It Seems That To Some It Is Racist For A White Woman To Have Her Hair Styled In African-Style ‘Corn Rows’.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4480344/Alice-Eve-race-row-Instagram-corn-row-hair-snap.html

/// Claiming that the star was ignoring the struggles facing black communities, one critic told her: ‘You take what you like from us but don’t get the pain that went with it.’ ///

/// ‘Let me guess,’ another wrote. ‘You only did that because you were in Jamaica?’ Another user claimed corn rows should only be worn by black people, telling the star: ‘You ain’t black lol.’ ///

Does this type of attitude encourage racial harmony?

[sp1814]

No AOG - the people complaining are not saying it's racist. They're complaining about cultural appropriation.

However, it should be noted that for every one posting negative comments on Instagram, you will also get hundreds posting positive comments.

So perhaps we shouldn't allow ourselves to be swept up in all this because there will always be a minority of people whose views don't chime with the majority.

[atalanta]

Some of these styles take hours and cost a fortune, so she must have provided work and pay to a stylist who was very probably a black woman. I don't suppose the stylist complained at being paid, did she ?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814
/// No AOG - the people complaining are not saying it's racist. They're complaining about cultural appropriation. ///

Then why is it when some complain on here about cultural differences, they are classed by the liberal left as racist ?

[Bazile]

// I don't suppose the stylist complained at being paid, did she ? //
atalanta - why even bring the stylist into this ?

[Mamyalynne]

This subject crops up every now and again , last time I read it was about a student in an American College.


Some people have too much time on their hands.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //Then why is it when some complain on here about cultural differences, they are classed by the liberal left as racist ? //

Because it's not something as trivial as a hair style that they are complaining about.

The devil is in the detail.

[andy-hughes]

Bazile - // ... why even bring the stylist into this ? //

Because, as the link shows, the stylist is indeed black.

She didn't appear to object to having her 'culture taken from her' - probably because such an utter nonsense would not even cross her mind.

[anotheoldgit]

They will be complaining about cultural appropriation next, because some white teenagers have taken to walking with a 'Jamaican swagger'.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //They will be complaining about cultural appropriation next, because some white teenagers have taken to walking with a 'Jamaican swagger'. //

They will - and we will have to take lots of no notice.

[New Judge]

Utter nonsense.

Black people do not have the monopoly on any particular hair style and nor does any other race. Many black women that I know straighten their hair. This is clearly a “cultural misappropriation” visited on non-black people. But I don’t hear any idiots bleating on about it. Similarly I didn’t hear anybody complain when Michael Jackson spent a fortune bleaching his skin and having his nose planed down.

[Bazile]

AH @12:41.

// - probably because such an utter nonsense would not even cross her mind. //

That's my point

[ludwig]

The whole notion of cultural appropriation is utter cobblers. No culture or race 'owns' a hairstyle. There are an awful lot of black people straightening their hair - are they guilty of appropriating something they shouldn't?. Of course not - what drivel.

[anotheoldgit]

It gets worse it is not only the white female in fault white males also come in for criticism.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/the-dreadful-truth-dreadlocks-dont-belong-to-one-culture/#

[andy-hughes]

Fabulous - people taking it upon themselves to assault strangers for the crime of 'cultural appropriation'.

For the record, dreadlocks are a hairstyle worn by followers of the Rastafarian faith, who are forbidden to cut or comb their hair.

On a white man, that's just hair braids - and he's perfectly right, he doesn't need a stranger's disrespect, much less her physical aggression. Probably the person filming didn't need it either!

[sp1814]

New Judge

[i]Similarly I didn’t hear anybody complain when Michael Jackson spent a fortune bleaching his skin and having his nose planed down.[i]

You might not have, but just about everyone who knew of him did.

Literally it was one of the top three things that people referred to, when talking about Michael Jackson in the 90s. And he was heavily criticised about it.

[zebo]

Is it "cultural appropriation", whatever that cliche means, for a black woman, or whatever this week's acceptable phrase might be, to have her hair straightened?
Maybe if we started to ignore all these idiots who take spurious offence life would be better.

[andy-hughes]

zebo - It is, but people with too much time on their hands don't seem to find the need to get chippy about something that is made up in order to feel important, in the way that they do when they can add the notion of it happening to a section of the human race to whom they can attribute bad treatment anyway, and make out that this just makes it worse.

[-Talbot-]

I thought this story was somewhat overblown. Daisy probably follows Alice Eve on instagram and saw an opportunity to sell a bit of nonsense to the Mail on Sunday.


https://twitter.com/DavidCollingwo1/status/861248216456671232/photo/1

[andy-hughes]

If I was to use the phrase 'culturally appropriating' and meaning it - in other words without laughing so hard I couldn't breathe, I think I would spontaneously combust with shame, while disappearing up my own fundament in a cloud of self-righteous guff.

[RandyMarsh]

Andy, I work with a chap from Stoke who tells me that when i put Jam on an oakcake I am appropriating his culture.