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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
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To: therightliveswithus
"...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? Living inside the Hollywood echo chamber she seems to think America loves "black culture".
What exactly IS "black culture"? Pants halfway down your butt? Dumb ass flat brim, too-big hat on sideways? Misogynistic, racist, violent, obscene, obnoxious, music? Ghetto talk? 53% High School dropout rate? 70% of black children born out of wedlock?
Because that sure does seem to be what Hollywood is putting forth as "black culture".
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posted on
04/17/2015 7:57:14 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
To: Personal Responsibility
White musicians have been appropriating black music for decades. From Elvis to Led Zeppelin to Eminem. This is nothing new. Funny line from Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of "The Horror of Party Beach": Well, they stole this music from black people, but black people were gonna throw it away anyway.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:00:37 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
To: Impala64ssa
By the same token, James Brown was a huge fan of country music, he called it "the White man's blues".
And Rap music was "culturally appropriated" from
Rock Island.
Amandla Stenberg is just another
Deffective
Unit created by the pathological left.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:05:05 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Jamestown1630
Agreed. I’ve long believed that “race” is nothing more than a social construct. Each person is an individual.
Every individual does tend to identify with a larger group. Maybe aligning oneself with a group is a survival instinct. But it’s really not much more than that (IMHO).
And braids have been worn in many different cultures since ancient times. It’s a hairstyle that doesn’t “belong” to any one group.
To: Jamestown1630
Its time that we give up this race crap, and realize that we are all the same species. I have a dream...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:10:02 PM PDT
by
Prospero
(omnis caro fenum)
To: cripplecreek
Yeah, and I’m thinking of Beyonce’s bleached blonde hair or indeed any black woman with dyed or bleached hair. .....cuts both ways little girl.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:10:57 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(Never in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
To: King Moonracer
Shes stupid on multiple levels. I'll defer to your obvious expertise.
To: therightliveswithus
Negroes who straighten their hair are appropriating white culture and that is DEMEANING to white culture, bullying as it were.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:24:45 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(it's true!)
To: digger48
“Id still need Kevin Bacon to help me figure out that connection”
Love that!
89
posted on
04/17/2015 8:25:13 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(Tell it like it is.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I thought Corn Rows was a prison thing. Any idea what they razzed him for?
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:30:52 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
To: cripplecreek
Totally agree about House of the Rising song, one of a very few songs that absolutely rocks it every single time you hear it. I just said that to hubby the other day.
They also do a fantastic version of St. James Infirmary. It’s kind of a deep track, I’ve never heard it on the radio and would probably never even have heard it at all except I had it on an album back in the day.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:37:31 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(Tell it like it is.)
To: Personal Responsibility
"white musicians"
Back when the Beatles were big in the sixties, a number of black scribblers/whiners claimed that they, the Beatles, owed their success to recording some black songs like "Twist And Shout" and some other obscure black songs.
TAS was the only cover I can remember that became a big hit for the Fab Four. They were already huge when they recorded it, and it wouldn't have made a dent in their popularity if they hadn't. Ditto for some of their other obscure black covers that never did anything.
Just another reason for black people to hate Evil Whitey...even if Evil Whitey was Evil Brit Whitey.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:38:31 PM PDT
by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: therightliveswithus
Isn't imitation the best form of flattery?
So whenever whites interact with anything black, whether embracing, avoiding or ignoring, it's racism.
What other options are there? Just asking.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:44:56 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: driftless2
They do Twist & Shout real good, and also “i saw her standing there” i am not the biggest fan,but I thing the Beatle’s version is the best.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:50:33 PM PDT
by
jocon307
(Tell it like it is.)
To: kaehurowing
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:50:46 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:51:31 PM PDT
by
When do we get liberated?
(A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
To: therightliveswithus
I wouldn’t call Wynton Marsalis playing Mozart or Hyden appropriation of white culture.
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posted on
04/17/2015 9:19:51 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Not deniable = Not falsifiable = Not science = Not even wrong.)
To: onedoug
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posted on
04/17/2015 10:11:38 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: therightliveswithus
"non-blacks wearing cornrows represent cultural appropriation"
Then black entertainers should not be allowed to play saxophones, trumpets, guitars, or pianos and organs, all creations of "white" culture. That would be "cultural appropriation."
To: therightliveswithus
How about allowing some individual freedom to wear whatever hairstyle one wants,unless job requirements dictate otherwise?
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