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.)
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That is why black people get angry. When black girls wear these styles they get ridiculed for not assimilating into white culture but when white girls wear black hairstyles they get praised for it. Its the double standard that is the issue here but I see everyone here doing the most to try to avoid acknowledging the crux of the issue.
This thread is still open? People are doing the most with being fake offended, and thinking they're experts on race/racism.
Last thing I gotta say is if us black gorls can "appropriate" Brazilian, Indian and Malaysians for our hair weaves and box braids without being racist than this little white girl can wear ha braids too
A couple of pages later and people are STILL saying this nonsense.
Not to take away from the black american struggle, but I'm black and can honestly say I haven't personally experienced very much racism.
But I guess that has to do with the area that I live in.
I empathize with this. I was born in a predominantly black city and then moved to a predominantly white city and have faced no racism other than a international (the word would be fob but thats offensive) korean guy calling me a n*gga because he thought we (black people) used that word all the time. I feel like all these people claiming racism and trying to throw facts and experiences in people's face havent even experienced racism extremes they are describing and are just repeating what they read on tumblr. Its like "oppression brainwashing"
seethe, Tumblr, seeeeeeeeethe. I love watching people turn furious and red over nothing. These keyboard commandos need to stop. This girl can wear her hair how she pleases.
A couple of pages later and people are STILL saying this nonsense.
Y'all are hopeless.
Girl I'm making a joke. Because calling this cultural appropriation or being angry at this girl for wearing a common black hair style is so over the top. She isn't appropriating anything
And as I explained before I understand the logic but people are being angry and sensitive over nothing with this.
That's not what I meant. This outrage is obviously uncalled for, but looking through the pages I see several people trying to extrapolate this into the typical "black people over-react to everything" mantra.
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It's feeling like psychological torture, esp against the backdrop of state-sanctioned murder and the #BlackLivesMatter movement...…our bodies, our music, our fashion, our lips, our hair…everything about us is ripe for the picking by people WHO DO NOT TREAT US WELL.
@melaninbarbie 15h15 hours ago
There is a deep complex reason why black women do not want white women in hair styles associated with our culture.
@90210lovato 17h17 hours ago (a white gay)
11yo mayo appropriates black culture with corn colored box braids and half of twitter doesn't see an issue i gtg
@laurensjauregui 18h18 hours ago
this 14 yo girl wearing box braids and acting like she isnt appropriating black culture GOD whites are so annoying
@QueenIdle 19h19 hours ago
"War over some braids" Box braids are black culture. We have almost nothing for ourselves. It matters to us.
@vindictivemuse 19h19 hours ago
BLACK CULTURE IS NOT WHITE CULTURE. AS MUCH AS I LOVE BLACK CULTURE I KNOW IT IS NOT MINE TO BE HAD. STOP WITH THE BRAIDS WHITE GIRLS.
@sanyulukwago 4m4 minutes ago
@pukestagram box braids are black culture and the basis of the arguments were that culturally black hairstyles are considered unprofessional and ghetto on black girls, but praised on white girls. it wasn't about feminism.
Just gunna leave this here and watch people ignore it.
Not really relevant though, because a girl at my school (white) had huge curly hair that couldn't be tied up without causing pain, so they forced her to cut it short or straighten it.
She basically had a curly mop for high school, and finally grew it out when she left school.
It's not a racial thing, it's schools having neat hair. It's ignorant entirely, but it's not a racial thing.
That's not what this thread or any of my posts are about.
I'm saying essentially, do you think a black woman could get away with wearing box braids or dreads to her corporate America job over a white woman trying the same thing?
I'm black. What these people are doing is ridiculous, If what this girl is doing is wrong then every black girl/woman should rock only afro hair and braids all the time. No blond or red weaves, infact no weaves period since that it is appropriating someone else culture and it's wrong.
without being racist than this little white girl can wear ha braids too 
seethe, Tumblr, seeeeeeeeethe. I love watching people turn furious and red over nothing. These keyboard commandos need to stop. This girl can wear her hair how she pleases. 
