Yashar Ali calls out Alison Roman for her "chola" costume, Alison snaps back

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1. A lot of debate on this tweet of mine to the left. I have deleted it while keeping it here so that it can sit next to @alisoneroman’s tweet. This is photo was sitting on Alison’s MySpace page...you can google it. She has a recent history of being called out for appropriation. pic.twitter.com/HYHNQ2vjNI
- Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 8, 2020
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Comments

[missjersey]

Oh girl come on. Save the little face you have left and own up to it. SF Amy Winehouse my ass.

I dressed up as Pocahontas when I was 9 (the Disney costume had brown sleeves and everything) and it was appropriation. Period. It wasn't cute, it was offensive. However, I was an actual child when that happened and not fucking 23. Dress up as a sexy cop* or nurse like everyone else.

*Actually don't dress up as a cop. I should have said firefighter or chef or something. You get the idea.

[slaughtermatic]

pocahontas was my fave but tg i never found any merch so i only dressed up as ariel and gingers ain't oppressed by anything but the sun.

[therearewords]

It BURNS, precious.

[spoil]

My mom threw together a last minute Mulan costume for me when I was little and it came out nice but yeah, looking back at it yeesh. It was during the scenes where she's dressed up as a bride.

[missjersey]

Yup, there were some girls at my elementary school who dressed up as bride Mulan and I was so jealous. White painted face and all. I obviously won't be harsh when a child dresses up because it's up to the parent to say "no". As long as we can look back and be like "yikes yikes yikes" and realize why it was offensive that's all you can do(again, if it happened when you were in the first grade and not out of college lol)

[godramaclub]

it's understandable. Mulan is the coolest one and little ignorant me would have been jelly too.

[rubie_dubidoux]

my mom sewed my brother and I matching Aladdin & Jasmine costumes when I was about 2 or 3 years old (my brother would've been 4 or 5) and we were cute as HECK but looking back at the pictures I'm like hmmmm. I mean we weren't in brownface or anything but there was my brother in his little turban. idk idk

[kampfbaby]

I don't see dressing up as Jasmine/Mulan as equal to dressing up as Pocahontas. Pocahontas, per Disney, is like a Bojangles type thing to me, where her entire character is her race and the entire movie is derogatory. But I guess in general I tend to be a little right of ontd and callout culture on the cultural appropriation debate.

[baglady25]

I had a "Native Princess" costume that I wore in grade 1 and I look back on it in shame. My mother didn't know any better and neither did I.

[analievelyn]

I dressed up as Sacajawea in elementary school for a school project and only recently am I remembering it.

[uncletam]

I dressed up as Wednesday Addams for Halloween in first grade and had white makeup on my face. 😶

[my_moloko]

I did the same in grade three and I think I put white makeup on to try and look more pasty.

[aleksie]

So did I when I was a child, around the same age. I wouldn't do that as an adult or if I had children, I wouldn't dress them in a costume like that again.

[pciam]

Definitely. I mean.. even I remember being in kindergarten and us boys were taught how to play Cowboys vs. Indians, and we'd dress as them. I think it was 1990 when I was in kindergarten (I'm almost 36!) And of course Pocahontas was a huge Disney animated film in the '90s and many children wanted to dress like her and all the other Disney princesses.

It was taught to us at a VERY young age. We should be able to acknowledge that, own it, learn from it, and do better as adults and hopefully not pass some of the same mistakes onto our children (or y'alls.. I don't want any lol). It's not that hard to just own up to it and promise to do better.

[missjersey]

Completely agree. We need to do better because there's literally no excuse at this point.

[simplychristina]

Yep, part of the thing we have to remember is we CAN change but we can't be lazy about it. Many of us have things we were ignorant about and now can own it and understand why it was terrible but say we learned. We are of similar age. For me it never got worse than braiding up my whole head of hair to mirror an aunt who got tourist white woman braids in Jamaica and admiring the braiding on girls I knew. I'm sure it looked like shit. But some people have worse shit they try to pass off.