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African American

Chitown Kev

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8. lol, and let's not EVEN get into issues

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 05:53 PM

Aug 2015

of appropriation when black people do take action on these various things (look at black beauty standards, for instance some white people think that they can get away with dreads and cornrows (and actually very few can)...and THAT'S supposed to be solidarity.

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This is awesome! leftofcool Aug 2015 #1

Steal away... MrScorpio Aug 2015 #3

as a white male retrowire Aug 2015 #2

You can not have white privilege without white hypocrisy. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #4

+1 Glassunion Aug 2015 #12

KnR. Bookmarking to use when white people trot out those dumb arguments against tblue37 Aug 2015 #5

Absolutely True Leith Aug 2015 #6

K&R mcar Aug 2015 #7

lol, and let's not EVEN get into issues Chitown Kev Aug 2015 #8

Oh, you mean like this? Number23 Aug 2015 #9

lol, yes something like that, lol Chitown Kev Aug 2015 #10

Excellent!! Scuba Aug 2015 #11