February 2012
121 posts
Cultural Appropriation: Dreadlocks
racismschool:
Are Dreadlocks really cultural appropriation?
YES
Here’s why:
Dreadlocks originated first with Jamaican Rastafarians and then in Indian Sages and Yogis. Specifically it was started by holy men. These men renounced all of their worldly belongings (Including combs) and as a result their hair started (and remained) to turn into dreadlocks. In the beginning, it was actually...
Watchfuckyeahfamousblackgirls:
Clair Huxtable goes off!!! Everyone should be able to relate to this scene lol
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Huffington Post calls Ghetto Hikes one of the "7...
ethiopienne:
anglophonicblog:
Are you fucking kidding me?
SERIOUSLY?
Thanks for being a lazy journalist Christine Friar. Did you even read the blog? How in the hell could Huffington Post let this kind of garbage slip by?
BRB. I have to go be sick
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/7-sites-you-should-be-wasting-time-on_n_1278552.html
remember that one time countless PoC said...
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Esther Quek of The Rake magazine.
guerreisms:
For many it takes a lifetime to discover their personal style, for some it comes effortlessly
Esther Quek of The Rake magazine
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Everybody wants to be a cat.
her-roaring-twenties:
because a cat’s the only cat, that knows where it’s at
“Nowadays nobody gives a shit about being elegant, or chic. If you’re doing it,...”
– Stefano Pilati
Reblog with a photo/gif that always makes you lose...
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of-praxis:
I am reading Assata Shakur’s autobiography and there is a scene where she describes how she went into the white section of a movie theatre when she was in the 5th grade or so. She went in because she wanted to buy a picture of Elvis and they were not selling it in the Black/colored section of the cinema; as soon as she walked in, she describes that it looked like a dream because it...
