Teed Rockwell
1 min readMay 14, 2020

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Once again a self-styled expert gets cultural appropriation wrong while claiming to correct a wrong view about cultural appropriation. This is not something you need to have the experience of being black to judge, because it's a matter of publicly verifiable fact. There is no hypocrisy involved when "white people" wear black hairstyles while mocking black women for wearing them. Because nobody does that. There are white people who mock black hairstyles on black women, and they are racist. There are white people who adopt black hairstyles because they like them, and they are not racist, at least with regard to that issue. They are different people, even though they are all white. No one has ever said "it's cool when white people wear black styles, and not cool when black people wear them.” There are plenty of other problems caused by racism, this isn’t one of them.

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Teed Rockwell
Teed Rockwell

Written by Teed Rockwell

I am White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male Heterosexual cisgendered over-educated able-bodied affluent and thin. Hope to learn from those living on the margins.

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