Racist? Yes, no, maybe?
http://beforeandafro.com/
Essentially, a white girl decided to don an Afro for a variety of reasons she mentions/skims over in her posts. She's gotten tremendous backlash for it from anti-racism activists. Some of them for the decision itself, some of them for how she's been expressing herself, and some for others.
Background (the more relevants posts to the question):
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/09/24/before-and-afro-this-is-how-it-started/
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/09/28/the-night-before-and-afro-was-born/
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/09/25/afros-first-outing-the-do-over/
And the apology posts:
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/10/17/dear-human-beings/
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/10/18/my-faults/
Commentary about her blog:
http://www.postbourgie.com/2012/10/16/white-woman-wears-afro-life-changes-or-something/
http://fashionbombdaily.com/tag/before-and-afro/
http://whitefeministcollectionagency.tumblr.com/post/33749846006/before-and-afro
Thoughts?
Oh, the idea btw is to speak about what she's specifically said and done. Take a look at her blog, the posts, the photos, and paragraphs of text. If you want to comment generally, jump in! but please make this known so we don't confuse two distinct conversations.
http://beforeandafro.com/
Essentially, a white girl decided to don an Afro for a variety of reasons she mentions/skims over in her posts. She's gotten tremendous backlash for it from anti-racism activists. Some of them for the decision itself, some of them for how she's been expressing herself, and some for others.
Background (the more relevants posts to the question):
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/09/24/before-and-afro-this-is-how-it-started/
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/09/28/the-night-before-and-afro-was-born/
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/09/25/afros-first-outing-the-do-over/
And the apology posts:
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/10/17/dear-human-beings/
http://beforeandafro.com/2012/10/18/my-faults/
Commentary about her blog:
http://www.postbourgie.com/2012/10/16/white-woman-wears-afro-life-changes-or-something/
http://fashionbombdaily.com/tag/before-and-afro/
http://whitefeministcollectionagency.tumblr.com/post/33749846006/before-and-afro
Thoughts?
Oh, the idea btw is to speak about what she's specifically said and done. Take a look at her blog, the posts, the photos, and paragraphs of text. If you want to comment generally, jump in! but please make this known so we don't confuse two distinct conversations.