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Post by Maureen on Feb 16, 2012 21:29:06 GMT -5
What race/ethnicity would you associate the word "weave" with, if any?
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Post by Cankles on Feb 16, 2012 22:09:20 GMT -5
You talking basket weaving or hair?
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Post by meaniepants on Feb 16, 2012 22:13:27 GMT -5
Black people get weave white people get extensions lol
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Post by gardenwitch on Feb 16, 2012 22:27:21 GMT -5
LOL.....
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Post by mermaid on Feb 16, 2012 22:53:24 GMT -5
Basket, hair or rugs? It all depends!
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Post by Maureen on Feb 17, 2012 8:22:26 GMT -5
Hair. Lol
There is an ecard going around ill post later but I'm at school now. It says something like "thank you for coming to my state paid healthcare facility on medicaid with you new iphone luis v purse {bunch of other shit similiar} and new weave" I feel like it has a racist undertone to it. If it said the same thing without "weave" I would completely agree with it. Anyways, several (white) people cclaim that it couldn't be racist bc white people get weaves too. RME. As meanie pointed out white people don't get weaves, we get extensions.
I kust get annoyed with people that can't think critically. Does the card offend me personally? No. Because it doesn't apply to me but it does have a racial undertone to it.
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Post by Maureen on Feb 17, 2012 8:25:20 GMT -5
Forgive my typing btw. I'm on my phone and my brain isn't working at 830 with no food or coffee.
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Post by ~*Ks Mommy*~ on Feb 17, 2012 8:38:38 GMT -5
WELL, I mainly think of weave = extensions. But when I go get my hair high lighted they called what they do a weave.
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Post by gardenwitch on Feb 17, 2012 8:59:51 GMT -5
Kindof depends where you are too. Pacific Northwest it's extensions, down here it's weave if you are African/American and extensions if you are white.
Out in Cali even the white girls called it a weave, but most of them were trying to be something they were not.
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Post by someone on Feb 17, 2012 9:07:06 GMT -5
Would you feel different if it said new extensions? I believe it was in reference to a black woman's hair but not necessarily racist. The person would probably complain about a white personal doing the same but use the commonly appropriate word extensions.
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Post by someone on Feb 17, 2012 9:08:59 GMT -5
White person* or any race. Sorry about the phone typo.
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Post by Maureen on Feb 17, 2012 9:38:30 GMT -5
Yes I would feel differently if it said extensions. But I also know a ton of people in the medicle community around a very large city and usually the general consensus is. That these type of people are usually black or hispanic. If you're white and show up like that with medicaid, most would assume you "fell on hard times with the economy."
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Post by Maureen on Feb 17, 2012 9:44:39 GMT -5
Did I seriously type "medicle?" I'm so fired.
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Post by meaniepants on Feb 17, 2012 14:37:21 GMT -5
Plus the percentage of black people that get weave is WAY more than white people.
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Post by skooch on Feb 17, 2012 15:38:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I associate the term "weave" with black women. Honestly I didn't even know white women got extensions until a couple years ago. I'm so damn sheltered.
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