No, people of all colors are not. For the first time in history, WHITE PEOPLE are being told to think before speaking and acting. WHITE PEOPLE are being held responsible for words and actions that they’ve always taken for granted. That is clearly uncomfortable and foreign feeling for many.

I can’t speak for WOC everywhere. However, I do believe that as a whole, we discuss more issues than anyone gives us credit. If we want to succeed in every day world, we can’t pretend issues aren’t negatively affecting us and our communities. Also, never discount the shared knowledge of family and the church*.

“She’s a 17 year old girl” - and Amandla Stenberg is only 16. But I guess when you have privilege you don’t have to think about these things. That’s the problem - most White people don’t THINK. They don’t feel they have to think - they can take from any culture, any time and wear it like a fancy accessory. These…

It’s not unreasonable to expect Jenner to do a little googling when she’s called out on those topics, though. Shouldn’t we be pushing for kids to learn these things at younger and younger ages so they learn how to discuss them as well as Stenberg does here? Isn’t getting called out publicly for cultural appropriation…

“I woke up like diss” , the text on Kylie’s photo, and the hip stance, is a blatant attempt to appropriate what is accepted as black urban vernacular. It is not a mistake.

And Amandla is a 16 year old girl, so what is your point? Why do Kylie’s defenders always use her age as a defense for her doing something shitty? Especially when she has repeatedly been called out for cultural appropriation, and yet still learns absolutely nothing and continues to do it anyway. Why not continue to…

Black people can naturally have straight hair. Black people can naturally have blonde hair. Try again.

A lot of women don’t even know how to take care of their natural hair because they spent so many years using chemicals to straighten their hair. Additionally, many never learn to take care of their natural hair because their mothers didn’t really know how to take care of natural hair. That is not the sign of straight…

Amandla’s concern is less about making people think “extra long” about a hairstyle. Her point is that Kylie doesn’t think long, if at all, about anything else related to blackness.

I’m saying that many women straighten their hair in order to be more “palatable” to white society by downplaying their blackness. Natural hair puts their non-white status in white people’s faces and has been known to get people pushed away from jobs and promotions because it makes certain types of white people uneasy.

Unless you’re living it I rather doubt you are in any position to declare anything an oversimplification.

Intentions don’t mitigate damages.

If a drunk driver intended to drive home safely, she’s still at fault if she kills someone anyway.

And still, there are still parties who want to act like this is a conscious choice that people make—like one day they sat down and thought, “which of these distinct, cognizable options will I choose to believe and internalize?” It’s absurd. Kylie Jenner is 17 and cares about vapid and empty shit—not unlike most 17…

Are you implying that the ability to make a living is not a matter of survival?

What do you want people to do wait for her to go to college and read a book or two? Oh right that’s not going to happen because she dropped out of home school.

Black women can straighten their hair and dye it blonde, because it’s not an expression of systematic oppression. And of course she wasn’t thinking ‘CULTURAL APPROPRIATION’ - she assumes those cultural expressions are hers to take, and that is the problem.

Kylie Jenner is a good example of cultural appropriation because has appropriated multiple characteristics. She is wearing cornrows, lip injections, and a painful looking pose to accentuate her backside. This form of cultural appropriation isn’t as blatant as say, wearing a war bonnet or bindi, but is still…

Black women straighten their hair is for survival purposes in order to fit into white dominated culture on what beauty standards are for a large part of the population who buys into cultural hegemony. The same can be said of blond hair. What Kylie is doing with her hair on the surface does not seem bad, but she can…

Kylie knew exactly what she was doing. I’m not going to get too deep into it as I don’t like to do that on white websites, but all those Kardashian/Jenner girls know what they’re doing.

Let’s say we’re both walking down the street. I am a haphazard, reckless sort of person so I accidentally stomp on your foot while I’m walking. Maybe I break a toe or two. Does your foot hurt? Does the knowledge that I didn’t intend to step on your foot unbreak your toes? I was being careless, but I sincerely didn’t…