Pitzer College RA tells white people not to wear hoop earrings

Campus Reform ^ | 3.7.17 | Elliot Dordick

[ItsOnlyDaryl]

A wall on the side of a Pitzer College dormitory devoted to unmoderated free speech through art (colloquially named “the free wall”), was recently painted by a group of Latino students with the message, “White Girl, take off your [hoop earrings]!!!”

When one white student expressed confusion about the message, Alegria Martinez, a Pitzer College Resident Assistant (RA) and active member of the “Latinx Student Union,” responded in an email thread sent to the entire student body:

“The black and brown bodies who typically wear hooped earrings...are not taken seriously by others.” Tweet This

“The art was created by myself and a few other WOC [women of color] after being tired and annoyed with the reoccuring [sic] theme of white women appropriating styles … that belong to the black and brown folks who created the culture,” she wrote. “The culture actually comes from a historical background of oppression and exclusion.”

[DoughtyOne]

Those folks look so damned unhappy on university campuses.

Expel them and let some kids in that actually want to be there and are willing to contribute to campus life in a positive manner.

[Vaquero]

Only college educated smart people can be so stupid.

Only true If you consider stupid college grads those who have take majors like:

Sociology and Anthropology
Art
Black Studies
gender studies
Women's studies
(And the list of crappy majors goes on)

[Kenny500c]

Everybody, regardless of color or sexual identity, gender identification, etc. please take off you nose earring it looks like a bugger.

[Yaelle]

Wow, your lip hoop is so cool! Do you kiss with it in? Is it noisy? Can it hold a teacup? I have to go get one! ;)

[faithhopecharity]

$66,192 per year to send Johnny to Pitzger ... and that leaves him penniless all year, too

[leaning conservative]

Just deciding which hoops to wear tomorrow ; )

[Leep]

Non-whites need to stop appropriating electricity, telegraphs, automobiles.....

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

That’s too bad.

I’m sorry for you.

[Yaelle]

Sad. I hope she comes around. Remember: she is in the rumspringa years (Amish) when the family allows the new adult to try out anything and everything, and over 80% return to their strong Amish culture. I believed that crap in college too, for a while. Save a place in your heart.

[mjp]

white women appropriating styles … that belong to the black and brown folks who created the culture,”

you should be grateful that your lousy culture has something that is actually worth copying by white people

[Caipirabob]

Well, it’s only fair that the people insisting on this don’t use toilet paper, soap, running water, hygienic products or electricity. Cultural appropriation and all that.

[ameribbean expat]

Okay, right after Michelle Obama quits using hair straightener.

[King Moonracer]

If that RA didn’t appropriate my culture she’d be swinging from a vine or living in a cave.

[rockrr]

Apparently they no longer teach the word “hypocrisy” in school.

(Dittos on “Irony” as well)

[freedumb2003]

Who appropriated from whom?

I could do this all day.

[heterosupremacist]

Yaelle to heterosupremacist

Wow, your lip hoop is so cool! Yes ~ Do you kiss with it in? ~ No. ~ Is it noisy? ~ Only at feeding time. ~ Can it hold a teacup? ~ Yes. ~ I have to go get one! ;) ~ NO!!! ~

[x1stcav]

Good advice,

Thanks.

[mylife]

Keep whining.

[wgmalabama]

They were taught that they mattered. No one matters unless you give them power to control you. Beyond that, psychosis!

[unlearner]

“And ethnos shall rise again ethnos.”

I did not know this. Thanks for sharing it.