SF State dreadlocks incident: Is it for real?

I really shouldn’t read things like that in the morning. Better to wait until at least after lunchtime to start hating the world again.

From the “victim’s” little self-bio quoted there, I can tell that admission requirements at San Francisco State must be really strict. No what I meen?

Who appropriated the culture of the Spanish and Mexican vaqueros, or buckaroos.

Christians appropraited parts of the religion of the Jews without really understanding a lot of it.

We realized that without stirring it, stuff on the bottom keeps getting burned.

The embodiment of white-guy-consistently-mocked-for-his-dreads seems intent on keeping them. :cool:

I’m stealing that line, just so you know.

All conservatives would have gleefully murdered him for daring to not be a conservative.

I heard it Somewhere or another, but got a bit mixed up and overstated the case a bit, as usual.

Who needs a reason?

Regards,
Shodan

Whether white or black, those cowboys would have been wearing bowlers, not “cowboy hats”, anyway. So someone of any race wearing a cowboy hat would only be ironically misappropriating… a Stetson marketing campaign.

Yes.

There were a lot of black cowboys. They weren’t all black. Many cowboys were people who had been displaced by the Civil War, including former slaves and ex-Confederate soldiers. It’s unfortunate that the black cowboys aren’t recognized by popular culture.

How soon we forget Laurence Fishburne’s historically accurate role as Cowboy Curtis.

From the Wikipedia “Cowboy Hat” article:

A bowler isn’t best hat for someone who works in the sun all day. The fact that the bowler was the most popular hat in the west during the cowboy era doesn’t mean that cowboys wore them. Most westerners weren’t cowboys.

So someone who wears a cowboy hat is actually misappropriating a sombrero.

And, because The Simpsons Did Everything, there are Jewish Argentine cowboys (well, gauchos, I suppose) who are, for that extra little twist, Ashkenazim. From Ukraine.

They’re dying off now, sadly, and soon the world may no longer know anything about this bold experiment. They need a revolution, and a revolution needs a leader. The world needs a gaucho Marx!

So, my question to all of you: When the Nazis fled to Argentina when the situation in Europe got too hot, were they appropriating that from the Jews?

It seems that someone has not seen the documentary film “Blazing Saddles”…

The sheriff is near?

Regards,
Shodan

My US$0.02 is that it’s faked. I don’t think that –had they really been in conflict- she’d have pulled him back down the stairs for more “discussion”. Nor do I buy him starting his *apology *with a cite from Egypt.

Also, (as **bobkitty **mentioned) they crack a smile every now and then.

I only watched the video and did not read the story.

If it were faked, I doubt that the guy with the dreads would have filed a police report. Also, the guy doing the recording (I don’t know if he’s a friend of dreadlocks guy or not) reported it to the campus security.

And the scum rises to the top.

Ooh, stealing that!