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Kendall Jenner's cornrows stir controversy about cultural appropriation on Twitter

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Marie Claire's twitter account tweeted this picture of Kendall sporting cornrows, calling them "new" and #blacktwitter went to work.

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You can see more here
https://twitter.com/marieclaire/status/451403750960562176



Then they apologized.
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Those braids are not new.
Black people have been wearing those braids for years.
That's the same thing that they did with "twerking".

It's annoying.
 

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Dead...

Black twitter may not be that bad after all!

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That hairstyle has been around for ages in the black community. I knew a girl who rocked that hairstyle in high school 10 years ago. bish please. But Kanye's so busy worshipping that family he probably told Kendall she invented it. bye
 

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Lol at the tweet to their apology that says Allen Iverson's legacy is safe....
 

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That bold?...Marie Claire deserve to be dragged for that...

Go in Black Twitter!!!!!(even tho I like Kendall)
 

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Just like they try to credit Miley for "creating" twerking and putting it in the dictionary, *cue eye roll
 

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It may be bold and new for her but its no where near EPIC. She (Marie) tried it.
 

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YES! Get them together!

Ever heard of BRANDY? Lol stop it. Now.
 

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Yall know The dad from the Brady Bunch invented the afro, too. Blacks just fell in line.
 
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Duuuhhh! Thought y'all knew! NOTHING exists until Mr. Charlie says so! Below is a list of things that were uncool/nonexistent till yt folks grabbed it:

A nice round onion booty.
Thick lips.
Larger breasts/curvier shape
Urban everything (hello gentrification)
Weave/braids
Robin Thicke

...did I miss anything?
 

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Marie Claire's fail..
Kendal looks cute
 

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Dont you just love being black
We just tell it like it is , like Fcuk em :)
 

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I mean Kendall isn't unlike all other white folks, hell they still everything. Plus, I bet she never said it's new..she knows it's a Black thing.
 

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I used to wear my hair like that in middle school all the time. Tons of girls did. And like another font said, they did the same with twerking. Twerking was ghetto and stank and they always make jokes about girls with cornrows looking like B-Ball players. When white girls do it it's suddenly cute and they're making bold statements. Piss off.
 

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This is what the white media does..they take something the black culture has been doing for decades and make it "new and fresh and innovative" when a white person does it. It's annoying, truth be told we are the most copied.
 

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Black twitter is good for some things....we really do know drag when dragging needs to be done.
 

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Yes!!! Go Black Twitter! Read them like a senior thesis!!!
 

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I thought you guys were about to drag Kendall and I was coming in here like NOOOOOOOOO, but it's Marie Claire so carry on.
 

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Dead...

Black twitter may not be that bad after all!

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Black twitter is not bad!

Just like black people in real life, there are segments both good and bad. For every Ashy Larry there is an academic or member of the black intelligentsia kicking knowledge.

Black twitter is good for some things....we really do know drag when dragging needs to be done.

Twitter has changed the game. A lot of people underestimate it because its social media but it will definitely go down in the history books as a transformational platform for those with an underserved voice. It has fundamentally changed the way we communicate and how we interface with real time information.
 

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I'd like to know what makes them so epic, her hair looks like someone started but didn't finish or like one of her sisters used her as a mannequin to practice their braiding technique.
 

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WHOAH. Wait. Do y'all see it too!? BLACK MEN are actually coming for Marie Clair too . Ooohhhh IM IN SHOCK ! For once this century black men are actually supporting/standing up for black women the same way we support them!? WOW!



OR are they only supporting themselves, because they have been ridiculed for wearing corn rolls too? :)
 

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Lemme guess, Kiley or Vixen braided them cornrows for her...hummmmmm

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