Posted at 17:00 on 13 Aug 2018
by Pandora / Blake
Yesterday I retweeted a tweet about white people wearing dreadlocks. Specifically, it was from a sex worker of colour addressing white sex workers who accessorise their look with locks.
The tweet called this out as cultural appropriation, and I retweeted it in solidarity with the anti-racist sentiment it expressed. Unfortunately this seems to have triggered several defensive responses from white people - including some surprising hostility.
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Tags: anti-racism, Black hair, cultural appropriation, dreadlocks, racism, white supremacy
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