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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So they take and take and take from successful cultures but won’t share. How niggardly. The definition of niggardly.
Cornrows are not a big deal. Had a black roommate in college that put his hair in cornrows every night. meh. What about all the black women I see everyday that have blonde or red hair? With these idiots line of reason, then these must be racist also. This country is full of idiots. No wonder we are in the shape we are.
It’s “A-Otay!”
Concealed weapon? That thing looks loaded. Nassss-T
Was he complaining about appropriation in English? When he starts talking Swahili maybe I’ll take him seriously.
JMHO
THIS CULTURAL THEFT MUST STOP!
Even Hillary Is Stealing Black Culture !
Dancing Black While Wearing A Mao Tse-tung Tunic
You are correct. BTW, I’ve never seen one of their episodes and never click on the8. They are everywhere and in your face.
Blacks are their demographic that watch that trash show of their’s!
I haven’t either..but as you say they’re all over the place....and nobody has any idea why? They do nothing at all but pose.
I do believe the black community likes to model themselves after them though....gosh we see this in every manner shape and form among them.
I agree with BLM on this....Go after ‘em, guys!
PC EATS FAT AZZZ!
New title.
There are many tens of millions of very shallow people (HRC fans) who follow these type of people.
So sick of thie BLM BS.
Fine. Don’t allow blacks to use ANYTHING invented by white Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, or ‘latinos.’
Run around in your animal skins. Don’t use electricity. Don’t drink purified water. Forego all medicine except what the local witch doctor will give you. No steal allowed. NO plastics allowed. No gun powder for you. No writing. No paper.
Stop appropriating ‘white’ culture. If you want to go live free from white people as ‘you’ did 3000 years ago go move back to Haiti or the Congo. It hasn’t changed much.
White people have been doing that for 2000 years.
A real Afro can look downright beautiful on a woman; in particular, a girl I dated while back.
Her butt is so hairy she can make boxer braids there.
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