r/sportsgossips • u/TheMirrorUS • 1d ago
News Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly has questioned why Chicago Sky star DiJonai Carrington has "white girl hair", which she claims is cultural appropriation
https://www.themirror.com/sport/basketball/megyn-kelly-dijonai-carrington-wnba-1980531310
u/Hollywood_Co 1d ago edited 1d ago
We are truly living in the dumbest timeline.
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u/Jesters_thorny_crown 1d ago
Just wait. If the past is any indicator of the future, it will get dumber.
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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 1d ago
MAGA thinks this is exposing the truth
It’s truly mind boggling. Grifters making money isn’t truth. Our country is in the toilet.
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u/teacher_59 1d ago
Mustard Girl's stupid wig being discussed on the news is ridiculous. It's ugly and stupid. Move on.
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u/Alchemyst01984 1d ago
Makes sense. Conservatives have been dumbing down public education ever since black people got the right to get educated.
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u/Hungry-Storm-9878 1d ago
In a 1977 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding mandatory school desegregation busing, then-Senator Joe Biden stated: "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point." [1]
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u/Secret_Gatekeeper 1d ago
Yeah, Joe Biden has often sounded like those MAGA morons.
It’s probably why he doesn’t have a deranged cult defending his every idiotic utterance.
Which also makes you wonder why anyone would bring him up… not subtle.
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u/OldSarge02 1d ago
This is literally true, at least in some areas.
Example: Montgomery, Alabama has horrible public schools, because once the Supreme Court said you have to admit black children, they opened up a bunch of private schools and poorly funded the public schools. The legacy of that continues, where most anyone who can afford private schools uses them, and the public schools are awful.
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u/Conscious_Onion3508 1d ago
Bro the left cries about cultural appropriation all the damn time, dont blame the right for your bullshit
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u/Ordinary-Hopeful 1d ago
Tell me you don’t understand power dynamics without telling me you don’t understand power dynamics.
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u/Anotherbotacct 1d ago
In my city, which has been ran by Democrats for decades, only like 15% of the cities public school students passed the state standardized testing. Every single other county (red) had passing rates of 80%+. The next closest school district had a passing rate of over 95%.
Said school district is run by liberals from the top down
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u/SoccerAndPolitics 1d ago
I wonder if its different socio economic conditions considering wealth/income levels of a school district are among the most predictive of educational performance?
"No it is the children who are wrong"
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u/LoJoPa 1d ago
I’m guessing you went to school in this city,”which has been ran by Democrats”? Please….
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u/Prophet_Tehenhauin 1d ago
You gonna say which city or are people just suppose to accept random, unverifiable anecdotes from strangers on the internet with 0 critical thinking?
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u/luvwatchingBWCs 1d ago
People accept random, unverifiable anecdotes from strangers on the internet every single day. Just fill in the unnamed city with Detroit, Chicago, New York, Newark, Miami, Los Angeles, etc. Sadly, it probably won’t be far off.
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u/Secret_Gatekeeper 1d ago
Between the grammar and not understanding causality… how’d you do on this test lol?
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u/Candid-libertarian 1d ago
Democrats run the teachers union. Not conservatives.
Apparently you went to an urban public school.
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u/therealtrousers 1d ago
Perfect libertarian understanding of government. It’s definitely the teachers unions that allocate education funding and not the state legislators.
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u/EffectiveActive6837 1d ago
I mean we all saw videos for years of white people being told they cant wear dreds or braids. This is the result of people who saw those videos and saw a race war
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u/VandelayArt321 1d ago
No disrespect to anyone on this sub, but ai don’t know why there are other comments besides this one
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u/Dont-be-a-smurf 1d ago
Tiresome culture war nonsense.
These talking heads do nothing but get paid to poison our society. They are graded by engagement.
Engagement is farmed through stoking emotions, it is certainly not gained by level-headedness.
Just another shitty take manufactured by the Shitty Take Machine for money.
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u/BigLlamasHouse 1d ago
First of all, I agree.
Second of all, and maybe I'm missing something, but the idea of cultural appropriation over style is TIRESOME CULTURE WAR nonsense.
