I, Anonymous Oct 13, 2011 at 4:00 am

Oh Hell 'Fro

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Could you perhaps brush that blacktastic chip off your blacktastic shoulder?
on October 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM Report this
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Yeah, I hate it when people love my hair and are attracted to me and/or initiate conversation with me because of it.

Just another douchebag whining about other douchebags. Yawn.
Rip City Hustle on October 13, 2011 at 9:04 AM Report this
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Please shave that ugly shit off. Big hair like hat is fucking ugly on anyone! It is NOT amazing, beautiful hair. And am not talking about just black people with hair, no matter what race you are, big hair like that if UGLY!
luckybulldog13pdx on October 13, 2011 at 10:26 AM Report this
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Lets make a deal- I will quit touching your hair, you will shut the fuck up at the movies
Barf! on October 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM Report this
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LOOKS LIKE DAMOSA FINALLY WROTE HIS OWN I,A.
Graham on October 13, 2011 at 1:01 PM Report this
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I swear I've read this exact story on here before...
disastronaut on October 13, 2011 at 1:09 PM Report this
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Not racist you ignorant trash. Being in a city where majority of the people are white, a lot of them don't actually know how to act around or talk to black people. Sure, it should be obvious, talk to them like any other human being, but not everyone knows how to do that. Your entitled to your own personal space of course, but you don't need to be a bitch about it. Take the fucking compliment, politely decline the request to touch your hair, move on. You don't want to hear them talk about their black friend? Change the subject. For lack of a better word, DUH!
on October 13, 2011 at 1:29 PM Report this
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Sounds like someone is expressing the 'Black Experience' in Portland. And PREDICABLY, look at how all the whites just go after him. Well if that don't beat all!

Keep it crassy, Portland - nothing says HIP and PROGRESSIVE like marginalizing an already vulnerable population.
DamosA on October 13, 2011 at 2:00 PM Report this
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Wow, I am in shock, because for once I agree with DamosA. I've had a number of black friends over the years tell me it's gets pretty annoying when white people want to touch their fros. Yes, it's not the biggest problem ever, but I've heard it enough that it would be nice if people would just respect the fro-space. On the other hand, I think the poster may be overreacting a bit -- it's not really "racist" to want to touch someone's hair, as back when I had a nice thick red fro on my younger Celtic head, a lot of women wanted to touch my hair, including black women, and I was happy to oblige. I realize it's different for everyone, but safe to say, it's best to get to know someone as a friend or at least a friendly acquaintance before you ask to stroke their follicles. Who knows, they just might let you.
on October 13, 2011 at 7:35 PM Report this
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I like stepping on gingers for fun. Are we enemies again, betterredthandead?
DamosA on October 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM Report this
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Gingers, especially during the fall, blend easily into the foliage, so if you wish to step, find my tent, if you can, amidst the autumnal splendor of Chapman Square!
on October 14, 2011 at 10:52 AM Report this
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Yes, this one (or brilliant facsimilies thereof) has been published in this space several times. It is always about as clever and well-said as this one is.

The Oregonian's worse though: they even published the one by the one lady who just kept talking about how wonderful she was, and how racist everyone else was for not recognizing that. White people, I tell ya'.
on October 15, 2011 at 10:06 AM Report this
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Ya, shave that shit off then. If your hair is so "voluminous, bouncy, glossy, beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, naturally curly, black-tastic" and YOU feel it is, why all the hate when someone else tells you it is?
This town has gone to shit, Brooklyn is friendlier.
AND, Mercury, it's gotten kinda stale with the IA's telling me their going to "fucking attack and beat me" for whatever is their personal ailment that day. They'll never do it anyway, so why print it?
scaler911 on October 15, 2011 at 3:56 PM Report this
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Yawn. I have the same problem, but rather than "beautiful fro", people want to touch my "junk". It just gets so old - my personal space, and so forth.
Handsome McHaberdasher on October 15, 2011 at 5:49 PM Report this
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I have a friend with a beautiful fluffy fro. He is most gracious and generally amused when people ask to touch it. But then again he's not into race, or caring about the fact that we're both mixed, or if somebody has blue skin that sparkles like goddamn Twilight. Who fucking cares? Maybe they've honestly never touched your kind of hair before.
There is a very very small African-American population in Oregon, and hipsters are usually drunk. It lowers inhibition.
I've never seen anything except childlike wonder and delight when my friend's hair is touched.
on October 16, 2011 at 8:47 PM Report this
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Snowflake, I have an Alien friend too, but I keep it quiet, you know, they, THEY might come looking for him...or it might be thats just a normal human being dying from meth overdose, havent ever made my mind up yet. But nonetheless, theres gonna be an autopsy. Wasn't the somebody in that drumming band that was "hip" in the beginning of this century?
Leaky 2.0 oz The Avatar Slayer on October 16, 2011 at 10:19 PM Report this
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Black People Problems.
on October 17, 2011 at 11:20 AM Report this
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I doubt people "demand" you tell them your heritage. Guess what? People ask me those questions and pay me those COMPLIMENTS all the time because I've got a big-ass head of curly hair, and olive skin. And I'm white! It's not a race thing, you self-involved, generalizing ("you people"?!) a-hole! Why don't you just be upfront and tell people you'd rather they don't touch your damn hair? Then they'll already know you suck and stop saying nice things to you.
on October 19, 2011 at 1:12 PM Report this
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Not wanting to have someone touch your hair I get. I have had some weirdo on the max touch my arm and ask me a question and I informed him that if he touched me again I would feed him his asshole - I was having a bad day- but this IA is just plain racist. Because I'm white I can't say I love your hair? Take a woman who is pregnant, regardless of race, most women will say they don't like having people assume they can touch their bellies. However, all women love to be congradulated on thier pregnancy (if they are happy about having it that is) that's why they have baby showers. So this person obviously loves their fro, and are proud of it, so why the hell can't I compliment it if I'm white? Tell you what, I won't say anything about your hair, as long as it's not blocking my view, and you refrain from mentioning the color of my skin...ya dick.
Ms Michelle on May 24, 2012 at 7:11 PM Report this

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