This is something that’s fairly regular for people in MMA with longer hair since it helps keep everything together in one place. It’s more for functionality than style.
I understand why people would be mad about this, but with context I don’t see much of a problem, its a commonly used hairstyle for people in MMA, and I don’t really see any POC saying that its not okay or anything like that.
So stop freaking out about it.
Finally someone with some actual knowledge speaking facts, even if the hair style wasn’t popular amongst MMA fighters it still should be acceptable. People need to stop gate keeping things like hairstyles… we’re all human and you’ll be dead soon so why cry over hair???
imo its just a hairstyle
now that may seem insensitive but I dont think a hairstyle should be gate kept because it comes from certain cultures
but I might not know enough on the topic to see why its bad
but as you said its a commonly used MMA hairstyle which I have seen many fighters use so I dont see the problem
yeah idk about that.
Cornrows/boxbraids have a lot of cultural significance to African people (especially African American people who have basically none of their culture from their country of origin)
You wouldn’t wear box braids for the same reason you wouldn’t wear indigenous make-up/clothing. It’s just sorta disrespectful… especially since people in those communities have specifically asked for people not to do so.
Its like people have never watched ufc lol there is a reason for the braids. Having hair pulled from the scalp during a grapple fight would hurt.
Does that mean vikings are racist now
Vikings don’t exist anymore?
I honestly don’t care if you wanna do it then why not
Neither do the people that originally started braiding their hair thousands of years ago.
Thank u omg,
some people clearly do NOT watch fighting on TV.
People have been borrowing hair styles from all cultures for a long time now, so it’s a really weird thing to start gatekeeping their own stuff. People aren’t putting cornrows in for any kind of significance other than “hey, it looks kinda cool”.
… huh?
A Viking is a social class, similar to warriors, knights, shoguns, Samurai, ETC…
Being black, or having course curly hair is something that you’re just born with,
If you wanted to like, wear Viking clothing ETC, I don’t think there would be a problem with wearing cornrows
I unironically lost my last few braincells when I heard people complaining about this…
This is such a slippery slope, though. “African” Americans aren’t like a separate nation or something. They’re literally just Americans, or at least, in the world I grew up told we were aiming for they are. If we’re going to say “Chinese climatologists can’t wear cornrows because they’re a ‘black’ thing,” then can nobody but white people use lightbulbs, or nobody but black people eat peanut-based products besides peanuts? Or heck, nobody but Native Americans should be wearing denim, then. It just kinda spirals…
I know you’re just trying to play devil’s advocate, but… ol’ Lucy’s already got lawyers falling out of the cupboards.
You shouldn’t because there’s nothing actually controversial about it
It’s a friggin hairstyle on a completely optional cosmetic…Just don’t get it if you don’t like it
that and in general i think it stupid to limit a hairstyle to one race. thats just stupid. people should be able to make their hair whatever the hell they want.
in the end of the day its just hair. might seems insensitive but who cares!? its hair!
Well the reason that African Americans are treated as separate from americans is because they have had different struggles from other americans. European americans were able to immigrate to America and (relatively) didn’t have any kind of obstacles, while African Americans were brought here against their will, and were enslaved for hundreds of years.
And even today, African Americans still have other problems, discrimination, over policing, gentrification, ETC.
They’re not literally separate, but they have distinct characteristics that separate them from other American people.
You can think of it the exact same way as “American Women”, yes they ARE just american people, but they had their own problems that other american people didn’t have to deal with.
No, the problem is just that cornrows are something specific to black communities.
Really think about it, Black people (in America) have literally no knowledge of their heritage without DNA testing… of course they’re gonna try to hold onto any kind of defining features they can, its basically all that they have.
Imagine if christians started fasting during Ramadan as a trend… it wouldn’t be okay. Its kinda like that. To you it might “Just be hair” but to a lot of black people its a lot more than that.
(also the lightbulb was invented by Lewis Latimer, a black man, it just wasn’t deemed useful because of its short duration until Thomas Edison improved on it.)
I’m here to play a game not reflect on America’s 250 years of history
Different cultures have been copying stuff from each other forever. Hair/clothing/cooking/language/art/technology 
This all just feels like a mindless mob of people looking to be offended by everything 
I agree, but man…people can be so racist about it.