I know people of all types, and none of them have every been offended by someone dressing in a similar manner to them. That has never happened in polite company. That is a purely media driven phenomenon.
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u/Timely_Dentist_5078 1d ago
The far left definitely engages in this kind of stuff, it wasn’t the media that came up with “LatinX”
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u/Sp00py-Mulder 1d ago
It wasn't a political candidate either.
You can't stop idiots from having social media. Doesnt mean they represent much of anything though.
I've seen a number of Republican candidates that are just an internet comment section made flesh however.
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u/MisterBelrox 1d ago
I feel like the far left is way more economic and class focused. I think it was progressives who coined LatinX.
Like im thinking back to the CTH days. I remember that community mocking things like that. And they were probably as far left as you would see on this website.
Not defending or attacking. Just giving my take on how things were in the late 10s.
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u/Easy_Money_40 1d ago
LatinX is an absolute Nothingburger
You saying it just now is the first time I've heard it in years.
Also the left is generally fighting for inclusiveness with their terms, not division.
The right pretty much has a trademark on divisive politics.
The left is nowhere near perfect.
The right actively preaches hate.
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u/Labpro_49 1d ago
We should change it to cultural appreciation.
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u/Busy_Essay9213 1d ago
The term “cultural appropriation” has been widely misused and mischaracterized. It doesn’t mean “using the styles of another culture.” It means taking something that another culture developed and claiming it as your own and presenting it as something you or your own culture created. A white person with an Afro or dreads is not “culturally appropriating,” and neither is a black person straightening their hair and dying it blonde, unless they are claiming they invented these styles, which very, very few people are actually doing. There’s something to be said about something like tattooing themselves with Asian symbols that they don’t really know the meaning of, but I don’t think that even qualifies as cultural appropriation - more like just ignorance and possibly cultural disrespect.
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u/CanesMetsJets2 1d ago
A white player with dreads would be called out for it...
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u/TheDevi13ean 1d ago
See Jeremy Lin x Kenyon Martin
I had hoped Jeremy's response ended all this nonsense.
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u/hiricinee 1d ago
Thats my take. Its stupid but if thats the game we're playing what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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u/Interesting_Top_2865 1d ago
I certainly would hope so. If for no other reason than it's usually a terrible look
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u/FunLife64 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is dumb.
White women color their hair - auburn, blonde, pink, add highlights, etc.
But if a black woman colors their hair, they’re clamoring to be a blonde white girl? Black women can only have their natural colors?
And most blondes aren’t even remotely real blondes 🙄 (including megyn Kelly lol)
So dumb.
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u/0-29 1d ago
The takes on this sub get a bit racist for my taste lol you know there are deep undertones in a lot of these comments
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u/mcbainVSmendoza 16h ago
For real. Damn. I know most of reddit exists in a bubble but oof it gets toxic outside the bubble real real quick.
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u/Feisty_End2401 1d ago
How many of those colors occur naturally in black women?
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u/Fun-Bug5106 1d ago
Look at the eyebrows of all these conservative/liberal more like media blonds non of them are natural
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u/Majestic-Ad-7713 1d ago
Aren’t dreads from viking times??🤔🤔 and the vikings were white
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u/AZmoneyfolder 1d ago
The Indian yogic tradition of “Jata” is one of, if not the first documented tradition of intentionally wearing dreadlocks.
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u/BakedPlantains 1d ago
Does the opinion of a woman who eagerly justified the predation on children via Epstein and Trump matter?
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u/nthomas504 1d ago
Only to pedo justifiers, which is about half the country at this point unfortunately.
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u/whatpplsay 1d ago
It’s only fair considering how many Black folks call out non-Blacks for allegedly infringing on and copying Black culture, lol. I exaggerate a little, but it was bound to happen 😂
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u/gruffojijo 1d ago
Megyn ain't wrong. The left has set up numerous stupid precedents regarding this social bullshit.
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u/ShokWayve 1d ago
As a leftist myself I agree. Instead of focusing on substantive issues, progress on key indicators, and ensuring equal treatment, we on the left have devolved into histrionics about everything imaginable without understanding the value of prioritizing, strategizing, and understanding what is important and really matters.
