Posted on 08/13/2016 8:31:18 AM PDT by rktman
A prominent Black Lives Matter activist said celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Chrissy Teigen are misappropriating black style and disrespecting the black community when they wear their hair in “boxer braids.”
“Boxer braids” is the new term for cornrows — a hairstyle that black women and men have worn for hundreds of years. But, Shanelle Matthews, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist who has led communications for the group since January, criticized the Kardashians for sporting the hairstyle.
“Banking on blackness is a shameful enterprise, and the Kardashians are no better than racist judges, prison officials and corporations who make money off the incarceration of black bodies,” Matthews told The Daily Caller.
Matthews said black hair is “ritualistic, a sacred experience black women share with one another dating back to pre-colonial times.”
“[Celebrities] are earning by mimicking our looks, some of which we are berated for wearing in public,” she said.
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I cannot post it, but there is a meme with Cankles in corn rows.
What about Kim’s big ass? Is that natural?
“Banking on blackness is a shameful enterprise...”
Which does not in the least prevent Shanelle from
doing it.
Just more “Black Privilege”.
All depends on your definition of the term ‘natural’.
Vitamin stores use it all the time.
Isn’t it cultural appropriation when black women wear hair hats made from the hair of white an Asian women?
What does that mean???
some of which we are berated for wearing in public,” she said.
Who is berating you, dearie? Step away from the crack pipe.
Haters gonna hate. These “stars” are just adopting the “faux negro” style of Rachel Dolezal, that’s all. She self -identifies as a black... uh.. female, I guess. That’s perfectly acceptable in Mondo Bizarro 2016.
I don’t understand why all the black guys they go out with always have to be rich and famous.../s
Maybe it’s not about black but more about finding a rich a guy who will actually have them. Speaks volumes about their character or lack thereof.
You gotto admit that looks better than a ‘fro any day...
I am torn here because i can’t stand either one of them.
Michelle Obama is racist for wearing those straight haired wigs. Repeat that far and wide. Michelle Obama is racist for wearing straight haired wigs. Michelle Obama is racist for wearing straight haired wigs.
Boxer braids? Uh, hmm, boxers are underwear.......
Bookmark under stupid
Black style?
She probably has a white parent or grandparent. No one is appropriating anything anymore as the U.S. is such a melting pot.
This is also an inner racial issue.
said the fake blond while appropriating white technology to pizz, whine and moan about it
Then every black who straigtens their hair is racist.
Are you a black that wears pants? racist!
Black that uses deoderant? racist!
ect.
Uh, Kim’s married to a black man. I think a few of the others have been heavily involved or married to black men.
They are racists, yet they love black. And we all know, once you go black.....
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