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Hunger Games Actress Declares Hair Styles Racist, Tied to Trayvon Martin
The Pundit Press ^
| 4/17/2015
| Thomas
Posted on 04/17/2015 5:48:49 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
In the latest part of the outrage parade, a 16 year old Hunger Games star has declared the use of certain hair styles as racist. According to Amandla Stenberg, non-blacks wearing cornrows represent cultural appropriation and slammed popular public figures for using the style in their fame.
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Buzzfeed has a particularly bizarre article relating to the video. In it, it shows stills and gifs of Stenbergs rant. In part, Stenberg declared that the rise of white rappers Macklemore and Iggy Azalea have been tied to their appropriation of black culture. She states that their increased popularity has been in part influenced by large scale protests regarding the killings of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner.
She finishes the video with what she sees as a poignant point: What would America be like if it loved black people as much as it loves black culture?
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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: crazy
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Cornrows?
To: therightliveswithus
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:51:07 PM PDT
by
lesko
To: therightliveswithus
It’s all Bo Derek’s fault!
To: therightliveswithus
White musicians have been “appropriating” black music for decades. From Elvis to Led Zeppelin to Eminem. This is nothing new. She should learn some history and stop trying to sound cool by using the latest outrage catchphrase.
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:52:57 PM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal by any other name...)
To: therightliveswithus
Even if f I’d heard of any of them, I’d still need Kevin Bacon to help me figure out that connection
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:53:42 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: therightliveswithus
What would America be like if it loved black people as much as it loves black culture?
I have zero use for "Black Culture", I love many fine black people who happen to be great Americans who aren't fixated with their race.
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:53:57 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: therightliveswithus
When white people appropriate black culture, it demeans them.
When black people appropriate while culture, it elevates them.
It's the difference between Miley Cyrus and Clarence Thomas.
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:55:29 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
To: therightliveswithus
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:55:48 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Clearly Cruz 2016)
To: therightliveswithus
And speaking of cultural appropriation, put yer damn hands down.
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:56:05 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: therightliveswithus
Says the girl wearing hair style, makeup style, and fashion style originating in white culture.
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:56:11 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: therightliveswithus
I got news for that little kid, corn rows don’t help their body odor. They don’t wash those braids.
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:56:12 PM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: therightliveswithus
Another actor who just can’t shut up and act. Now she has polarized herself and her audience will have to choose sides - bad for business.
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:56:47 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: therightliveswithus
Looks like braided hair from all those mideival films, right?
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:57:13 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Clearly Cruz 2016)
To: kaehurowing
I don’t recall seeing cornrows before Bo Derek did it.
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posted on
04/17/2015 5:58:55 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: therightliveswithus
So are black people acting white and speaking without a negro dialect “Uppity”?
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posted on
04/17/2015 6:01:19 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: therightliveswithus
Don’t see her standing up for Mohawk Indians.
To: therightliveswithus
Another disciple of the racist revRunts...
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posted on
04/17/2015 6:02:44 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
To: Kirkwood
I was going to say the exact same thing! I deem her relaxing her hair every 4-6 weeks, curling her bangs with a curling iron and pulling her hair back (probably with a pink scrunchie) is racist against the white culture.
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posted on
04/17/2015 6:04:00 PM PDT
by
ebersole
To: therightliveswithus
non-blacks wearing cornrows represent cultural appropriationWhat does this asshat think of black women appropriating white straighter hair...
... and white narrower noses?
To: therightliveswithus
Yeah...it couldn’t be a celebration of cultural sharing...
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posted on
04/17/2015 6:04:40 PM PDT
by
EBH
(And the angel poured out his cup...)
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