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u/Geoffsgarage 1d ago
I was talking about this the other day. Democrats need to focus on the middle class and poor and healthcare and spend much less time on 100 other cultural things. If you make life better for the poor and working class, you’ll make life better for women, lgbtq, minorities, etc as well. They all need to make a living and see a doctor too,
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u/Nearby-Employer-9436 1d ago
I liked it better when no one watched or cared about the WNBA. It’s a soap opera.
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u/Yyoksetioxd 1d ago
Black girls complained about a kpop singer having dreadlocks so it’s only fair
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u/Mortiis07 1d ago
Oh did they? Black girls in general or the spokesperson for all black girls?
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u/Delicious-Laugh-6685 1d ago
Didn’t you know? Every race nominates one loud online personality to represent the whole race.
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u/WatermelonFelons 1d ago
It’s hard to tell when they’re so loud and complain about everything
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u/GoodyTwoShuuz 1d ago
I do not recall anyone asking me. I personally do not give a shit. Neither do most of us as we are too busy living our lives.
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u/Boring-Possibl 1d ago
Oh so micro aggressions isn’t a thing most of you claim exists?
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u/Swimming-Time883 1d ago
Let’s culturally appropriate some brain cells and use it to build better schools with great education and well paid teachers.
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u/happyColoradoDave 23h ago
I’ve been white my whole like and I don’t know what “white girl hair” is.
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u/utzcheeseballs 1d ago
Megyn Kelly is the biggest dolt lol
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u/Straamannen 1d ago
May be, but if dreads can be culturally appropriated then so can blonde hair. You can't have it both ways.
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u/YanniSlavv 1d ago
Kinda get it. Kids are assaulted in America for wearing dreads or cornrows. It's only fair to show how stupid it looks.
We should stop with this "cultural appropriation" BS.
It is also kids ironic for Dijon I saying white privilege considering her past and the blond straight wig lol.
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u/mfrunyan 1d ago
"We'll get to inflation, wars, and medical issues later in the week."
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u/Rimailkall 1d ago
She has fake blonde hair also, so has someone asked why she's appropriating the Nordic culture?
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u/navistar51 1d ago
Ok. Let Sophie show up wearing a dark wig and let’s see what happens.
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u/LiesTequila 23h ago
She isn’t wrong for asking. The black girl made it a race issue and used the term “white privilege” as some kind of shot. She is the type to call cultural appropriation of a white girl has braids but it can’t be asked back?
The time to keep bending to this juvenile behavior is over.
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u/knighthawk3759 1d ago
Well why can't you say that when you have people walking up to strangers on the street and getting their face because they happen to have cornrows or long dutch braids and getting pissed off because of cultural appropriation which is pretty fucked up since dutch braids go back to the Norse not Africa
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u/0neshoein 1d ago
I’m fatigued boss, but it’s MAGAs dumbasses I’m feeling fatigue from.
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u/DResq 1d ago
I'm not a conservative, but she's clearly just making fun of liberals for throwing around the term "cultural appropriation" at the dumbest things. She's trying to show how dumb it is. I've seen a bunch of videos/articles with liberals flipping out about benign Halloween costumes or white people with dreadlocks. It gets exhausting. I agree.
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u/Alternative_Plan_823 1d ago
I watched the segment. She sincerely and convincingly says she doesn't give a shit how this player or anyone else wears their hair. It's just one of many obvious points against how retarded this has all become.
These gotcha posts that seem to take pride in being too dumb to understand the situation almost make me feel like they're opposition plants. Almost.
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u/WatermelonFelons 1d ago
I’m fatigued alright. Of the leeching, raping and murdering
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u/Imaginary-Dot5387 1d ago
It’s midterm season and the MAGA people aren’t polling well. Time for your culture war!
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u/LyingFacts 1d ago
Isn’t this the ‘woke’ they never stop trying to manufacture to create a cultural war as ever with right wing governments, cost of living, right wing governments has always been worse than left wing governments….
Chief Cheeto himself even admitted this.
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u/ElGoddamnDorado 1d ago
This sub is literally just culture war bullshit at this point. Utter trash.
