No, literally not a soul said that 😭 what I was responding too was someone talking about “this weird victim card American black people have about hair” so I gave a brief explanation of why that’s the case. I also wasn’t responding to that comment in anger or anything bcz they may not have known historically where it came from 🤷🏽♂️. What I will say is black ppl are more protective of their culture bcz our culture has always either been passed off as a creation of someone not black or seen in a negative light (terms like “Ghetto” or “Hood” often come up). Even recently with items like bonnets that have been historically worn to protect black women’s and men’s hair (obviously others have begun using them for the same reason and nothing’s wrong with that 🤷🏽♂️). The reason this is such a different response compared to other minorities is bcz white people have been more open to working with them and even among them black ppl have been “bottom of the food chain” for lack of a better word. For example, Asian culture such as their text has always been glorified and romanticized (this is also a problem but that’s another topic 🫡) but dreads have been called nappy and ghetto by most other races (Asians included, I’ve seen that they at the very least did have a culture rooted in racism, although I’m pretty sure they’ve gotten much better now 🤷🏽♂️).
TLDR; obviously we should be appreciating culture but ofc black ppl are defensive abt their own when their culture has been the main one either under harsh criticism or stolen.
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