In the above image, African Jason says of Adele’s hair, “the bantu knots are far too much,” which only makes any sense if you’re overly sensitive and attached to intangible ideas that you cannot own, or you just care too much about how people fashion themselves in general. The hairstyle is unusual for her, sure, but too much? Ridiculous notion. African Jason also makes an argument in Adele’s defense about how she’s not completely detached from black people, as if anyone needs a reason to wear their hair however the hell they want. As if anyone ever needs to justify their choice of hairdo to anyone else…
I don’t love Adele. I don’t hate Adele. I don’t often think of Adele and I don’t go out of my way to listen to her music, but I am proud of Adele. Why? Because she lost the goddamn weight and looks like a normal, happy human! And for that reason, when I see people (I use that term loosely) shitting on Adele for how she chooses to style or present herself, I cannot help but think that those sad losers can go fuck themselves. They already have mentally…
I get why black people are proud of their hair and their features. I can kind of understand taking pride in styles commonly or primarily used by black people, because speaking specifically to the hair situation, black people are working under special conditions. Their hair is nappy. “Our hair is nappy,” people who know me would expect me to say. Based on my own hair I can say that people who are the same kind of black as myself, who choose to not shave themselves bald, know a special kind of struggle to make the wool atop their heads look acceptable. So when there is a style that works well with your brand of nappy, I understand having an appreciation for that style and maybe even singing it’s praises, if you’re into that.
What I do not get are the possessive, “only black people should wear this style,” pea-brained idiots who blow a gasket when they see a white person daring to wear “their” hairdo. The victim mentality is strong with these people and it is pathetic. FUCK ‘EM! Although I will say, I had a difficult time finding anyone who seemed upset on twitter about this. I didn’t look very much, but I’ve seen bitching about culturally appropriating hair in the past, so I know someone was seething about Adele’s festival hair. And that person… Is human dog shit.