Cultural appropriation

Poop – hit send too soon. Men run the house, the senate, the Supreme Court. Don’t tell me the world is stacked against men.

PS — unless the person screaming at the braided child was some angry Dutch woman, than the whole incident that started this thread is simply and utterly preposterous… But even then, I’d tell that person to “Get a grip.” Oh, and to “Fuck right off.”

I’m…boy is this an ignorant conversation. Braids have been around Europe and all over the world forever. It’s hair. Your saying if I braid my hair and walk around with braids I’m trying to be black? Why is that? Cultural appropriation is such a stupid term. Hair is hair…do what you want with it. A certain minority or majority of people don’t OWN anything. So toxic and bullying.

@Tina louise, no, that it not at all what is being said. What’s being said is the African American community has been told time and again that braids and corn rows aren’t professional or appropriate, but when a white woman (Kardashian/Jenner) do it it’s edgy and high fashion.

This thread got reawakened so I read it, and it’s a little gross to have cultural appropriation try and be dismissed by white people who aren’t vilified in this country. White privilege is a thing, as someone who is a white passing Latina I very clearly see both sides of that coin.

sometimes it’s ok to listen to what people are telling you instead of automatically trying to tell them why they are wrong.

@Kate – I agree, it’s scary