Crowd fund for white privilege

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NarwhalBacon

Her prizes are hilarious.

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Soxgirl07

@MotherOfPearl85‌ Random white people touching your DD's hair, or people you know? That's just weird, why do people do things like that, keep your hands to yourself!

acesup

People have touched DDs hair. It's super long and curly. Definitely weird.

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fredalina said:

I've heard this, that white people ask to touch kids' hair when they are black or biracial or even white and super curly. But I don't get it. It's just hair. But I knew a blonde woman in the 80's who went to Japan and everyone touched her hair there. Still, it's not like black people are particularly unusual in most parts of the US though. All that said, if I could get a good feel of Quvenzhané Wallis's hair secretly and without offending her, I would go for it. (The little girl from the Annie remake). Her hair is magical.

Completely off topic but I seriously can't wait to take Reese to see the Annie re-make. I always loved that movie and now love how it is given a modern day twist. 

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ShakeyJakey

This is awesome!

People try to touch SOs hair all the time. He has prefect ringlet curls with like 0 maintenance. All he does is wash and shake it out. Before he got dreads anyway

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fredalina said:

fredalina said:

I've heard this, that white people ask to touch kids' hair when they are black or biracial or even white and super curly. But I don't get it. It's just hair. But I knew a blonde woman in the 80's who went to Japan and everyone touched her hair there. Still, it's not like black people are particularly unusual in most parts of the US though. All that said, if I could get a good feel of Quvenzhané Wallis's hair secretly and without offending her, I would go for it. (The little girl from the Annie remake). Her hair is magical.

Completely off topic but I seriously can't wait to take Reese to see the Annie re-make. I always loved that movie and now love how it is given a modern day twist. 

I want to take Char so badly, and I want to share the first movie too as it was a favorite, but I think it is best not to due to the adoption message. Hopefully friends will see the new one and tell me it doesn't have any of that "your real mom and dad (who are fake) come to get you" BS like in the first movie. I hate that about Stuart Little too!

@fredalina Complete antidote, I was adopted. When I was 3 days old. I have no knowledge of my family or anything. I know the hospital I was born at-and that is it. Annie was STILL my absolute favorite movie as a kid. But I always had a soft spot for adoption movies. Even though that movie and others were more fantasy, it was relatable to me as a kid. Like, other people get adopted too. But what did I know--my 5 year old self was making bets with other kids at camp that didn't believe I was adopted.  

jorkz821

That's hilarious!

I think the hair thing might be universal. When I was 5, we lived in Rome for a bit and people kept touching my hair. It was white-blonde which I guess is unusual there. A bit creepy at the time.

jenmom2girls

I have super curly hair and have actually gotten used to people just coming up to me and touching it and asking if it's real or a perm. It's how I have met quite a few of my friends. Lol

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ShakeyJakey

IamInigoMontoya said:

Since we're sharing hair/different cultural experiences stories...when I visited Trinidad with my ex, we went to a pretty isolated village to visit some of his family and the kids were intrigued by my (then) blonde hair and blue eyes. They just stared at me and would giggle and hide if I talked to them. At first I was I confused but then ex' mom explained that they probably had never seen a white person before. My ex jokingly told me to enjoy being a unique commodity while I could because when we were back in the us, women fell all over themselves for him because of his appearance, accent, etc.

Hahaha this is exactly what SO said if we go visit his family!

LucilleAustero

When I was in Africa, my hair was pin straight and platinum blonde and down to my waist. We wound up in a pretty remote village at one point and the kids were amazed at my hair and kept touching it. It was out of curiosity for seeing something outside their daily experience. It was a learning experience for me and them.

When my daughter was an infant, she used to love to touch a black friend's hair and skin. She used to put her arm up against Topez's arm. I think she liked to see the contrast. Granted this was something that she did when when she was first really looking at people and recognizing them.

I think it is pretty innocent and kind of neat when little kids first realize that not everyone looks the same. Adults doing it? Weird and creepy.

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ChickenOnSunday said:

NellyBluth said:

I have never had a desire to touch anyone's hair. Maybe I'm weird.

Really? Does this change your mind?

My mother would faint. We had a life size poster of him in our basement next to the washing machine back in the 80s. He stayed up until Bull Durham came out and he was replaced by Kevin Costner.

bcbuzzafsu

Dmitri still has no hair and people like to rub his head.  Its mostly old people though.

Anecdote: In day care there is a kid who used to have a fro and the other 1 year olds would consistently get their fingers caught in it.  It was adorable but his mom shaved it off.

bumpuser794640

We haven't had many people trying to touch LO's hair yet, even when he still had the fro. I have a friend whose daughters hair was getting broken off because all the white kids in her daycare room touched it all the time.

wesleycrusher

DD tries to grab at barrettes and beads in hair.  No matter the race.  But she sure is is mesmerized by braids and beads.

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NarwhalBacon

The only time I've got to touch ethnic hair was in high school. My friend asked me to put her hair up in tight buns. Not gonna lie, it was cool to touch. I'd never ask someone if I could touch their hair, though, just because that is an invasion of personal space. I like touching all different types of hair. I'm a hair creeper.