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'Hunger Games' star calls out Kylie Jenner over cornrows selfie
Metro International ^ | July 13, 2015

Posted on 07/15/2015 5:39:16 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Stenberg left this piquant comment on Jenner's Instagram post: "When you appropriate black features and culture but fail to use your position of power to help black Americans by directing attention towards your wigs instead of police brutality or racism," followed by the hashtag "white girls do it better." Ouch.

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KEYWORDS: cornrows; jenner; race; stenberg
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While I am not familiar with any of these individuals nor did I watch the movie/TV show mentioned, I do think this is evidence over the dumbing down and trashiness of our society and is equally an issue in which pop culture has destroyed the minds of so many.
1 posted on 07/15/2015 5:39:17 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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Why does said individual feel entitled to having Kylie do anything for them?


2 posted on 07/15/2015 5:42:47 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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“but fail to use your position of power to help black Americans...”

I guess because whites have “privilege” and as a universal demographic lack any problem significant or otherwise.


3 posted on 07/15/2015 5:45:27 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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OK. As long as any black woman who straightens her hair gets down on her knees and grovels for forgiveness from all the people of color of the world with the rest of us privileged whites.


4 posted on 07/15/2015 5:46:49 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: ConservativeStatement

Why even bring it up?


5 posted on 07/15/2015 5:47:30 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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If we still had a concept like shame in American society, Kylie Jenner would feel ashamed of herself. Who is Kylie Jenner? What is Hunger Games?

More importantly - why is it trendy all of a sudden to pretend to be a black? Would any white save for an ignorant Hollywood douchebag actually trade their race for theirs?

6 posted on 07/15/2015 5:48:34 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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Can we just gather all the Kardashians and Jenners in one house and have a meteorite hit it and wipe them all out, is that too much to ask?


7 posted on 07/15/2015 5:48:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Try this on:

Since youre black and also good at math, I require you to take up YACHTING, AND you have to vote for Trump.

I wonder how that would go over, huh..?


8 posted on 07/15/2015 5:49:11 AM PDT by gaijin
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I didn't even know who Kylie Jenner is until this story. I'll probably have forgotten her by lunchtime today. However, I thing Stenberg et. al. need to just lighten the {expletive} up. Not everything is about symbolism, politics, race, "message" etc... Sometimes, gasp, people just do stuff and it means absolutely nothing.

I realize that is a concept that is nearly impossible for liberals to comprehend. They are so inured to labeling everyone and assigning blame/offense/banning anything they don't approve of...

9 posted on 07/15/2015 5:50:47 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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> “but fail to use your position of power to help black Americans...”

I guess because whites have “privilege” and as a universal demographic lack any problem significant or otherwise.

Why do they feel so underprivileged when they are given EBT cards, free healthcare, assiststance with housing costs, affirmative action that provides them an opportunity to take a job away from the white man, etc... Will anything ever be enough? Of course not. Until many of them get rid of the notion that anyone owes them anything they will still be slaves in their own mind.


10 posted on 07/15/2015 5:52:26 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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And leave Honey Boo Boo living?


11 posted on 07/15/2015 5:52:51 AM PDT by xp38
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The bumper sticker “Stop making stupid people famous” applies.


12 posted on 07/15/2015 5:52:55 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Throw them in as well.


13 posted on 07/15/2015 5:53:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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bingo. or anyone who who colors their hair or weave blonde


14 posted on 07/15/2015 5:57:53 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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Stenberg left this piquant comment on Jenner's Instagram post: "When you appropriate black features and culture but fail to use your position of power to help black Americans by directing attention towards your wigs instead of police brutality or racism," followed by the hashtag "white girls do it better." Ouch.

Stenberg played Rue in Hunger Games. I'm going to ask this, what has she done to improve the lot of black people? How much has she given them? Has she checked her celebrity privilege at the door and set aside her prejudices to help?

15 posted on 07/15/2015 6:00:34 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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This Stenberg person was not a “Star” in the Hunger Games movie.She had a supporting role,but she’s NOT a major part of the movie.Stenberg makes these kind of remarks from time to time as a form of self-promotion,but her career is stuck.


16 posted on 07/15/2015 6:03:02 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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WOW. Racist hair doos. Just wait until crackuhs start wearing weaves.

I have a bald head. Is that disrespectful to all the black men with bald heads?


17 posted on 07/15/2015 6:05:07 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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I made the mistake of following the link. I lost three minutes of my life that I’ll never get back. After seeing the childishness displayed by the various participants’ comments, my IQ dropped 10 points and I feel the need for a shower to wash it all away.

Does anything like this article really need to be posted on FR? Should we even be giving them any publicity? If they, and their inane comments are ignored, perhaps they’ll just go away.


18 posted on 07/15/2015 6:06:26 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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The first time I ever saw cornrows was in 1979, on a white woman, Bo Derek, in “10”.


19 posted on 07/15/2015 6:06:29 AM PDT by zlala
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And don’t forget all those middle aged bully “housewives!”


20 posted on 07/15/2015 6:06:41 AM PDT by FES0844
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