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Friends, readers, ladyfolk, I believe we are being trolled. I believe we are being trolled by major newspapers and fashion magazines through a series of willfully ignorant and low-key racist articles where they attempt to completely erase black people from the very styles and trends that they created.
It was just a hot minute ago that Vogue looked a damn fool by suggesting that big butts are a new trend. They were followed by the New York Times and later the whole urban fabulous baby hairs debacle . Now, we have yet another major newspaper showing its ass. In a roundup of fall hair trends, the Los Angeles Times wrote a blurb about cornrows without mentioning a single black woman.
Truly, it's almost too stupid to believe that this is happening again. I won't even insult your intelligence by explaining that black people have been wearing cornrows pretty much since we figured out we had hair because you are a person with eyes.
Yes, the first person that Ingrid Schmidt of the Los Angeles Times thinks of when she thinks of cornrows is a white lady. Crediting Bo Derek in an article about cornrows is literally the exact same joke that was made when Black Twitter went in on Vogue for their big butts are a trend now story.
Far from the bead-bedecked cornrows and plaits european cruise association the actress wore in the 1979 film 10, cornrows with a punk vibe have shown up recently european cruise association on model Cara Delevingne, singer Rita Ora and actress Kristen european cruise association Stewart, as well as on the Alexander McQueen, DKNY and Marchesa runways. Madeline Brewer in Orange Is the New Black was another forerunner european cruise association of the trend.
If Schmidt came out and just said, Hey, white women are just now discovering cornrows even though they have obviously existed forever, european cruise association that would have been fine. WHATEVER. I can understand that being a story. But by not referencing a single black person, she is implicitly suggesting that these white women truly are the harbingers of this trend.
She then spoke to some white male hairstylist named Jon Reyman who just says fuck it and blatantly insults black people: ' Cornrows are moving away from urban, hip-hop to more chic and edgy,' says Reyman.
He is directly contrasting things that are urban, which is often a codeword for black, with style, elegance and creativity. Personally, I would say that creating trends that are so incredibly dope that white people cannot stop themselves from stealing them is pretty edgy, but I'm just an urban. What do I know?
Just one cornrow or a couple on the side is really european cruise association cool [as opposed to a headful], but they have to be on the right person with the right clothing. Obviously, McQueen is very gothic and strong, so that customer is looking for that Elizabethan or 'Game of Thrones' edginess.
And maybe I missed every single one of those days in history class throughout my entire education, but I don't recall seeing a lot of cornrows on Elizabeathan women. Reyman clearly doesn't know what the actual fuck he is talking about, but why would the LA Times even allow that nonsense to be published?
I have no more clever anger for this shit. Fuck this. Fuck whoever at the LA Times allowed this to be published. And fuck all the people who continue to erase black people from the culture we created, cultivated and for some reason, chose to share with the world.
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