likelava:

kaitmpayne:

hupsoonheng:

optimisticallychallenged:

dearscarlet:

Dear Scarlet, 
You wanted a mohawk. We let you get one. It’s as simple as that, and it should be. 

She’s beautiful!

dear scarlet

you wanted a mohawk

we should have educated you on the oppressive nature of that request rooted in racism and genocide

instead, being white liberals, we decided to continue the tradition of white people being entitled to everything they goddamn want

entitlement is so simple

I’m dying laughing at how ridiculous this is. Entitlement? Homegirl isn’t even allowed to have poptarts. And racist? She’s seriously the most outgoing and loving kid I’ve ever known, to all people. It’s a haircut, get over it.

I honestly try to keep my mouth shut most of the time because when people talk about white privilege and entitlement it’s always trite, always bitter, always said when someone is picking the wrong fight with the wrong people, and it’s not doing anything productive for your movement. But I feel for that movement and I think people are going about it backwards. For instance, I’m interested with your history on the subject. The “Mohawk” that Scarlet has is nothing at all similar to the one traditionally had by the Iroquois tribe which was a small square of hair, so therefore I’m not sure how something that is only linked by vague similarities could be racist in that respect. The particular haircut Scarlet has is not even an actual Mohawk at all, like the ones seen in world war II or during Vietnam. It’s short hair with some tuft on top. But of course, that tuft is ROOTED in racism. Small children in preschool will flee from her and this known symbol of genocide. Do you see how ludicrous that is? Anything can be made into a symbol of anything. We can say that the the shoes she’s wearing are mocking cultures, even though they are just shoes. How even though they are something original to a particular tribe of people, tribes traded things all the time. And I think it’s something very privileged-American-y to put monopolies on something, especially with a culture who traded with other people for things made by other cultures. But that’s the fault in these arguments for me. A lot of people like to talk about privilege only when it’s convenient for them, when it makes them sound like the world owes someone something. There are a lot of ugly things that happen, a lot of societies that have been through things no person should ever wish upon another - a lot of people who think they’re complicated and intelligent for liking the writings of Ayn Rand even though she’s a prick who spouts of fmanic spiels about white people being at the fore-front of human existence. And I feel deeply for the movements like the one you’re getting at - places like Urban Outfitters selling women’s underwear under names like “Tribal Panties” when there’s nothing tribal about them at all. Kids not knowing the difference between the history of Pocahontas and the Disney Princess version. Cultures being torn apart by people with more power, with more of this thing we call “privilege” and no one getting the respect and decency they deserve because we are all human beings- but picking on a four year old and her haircut is not stopping this. It’s not even close to fighting the right people. It’s picking apart anything you want because you’re bitter. It’s like saying that the way she’s holding her arm is racist because people who were racist have done it before her, that the colors on her dress represent colors worn by people who have killed others and therefore she is affiliated by proxy, we can take the most minute and mundane things like a goddamn hair cut and say “Someone who did bad things before you had a haircut kind of sort of like this and so if we keep letting people have this haircut or something kind of sort of like this we are making light of murders, of ugliness, of the pillaging of countries, the hazards of war” and that’s just childish logic to me. That is the lowest of lows. It’s making something grand and grave out of something we should realize by now is irrelevant, is not worth the energy put forth behind it, and not nearly as important as educating people on history as opposed to berating them for their ignorance. But whatever, because it’s “Not your job to educate people”, like I always see everyone say — it is, however, evidently your job to give four year olds shit for haircuts. Because that’s going to help a culture, that’s going to stop racism and genocide, isn’t it? a haircut but of course