White Student Attacked for Wearing Dreadlocks [VIDEO]

White Student Attacked for Wearing Dreadlocks [VIDEO]

White Student Attacked for Wearing Dreadlocks [VIDEO]

A young man with matted, disheveled hair was recently harassed at San Francisco State University by a female student.

Was he exposing himself? Was he making lewd comments?

No. He was “appropriating her culture.”

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White Hipster Guy with dreadlocks. How dare he!

The young man, Cory Feldstein, was handed a flyer by a black female student when she withdrew the flyer and told him “sorry, we don’t want people with your hair here.”

I kid you not. Here’s a video of the incident.

Black conservative pundit Kevin Jackson wrote at his blog, The Blacksphere: “Who is this chick, Shaniqua X? Who died and made her the “Keeper of Blackness?!”

So what constitutes this so-called “cultural appropriation?”

Fordham University law professor Susan Scafidi describes “cultural appropriation” as the following:

“Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission. This can include unauthorized use of another culture’s dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc. It’s most likely to be harmful when the source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways or when the object of appropriation is particularly sensitive, e.g. sacred objects.”

Bovine. Excrement.

If white Americans were to stop “appropriating” from the cultures of minority groups, can you imagine the impact?

Have you ever observed who dines at Mexican or Asian restaurants? Plenty of white people. What would happen to all those yoga studios that dot the suburbs if multitudes of white women were to feel guilty about “appropriating” Indian culture? What would happen to the livelihoods of Native Americans who create stunning pieces of turquoise jewelry that are purchased by Caucasians? What about jazz and blues music brought to a unique art form by black musicians — should it not be enjoyed by whites as well?

For that matter, no social justice warrior had better try to make me delete the Bob Marley music I have downloaded to my iPhone.

Of course “cultural appropriation” only works one way. As the “Race Relations Expert” at About.com admonished, “In the United States, cultural appropriation almost always involves members of the dominant culture (or those who identify with it) “borrowing” from the cultures of minority groups.”

I see. So as a woman whose grandparents were German immigrants, I have no right to accuse racial minorities of appropriating lager, sauerkraut, Oktoberfest, or dachshunds should any members of those groups decide to acquire or enjoy those parts of German culture.

Like I would even care.

This nation is officially riding the Crazy Train, and boarding stations can be found at just about any college campus.

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Kim is a pint-sized patriot who packs some big contradictions. She is a Baby Boomer who never became a hippie, an active Republican who first registered as a Democrat (okay, it was to help a sorority sister's father in his run for sheriff), and a devout Lutheran who practices yoga. Growing up in small-town Indiana, now living in the Kansas City metro, Kim is a conservative Midwestern gal whose heart is also in the Seattle area, where her eldest daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live. Kim is a working speech pathologist who left school system employment behind to subcontract to an agency, and has never looked back. She describes her conservatism as falling in the mold of Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles. Don't know what they are? Google them!

2 Comments
  • Carly says:

    Don’t take it the wrong way but I often wonder what appropriating white culture would look like. Black people with straightened blonde hair watching Wes Anderson movies and listening to Radiohead? Where are all the white people crying appropriation then??

    • Kim Quade says:

      I would also add St. Patrick’s Day.
      Actually that’s a really good question. I think minority individuals who are “too white” are called “Oreos” or “Coconuts.”
      Seriously, white culture has been appropriated all over the globe. Levi’s, fast food, computer tech, business models — they’re all products of the West, and they’ve been embraced by the world.
      Everyone’s happy.

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