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Kim Kardashian debuted her blonde "Bo Derek braids" on Snapchat Sunday and was promptly slammed for cultural appropriation.
"So guys I did Bo Derek braids and I'm really into it," she said, referring to the white actress and model who was a pop culture icon in the '70s.
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"I'm so tired with the whole Kim Kardashian does something ignorant, black women tell her, she feigns innocence and apologizes, and repeats the whole cycle 2 months later I'M T I R E D," one black woman tweeted . "If y'all don't know what's wrong with cultural appropriation at this point, it's not because you're uneducated, you're simply not listening when black women are telling you something."
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This isn't the first time Kim has been dragged for racial insensitivity. It was just last summer that she was accused of wearing "blackface" in her KKW Beauty Line advertisement. The reality star later apologized and stated that she was just really tan at the time the photographs were taken so it could enhance the dramatic contour products that she was selling.
See a sampling of the most angry reactions below:
Kim Kardashian about to hear it from black twitter. She'll have them braids out by Tuesday, along with an apology saying how she didn't mean to offend anyone. pic.twitter.com/l5cq4e7wg5
@TheudasButts
Kim Kardashian got on Fulani braids and called them “Bo Derek” braids. These why culture appropriation trash. Also, how many times is that family gonna get dragged for them to stop appropriating other people's culture. This why Beyonce don't like her stiff lips ass. pic.twitter.com/Nd2NHt7aOB
@Yoldeeee
Lindsay Lohan's comment sums up Kim Kardashian's new hair so well! pic.twitter.com/Y8nIkxszJ3
@ThePerezHilton
im so tired with the whole kim kardashian does something ignorant, black women tell her, she feigns innocence and apologizes, and repeats the whole cycle 2 months later IM T I R E D pic.twitter.com/LWe8r2IyUa
@queeneeks
if y'all don't know what's wrong with cultural apporiation at this point it's not because you're uneducated. you're simply not listening when black women are telling you something. pic.twitter.com/qhjVAFToES
@queeneeks
YOU CANNOT TAKE SOMETHING FROM ANOTHER CULTURE GIVE IT A NEW NAME AND ACT LIKE YOU INVENTED THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS pic.twitter.com/75LFkNjlus
@queeneeks
braids are very important part of black culture and black women are literally persecuted for it in the workplace every. fucking. day. don't tell us it's not that serious when it literally costs us our livelihood. pic.twitter.com/OAAvGaMIdN
@queeneeks
me waiting for twitter to find out about kim kardashian and this whole braids situation pic.twitter.com/azetaguCM8
@sevenmuns
if Kim Kardashian doesn't deactivate pic.twitter.com/ItRW3t597T
@devilinbetween
Hey my loves, just saw a pic of Kim Kardashian in braids and beads please don't show it to me again pic.twitter.com/TvvXqe0re7
@sportyidk
Kim Kardashian is currently on snap doing that culture vulture thing again
@AshByrdie
first of all, fuck you @KimKardashian for wearing cornrows and calling them "Boderrick braids". second of call fuck you again for crediting the creation of "boderrick braids" to a white woman who was culturally appropriating cornrows to begin with.
@poeticsoulinme
kim kardashian looks stupid asf with those braids and beads, the level of disrespect doesn't phase her tho 🤷🏽♀️
@shadia1975
My fellow Black women: Do y'all honestly get offended when Kim Kardashian wears braids? Or are you offended because it's the popular thing to do?
@MyleezaKardash
Dear Kim Kardashian
@ImJESS_SayinTho
Your “new hairstyle” is not NEW nor are they Bo Derek braids because she didn't create the shit...
Call them what they are and quit appropriating OUR HAIRSTYLES AS NEW! 😒 pic.twitter.com/c1uR3dWnRL
Kim Kardashian is a troll for getting these braids in her biscuit ass head. Her bird ass just tryna stir the pot.
@lexpurp
Kim Kardashian really said “Bo Derek braids” knowing damn well what she was doing pic.twitter.com/zuBeNCLh6k
@NICOLEJMXO
At this point ... they know what they're doing. They know it's wrong . They don't live under a rock. And btw @KimKardashian , they're called Fulani braids . https://t.co/yIIZ9eF1Ya
@amand_pearl
