White Meat Awards For November 2018: Mandy Rose

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

White Meat Awards huh....

What part of admiring beautiful broads seems gay to you?

 

[Coco Brown]

I wouldn't say she's racist, more so just said something ignorant or made a bad joke.

The amount of times I've said that white people have hair like rats doesn't mean I hate white people.

Racism to me is like stopping a race from doing something or restricting access due to having a prejudice against that group of people.

For example, saying you don't want your daughter to date a black man because they are an n-word is racist

Whereas, not liking a specific hairstyle is what it is.

I see where you're trying to go but you're oversimplifying a complex issue. Intent and impact are two different things and that racism isn't always folks burning crosses on your front lawn. Anti-Blackness comes in both macro and micro-aggressions and texture shaming/discrimination is one of the biggest and most prevalent. Like, the entire concept of "good hair" rests on the foundation that the longer, straighter, and further away from a 4C hair texture you are, the "better" your hair is. I don't want to derail your thread so I'll just say as a Black woman who works with predominantly white women I can tell you that when I wear a wig or a weave it's zero problems but when I wear my natural hair the anti-Blackness JUMPS out. From "who raised you" moments where they feel entitled to touch my hair without asking, to little "jokes" like Mandy's up there. Plus, don't sleep on how she felt comfortable enough to go in on a Black woman's natural hair while wearing her own in cornrows and her implication that the woman's hair was somehow an inconvenience to her. That reeks of "I like Black culture, just not on Black people" to me.

 

[Starboy52]

Scarlet better.

Storm better.

I get the feeling neither would be on that bullshyt when I show up with my tapered afro.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

I see where you're trying to go but you're oversimplifying a complex issue. Intent and impact are two different things and that racism isn't always folks burning crosses on your front lawn. Anti-Blackness comes in both macro and micro-aggressions and texture shaming/discrimination is one of the biggest and most prevalent. Like, the entire concept of "good hair" rests on the foundation that the longer, straighter, and further away from a 4C hair texture you are, the "better" your hair is. I don't want to derail your thread so I'll just say as a Black woman who works with predominantly white women I can tell you that when I wear a wig or a weave it's zero problems but when I wear my natural hair the anti-Blackness JUMPS out. From "who raised you" moments where they feel entitled to touch my hair without asking, to little "jokes" like Mandy's up there. Plus, don't sleep on how she felt comfortable enough to go in on a Black woman's natural hair while wearing her own in cornrows and her implication that the woman's hair was somehow an inconvenience to her. That reeks of "I like Black culture, just not on Black people" to me.

I 100% agree with you.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

 

[Norrin Radd]