Hana

[thelilmoon]

Fridacashflow

[jeanqrey]

Moana in the new "The Way To Moana" Featurette

[bitcoinfrespce]

Sooo I’m not too happy about Disney’s casting of Moana’s face character. The girl portraying her is absolutely gorgeous! But she’s wayyyyy to bright for Moana. I wish Disney casted actual dark skinned polynesian girls that I know fit the role. Like I said before the girl is beautiful but in my opinion she’s not Moana. And POC and woke white folk are the only ones who will see the problem with this picture. Fix this Disney. Don’t ruin my favorite princess already. Plus side is that she’s not white.

[bitcoinfrespce]

MOANA WHITEWASHING

These so called face characters I do not and will not accept as my princess. Moana is my skin complexion. She’s freakin brown!! The heck is wrong with you Disney??? And white folks are like “Shes so beautiful” “Cant wait to meet her” NAH SON!! That Becky with the good hair is not Moana. Shes disrespectful for even taking the role.

[thenerdsaurus]

[mirrasmercy]

sad its over

[theproblackgirl]

[nefertiti--edgeskinky]

Beyoncé Sparks Cultural Appropriation Debate with Appearance in Coldplay's New Video

There's a fine line.

ok a few things. 

1. Mehndi (henna) is a tradition north africa has shared with india (among many other traditions) for centuries. Even the fact that it has so many different names points to it having several points of origin. These North Africans took these traditions with them where ever they went (or were taken). Hell, my family that is still in Guyana dress JUST like this for Diwali. You cant appropriate a culture that already belongs to you. But yall tried it tho

2.  Appropriation demands that you have the POWER to erase culture and cultural context, which black people simply do not have in the same way white people do. But yall tried it tho

3. You cant be strong and wrong at the same time. The same device yall use to spew bullshit has Ms. Google RIGHT there on it for the low low price of free. And she LOVES answering your dumb ass questions, employ her. I’m real tired of explaining simple shit. But yall tried it tho

4. Dont come for Beyonce on my watch. Ever! But yall tried it tho.

[asanteroyalty]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm insight

[lucidnee]

you can literally be POC and still cultural appropriate we’ve had this discussion it’s wrong. She wrong. Wrong

[i-sucked-dick-on-accident-deact]

I’m about tired of this “well everything came from Africa so we can’t really appropriate anything” bullshit like STOP. My own brother who is black did an “Indian” themed wedding with turbans and the whole lot and it was still just as disgusting as a white person doing it. The video isn’t “as bad” as Iggy Azalea’s random Indian video but it is still bad??? It still gives people that “come to India to find yourself” feeling, it’s still unsettling, it still NEEDS TO BE TALKED ABOUT. She still needs to be held accountable. Y'all so fucking stupid it drives me nuts ugh

[khiroshige-deactivated20221210]

i’m laughing because beyonce’s not north african OR guyanese, “power” is never a necessity for cultural appropriation to be harmful which is why we come for no black poc who appropriate black culture with the swiftness and idk what to describe those last two points as other than “my feminism is intersectional only if no one criticizes my fave”

[nyokoko]

Beyonce not even North African like ?????? She is none of the cultures expressed in this video????? What is wrong with y'all????

[das-umilaut-deactivated20160827]

”Appropriation demands that you have the POWER to erase culture and cultural context, which black people simply do not have in the same way white people do. But yall tried it tho”

I need to address this.

You can still appropriate a culture if you are a person of color.

People go after non-black POC who use AAVE all the time. Or call them out for appropriating hairstyles. There’s a whole trend of East Asians pretending to be “Gangsta” by appropriating black culture—hairstyles, clothes, music, etc.—and they’re constantly being called out.

Black people may not have the same power as white people to decontextualize culture, but they still feed into that power structure when they act like this. The same way K-Pop idols feed into that power structure when they appropriate AAVE or put on fake dreadlocks or try to act “gangster” in photos, videos, and appearances.

If a Bollywood video surfaced in which the characters were appropriating Black culture, you (being OP) would be slamming Bollywood in seconds. You’d be calling Desis racist, accusing us of feeding right into White Supremacy. But since your fav is now being called out, you’re saying that Black people don’t have the power to erase culture.

I am disappointed.

[nyokoko]

And can we talk about how she’s trying to evoke the Hamsa with her hand gestures? The Hamsa is a religious and cultural symbol and talisman. But she’s basically feeding into this pseudo-hippie Bohemian ~*Mystical India*~ stereotype by using it as an aesthetic embellishment. The song is shit and has nothing to do with the religious imagery in this video. It’s just a bunch of white dudes using India as their emotional and spiritual playground, AS USUAL.

But Beyonce is literally not Desi nor is she Hausa or North African. Just because Africans also use henna does not make this remotely okay because she’s appropriating Desi culture SPECIFICALLY in this instance. Like she is not above fucking reproach.

[nefertiti--edgeskinky]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa

Again. Not exclusively desi. You don’t have to know for a fact that your ancestors are n. African in order to follow their customs. Especially the ones we brought with us during the Slave trade. As I have been saying, Indian and indo-Caribbean (which is where these Africans with these customs are from) still heavily participate in what you would call “desi culture” and we would call info-Caribbean culture. Of course she is not above reproach, but people need to stop acting like these very rituals, garb, head jewelry etc are not part of OUR culture too.

