In junior high I started getting into braiding and started experimenting with braids and came up with what is now known as “Boxer braids”. I just needed a cute way to get my hair out of my face during camping and wanted to do something different than just two normal braids on the side of my head. I still do them sometimes but I’ve gotten comments like I’m trying too hard and comments from black people walking by saying “little girl wants our braids” or something like that. I’m Mexican with light skin so I assume they mistook me for white but I literally did not steal the hair trend and “came up” with it on my own. Hair styles being claimed is ridiculous
Dafuq? They're not saying don't get a tan or braids; they're saying recognize that Black things (corn rows, dreadlocks and very dark skin) have caused them struggles and loss of jobs for being "ghetto", but when white people do it, it's a new sexy trend.
Nobody cares if white people tan.
Obligatory disclaimer: Dreadlocks aren't ghetto or even black. They've literally been (and continue to be) worn by just about every culture throughout history.
As a POC, to all white people, please enjoy your tanning, braiding and whatever you like.
And fuck all the butthurt that wants to stop you froming living your life.
@rosalinas - you just gotta be kidding me... first of all you're pretty much the color of cottage cheese so what about this POC bullshit? Then people defining themselves as poc live in a society where they are NOT the predominant race/color/ethnic - where you live literally everyone looks like you. This is just ludicrous.
People! I suppose I'm too cheesy to be Asian so I'm white now!
I must give up on rice and start my bread life, at least I already got cheese in my blood.
Alright, if this guest is going to seriously bitch about so called POC whining about having to live in the country where they are not the primary ethnicity, I can suggest the solution of an ethnostate. Kick them the fuck out, and they won't have the problem.
And there you have it folks. Rosalinas is a person of color, but the WRONG type of person of color.
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I love how guest unironically tries to defend racism by literally saying someone's skin color makes them look like cottage cheese.
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If this is how the people "defining themselves as POC" treat other people then I've got news for you: they are, most unequivocally, the problem.
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The only accurate thing you said in that entire statement was "this is ludicrous."
You're telling me it doesn't work that way?
Here’s a BBC article on it
Nobody cares if white people tan.
And fuck all the butthurt that wants to stop you froming living your life.
I must give up on rice and start my bread life, at least I already got cheese in my blood.
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I love how guest unironically tries to defend racism by literally saying someone's skin color makes them look like cottage cheese.
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If this is how the people "defining themselves as POC" treat other people then I've got news for you: they are, most unequivocally, the problem.
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The only accurate thing you said in that entire statement was "this is ludicrous."