I don't know. You shole is working on that Honorary Blackness Certificate. CHILE. When you said "Bound and Determined not to understand," I dayum near fell out laughing. The last time I heard someone say that it was my great-grandma. That's a black granny saying right there.
Wait! I say that all of the time! You trying to say I'm an oldz?! LOL
I have been saying that for years....I think my mom or my dad must have said it.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
I was trying to give you the benefit, but you are not trying to learn in any manner. Just stop talking and listen. Everything that a black women says here does not need to be met with something that may have happened to a white woman. I thnk this is teetering on (similar to) "Well, the Irish were discriminated against." Or "Old people are constantly mocked here." No, no not the same.
I don't think I did that. I may be guilty of that in the past but not here. I didn't compare it to anything that happened to anyone else. I just said I wasn't threatened by a hairstyle and that people should style their hair however they want because it's nobody else's business, and it all blew up. And it wasn't in response to a black woman , it was in response to a white woman.
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That is not what you said. You said white people are not threatened by natural hair which has been proven over and over to not be the case. You are marginalizing and discounting the experiences of all POC when you paint with this kind of broad brush.
Is it time for me to profess my hate for oldz? I also hate Werthers. Nasty shit. Of course old people like it because they have no taste. The oldz are the worst! Death panels!!!
::waits for the inevitable go kill yourself from sands::
Is it time for me to profess my hate for oldz? I also hate Werthers. Nasty shit. Of course old people like it because they have no taste. The oldz are the worst! Death panels!!!
::waits for the inevitable go kill yourself from sands::
Ok, now you're just being cruel for no reason.
wethers are delicious and won't hear any more of your hateful nonsense.
Sands - I really don't understand how you can say in one breath that you don't really notice appearance and in the next have all these opinions about the ramifications of the appearances you apparently don't even notice.
Do you actually have conversations with your white people about black people's hair? About their appearance? About their perceptions of said appearance? Have you ever asked? And even if you have - do you think this is the kind of things that people are all, "oh yeah, afro's are SCARY" rather than a generally unconscious bias???
I really can't tell if you're trolling us or just this truly oblivious sometimes.
But this is what this exchange looks like from the outside: POC - white people react to me and my fellow POC as if they find natural black hair to be threatening and/or unprofessional You - oh, no they don't. We white folks love afros. Makes me think of little Michael before he went and fucked up his nose. POC - ^o) You have no idea what you're talking about. You - WHAT? Why would you say I don't know anything about this topic??? I totally know how it is to be a white person, so obviously I can speak to all the ways in which white people do or do not suck in regards to POC. Everybody in the whole damn thread - or :?
Is it time for me to profess my hate for oldz? I also hate Werthers. Nasty shit. Of course old people like it because they have no taste. The oldz are the worst! Death panels!!!
::waits for the inevitable go kill yourself from sands::
Ok, now you're just being cruel for no reason.
wethers are delicious and won't hear any more of your hateful nonsense.
Sands - I really don't understand how you can say in one breath that you don't really notice appearance and in the next have all these opinions about the ramifications of the appearances you apparently don't even notice.
Do you actually have conversations with your white people about black people's hair? About their appearance? About their perceptions of said appearance? Have you ever asked? And even if you have - do you think this is the kind of things that people are all, "oh yeah, afro's are SCARY" rather than a generally unconscious bias???
I really can't tell if you're trolling us or just this truly oblivious sometimes.
But this is what this exchange looks like from the outside: POC - white people react to me and my fellow POC as if they find natural black hair to be threatening and/or unprofessional You - oh, no they don't. We white folks love afros. Makes me think of little Michael before he went and fucked up his nose. POC - You have no idea what you're talking about. You - WHAT? Why would you say I don't know anything about this topic??? I totally know how it is to be a white person, so obviously I can speak to all the ways in which white people do or do not suck in regards to POC. Everybody in the whole damn thread - or :?
Is it time for me to profess my hate for oldz? I also hate Werthers. Nasty shit. Of course old people like it because they have no taste. The oldz are the worst! Death panels!!!
::waits for the inevitable go kill yourself from sands::
Ok, now you're just being cruel for no reason.
wethers are delicious and won't hear any more of your hateful nonsense.
Sands - I really don't understand how you can say in one breath that you don't really notice appearance and in the next have all these opinions about the ramifications of the appearances you apparently don't even notice.
Do you actually have conversations with your white people about black people's hair? About their appearance? About their perceptions of said appearance? Have you ever asked? And even if you have - do you think this is the kind of things that people are all, "oh yeah, afro's are SCARY" rather than a generally unconscious bias???
I really can't tell if you're trolling us or just this truly oblivious sometimes.
But this is what this exchange looks like from the outside: POC - white people react to me and my fellow POC as if they find natural black hair to be threatening and/or unprofessional You - oh, no they don't. We white folks love afros. Makes me think of little Michael before he went and fucked up his nose. POC - You have no idea what you're talking about. You - WHAT? Why would you say I don't know anything about this topic??? I totally know how it is to be a white person, so obviously I can speak to all the ways in which white people do or do not suck in regards to POC. Everybody in the whole damn thread - or :?