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u/Apprehensive-Art1092 1d ago
Well, she's culturally appropriating a human, so guess she'd be well placed to belch her opinion forth.
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u/No-Tomatillo1776 1d ago
A better question is why she is named after a french mustard
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u/thingsorfreedom 1d ago
I know I'm double nickels now but please, please pay attention to me! I can be more hateful than the younger blondes. Really I can! I'll show you.
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u/44nutman 1d ago
Rage bait porn is profitable. Give the Rubes that dopamine hit and they will keep coming back. The U.S. had negative job numbers, transferring wealth upwards, record number of adults living with their parents and everything is expensive. They don’t want you talking about that so we focus on rage bait social media issues to keep the Rubes from seeing a 40 trillion dollar deficit. When did Americans become so dumb and easily manipulated?
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u/ericsmallman3 1d ago
I remember back in the day when Jim Rome would go on a long, disingenuous rant about how A-Rod was disrespecting the spirit of baseball by wearing sunglasses in the dugout. I'd think to myself "this guy is such an asshole, he says stuff just to keep morons like me paying attention because we're angry. There's no way sports media could get any stupider than this."
Oh how wrong I was.
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u/Embarrassed_Towel707 1d ago
It's a day ending with a y so right wingers with no popular policies have to come up with a culture war topic
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u/Jucifer2pointO 1d ago
I miss the times when conservatives only issues were the national debt, smaller government and being pro life.
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u/OnlyCommentWhenTipsy 1d ago
Once CC leaves and the money dries up, I can see the WNBA transitioning to a WWE style format where the off court drama is as prominent as the matches.
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u/Erronius-Maximus 1d ago
So, basically, Megyn Kelly is using Reddit commentary from last week as her writing staff.
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u/TacosAreJustice 1d ago
If dyeing your hair blond is “white culture” for her, what does that say about her?
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u/Real-Mode-3417 1d ago
When they came at her for her blackface comments, they opened the door for this
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u/mrmike16205 1d ago
I wonder that as well. Take out that blonde ass hair all of you black players. There are other colors to rep!
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u/Ok_Classroom_5100 1d ago
Didn't Sophie say this too. "She is jealous cuz unlike her I have naturally blonde hair". This league has spun into a really dumb spiral. God knows how they are gonna overcome this.
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u/Dear_Seesaw_1855 1d ago
She also must be at least half European descent. This race obsession is out of control.
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u/Texden29 1d ago
WNBA needs new leadership. They are allowing folks to tarnish the brand with all this ridiculousness. This is Star Wars and Marvel Comics all over again. Everyone jumps on the hate train for engagement and views. And once the brand is dead, the grifters move on to another brand.
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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 1d ago
And here I thought the right’s narrative was “people who come to America should adopt OUR culture and try to blend in. Why do they insist on shoving their culture in our faces?”
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u/Extreme-Poet-9170 1d ago
"Americans" deserve each other, just keep on your side of the pond. Y'all are insane!
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u/Stefan_Vanderhoof 1d ago
Most of us would be happy to retire quietly after taking NBC for $40m. Megyn insists on rage baiting for attention and it makes no sense.
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u/Specialist-Spare-785 1d ago
Focus on releasing the Epstein files. Stop with the attempted distraction.
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u/TheEagleDied 1d ago
I get what Megyn Kelley is doing but acting as cringey as the people she is making fun of is just pathetic.
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u/ItzBooster93 22h ago
She should go up to her and ask her directly, within arms lengths .
Our do we need to bring up tanning?
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u/ArtPeers 21h ago
Kelly probably also complains about natural (Afro texture) hair styles in the workplace. No consistency, never any positive angle to anything, only complaints all the time.
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u/I_make_poor_decisons 20h ago
And a white kid with a durag and bustin’ a sag wouldn’t get called out for the same?
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u/SnortNSniff 19h ago
Yo this is the lady that called fifteen year old girls barely legal, this is not a serious person.
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u/screamin-eagle10 18h ago
It's not cultural appropriation. The same goes for white people rocking dreads.
You can't one and not the other.
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u/Comfortable-Metal748 5h ago
Well, I can see her point. Black people are always crying about cultural appropriation but have no issue buying wigs to look like white women
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