I don't know about that, I wouldn't hire a white guy in dreadlocks. I would assume at best he is a pothead and at worst he is hygienically dysfunctional.
That is just stereotypes. I have a friend who wore dreads and he was as straight laced as they come. The same things were said about piercings and tattoos. Meanwhile you see plenty of cleancut types who are potheads, coke snorters and alcoholics. Times change. Get over it.
That's usually how it works when you have majority and minority populations. The only difference in this case is that their ancestors didn't come here willingly.
But if you're going to start making people pay for the sins of their fathers, you're never going to make any progress either. At some point you just have to get the fuck over it and move forward.
So again, what you are saying is there is no melting pot. People either conform to white culture or they live in poverty.
Let me ask you, if the shoe was on the other foot, would you conform to "black culture" to maintain a middle class life?
Would you do that knowing these are the culturally same people who enslaved your people 300 years ago?
But would you understand those who said no?
That's not what I'm saying at all. Look at jazz for example. That was originally considered "black" music. But now it's been adopted by people everywhere mainly through the influence of the white Americans who adopted it.So again, what you are saying is there is no melting pot. People either conform to white culture or they live in poverty. Let me ask you, if the shoe was on the other foot, would you conform to "black culture" to maintain a middle class life? Would you do that knowing these are the culturally same people who enslaved your people 300 years ago?
You may answer yes. But would you understand those who said no?
Thats the point that most people here are missing (including you). Black people are only accepted into american middle class and above life when they conform to white cultural norms. When blacks maintain their own cultural identity they are not accepted into our society at large. On the flip side whites can take on black culture and use it with no personal effect.
That issue, laughably, is being ignored by so many in this thread. And shows we have a long way to go before we get to a place where we can have a real melting pot.
Its one of the reasons that make this place fucking horrible.
Asians were largely rejected by Western society as well, especially the original immigrants who held close ties with their own culture. Today's third/fourth/etc-generation Japanese-, Korean-, Thai-, etc Americans are fully submerged in "white cultural norms". If your problem is that employers and others judge too much on appearance, then make that the issue, not that white people aren't judged from leaving their own cultural norms (which, as has been pointed out wrt white dreadheads and so on, is not even true). Conformity and vanity suck, but they're a reality of every culture.
300 years ago.... 300 years ago... it just sounds more and more like BS the more you say it. I don't see Jews complaining that they assimilate to white ideals when they were ERADICATED OVER AND OVER....
The more people fight and argue and call everyone racist the longer it will take for racism to end. This is on both sides. So tired of this BS.
But do you understand why someone may want to resist that norm?
300 years ago was the start my friend. Systemic racism still exists TODAY.
Not especially. Why would someone resist a social norm but simultaneously want to be accepted by the society that promotes said social norm? Tough shit if a prospective employer, Mr. Straightlace, doesn't like someone's grill or dreadlocks. He wouldn't like facial tattoos, wifebeaters, or NASCAR baseball caps either.
Yes it does but the type of BS in the OP isn't helping remove it. Erecting walls saying 'you can't use this because it is my culture' is just furthering racism.
All of these BS around appropriation and white/black privilege and other BS is just making the situation worse. Yes you have to identify racism when it happens so that it can be talked about but this is blowing things WAAAYYYYY out of proportion to point where quite a few people think it is comical which doesn't help in the end.
That's not what I'm saying at all. Look at jazz for example. That was originally considered "black" music. But now it's been adopted by people everywhere mainly through the influence of the white Americans who adopted it.
Every cultural interaction is an exchange where you generally end up with the best elements of both. If you're not going to permit that exchange to occur, you're really just one step away from segregation.
And it doesn't really matter anyway because no one is going to take this as a serious issue. Personally I think this is another case of the tail wagging the dog. You get a few vocal people on social media trying to make themselves internet famous by creating some bullshit but potentially divisive issue and then the morons just run with it.
Who said they wanted to be accepted? Systemic racism and poverty create a lot of issues.
Watch the video i posted. The point isnt to say someone cant do something but to point out why is it ok for a white person to wear their hair in braids and not ok for a black person to do the same?
Thats the point.
Some people on the other side of the pond agree with her:
My hair, my rules, my body, Goldstein asserts, displaying a deep sense of entitlement. Sure, its only hair, and it is his hair to style. But does he have the right to style it in a way that has a deep cultural meaning to minority cultures? The ability to style your hair for fashions sake is a luxury, not a right. If it is offending others, Goldstein should consider giving up that luxury.
Comments like that make me want to go out and get fake dreads just to piss off as many people as possible.
Video of her reportedly approaching a white student who had dreadlocks, accusing him of cultural appropriation and telling him to remove them or she would cut them off. Then she physically restrains him and prevents him from leaving until she notices a camera and then she accuses him of accosting her.
I can't speak for the authenticity of the video but it's been circulating. Now there is a petition to get her expelled from school (the whole: if this were a white man doing this to a black person blah blah blah).
It's always interesting to see events like this unfold. Is this affirmative action in action?
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These internet social justice nuts are a cancer on society.
I disagree. These events create real discussion and discourse across the political spectrum. Mainstream American politics is such a team sport it's hard to debate on real issues, so stuff like this fills in the gap. It is the marketplace of ideas at work.
I disagree. These events create real discussion and discourse across the political spectrum. Mainstream American politics is such a team sport it's hard to debate on real issues, so stuff like this fills in the gap. It is the marketplace of ideas at work.