So I opened this thread to read about Terez Paylor and imagine my surprise to see that even this thread has turned into the latest episode of insecure white man feels aggrieved again. I personally don't care about the afro wigs. I do think Pat is kind of a cornball for signing off on the licensing of such things, but honestly, I probably would have done the same thing at his age, I'm a bit more protective of these things now though. I would have shook my head at anyone who I saw wearing one of these, but I would have kept it moving.
Now this part is definitely going to hurt wacky's feelings. Like I said I don't necessarily share the feelings of the man who wrote that opinion column, however to dismiss that man's feelings as wokeness, is absolutely why people like wacky play a massive role in these racial issues being stuck in the mud, and who allow profiteers like Clay Travis to make money off of mining outrage from insecure white men. You don't have to agree with how that man feels, I don't but to just dismiss his feelings without even considering his point is close-minded at best. The same people who would tell a black man that he is woke because he doesn't feel right about something specific to his race are the very same people who would completely and angrily dismiss any notion that they are racist or that any notions of racism even exist. Whenever these people hear a person of color say something that makes them uncomfortable, the first impulse isn't to understand why, it is to be dismissive. It's gross, I'm sick of it, and I will not allow any place I inhabit as much as I do this here to be a safe place for it to happen without me calling it out.
I haven't had an afro since I was about 6 or 7 years old, I haven't even had hair since 1992. I have no goddamned idea what triggers someone could have related to their hair, and while I don't relate at all, I certainly will listen to those who do and be sympathetic to it, because why the eff wouldn't I? Doing so wouldn't have the least bit of adverse effect on my life.
Wacky, open up your mind, stop being mad about everything, looking under every rock for reasons to be aggrieved isn't great for anyone's mental health and it is poisonous to our society, if you care about such things.
End rant.
RIP Terez, I was scared as hell that this was another young black man who lost his life to COVID. I can't describe how scared I am of this disease.