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Seven Years Later

November 22, 2022

I guess I’m back cuz Twitter might die?

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RIIIIIIISE FROM THE GRAAAAAVE (Credit: Linhadotrem.com.br)

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If You Don’t Understand Why a White Girl Wearing Cornrows is a Big Deal

I’ve seen a lot of comments arguing about this whole Kylie Jenner cornrows appropriation situation and a lot of people seem to not understand the harm in a white girl wanting to wear braids. I don’t think Kylie Jenner is trying to actively harm the black community. She probably even thinks that adopting certain features and hairstyles from black women is complimentary. Here’s where cultural appropriation is so insidious. It may seem like wearing cornrows, dreadlocks, grillz, or referring to extensions as a weave is harmless. But the reality is that the groups who appropriate a culture do not have to deal with the daily oppression that comes with being in the appropriated group. 

Cornrows, box braids, Marley twists, etc are not just for aesthetic purposes, they are protective hairstyles for black hair which allow our hair to grow and allow protection from breakage and shedding especially during the colder months. These styles are also just beautiful and are warn year round. We need these hairstyles for other purposes than just a cool instagram picture.

 So when a school denies entry to a black child with cornrows because of their dress code which was designed to “deter gang culture and create a safe environment for all its pupils” or when Six Flags denied a black engineering student employment because of her dreadlocks or when  Hampton University banned dreadlocks and cornrows for male business students or when a white Glamour Magazine editor told a group of women at a law firm that their afros were no nos and that dreadlocks were inappropriate in a workplace, or when the Army banned twists, dreadlocks, and braids for female soldiers while deployed, what are black people being told? 

There are literally policies and bans against our natural hair to prevent us from education and career success. When a white person appropriates a black hairstyle, they are temporarily able to gain all the aesthetic purposes these hairstyles come with while having the option to take them off and return to their life of privilege. It’s extremely frustrating for us to see white people accessing our culture for aesthetic or economic purposes and then putting it back when they want, meanwhile not contributing to black causes or speaking against the discrimination of blacks in America. Black people, who wear these hairstyles on a daily basis, are told that they are unprofessional and against policy. A white person donning features of an oppressed culture does not have to live with the daily discrimination and institutional oppression which comes with belonging to these cultures. Kylie Jenner wants to look trendy for a few minutes and be praised by her instagram fans, but she will never understand how deep the meaning our beautiful black hairstyles and features have and the oppression that comes with them. On a daily basis black people are punished and told that we are less than because of our features, but only when a white person appropriates them they are considered beautiful and trendy. It’s exhausting.

[thelingerieaddict-deactivated20]

This is a good breakdown on appropriation.

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YAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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(via Aime Leon Dore’s 2014 Winter Collection = Perfect)

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• [EN]  A fanart of Ramona Flowers from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Scott Pilgrim”. She’s a badass girl with a hammer ! What else ? • [FR]  Un petit fanart de Ramona Flowers, une héroïne badass de Bryan Lee O’Malley dans le célèbre comics “Scott Pilgrim” pour Sketch Dailies ! :D

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This is so cute

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Denzealots! You don’t have to be Black to start working your way through W. Kamau Bell’s list of Black People Homework.

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Jagged Edge, Blackstreet, Dru Hill, Next, Babyface and 112 coming to Concord this Sunday. LISTEN TO THIS. GET READY.

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By Philippe Berthet

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By Iasmin Omar Ata

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what a sin man smfhhhhhhhhhhh whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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a crime against humanity 

tbh that trash can looking kinda clean

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that entire box right there is still safe I would pull it out tbh

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popeyes biscuits are trash.

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you are trash

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i’ll find this person and fight them to the death

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THEY HAVE THE ACE ATTORNEY OFFICIAL MANGA IN MY LAW LIBRARY I AM CRYING.

[beamkatanachronicles]

Your honor, something is amiss here!

As you are probably aware, library materials are labeled with barcodes as well as a number to determine their location on the shelf, as per the Dewey Decimal System. The books just to the left of the manga are labeled, as are the DVDs just in view on the lower shelf. Look even further behind these shelves and you’ll see that even those books are labeled! 

Ladies and gentlemen of the courtroom, I invite you to take a closer look at the volumes that are, allegedly, part of this law library! Something is missing from the spines, isn’t there?

Where are the bar codes?!

This is a blatant contradiction! The OP is lying— these volumes cannot, therefore, be a part of this library at all! I propose that they simply brought these materials in for the sake of the joke!! 

[japansace]

Only focusing on one aspect and not the whole of the issue, are we, Mr. Wright? Typical.

Your honor, if you bring your attention to the books just left of the manga, you’ll notice there’s a book (the second to the left) that also does not have a bar code.

If you examine the picture even closer—particularly the DVDs below—you’ll see that they bear bar codes, but not on the spines. No, they have them on the back and/or front of the DVDs. Of course, this method of labeling and organizing isn’t limited to products of the film industry alone.

Therefore, I’d like to propose that it is entirely possible that the manga books do, in fact, belong to the library!

[beamkatanachronicles]

Wh-WHAAAAT?! You’re kidding!! 

(Shoot, he’s got me there… Better think of something fast! Something about the books that sets them apart from—

…! I’ve got it!)

While that may be true, you’ve also overlooked one critical error: the titles of the books! Whether or not your hypothesis regarding the labeling system is correct, these titles aren’t alphabetized correctly! What kind of self-respecting librarian would misplace such vital books? 

Well, Edgeworth?

[japansace]

While it pains me to have to point out something so obvious, I suppose I’ll make an exception for you, Wright.

Clearly, one look at the titles of the books next to the manga is a tell-all of this certain library’s less-than-stellar organization skills. None of the books are in alphabetical order, I’m afraid.

They could very well be alphabetized by author and not title, but it’s a little difficult to be able to decipher that from this single picture, wouldn’t you say?

Furthermore, the manga books themselves are in numerical order, suggesting some kind of system is in place, albeit not a very good one, if the alphabetizing is off.

At the end of the day, it seems like neither of us can draw a clear conclusion from this evidence alone. Your honor, I strongly suggest a recess in which we could investigate the library itself further.

[beamkatanachronicles]

I see the issue here very clearly.

Due to the uncertain nature of this case, we’ll have to postpone this decision until more decisive evidence can be obtained. The court will now take a 15-minute recess.

(W-wait, but I’m not—)

[ingthing]

WAIT!!!

I’ve got some decisive evidence for you, pal!

We investigated further into the photo. Zooming in, you can see a label on the DVD case to the bottom left.

Photo Close-up added to the court record!

As you can see, pal, you can vaguely see the words “Of Toledo Law Library” on the label!

And, considering possibilities of the rest of that label, “University of Toledo" was the first to come to my mind!

A quick search on the University of Toledo’s Online Law Library Database revealed that there ARE the comics pictured in it!

Miles Edgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations volumes 1-4 and Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney volumes 1-5!

And there’s more! 

The section these comics are filed under is the “Law in Popular Culture" Section, which matches up with the titles on the rest of the books on that shelf: "Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes & Legal Culture”, “Prime Time Law”, “Lawyers in Your Living Room!" and "Lex Populi”!

Not only is it in the right section, it’s also a documented part of the Law Library’s database!

How’s that for decisive evidence?

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Photos That Have Been Digitally Augmented with Watercolor Elements by Aliza Razell

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