Hunger Games Actress Declares Hair Styles Racist, Tied to Trayvon Martin

The Pundit Press ^ | 4/17/2015 | Thomas

[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?”

[onedoug]

‘Guess one’s gotta stay warm. But to be a revolutionary would be to be a true revolutionary.

[ozzymandus]

You can’t fix stupid. And who cares what some 16-yr old girl thinks, anyway?

[kalee]

Oooohhhh, I would like to go to that!

[trebb]

Mush in - mush out. The “integration of young minds” is almost complete....

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

HE, a black man, was the ONLY man they had ever seen them on.

So I guess blacks can razz other blacks about their hair style unmercifully!

[MaxMax]

Ahh, so it’s a woman’s hair style? That makes sense.

[Jamestown1630]

This thread reminded me last night of a Baltimore hairdresser who has made a project of re-creating ancient hairstyles as they appear in works of art; what she’s done is fascinating:

http://www.livescience.com/26112-oldest-roman-hairstyle-recreated.html

I can’t imagine sitting still for the long hairstyling processes that lots of women go through today to get those fancy braids; but apparently we’ve been doing it forever ;-)

-JT

[Tired of Taxes]

Good find. :-)

Braids used to be very popular in modern-day America, too, especially when I was growing up. We wore all types of braids, such as the French braid, pigtails, little braids hidden in long hair, etc.

Also, I remember women with straight hair sometimes braiding their wet hair into multiple braids so that it would dry with some wave added to it. Those of us with frizzy hair would braid our wet hair to dry that way, too.

[Jamestown1630]

I probably first found it on FR ;-)

-JT