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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: angry elephant

And we shouldn’t forget guns. Guns are not african. They are oppressive instruments of white people.


61 posted on 04/17/2015 6:49:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: King Moonracer

That adds nothing to the discussion.


62 posted on 04/17/2015 6:51:09 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (PS I live north of San Diego. Come & get me.)
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To: kalee

Whiskey in the jar was an old Irish drinking song.

Thin Lizzy version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TehFZ38kt6o#t=74

Metallica Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boanuwUMNNQ


63 posted on 04/17/2015 6:54:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: therightliveswithus
You name it, it's racist. People have become desensitized to genuine instances of racism.
64 posted on 04/17/2015 6:54:58 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Jamestown1630
one could walk down the aisles of a drug or grocery store, and see a whole aisle devoted to hair-straightening or skin-bleaching stuff, for the Black folks; and go down other aisles full of sun-tanning stuff and perms for the White folks.

Yes, indeed, and the aisles of the drugstores haven't changed at all. lol

Reminds me of an old joke song that used to be on the radio in the 80's - The lyrics went, "White people want to be black, and black people want to be white."

This young girl seems to have put a history report online. That's what it looks like to me. She's only 16, and she's of mixed heritage herself: Her mother is black American and her father is Danish.

65 posted on 04/17/2015 6:56:01 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Sure it does. She’s pissing and moaning over a smelly hairstyle. She’s stupid on multiple levels.


66 posted on 04/17/2015 6:57:31 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: kaehurowing

John Derek was one luck man!


67 posted on 04/17/2015 7:00:12 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Tired of Taxes

Well, in the process of growing up, we all ‘explore’ and sometimes expound ignorantly.

Fortunately, mostly, we DO grow up :-)

-JT


68 posted on 04/17/2015 7:00:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: kaehurowing

To #3. BO KNOWS! Bo Derek looks great in anything, or nothing. Bo Jackson rules.

This actress, whoever she is, is a fool and continually proves it.

It’s a weekend. Time to go get my wife a Turkey Club sandwich on real rye.

I’ve got to go find a 1965 declaration of “Wars Of Liberation” speech by a Red Chinese leader, against the West.

Meanwhile, my cats say about this actress and cornrows - Hey that’s where we take a wizz.


69 posted on 04/17/2015 7:01:26 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: Jamestown1630

Exactly.

I still cringe at the things I said when I was 16. Or even at 22. lol


70 posted on 04/17/2015 7:02:22 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: dead
Stringbean was O.G. (Original Gangsta)

:-)

71 posted on 04/17/2015 7:05:03 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: GeronL
Idiocy speaks

I was going to say " A 16 year old know-nothing presumes to lecture others." But your version is more succinct.

72 posted on 04/17/2015 7:06:17 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Truth29
Another actor who just can’t shut up and act. Now she has polarized herself and her audience will have to choose sides - bad for business.

Speaking of which, I hear Liam Neeson is having a down period. Whoda thunk opening your big yap and opining on issues that have nothing to do with you could hurt your appeal?

73 posted on 04/17/2015 7:08:13 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Tired of Taxes

The most interesting thing to me, about the drugstore shelves, is that it proves that we are all Individuals.

Marketing is smart, and fact-based.

No matter what silly ideas academics try to put into peoples’ heads, people are still individuals, and will ‘go their own way’, following their own dreams and perceptions. That’s the genius of being Human Individuals.

The concept of ‘Race’ is just a social construct.

(Damn. I’ve become a post-modernist, and didn’t even know it :-)

-JT


74 posted on 04/17/2015 7:10:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: cripplecreek

I love old mountain music and exploring its roots. I have a dulcimer that I have been learning to play but I have a difficult time finding time for practice. My children roll their eyes when I put in the Jean Ritchie CDs. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1dZB63gwcQ


75 posted on 04/17/2015 7:13:04 PM PDT by kalee
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To: kalee

I used to live in Evart Michigan where they have the big Dulcimer festival every year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzTN5CvtkgQ


76 posted on 04/17/2015 7:16:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: therightliveswithus

Her hairstyle in the shideo she made is not “naturally black” It’s probably a wig anyway, or at least 60% fake...What a little hypocrite.


77 posted on 04/17/2015 7:21:35 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: cripplecreek; onedoug

Thanks for the link.


78 posted on 04/17/2015 7:25:34 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: therightliveswithus

I declare Black men who shave their heads appropriating the culture of “Old balding White men”! Has this child ever heard off Bo Derek who had a cornrow hairstyle in a movie called “10” and there was no outcry of racism because no one was such a ridiculous little twit! Oh yeah it was before she was born And Bo Derek was a Conservative and a “10” while she’s an idiot and just a 5 or 6.


79 posted on 04/17/2015 7:35:04 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: therightliveswithus

We’re safe. Only a wigger would wear such a ghetto hairstyle anyway. Let the thugs waste them for all I care.


80 posted on 04/17/2015 7:47:45 PM PDT by IronJack
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