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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 Stenberg’s 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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To: therightliveswithus

The aging flatulence in me wishes the twerps would just shut up and act for their audiences, and leave the rest of us alone.

I always knew I would get old, but I always hoped I wouldn’t get grumpy. It becomes more difficult by the day.


21 posted on 04/17/2015 6:05:18 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: therightliveswithus

What would america be like if blacks weren’t so incredibly violent and constantly playing the victim and race cards?


22 posted on 04/17/2015 6:11:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: therightliveswithus
She's racist. Where does she think cornrows come from?

Yes. White people.


23 posted on 04/17/2015 6:14:06 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Personal Responsibility
White musicians have been “appropriating” black music for decades.
By the same token, James Brown was a huge fan of country music, he called it "the White man's blues".
24 posted on 04/17/2015 6:14:09 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: chajin

That makes two of us. ;-)


25 posted on 04/17/2015 6:14:12 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: therightliveswithus

I guess blacks will stop straightening their hair, dyeing their hair, and having surgeries on their noses, to look “more white” then. Perhaps they wil all stop wearing european style clothing, so no more sneakers, jeans, pants, and basebalcaps. That is apropriation of non-african cultural norms.


26 posted on 04/17/2015 6:15:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: therightliveswithus

 ‘cultural appropriation’

Oh sure, like blacks using indoor toilets.


27 posted on 04/17/2015 6:15:18 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: kaehurowing
It’s all Bo Derek’s fault!

LOL! She's the first person to come to mind when I think of cornrows.

28 posted on 04/17/2015 6:16:34 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Personal Responsibility

Amazing. Rock, country music, classical music, and opera is racist, and if white people listen to any other music it is expropriation of the culture of oppressed peoples.

I listed to metal, and as a result I have been at times called a white supremacist (when half the members of the band Suffocation is black).


29 posted on 04/17/2015 6:17:03 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: therightliveswithus
Ghetto culture - pants on the ground and bling, was completely appropriated from String Bean on Hee Haw.

Stringbean - Cripple Creek (Opry 1950's)

30 posted on 04/17/2015 6:17:45 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: therightliveswithus

So blacks can’t pull up their pants because they think it would be against whites and “culture appropriation”? Gee. Never knew.


31 posted on 04/17/2015 6:18:22 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Lizavetta

Okrah used to Straighten and CONK her hair...as it was called,,,,

thas RACESS ??


32 posted on 04/17/2015 6:18:46 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: therightliveswithus

So this ditz has a problem with Whites emulating Blacks? Insinuating that if Whites wea their hair like Blacks and have a taste for “Black foods”, watermelon, fried chicken, etc. it’s somehow racist? OK, then if she eats bagels, matzohs, blintzes, macaroons, etc. can I call her anti-Semetic? Hey, Amandla, listen up, kiddo, no matter how empowered it makes you feel, getting offended for the sake of getting offended is no way to go through life.


33 posted on 04/17/2015 6:19:03 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The Ebony Hillbillies. They’re really quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-27Yzmfu-w


34 posted on 04/17/2015 6:19:25 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Impala64ssa

Exactly my point. Musicians borrow from each other all the time and have been for decades.


35 posted on 04/17/2015 6:22:09 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal by any other name...)
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To: Personal Responsibility
White musicians have been “appropriating” black music for decades. From Elvis to Led Zeppelin to Eminem. This is nothing new.

That may be true, but "black" music didn't come into being from scratch. The inventors of the blues used "white" music and "white" instruments, made an adjustment and created their own variation (blues). Then white people took that variation, used it, tweaked it and made their own variation (hard rock). And on and on back and forth. That's the way civilizations work. That's also why the blues could only have been invented in the USA. Africans didn't play guitars. Nobody gets to claim to be the originator of anything in this world, except God.
36 posted on 04/17/2015 6:26:39 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: cripplecreek

As an American of Italian descent I protest EVERY black gangster film ever made, especially New Jack City, and I also protest Empire, which is clearly a poor man’s Godfather. What an idiot she is. Do blacks do ANYTHIG besides cry anymore. Like John Turturro said in State of Grace, “I thought you west side boys were so tough”. Turns out they are just crybabies. Great movie by the way :)


37 posted on 04/17/2015 6:28:01 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: fr_freak

Black Betty was a Leadbelly song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjyuDYtAtk


38 posted on 04/17/2015 6:28:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: dead

But isn’t String Bean’s banjo based on an African instrument?


39 posted on 04/17/2015 6:28:07 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Secret Agent Man

I guess blacks will stop straightening their hair, dyeing their hair, and having surgeries on their noses, to look “more white” then. Perhaps they wil all stop wearing european style clothing, so no more sneakers, jeans, pants, and basebalcaps. That is apropriation of non-african cultural norms.”

And the blacks can give up riding in cars, trains and planes. Stop watching TV, playing stereos, using electricity and all computers, tablets and phones.


40 posted on 04/17/2015 6:29:57 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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