Impressed with Zendaya and her response to having her hair style associated with drug culture

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No, but you might hear someone say "I think of Jamison" or someone with an Italian accent and saying "I think of a nice bottle of Chianti"which is actually more comparable since GR didn't say she thought of someone being high/stoned whatever in reference to the locs.

You only hear references to Chianti in parodies of Silence of the Lambs...

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Anonymous wrote:Patchouli, dreadlocks, and weed are white hippie things, especially to someone Guiliana's age. It was a stupid comment, but it wasn't racist.

Locs are not a white hippie thing, but much more prevalent in the black community as a normal hairstyle. Therefore if the only thing you think when you see you see a loc style is weed and patchouli, you're denigrating a whole natural hair choice of a race of people. Who already have enough pressure on hair choices without your misguided judgment.

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Not racist. Zendaya is probably too young to get the whole hippie thing and so took offence. Dreads were not always just a black thing, I knew plenty of alternative hippie types with them too.

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Anonymous wrote:Patchouli, dreadlocks, and weed are white hippie things, especially to someone Guiliana's age. It was a stupid comment, but it wasn't racist.

Locs are not a white hippie thing, but much more prevalent in the black community as a normal hairstyle. Therefore if the only thing you think when you see you see a loc style is weed and patchouli, you're denigrating a whole natural hair choice of a race of people. Who already have enough pressure on hair choices without your misguided judgment.

+1000. This is exactly the issue--stigma behind wearing African American hair in a "natural" style.

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^^To clarify, GR was perpetuating a stereotype about women who wear their hair in natural African American styles such as dreadlocks.

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Anonymous wrote:^^To clarify, GR was perpetuating a stereotype about women who wear their hair in natural African American styles such as dreadlocks.

No, she was calling out dreadlocks as dreadlocks. I knew nothing about this whole supposed "racist comment" business, but when I had seen a picture of Zendaya (who?) I thought her fake hair was dreadful, and with the ends all hanging out rough and ragged and the first thought I had was Bob Marley. This fame-seeker went provocative on purpose and it didn't work. That's not her real hair, that's her hair for the night - her fashion choice. No one is calling out Whooping on her hair, because that's real and her. This was some starlet saying "look at me" and then getting all fake belligerent when the fashion show didn't like it.

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Anonymous wrote:^^To clarify, GR was perpetuating a stereotype about women who wear their hair in natural African American styles such as dreadlocks.

No, she was calling out dreadlocks as dreadlocks. I knew nothing about this whole supposed "racist comment" business, but when I had seen a picture of Zendaya (who?) I thought her fake hair was dreadful, and with the ends all hanging out rough and ragged and the first thought I had was Bob Marley. This fame-seeker went provocative on purpose and it didn't work. That's not her real hair, that's her hair for the night - her fashion choice. No one is calling out Whooping on her hair, because that's real and her. This was some starlet saying "look at me" and then getting all fake belligerent when the fashion show didn't like it.

You know what? A lot of celebrities at the Oscars are wearing fake hair, and most of them are white. Men and women.

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Anonymous wrote:^^To clarify, GR was perpetuating a stereotype about women who wear their hair in natural African American styles such as dreadlocks.

No, she was calling out dreadlocks as dreadlocks. I knew nothing about this whole supposed "racist comment" business, but when I had seen a picture of Zendaya (who?) I thought her fake hair was dreadful, and with the ends all hanging out rough and ragged and the first thought I had was Bob Marley. This fame-seeker went provocative on purpose and it didn't work. That's not her real hair, that's her hair for the night - her fashion choice. No one is calling out Whooping on her hair, because that's real and her. This was some starlet saying "look at me" and then getting all fake belligerent when the fashion show didn't like it.

the fashion show didn't like it? no GR didn't like it and said she looked like she smelled of weed. and she wasn't getting all fake belligerent she was genuinely offended and expressed such. i think she (Zendaya) has thick enough skin to be criticized fashion wise but even if GR didn't particularly mean to sound like a racist ass it was received that way. no one was using a "race card" either.

dreadful, rough and ragged hair...wow
fake or real its a hairstyle and on people who wear locs/dreads that is their hair in its natural state.

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Anonymous wrote:Not racist. Zendaya is probably too young to get the whole hippie thing and so took offence. Dreads were not always just a black thing, I knew plenty of alternative hippie types with them too.

Yeah, but when Kendell Jenner wore the dreads, Rancic thought it was young and fresh. The only difference I see in the two young girls is race, as they both look quite lovely with the look.

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and the apology tour continues

http://cms.springboardplatform.com/previews/1335/video/1486881/0/0/1

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Anonymous wrote:^^To clarify, GR was perpetuating a stereotype about women who wear their hair in natural African American styles such as dreadlocks.

No, she was calling out dreadlocks as dreadlocks. I knew nothing about this whole supposed "racist comment" business, but when I had seen a picture of Zendaya (who?) I thought her fake hair was dreadful, and with the ends all hanging out rough and ragged and the first thought I had was Bob Marley. This fame-seeker went provocative on purpose and it didn't work. That's not her real hair, that's her hair for the night - her fashion choice. No one is calling out Whooping on her hair, because that's real and her. This was some starlet saying "look at me" and then getting all fake belligerent when the fashion show didn't like it.

You know what? A lot of celebrities at the Oscars are wearing fake hair, and most of them are white. Men and women.

No one thinks Travolta looks good with his fake hair either.

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I actually agreed with Giuliana. I thought dreadlocks and weed - a natural pairing. I didn't think about race at all though because I assume no matter the race dreadlocks still equate to weed.

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Anonymous wrote:and the apology tour continues

http://cms.springboardplatform.com/previews/1335/video/1486881/0/0/1

GR looks terrible. Was she once an attractive woman? I am assuming she must have been attractive at some point because she has made it in the entertainment world where beauty is a prerequisite.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but tying it to race was unnecessary. I think Giuliana meant it in a "dreads, like hippies and weed ha ha" type of way. She didn't mean it in a "you're black so.... Weed." Way.

As a black person I'm so over the race card being played at the wrong time.

I can't see how this is a race thing either. When I think of patchouli, dreads and weed I think of all the white hippy kids I went to college with.

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Anonymous wrote:and the apology tour continues

http://cms.springboardplatform.com/previews/1335/video/1486881/0/0/1

GR looks terrible. Was she once an attractive woman? I am assuming she must have been attractive at some point because she has made it in the entertainment world where beauty is a prerequisite.

We have a whole thread about that:

So how long can someone like Giuliana Rancic keep going?
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/332553.page