Aw y’all are so cute when you’re mad. Feelings hurt someone invaded your little safe space?

Theres nothing wrong with cultural appropriation. Its necessary for cultural progress.

actually, it sounds like he does indeed get it, quite clearly. this is a very non story.

Black people (Rastafarians) culturally appropriated dreadlocks and the very word “ganja” from Indian Hindu Shiva worshippers, so why should I give a shit? If anyone should be mad, it should be Shiva worshippers. Shiva worshippers in India had dreadlocks and “ganja” for thousands of years before black people ever stole…

So, can we also attack Missy Elliot for using Punjabi lines and beats on “get yer freak on”? where do we draw the line? My wife wore he her hair in braids and was yelled by a Black woman, when my my wife explained that her Asian culture have used braids for hundreds of years and that style has been used in China for…

The money shot there is the “think about it”, right? Wonderful...

Goodness. Every one needs to chill out and sit the fuck down. This is America, and you can take any thing you want, and use it how ever you want. Don’t get your panties or boxers in a bunch because some one wants to use something of yours as fashion.

Thank you. It’s cute how the 24 year olds writing this bullshit think they actually know anything.

Isn’t that cute? The bandwagon has turned its sights on hair now. On fucking hair. For fucks sake it is HAIR.

This is Jezebel, where cultural appropriation is defined in absolutely arbitrary and ridiculous term devoid of any grounding in facts or common sense or history or context. It’s cultural appropriation as defined by millennial Bernie supporters having a tantrum.

No, the people angry about whites wearing dreadlocks DO NOT care when blacks straighten their hair. He makes a good point, but logic is no use when dealing with racists.

I don’t think this is one of those fights people should start. Doing the cultural appropriation or “we invented that, you can’t use it” angle is going to result in some pretty hurt feelings with African Americans. As in “Hey, you can’t do that, we invented baggy jeans.”

Which is to say white people are afforded the range of motion to adopt black hairstyles such as dreads and rows

In the mid-80s, around the time Jacobs was working at Charivari and being a club kid, there was a trend of hair extension weaves in the clubs. It came over from London and the “Hard Times” look promulgated by Vivienne Westwood and others (as seen on Boy George, Hayzee Fantayzee, and other groups of that moment). They…

People need to be offended! Hair styles matter, you can’t just brush this off. Pun intended.

a) Criticizing someone for appropriating Harajuku is silly, because Harajuku itself borrows from non-Japanese cultures.