We have a monopoly on locks? So the N-word and locks is what we are fighting for, huh?

As for grits and/or Cream O’ Wheat:

I am black with locs for 14 years. I gotten compliments from people that I wouldn’t expect and have received hate from black people saying I should cut them for jobs. ( never had problem with employment) Lin does not bother me cause who cares.

It has parallels though. Black women who feel the need to relax their hair over social norms is part of the stigma why we have people who look down on locs and frizzy hair in the first place. It’s why people have felt the need to gatekeep having dreadlocks for some reason recently.

I understand, and just know that my respect is both mutual and unconditional.

Kenyon Martin, the African-American former basketball player, has Chinese tattoos all over his body.

Ok so—this is one of the FEW times that a non-black person kinda-culturally-appropriating something that is *mostly* ours is ok with me. I say that because a very progressive, blunt and open-minded Asian blogger that I follow posted this same story yesterday. He refained from offering his opinions and urged others to…

I like Lin’s response of pointing out Martin has Chinese characters tattooed on his body.

That block is pretty popular. They have it in West Oakland too. Probably in East Oakland too, matter of fact.

I like it. And I don’t see the problem here whatsoever.

Martin does love his Chinese tattoos though

All of these questions could be answered by reading his piece on his process that he published two days ago in The Players Tribune.

You’re not doing your readers justice if you left out the entire epic other half of this story that’s been covered all over the internet but happens to be missing from this article. He also answered your last question in his tweet about this.

As a black man with locks, I ask, “who gives a shit?”

This is one of those things I literally don’t care about, not offended by, etc...the history of dreads is literally international. Like, stop. More than that, we do all kinds of shit with our hair doesn’t have anything to do with our history.

As a black man, I hope this is satire.

OR. It’s hair. He can do whatever the fuck he wants with it. Kenyon martin has Chinese characters tattooed on him. But that’s okay right? Because it’s different because he’s Chinese and not black.

“You can get anything in Brooklyn. You can buy a rocket launcher, a velvet photo of Martin Luther King shaking hands with Tupac or Chinese dreadlocks all on the same block.”