Comments | sex_and_race: xposting from my lj.

delux_vivens in sex_and_race

xposting from my lj.

Aug 23, 2007 10:51

"how do you wash your hair?"

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olamina August 23 2007, 18:19:20 UTC

right as i was scrolling past this another person came up to me asking about my hair. that makes two people in two hours. my blood is boiling. i might haveta...

delux_vivens August 23 2007, 18:31:15 UTC

*smh* is it an epidemic? i mean it seems like every day on lj i'm reading another sister talk about how she got harrassed for HWB (Hair while Black).

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delux_vivens August 23 2007, 19:47:43 UTC

HWB! you heard it here first!

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youngcaesar August 23 2007, 19:13:35 UTC

My question: What are the best comebacks that y'all have used?

olamina August 23 2007, 20:04:58 UTC

There has to be an anonymous service whereby Damali & co can just call and leave this on the offenders' voicemail..... every day..... for like a month. They'd learn quick fast and in a hurry.

http://damaliayo.livejournal.com/ blazinsoamazin August 24 2007, 00:57:07 UTC

in addition to this video (from the track titled "white noise" off this album:http://cdbaby.com/cd/damali ), damali did a great art piece a while ago with a response/comeback letter:
http://damaliayo.com/pages/gallery4.htm (dear stranger: i refer to you as a stranger because i do not know you, yet you have just violated my personal boundaries. if you have received this note, it is because you have just touched, grabbed, commented on, or asked an ignorant question about my hair. no matter what your intention, you have treated me as an object to poke and prod, denying me basic human respect and ignoring common decency…)

then of course there is always the t-shirt..
http://www.cafepress.com/r_a_n/1696004

Re: http://damaliayo.livejournal.com/ youngcaesar September 5 2007, 07:51:07 UTC

Excellent links. The cafepress ones need an expletive or something.

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black_berry623 August 23 2007, 20:08:40 UTC

ha!! That's hilarious.

coripixie August 23 2007, 22:26:28 UTC

hahahaha. that is so great and so true. it's one of the things i am not looking forward to when i go back to school.

___sixtilsunday August 23 2007, 23:45:44 UTC

i don't even answer them anymore. i just suck my teeth, roll my eyes and keep moving. usually the person gets the point. if they don't, i can't help them.

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plese stop following me mendemama August 25 2007, 08:29:31 UTC

this squeaky-voiced chick gave me that line after she and her BF were pattinga friend of mine as though she were a dog.

Re: plese stop following me delux_vivens August 26 2007, 01:18:17 UTC

was there a beatdown?

rufinia August 25 2007, 15:43:47 UTC

No one has ever asked me how I wash my hair (I have long, thick reddish white girl hair). WTFever people ask those questions all the time.

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