It’s Monday, the sunlight is shining( somewhere) and Kim Kardashian is under flame for cultural appropriation yet again.
The 37 -year-old reality star recently posted a video on Snapchat that shows her hair in bead-adorned braidings that resemble Fulani-style braids, which are inspired by the Fulani women of East and Western africa.
But Kardashian credited actress Bo Derek, who is white, for the traditionally black hairstyle.
“So guys I got Bo Derek braidings, and I’m really into it, ” she says in the video, referencing the actresses’ looking from the 1979 movie, “1 0. ”
Kardashian, who recently faced blackface accusations while promoting her new charm line, has previously attributed credit where credit isn’t due for her haircut.
Almost exactly five years ago, she posted a photograph of herself with her whisker braided and called the looking “Bo Derek braids.”
Fulani braidings are a style of cornrowsthat usually consists of braids with beadings. And cornrows are a hairstyle worn by both black women and men that have been around since ancient times — long, long before Derek wore them in 1979.
“History tells us cornrows originated in Africa. The intricate braiding of the hair indicated the tribe you belonged to, ” Toni Love, a cosmetologist, barber, instructor and writer, said in an interview with Ebony last year.
Love added, “Cornrows on wives date back to at least 3000 B.C. and as far back as the nineteenth century for men, in particular in Ethiopia. Warriors and rulers were identified by their braided hairstyles.”
Below is a picture of Solange Knowles wearing braidings inspired by the Fulani tribe:
It’s easy to recognize why people were upset by Kardashian’s “Bo Derek braids” remark:
HuffPost’s own Zeba Blay explains why it’s important to denounce these kinds of activities
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“When black girls … criticize white women like Kylie Jenner or Rita Ora for wearing black styles, it’s not simply out of this need to deny access to something simply for the sake of it, ” she wrote in 2015.
“To you, white girls, it’s just a cool hairstyle. To us, it’s something we’ve fought to be able to fully espouse. There are other ways to admire or celebrate black mane without coopting it. But understand — black mane can be profoundly political, deep spiritual, and profoundly personal.”
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