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Why a Hairstyle Made Headlines (4 Bag Barf Alert)
The Washingtpn Post and Drudge ^ | 7 April 06 | Robin Givhan

Posted on 04/08/2006 4:19:46 AM PDT by SkyPilot

When Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) summoned the media to Howard University last week to tell her side of the story in an altercation with a Capitol Police officer, she assumed the traditional news conference position behind a podium and a bank of microphones.

She stood there wearing a coral-colored jacket and dangling earrings and raising the serious issue of racial injustice. But it was impossible not to stare at her hair. As your plainspoken mother might say, it appeared to be standing all over her head.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congresswoman; hairstyle; mckinney; racist
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To: Caipirabob
I'm here all week people. Try the veal!
21 posted on 04/08/2006 4:46:24 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SkyPilot

22 posted on 04/08/2006 4:46:39 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: cyborg
Fabulaxer, ah yes! Just saw King's X the other night, and although this a really old photo (like 20 years old), Doug Pinnick still has the coolest black hair ever.


23 posted on 04/08/2006 4:46:43 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Join the FR folding team!! http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120)
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To: Caipirabob

struck with a frying pan


24 posted on 04/08/2006 4:46:57 AM PDT by cyborg (I just love that man.)
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To: Caipirabob
:lobs tomato in Caipirabob general direction:
25 posted on 04/08/2006 4:47:59 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Sign up to donate monthly and you will be automatically entered in our "Win a Bear Hug Contest")
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To: SkyPilot

It looked like doll hair, and I don't mean a brand new doll. Not that I have any right to criticize, since my own is as long and unruly as it was in the '60s. Mom called it a "something 'do." As in DO SOMETHING with your hair!!! Never did get around to it.
However, I am not a congresscritter. You work for the people in Congress you should comb your hair, wear shoes, tuck your shirt in. And don't be smacking cops around.
I firmly believe if she'd been sporting a hairspray-hardened bob like Condi's, the Moonbat McKinney would never have whomped that guard for trying to stop her. You don't want to muss your hair when you've taken some trouble to style it.


26 posted on 04/08/2006 4:48:02 AM PDT by Graymatter
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To: SkyPilot
But for McKinney, hair is part of her politics.

Her politics resemble an explosion is a mattress-stuffing factory, too?

27 posted on 04/08/2006 4:49:34 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: SkyPilot

...changed their hair. The thing that doesn't change is the shape of your nose, your eyes, your forehead,"

Bullcrap, that's why women pay hairstylists big money, because a great haircut can dramatically change the look of your face.


28 posted on 04/08/2006 4:52:48 AM PDT by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: SkyPilot
" ... A black woman's hair is a bottomless source of inspiration for essays, books and documentaries."


Now there is a quote, if I ever heard one!

And to think, they removed all traces Amos & Andy because they were what? Stereotyping blacks?



No barff alert needed here Sky ... That article was funnier than the **** Official Friday Silliness Thread ****




29 posted on 04/08/2006 4:54:17 AM PDT by G.Mason (The "Kick Me Here" sign the Republican Party gave me kept wearing out, so I had it tattooed on.)
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To: ovrtaxt

DING!

;D!


30 posted on 04/08/2006 4:55:23 AM PDT by poobear (Islam - A Global Lynch Mob !)
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To: cyborg

FOTFLOL!
I have NOTHING to add.


31 posted on 04/08/2006 4:57:12 AM PDT by onyx (It's easier to indict a ham sandwich or Tom DeLay than it is to indict a Democrat.)
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To: SkyPilot

Is Robin a "race-traitor" too, since she isn't wearing an afro style? Except for Condi's cut and flip, there isn't a whole lot of difference between Condi's smooth style and Robin's.

Are libbies ever NOT flaming, "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrites?


32 posted on 04/08/2006 4:59:30 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; cyborg
:lobs tomato in Caipirabob general direction:

I was waiting for the inevitable "Uhhhhnng!" post.

I'd probably do well to have a self-imposed post ban until I finish my coffee. : )

33 posted on 04/08/2006 5:00:17 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SkyPilot

IIRC this is the same 'reporterette' that made fun of the way John Roberts son was dressed (suit, bow tie, shorts). If one saw the way she way dressed around that time, one is reminded of the saying about glass houses and throwing stones.


34 posted on 04/08/2006 5:02:58 AM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God bless and protect our troops and their CIC.)
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To: SkyPilot

I have the pictures from the "Prom", the one that some guy was fired for, for e-mailing thru the office and making not so nice comments about. I can e-mail them to whoever can post them. Especially nice is the girl with the helicopter hairdo.


35 posted on 04/08/2006 5:12:09 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: SkyPilot
I get angry about these comments on Condi's hair. People can be so stupid! They don't think about the fact that 1) Dr. Rice was the National Security Advisor, 2) now she is the Secretary of State. This Black Woman has general, power brokers, heads of state, and assassins reporting to her. She can not afford to look "ghetto" or hoochie if she expects to command respect from men of this caliber.
36 posted on 04/08/2006 5:20:52 AM PDT by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: Clock King

Well she's playing into the whole hating on other women's hair thing. She's just jealous.


37 posted on 04/08/2006 5:26:52 AM PDT by cyborg (I just love that man.)
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To: SkyPilot

well, O.K. maybe it was racism... maybe it was the hair... but MAYBE it was the not wearing the designated ID, not stopping when the Capitol Police tried to check her ID, and then there's that whole "Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer" thing...


I know it won't happen, but this POS needs to do some time...

It's a crying shame that he didn't work her over with his ASP.


38 posted on 04/08/2006 5:27:50 AM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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To: SkyPilot
Anyone who has the smarts and the tenacity to be the first black woman elected to Congress from Georgia clearly understands the visual politics of wearing milkmaid braids and gold tennis shoes into the corridors of power.

But this super intelligent one exhibits zero cognition of the fact that such a change in hair volume might make her difficult to recognize. Also zero empathy and zero courtesy. The arrogant ASSumption on her part is that the CAPITOL POLICE have the time and the desire to play the game of "visual politics".

39 posted on 04/08/2006 5:29:29 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: cyborg

Isn't this the same writer who made fun of the outfit John Roberts' son was wearing?


40 posted on 04/08/2006 5:31:47 AM PDT by Atlantian
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