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Hunger Games Actress Declares Hair Styles Racist, Tied to Trayvon Martin
The Pundit Press ^ | 4/17/2015 | Thomas

Posted on 04/17/2015 5:48:49 PM PDT by 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?”

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To: Kirkwood

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


101 posted on 04/17/2015 11:00:07 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: therightliveswithus

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


102 posted on 04/17/2015 11:07:00 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: cripplecreek

Oooohhhh, I would like to go to that!


103 posted on 04/18/2015 1:42:26 AM PDT by kalee
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To: therightliveswithus

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


104 posted on 04/18/2015 4:31:39 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MaxMax

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!


105 posted on 04/18/2015 7:30:30 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( BEWARE the EVIL EYE from HILLARY!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

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


106 posted on 04/18/2015 7:45:47 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: Tired of Taxes; SunkenCiv

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


107 posted on 04/18/2015 7:55:02 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

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.


108 posted on 04/18/2015 11:20:41 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

I probably first found it on FR ;-)

-JT


109 posted on 04/18/2015 1:31:19 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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