The LA Times Covers Cornrows, Hot New Trend for White Ladies

[iammalcolmx]

[ijack]

White people look horribly stupid with cornrows.

[Velar Fricative]

My jaw dropped when I read the part about how cornrows were moving from urban to chic. How cute, the LA Times doesn't think anyone knows how to read between the lines.

[Scout'sHonor]

Sept 26, 2014 12:37:29 GMT -5 ijack said:

White people look horribly stupid with cornrows.

Yes, yes they do.

[gazpacho]

[mbcdefg]

And now all I can think of is that episode of It's Always Sunny when Sweet Dee goes on the roller coaster and one of her braids gets ripped out.

[NitaX]

I ... I...

Chile. I just done't even know where to begin with this foolishness. Lemme gone over to Black Twitter and Look for #LATimesArticle.

[statlerwaldorf]

[wawa]

Holy hell. I mean...yeah, there's no chic or edgy black folks with braids. No sir. Not in his salon at least.

I bet he's DELIGHTFUL.

This shit always boggles me. How many eyes saw this? There was the idiot who wrote it- and then an editor, right? And maybe at least one other person at least looked the title and skimmed a bit? HOW DID NOBODY SAY ANYTHING? Like, ummm...guys, perhaps we should mention that this isn't new and is actually just white people starting to get into a look that has been around FOREVER in black culture?

[Deleted]

I begged my mom to put my hair in corn rows when I was like 3. And I also really wanted puffs.

My straight, dirty dishwater brown hair  (wilted)

[mouse]

Sept 26, 2014 12:44:32 GMT -5 wawa said:

Holy hell. I mean...yeah, there's no chic or edgy black folks with braids. No sir. Not in his salon at least.

I bet he's DELIGHTFUL.

This shit always boggles me. How many eyes saw this? There was the idiot who wrote it- and then an editor, right? And maybe at least one other person at least looked the title and skimmed a bit? HOW DID NOBODY SAY ANYTHING? Like, ummm...guys, perhaps we should mention that this isn't new and is actually just white people starting to get into a look that has been around FOREVER in black culture?

But then you might have a conversation about white appropriation of black culture and that would just make everyone feel awkward. Besides, by only showcasing white people the editors can show how they're colorblind. They didn't even notice it was only white people!

[iammalcolmx]

Sept 26, 2014 12:52:33 GMT -5 @beagle said:

Sept 26, 2014 12:44:06 GMT -5 statlerwaldorf said:

This kills me.

When white people do it, they're called Corn Rolls.

Not quite as good as the hall of cost (nuggetbrain), but pretty good.

This never gets old. I mean OMG

[iammalcolmx]

Sept 26, 2014 12:55:22 GMT -5 @beagle said:

Sept 26, 2014 12:54:43 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

This never gets old. I mean OMG

We're so #chipotleblessed    

Because I need to hear it again. Are they REALLY having a Fundraiser to pay for their wedding?

[Deleted]

Sept 26, 2014 12:50:25 GMT -5 calamity said:

I begged my mom to put my hair in corn rows when I was like 3. And I also really wanted puffs.

My straight, dirty dishwater brown hair  (wilted)

This was me.  In middle school, my one of my friends always had amazing puffs, twists and braids. Her mom was really creative looking back on it.

I wanted it all, but since I can't even get my hair to hold a curl for longer than 30 min I knew it wasn't going to happen. 

[Michelle]

Ok, so I'm just gonna say from the start that when I think of a white woman with corn rows, the first person I think of is, in fact, Bo Derek. So that part of the article, "move over Bo Derek" is not so bad, by itself.

But the whole rest of the article is a hot mess.

As stated by you guys already, if this is a new trend it'd be a great way to present the appropriation (or they could even position it as integration) of black culture into white, historically "mainstream" society. And by integrating you'd give examples of beautiful black women who have rocked corn rows with style, class, and chiq... chiqness? I don't know the right word. But Beauty and grace, because there are hundreds of examples.

Examples:
For me, the pivotal example of chiq cornrows, Ms. Alicia Keys:


Rihanna:


Some fashion magazine pictures






They could basically say these white chicks are learning some of the advantages of cornrows and are trying out some of the styles paved ahead for them by black fashionistas. 

Give recognition to the originals, and in fact don't try to make it out like the "urban and hip hop styles of cornrows" means this:

[IIOY]

I'd just like to take this moment to apologize for the fuckery of my people as to all things hair and ass-related.

[ijack]

Sept 26, 2014 13:27:02 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I'd just like to take this moment to apologize for the fuckery of my people as to all things hair and ass-related.

I second that.
Corn rolls on white girls makes me think of spring break when everyone would get those damn things from people on the beach and then spend the next week swish swaying around making noise. It was like "the" thing to prove you'd been on spring break.

[wawa]

Sept 26, 2014 13:27:02 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I'd just like to take this moment to apologize for the fuckery of my people as to all things hair and ass-related.

I know you are a fellow Fremdscham sufferer.  Does stuff like this get you too?  Usually my squirminess for their shame is balanced by anger to the point where I'm at least not uncomfortable with flat out bullshit.  But still...kinda squirmy. 

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 26, 2014 12:44:06 GMT -5 statlerwaldorf said:

ROLLS!!!

[IIOY]

Sept 26, 2014 13:30:19 GMT -5 wawa said:

Sept 26, 2014 13:27:02 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I'd just like to take this moment to apologize for the fuckery of my people as to all things hair and ass-related.

I know you are a fellow Fremdscham sufferer.  Does stuff like this get you too?  Usually my squirminess for their shame is balanced by anger to the point where I'm at least not uncomfortable with flat out bullshit.  But still...kinda squirmy. 

It's not quite the same as watching someone forget the words to the song on live TV or trip and fall on their way to the podium, but sometimes I do kind of want to wear a shirt that reads, "I'm not with the stupid white folks."

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 26, 2014 13:24:40 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

I WILL, however, admit that I wanted Afro puffs when I was little like the girl on the Bloodhound Gang.

I STILL want puffs. I'm hella jealous of NitaX's daughter.

[stealthmom]

Sept 26, 2014 13:29:57 GMT -5 ijack said:

Sept 26, 2014 13:27:02 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I'd just like to take this moment to apologize for the fuckery of my people as to all things hair and ass-related.

I second that.
Corn rolls on white girls makes me think of spring break when everyone would get those damn things from people on the beach and then spend the next week swish swaying around making noise. It was like "the" thing to prove you'd been on spring break.

YES. that and darkening their skin. Uh huh.

At my camp all the black girls gave the white girls corn rows. I got them once. And then I got terrible sunburn on my scalp. That's when I realized there was a reason God made corn rows look terrible on white people.

[open24hours]

When my mom was in her 50s she got cornrows. I tried to convince her not to, for many reasons. When I brought up white appropriation of black culture, she called me racist. :/ She's wacky.

[sushi]

Corn rows on white women will always make me think they just got off a cruise to the Caribbean.