Wawa, I am not trying to speak for all white people. I expressed surprise that this is evidently the position of most whites, and said I would have thought it was the opposite. Rest assured that my ass is truly on fire and in the future, I will go to great lengths to make it clear that I only speak my own ipinion. Sent from my SM-G900T using proboards
Is it time for me to profess my hate for oldz? I also hate Werthers. Nasty shit. Of course old people like it because they have no taste. The oldz are the worst! Death panels!!!
::waits for the inevitable go kill yourself from sands::
Can we make all the AARP jokes now? I saw a new AARP commercial and thought of IIOY. I'm thinking that I need to start having a new gut reaction to the oldz like eclaires does.
wethers are delicious and won't hear any more of your hateful nonsense.
Sands - I really don't understand how you can say in one breath that you don't really notice appearance and in the next have all these opinions about the ramifications of the appearances you apparently don't even notice.
Do you actually have conversations with your white people about black people's hair? About their appearance? About their perceptions of said appearance? Have you ever asked? And even if you have - do you think this is the kind of things that people are all, "oh yeah, afro's are SCARY" rather than a generally unconscious bias???
I really can't tell if you're trolling us or just this truly oblivious sometimes.
But this is what this exchange looks like from the outside: POC - white people react to me and my fellow POC as if they find natural black hair to be threatening and/or unprofessional You - oh, no they don't. We white folks love afros. Makes me think of little Michael before he went and fucked up his nose. POC - You have no idea what you're talking about. You - WHAT? Why would you say I don't know anything about this topic??? I totally know how it is to be a white person, so obviously I can speak to all the ways in which white people do or do not suck in regards to POC. Everybody in the whole damn thread - or :?
Wawa, I am not trying to speak for all white people. I expressed surprise that this is evidently the position of most whites, and said I would have thought it was the opposite. Rest assured that my ass is truly on fire and in the future, I will go to great lengths to make it clear that I only speak my own ipinion. Sent from my SM-G900T using proboards
Ok, you know what - benefit of the doubt - I'm going t respond to this as if you said what a normal person would have said - I'm really glad you understand why what you said sounded dismissive.
Because I take from this that when you said, "I'm not aware that white people see natural hair as threatening in any way though. If anything, it's the opposite. Has there been some kind of study done as to hairstyles and preconceptions?"
what you meant was "wow, I never knew that this was an issue for you. For me personally, I think my bias is actually the opposite because I have good associations with natural styles from various pop culture stuff from the 70's. I didn't realize I wasn't the norm. Are there any studies or anything so I can learn more about this?"
And I'm not even going to get into the whole "kids should be kids!" thing - because you clearly have some serious hangups with people who give even the slightest fuck about appearance - regardless of their motivations.
NitaX, was it the AARP commercial where the woman is running in heels? that one pisses me off. almost as much as all the AARP women in the new viagra commercials
Hey! I'm just trying to be nice! or is this a rare non sarcastic bless your heart?
Is it time for me to profess my hate for oldz? I also hate Werthers. Nasty shit. Of course old people like it because they have no taste. The oldz are the worst! Death panels!!!
::waits for the inevitable go kill yourself from sands::
Holding your breath too?
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Anything for you. It's all part of my master plan to never be the worst thing ever - old.
Wawa, I am not trying to speak for all white people. I expressed surprise that this is evidently the position of most whites, and said I would have thought it was the opposite. Rest assured that my ass is truly on fire and in the future, I will go to great lengths to make it clear that I only speak my own ipinion. Sent from my SM-G900T using proboards
Ok, you know what - benefit of the doubt - I'm going t respond to this as if you said what a normal person would have said - I'm really glad you understand why what you said sounded dismissive.
Because I take from this that when you said, "I'm not aware that white people see natural hair as threatening in any way though. If anything, it's the opposite. Has there been some kind of study done as to hairstyles and preconceptions?"
what you meant was "wow, I never knew that this was an issue for you. For me personally, I think my bias is actually the opposite because I have good associations with natural styles from various pop culture stuff from the 70's. I didn't realize I wasn't the norm. Are there any studies or anything so I can learn more about this?"
Yes, that's what I mean/thought I said. Thank you for clarifying
sandsonik we've had this conversation before, please see this
You and me? Or the board?
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the board, click the link and it'll take you to the discussion we had when Giulianna Rancik made a bad comment about a lovely WOC wearing dreds to the Oscars.
NitaX, was it the AARP commercial where the woman is running in heels? that one pisses me off. almost as much as all the AARP women in the new viagra commercials
No, it was one with a guy. But, the you don't know AARP (arrrpp) was funny. I didn't know you actually pronounced AARP. Because, who has ever done that?