollars, euros etc) a year, you have a right to speak up. Make sure you're getting your money's worth. If you don't like the rules and 'go somewhere else' how do you expect change in this world? Do you know how the world would be if certain individuals such as Martin Luther King was told to 'suck it up'?

[Flare]

Originally posted by Callisto.

They did too much on her, but honestly black hair in general is such a sensitive topic and the fact that some of you even think a black girl altering her hair is the same as a white girl altering her hair just goes to show how little you know about the topic at it's core.

THANK YOU.

It's a complex topic. It's not just "hair". If you don't understand that, you really shouldn't comment on these types of topics. It's so much deeper and so much more ingrained. Generations of issues only being barely touched on the surface in threads like this. It's not simple cut and dry. I do think though the girl is young and shouldn't have to put up with all that hate. That's the only injustice of this whole situation.

[Newt]

Originally posted by jonasha

Then don't quote my posts and reply directly to it if you're not talking about me.

It's like speaking to my face and telling me that you're not talking to me.

Death, I clearly addressed HIM and you came out the woodwork to quote ME first; I never called for you Bless you

[KareBear]

Originally posted by Callisto.

They did too much on her, but honestly black hair in general is such a sensitive topic and the fact that some of you even think a black girl altering her hair is the same as a white girl altering her hair just goes to show how little you know about the topic at it's core.

This. Hair is such an issue in the black community they have no idea
Like we have so many problems with our natural hair: texture, length, everything.. especially black girls. Which is why so many wear weaves,braids, and do perm in the first place. The fact that black people even needed a Natural Hair Movement is sad in the first place. I understand where people are coming from on this but sometimes it goes too far

Originally posted by Big Smoke

How about not go the school at all?

Oh right I forgot about that. Clearly the most logical of all possible choices

[Big Smoke]

Originally posted by Kyle.

so youre okay with somebody (probably a white man) forcing children to cut their afros because it's distracting and 'ghetto'?

I never said that.

Originally posted by RatedG²

there's a line that is crossed when you tell someone that she can't wear her natural hair. It's like saying if it's a private school they could tell the girl she needs to bleach her skin or she'll be expelled. Same thing, when you tell someone they can't be who they are naturally it doesn't make it right, private or not

Again, there are other schools out there.

[Giselle]

If white people wearing dreads is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

[BabyCantYouSee]

Originally posted by Flare

THANK YOU.

It's a complex topic. It's not just "hair". If you don't understand that, you really shouldn't comment on these types of topics. It's so much deeper and so much more ingrained. Generations of issues only being barely touched on the surface in threads like this. It's not simple cut and dry. I do think though the girl is young and shouldn't have to put up with all that hate. That's the only injustice of this whole situation.

"it's not just hair" but that's the way it SHOULD be. That's what many of us are trying to uphold.