As racial tensions escalate, campuses are seeing a surge in enrollment and a new brand of African-American activism.
critics have accused Ed of cultural appropriating as he’s often worn dreadlocks and played around with reggae and calypso music. These two genres are associated with black culture and many people have accused Ed of using these styles as a gimmick to stand out. Ed has also been accused of c...
The bare facts are: it is a short scene wherein a young white woman goes to a hairdresser and asks for dreadlocks. The black female hairdresser tells her why she can’t have them, explains the concept of ‘cultural appropriation’, then kicks her out. That is all quite clear. What peop...
In Cynical Theories, Pluckrose and Lindsay lucidly summarize the stew of often purposely incoherent ideas at the base of today’s “social justice” movement.
Continued on to Burlington. That was a bit of a letdown. Tons of hippie kids, dreadlocks, Birkenstocks, tie-dyed Phish-shirts... never seen such a high concentration in my life. Must be the university. The town was not what we expected, the waterfront is not developed. Kind of trashy...
After I did 9 years in the military, I worked as an X-ray tech at a trauma center. I lost my faith in humanity there. . . . I drank a 12-pack a night. I broke down finally when this homeless guy came in. He had lice in his dreadlocks so bad that he put ethyl alcohol all...
“Heaven isn’t exclusive for the rich or the fair-skinned,” Barr tells CNN. “God’s arms are outstretched to all.” Barr says that some people who say they want a Black or brown Jesus may want his melanin but don’t really want his message. ...
Marini, Uniqua, and Jina experienced a new level of discrimination when they started to loc (wear dreadlocks and similar styles) their hair. Comparing responses to wearing her hair in locs to how people reacted to her natural curls, Marini expressed, “when I was loose natural, people were...
A very specific group of artists, their melancholic blur of screamo vocals and thrumming 808 kick-drums often merge somewhere between Blink 182’sI Miss Youand Kanye West’sNew Slaves. They don checkerboard long-sleeved tops, candy pink dreadlocks. They scribble ephemeral phrases and images permanen...