And as I’ve said over and over here, if I see something that sways my opinion, for instance finding out she was just being an appropriative dummy, I’m 100% willing to change my mind. Right now all I am seeing is people who can’t seem to understand the overlap over Indian culture with that of Caribbean people. We coexisted with indo-Caribbeans for so long that some of our customs are indistinguishable from theirs because indo-caribbeans ARE Indian. I’m really tired of seeing THAT being erased. We’re people too and outer culture looks pretty much just like that.

[be-blackstar]

But she’s not Afro-Caribbean either so how many more ethnicities are you going to project onto Beyoncé?

[nefertiti--edgeskinky]

Beyonces mother is Louisiana Creole. In terms of black people, where does that mean theyre from again? 

French colonized west indian nations. being born in the us does not delete ancestry.  

[be-blackstar]

Lol. What? Even if that were true…Beyonce chose India as a place to reclaim a heritage to the Caribbean that wasn’t even influenced by Indians until later on?

So it’s retroactive appreciation? Lol. You’re willing to mess with the space-time continuum to defend her appropriation? Messy.

Your North African excuse didn’t work. This one didn’t work. What ethnicity do you want to try next?

[saintaquarius]

I cant believe she’s still reaching

[stilllearning90]

Please don’t bring Louisiana Creoles into this before you summon them. It won’t be pretty when they come either lol.

[nefertiti--edgeskinky]

you probably right, but I’m not bad mouthing them. LA creoles (the black ones) are defendants of french colonists and either free or enslaved blacks through out the americas and the french colonized islands. Please correct me if I’m wrong. that is my understanding. @stilllearning90 I’m really not rigid as some of yall are acting, but historical context means something. Especially when it comes to us because we dont have our shit documented the way other folks do. I’m here to learn shit too

[sleepnoi7es]

Please keep my people out of this lmao @papifaeo

[guacamoolie]

LMAOOOOPO we ain’t got shit to do with what Beyonce did or the customs she used for this video. Colonized by the French or not.

[sistermaryfake]

this is all so tumblr

[char-thelove]

Allait

[elegantpaws]

Randomness, but I learnt a great deal reading this, well travelled but learnt some intricacies. 

HOWEVER, again randomness. I have 6 beautiful kimonos that I love and one that is maybe 300 years in the outer hall to our bedroom. Still going to wear my kimonos about the home. Sometimes I believe this Appropriation thing goes too far. I am not going to remove the sounding garden (rocks and water) from my home either because I personally am not Japanese. There are times it is a tiny bit of overkill.

[loveistheessenceoflife]

Your just going about in the privacy of your home but Beyonce is in front of millions upon millions that will see and go “well Beyonce did it so it has to be okay!” and I feel there’s no overkill here just blatant cultural appropriation by definition. Beyonce is smart and knows better unfortunately.

[asgardreid-deactivated20180407]

[micdotcom]

Black Australian teenager Francis Ose posted this video Tuesday of his experience at an Apple store in Melbourne that many are calling racial profiling. After the video hit the web, the teens and their principal went back to the store and demanded answers.

[grizzlyblack301]

A reminder that Anti-Blackness is global.

[ambwblog]

What is wrong with white people? They want to control every situation, even when it’s not their problem or when there is no problem. (I apologize to those who are universally accepting)

[blackwomenconfessions]

Confession

I’m not surprised that some black men wouldn’t like Finn (John Boyega’s character in Star Wars). To me, Finn is real. He’s anxious yet courageous, emotional but still rational, loving despite the harsh environment he was raised in, cares deeply about those close to him and doesn’t throw people under the bus in order to save his own ass. He defies so many stereotypes without feeling whitewashed yet I still saw black men saying they prefer Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson’s character in the prequels) simply because he’s more aggressive, less emotional, and didn’t come off as “weak.” I guess to some extent I understand but ain’t that been the problem with hollywood? Always portraying black male characters as one-dimensional, emotionless, hyperaggressive, muscle machines who also tend to be misogynistic and cocky. Idk I guess for me I’d personally rather see more characters on the big screen like Finn than what I’ve been use to seeing.

[asianconfusion]

[peachnim]

Sailor Moon Characters Casual Style is Inspiring Korean Fashion

[reystars]

Auli’i Cravalho finding out that she got the role of Moana (x)

[kenkamishiro]

Finally something that properly shows the infuriating hate I have for mosquitoes

[betheothergirl-deactivated20180]

what the hell is this

[stelldubs]

[cosmic-noir]

I’m so tired of this omg.

Well y'all, the Library is open. 👍🏾👓

Have fun aging like cottage cheese in the sun, Becky. Touch up those roots, too 🔍

Food stamps are mostly consumed by white people, and the fraud committed to receive them is also done by your “more successful” peers. 😊

As for the hair, WoC HAVE to assimilate for the most part because your backwoods pappy has deemed our natural hair “unruly” and has withheld jobs, education, and countless opportunities just because they don’t know how 4c hair works, so miss me with that shit.

Y'all are really getting out of hand with this “superior” nonsense when y'all out here thinking water is too spicy and morphing into lobsters as soon as the sun hits you.

Y'all really reaching when you think anyone wants to be you because I’m looking 20 forever and you’re probably 13 with crows feet.

Y'all really think you got it like that, except your whole entire race is a literal genetic mutation.

Take a seat, girl.

[black--lamb-blog]

wait do you know this bitch in real life?? can we dox her ass? i just wanna be certain…bc this better be fake….

[90shiphopraprnb]

[chrissongzzz]