(August 5, 2015 at 12:39 pm)Brakeman Wrote:(August 5, 2015 at 7:52 am)Nope Wrote: The first video that BQ posted made some excellent points that I, as a white woman, would have not known. I had no idea that black women were sometimes required by their employers to straighten their hair. That is crazy.Yes, that is crazy. Crazy enough to be unbelievable. I'd seriously like to see the citations for that claim. Of course during slave days black women were forced to do anything and everything, and pre-sixties racism was so prevalent that nothing like that would raise an eyebrow, so sticking to the more modern turn of the century, I would find that extremely hard to believe. Aren't you skeptical about this claim? Why not?
(August 5, 2015 at 7:52 am)Nope Wrote: No, BQ isn't being racist. It sounds like white women get praised as edgy and cool for wearing the same hairstyle that black women will be criticized for wearing even though it is the natural hair type for people of African descent.
Just saying it's not racist when it's a feeling of "possession" based solely on race is disingenuous. You do know that "people of color" are just simply humans that can be just a racist as any white man. There is absolutely no meaningful difference between you and her. If she says that there is something wrong with you wearing any particular hairstyle her "race based club" has laid claim to she is making a racist statement.
Look at the converse. If you had written that there is something wrong with BQ for trying to take a white girl's hairdo and that she is trying to "steal" some of your "culture", you would definitely be a racist. You would be claiming that the white race "owns' certain hairstyles and that black girls have to be making a statement or participating in mockery just by choosing the style.
Hairdo's are not owned by any race. Races don't own anything. Spending inordinate time trying to "classify" people with a particular style or physical attribute is definitely racism in my book.
While it is racist to go to the mall in black-face because it is blatant mockery, a hairdo is not mockery.
First and foremost, I do not, did not claim anything of the sort. And the last time I checked braids, fros, locs, and twists are associated with black female beauty. To say otherwise is totally disingenuous. And I'm not classifying anything! These styles can only be done with coarse curly hair, which 99.9% of the time with black people you nitwit.
And I also see you didn't bother to read that a black woman using "white girl" hairstyles isn't about style. It's about survival! Or did you miss that part too?
