Or is it warranted?

Just a side bar question sparked by today's Twitter shenanigans revolving around the white chick with box braids.


I'll expound on a the Twitter incident. A 12 year old blonde white chick got box braids and tweeted a picture of it. An asian chick jumps in her mentions demanding that she take out the braids because its appropriation of black culture xyz, a few more preteens jump in her mentions expressing their disdain for the braids as well, then it blew up into a big Twitter debate. And as usual black Twitter niggas followed suit coming to the defense of the girl and began with the black women slander, weave shaming, and saying that they're constantly trying to make themselves victim.

Of course there are a few opportunists that use their blackness/femininity to spit hate towards people, but that's found in every group.

"They used to call me Baby Luke....but now? The whole damn 2 Liiiive Crew."

on twitter.

140 characters don't really lend themselves to context. Jokes? sure. Snark? uh-huh. real talk about socio-political concepts? Fuck no.

I'm really really tired of everything devolving to "black wo/men hate each other", and I'm REALLY fucking sick of bloggers trying to make a living off spreading ideas of black pathology.

>I'm really really tired of everything devolving to "black
>wo/men hate each other", and I'm REALLY fucking sick of
>bloggers trying to make a living off spreading ideas of black
>pathology.

This was a conversation between tweens.
An Asian girl had a problem with it.
And grown black men came in with some bs...

I'd just get off the twitternet. This shit is depressing.

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'Some have lives that haven't gone the way they planned, and some are trapped in situations they can't stand...'

I don't think black women play it more than others.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

Black women carry a lot of fucking burden.

Many us manage this crazy ass world with grace.
That's beautiful to see.

I can't make my ass smaller.
I can't make my hair straighter.

I'm not going to.

But I am constantly getting messages that I am less than, or that I'm not beautiful.

Or that I'm sassy.
That I give it up easy.
That I'll turn into one of those "RHOA bitches" if provoked.

Many of us suffer from undiagnosed depression.
Our feelings, our lives are constantly seen as less than.

Do black girls that get shot by the police have the same attention and coverage? No, they don't.

I won't touch on the classism issues affecting Black women, because it devolves into sexist dribble here.

I could go on and on...

But the Black men and Black women on the internet taking jabs at each other don't realize that they are talking about the same oppressed, poverty-stricken Black person. The same shit affects us but in amazingly different ways because of our gender/sexuality.

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'Some have lives that haven't gone the way they planned, and some are trapped in situations they can't stand...'

You're really damned if you do damned if you don't.

due to her hairstyle?

If she weaved, permed or straightened it folks
(read: SOME antagonistic Black men)
would give her hell for it.

>You're really damned if you do damned if you don't.

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'Some have lives that haven't gone the way they planned, and some are trapped in situations they can't stand...'

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is not "playing the victim"

seriously, you've got to put this shit into context. Dynasty destruction, Slavery, Racism. Black women have the right to tell white women to sit the fuck down

& any white woman that doesn't, is a cunt

and any black woman that doesn't recognize that, is prolly sucking a white cunt

To avoid looking "racist"

This is general gist of how most of the comments were

http://twitter.com/TweetfrmtheSole/status/556970739887509504

http://twitter.com/NikkiHayes1/status/556970545854816258

http://twitter.com/daniecal/status/556969264633376768

http://twitter.com/w_butz/status/556968718316871680

http://twitter.com/BlackBaddies/status/556971650550603776

& totally forget hundreds of years of struggle & representation

literally, all the legendary women dealt with this

diana

josephine

etc.

And that majority of these racial problems don't exist except in our heads.

It was like an Asian chick, 3 black girls and two or 3 gay boys. They jumped up in and ran with the " all black bitches mad " narrative and of course black women responded accordingly.

I have to log off sometimes and remember that I actually live in a real world...and yea, the people on there exist in the real world, but just not in my circles and nowhere I'll have to interact with them, so it works.

Like, even when its 5 guys and 5 girls, our gender wars never get as bad as they do on Twitter, or even as bad as we've seen on OKP. But people online can hide and say all type of dumb shit. Half of them really don't mean it, they just say it for attention and to get folks riled up.

One Black girl a month ago was Tweeting about how Black men are idiots for thinking Black women really need them for anything at all, and how they can have Black kids without using a Black man. I simply said "we need each other" and she said "Get the fuck out of here, we don't need you." and then she blocked me.

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"black men don't support/love/honor/like black women"

somebody will write an article about it
somebody writes a thinkpiece about the article
and nobody, nowhere has any sources beyond some dude with a twitter handle like MrGoDeep Imhotep or some shit

Hands down the wackest thing abt twitter.

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That black men have for black women, they do fine job of expressing this themselves. On Twitter that is.

goofy.

MOST black folks ain't on twitter (shit, most black folks ain't ONLINE regularly)
MOST black folks ON twitter are young as shit
so MOST of that convo is goofy young folks shit - celebrities, dating, joneing, gossip, and nudes.
A handful of goofy fucks making stupid jokes =/= "Black men don't like black women"

It makes for some great clickbait "journalism" though

>goofy.
>
>MOST black folks ain't on twitter (shit, most black folks
>ain't ONLINE regularly)
>MOST black folks ON twitter are young as shit
>so MOST of that convo is goofy young folks shit - celebrities,
>dating, joneing, gossip, and nudes.
>A handful of goofy fucks making stupid jokes =/= "Black men
>don't like black women"
>
>It makes for some great clickbait "journalism" though

It's not really the 30+ crowd, but the younger ones. Offline no one would ever dare spew that amount of disrespect and hatred toward black women, but online (Twitter) gives them the platform and the anonymity do so.

Everything has become so influenced popular culture where blacks especially bw have a small presence it's even begun to trickle down into hip hop and there has been erasure of the BW here too, in our own music.

They may be the majority on #twittervixen twitter, but no where else
and not even on twitter as a whole. And a lot of it is new age
pigtail pulling.

But then they become the focus, and the focus is not on the majority
of BM who are respectful and then a narrative gets pushed. That's
wack.

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Twitter sounds like a terrible place

Im not touching this

>Twitter sounds like a terrible place
>
>Im not touching this

ga" for no reason, i dont think theyre victims at all, i just think that maybe theyre mad that not many white men find them attractive (dont feel bad white men like size 4's most of the time anyways)



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Lmao

Do you understand the relationship that people of color have with America? You don't think maybe that's what theyre mad about?

Do you understand the relationship that women have with America? You don't think maybe that's what they're mad about?

Do you understand how the two intersect and that black women have to deal with the disadvantages of falling into both of those categories? You don't think maybe that's what they're mad about?

No I don't think you " thought " at all when you wrote that reply. Lastly, any moderately attractive woman can get a white man regardless of their race, white men ain't no prize and they definitely arent as picky as you think.

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it becomes simply another recourse appropriated by the colonizer

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say to undermine the experience of disadvantaged people.

Men say it about women
Whites say it about people of color
Straights say it about glbtqs

And when we buy into and use that language, we're upholding the system that disadvantages those people.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

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'Some have lives that haven't gone the way they planned, and some are trapped in situations they can't stand...'

nm

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

is out of line?


Pretty close up there is telling someone that they can't have a certain hairstyle because it is stealing from someone elses culture is pretty close up there as well.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

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Again it's the online medium. No one would have said anything to her offline.

I think black people as a whole tho, gotta get rid of the "fake
outrage police" and focus on real issues tho. We really do waste
time and energy with fake outrage on dumb shit like that. And that's
just one example.

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And maybe it's true that we all are.

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Everything looks like Oprah kissing Harvey Weinstein these days

let that lil white girl have her box braids

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