Ice-T Defends Coco After the Internet Comes for Her for Wearing Cornrows

[ArsenalCannon357]

bo derek!

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Who the fuck cares? I recall when African Americans used to mock Africans for those braids. Now it's cultural appropriation. From who? White Americans need to adopt genuine African names and you can them out on that. GTFOH.

what the fuck are you talkin about?? when was this??

 

[man-machine]

This is big with younger activists-- A lot of Black Lives Matter organizers would treat this as an affront.

One could argue that her name for her hairstyle is appropriation but some of these people are so extreme in their cultural oversensitivity that they really think it is an outrage that a white woman braided her hair. I say learn to pick your battles. Save your fire for fights that matter and don't discredit yourself by being the boy that cries wolf at the sight of every passing puppy or raccoon.

When Black women stop...

Lightening their skin (Yeah that's still a thing in some circles)
Perming / Straightening their hair.
Buying euro/Indian Hair weaves

Then we can talk...

Otherwise accept the reality that we live in a melting pot. Cultural intermixing is a fact of life and key to any societies long term survival.

 

[The Plutonian]

She basically is doing what Bo Derek did in the 70s. I see no big deal.

Ahem for the older guys.... Of which I am one... You'd be lying if you didn't like Bo Derek back in the day. And Linda Carter old boozing ass. Just saying

 

[Art Vandelay]

 

[gene cisco]

Shit is getting crazy these days. It's hard to keep up with all the bullshit. The far left and the far right are the masters of hypocrisy.

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

While,there are more important issues in our community,white folks love to tell us we can't have certain hair styles and tell us our hair styles look bad.Yet,they have no problem wearing the hair styles they hate and act like they created it.


I posted a story last year about a South African school made rule that black girls isn't allowed to wear dreads,braids and etc....wtf


http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...e-at-pretoria-girls-high-south-africa.911797/


Ice-T needs to check his bitch

 

[Art Vandelay]

Shit is getting crazy these days. It's hard to keep up with all the bullshit. The far left and the far right are the masters of hypocrisy.

It's bullshit to compare the two. The far right owns their party, for starters, while the far left has been marginalized for over 40 years. It's like saying Scrooge McDuck and Oscar the Grouch are both masters of being selfish.

Also, this false equivalency suggests, usually intentionally, that the right answer is the commonsense middle ground position that works for most, which seldom actually exists that way in reality.

 

[Art Vandelay]

While,there are more important issues in our community,white folks love to tell us we can't have certain hair styles and tell us our hair styles look bad.Yet,they have no problem wearing the hair styles they hate and act like they created it.


I posted a story last year about a South African school made rule that black girls isn't allowed to wear dreads,braids and etc....wtf


http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...e-at-pretoria-girls-high-south-africa.911797/


Ice-T needs to check his bitch

How do you check yourself to make sure you're not appropriating other cultures?

 

[gene cisco]

It's bullshit to compare the two. The far right owns their party, for starters, while the far left has been marginalized for over 40 years. It's like saying Scrooge McDuck and Oscar the Grouch are both masters of being selfish.

Also, this false equivalency suggests, usually intentionally, that the right answer is the commonsense middle ground position that works for most, which seldom actually exists that way in reality.

Cut the shit. Comparing the far left of now to even the far left of even 10-15 years ago is insane. Far right has owned batshit and been on bully shit, and now the far left has done the same. The far left has taken from the book of the far right. If you don't agree with their bullshit there is no fucking compromise.

Both sides show no signs of common fucking sense these days.

It used to be about ending systematic racism and equality, but now the far left is on some get down(with any fucking terms they make up) and lay down shit. If you don't agree, you are (insert)phobic or just don't get it.

 

[bgbtylvr]

SHit it whack no matter who wears it. Rock your natural hair.

 

[Ceenote]

I could care less bout him or his fake ass wanna b black bitchaint worth two dead flies!

 

[PDQ21]

While,there are more important issues in our community,white folks love to tell us we can't have certain hair styles and tell us our hair styles look bad.Yet,they have no problem wearing the hair styles they hate and act like they created it.


I posted a story last year about a South African school made rule that black girls isn't allowed to wear dreads,braids and etc....wtf


http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?...e-at-pretoria-girls-high-south-africa.911797/


Ice-T needs to check his bitch

For what she not one of the ladies on the school board preventing the kids from wearing braids she a white hoe following trends, like tweaking online

 

[Kaotic]

I don't even really care for Becky's like that, but this shit is plumb dumb... Black women spend over $5 Billion a year on fake hair, other people's hair, blonde / red hair dye to put on their heads.. much of it European looking..for which they make up all kinds of names for... but there is internet uproar over a white woman wearing braids...

 

[mark115]

Acting like they invented cornrows is no different than acting like they built the Pyramids ....

It matters when you consider double standards; Bo Derrick is sexy and vogue in her cornrows but your daughter is ghetto and unprofessional.

The context of fashion and hair ect shouldn't be dismissed. Its problematic for black women because it effects beauty standards. And we all know how the world sees them

 

[ronmch20]

Whites generally don't like blacks, but they love our style and feel entitled to copy. That is their right to emulate but I don't have to like it. Our cultural identity is diluted everytime they do.
Those of us who see nothing wrong with cultural appropriation by white people need to rethink their position, imo.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

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