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Electronic Dance Music Festivals Fraught With 'White Privilege' (Binghamton University)
The Binghampton Univeristy Pipe Dream ^ | April 23, 2015 | Chelsea Desruisseaux

Posted on 04/24/2015 1:13:33 PM PDT by drewh

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To: dfwgator

My 17-year-old daughter has been known to call dreadlocks (on a white college boy) “cool.” “Blech,” I said.

Bo Derek had “cornrows,” a braided style, not dreadlocks. There is always a surge of white girls wearing cornrows when they come home from their summer vacation, but after a couple of weeks, they usually take it out and don’t get it done again.


61 posted on 04/24/2015 5:38:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fleas and ticks are like vampires - but not the good kind.)
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To: drewh

“Chelsea Desruisseaux is a junior majoring in human development”

A worthless degree incapable of yielding a job wage high enough to repay four years of student loans over 30 years time.


62 posted on 04/24/2015 6:40:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: drewh

Chelsea Desruisseax is Hatian. Guess what, sweetie. You aren’t “African-American” and none of your ancestors were ever slaves in America. Sorry to disappoint you. /microaggression


63 posted on 04/24/2015 6:41:21 PM PDT by Squeako (With Tyranny on the Left, and Liberty on the Right, how can conservative be Center? It can't.)
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To: drewh; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...
Yet something that the media doesn’t address is the cultural appropriation of dreadlocks that is so apparent in EDM festival culture. The amount of white people with dreads at Electric Forest was astounding. I was prepared to be one of the few people of color at the festival, but I wasn’t prepared to see people steal my culture.

So only whiny Blacks can wear dreadlocks? Only American Indians can wear headdresses? Maybe somebody on my ping list can better explain these things to me.

This IS unbelievable, nonetheless. I suppose these festivals should come with trigger warnings.

Stick a fork in America. She's done.

PING!

64 posted on 04/24/2015 7:01:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Celebrate Holy Week by flogging a banker. It's what Jesus would have done.)
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To: drewh
she is upset because whites wear dreadlocks? Tell that to Shiva
65 posted on 04/24/2015 8:20:54 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: drewh

You folks have got this all wrong, and need to give this young woman a break. After all, she is suffering right now. So let this black man help straighten things out for her and everyone else.

Chelsea Desruisseaux,

Gee, that’s a pretty name. But as a member of the non-privileged American community, I apologize for that guy you had a thing for going to the festival with a white woman. I’m sorry none of the white guys gave you a glance because you were walking around with a chip on your shoulder - sneering at all the other folks who were probably having a good time.

You see, it’s not the dreads. I know you look in the mirror wondering why you can’t get any bedspring action with the guys thinking ‘maybe it’s my dreads’. No, honey - it’s you. You hate yourself for who you are and what you’ve become, therefore that’s all you see in anyone else. And with the attitude you express in your letter, its no surprise that the only friends you have are people that haven’t un-friend-ed you on facebook yet.

With that said, don’t worry. It’ll all be over soon. With that guy you love in the White House and his GOP co-conspirators illegally importing a whole generation of underclass from the third world, they will soon outnumber the likes of us - which means no one will care when folks like you start bitching about ‘microagression’ (what the hell is that, anyway?).

Sincerely,

An American.


66 posted on 04/25/2015 4:23:10 AM PDT by jimjohn (You don't get the kind of government you want, or the kind you need. You get the kind you deserve.)
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To: Impy; All

Sounds like fertile hunting ground for “boom-boom”!


67 posted on 04/25/2015 5:25:41 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: dfwgator
Black music used to be real good, before the scourge of Hip Hop came on the scene.

But; if it were NOT for pelvic thrusting; I would never have been born.

68 posted on 04/25/2015 5:34:47 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Fiji Hill

This ol’ house


69 posted on 04/25/2015 5:35:16 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Squeako

Isn’t Haiti dedicated to VOODOO ??

http://www2.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/voodoo/voodoo.htm


70 posted on 04/25/2015 5:40:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: drewh

I rock faux-locs myself as a protective style for my natural hair, so I was very offended by every white person I saw wearing dreads.


What sort of logic is this?


71 posted on 04/25/2015 5:52:29 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
What sort of logic is this?

The kind that starts with the conclusion (I'm offended/threatened/entitled).

72 posted on 04/25/2015 5:58:12 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Rebelbase

This screed was written ~10 mos after the festival in question. Makes one wonder if it is a shot over the bow of EFF2015, or, more likely, simply a writing assignment for one of her Angry Studies courses.


73 posted on 04/25/2015 7:28:36 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: lonevoice; PAR35

Those were cornrows on Bo Derek. Cornrows are are small, neat braids. Dreadlocks are matted strands, messier and unkempt. Keep your afro hairstyles straight (pun intended).


74 posted on 04/25/2015 11:54:50 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Albion Wilde

I was aware of that, but thank you. Someone asked for a picture of Bo Derek from the movie “10”, so I gave them one.


75 posted on 04/25/2015 3:01:13 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: drewh
I am by no means judging anyone for their choices,

Of course you are honey child. And you can judge all you want, there is nothing wrong with that. I think however you would cry like a stuck baby if someone judged you or if you even felt like they were judging you. Tit does call for tat.

And the amusing thing is that you likely call on a daily basis for people to step outside their comfort zone but if they do you are right there to judge them.

76 posted on 04/25/2015 3:13:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Elsie

There is obviously a history of voodoo in Haiti, but that is changing particularly after the earthquake and all the Christian missionaries going to the island.


77 posted on 04/25/2015 3:14:04 PM PDT by Squeako (With Tyranny on the Left, and Liberty on the Right, how can conservative be Center? He can't.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
microagressions

..There's that word again..

78 posted on 04/25/2015 8:37:37 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: cardinal4

“people be micro agressin everywhere...”


79 posted on 04/26/2015 5:59:48 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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