Friday, August 13, 2010

Ke$ha Appropriates Native Culture Again


You ever look at a celebrity and wonder when their irrelevant ass is going to go away?  That is how I feel about Ke$ha. She seems to have a long life span than Joe the Plumber. When she is not spewing cissexist blather to the world, she is appropriating Native culture.  I fail to see how her wearing a headdress has any meaning other than, yeah I'm white I think I will go and appropriate some culture now so that I can do my part to maintain White supremacy and colonialism.  Yeah for being a clueless fuck. 

Each time she has put on a headdress, the Native community has spoken out about the appropriation -- and so either she doesn't care, which makes her racist -- or she believes it is her right to ignore the complaints -- thus making her racist.  Any way that you looking at this situation, it equals Ke$ha is a racist.  Did I call her a racist enough times?  You know, I could throw in a few more: racist, racist, racist. racist.  I really don't have much humour about this because this amounts to the purposeful devaluation of a culture and a people.

Despite the fact that the woman's headdress is as clear as the nose on your face, the commenters at Jezebel where I found this disgusting image, didn't think it was worth mentioning that a White woman wearing a headdress is full of racist fail.  Even when it is right in front of them, for some reason White people don't see racism. Gee, I wonder why that could be?  Oh, I know, it's 'cause they fucking benefit from it.  Yep, all makes sense now. In fact, if you decide to pop over there you will be treated to insightful commentary like:

  • She looks like a five year old on a sugar rush and with free access to the dressing-up box and mum's make-up drawer.
  • She looks like glam metal meets Village People. I'm so confused.She looks like glam metal meets Village People. I'm so confused.
  • It looks like someone was tripping during arts and crafts.
Okay, so I'll be fair and mention that a few tried to point out the very hipster neo-racist appropriation, but once again race was not the center of the conversation.  Why even post this image and not talk about the headdress?  Unless you are planning on giving more free press to this raging troll I hardly see the point.  Okay, I seriously need to take a breathe because I am Ke$ha'd out and honestly, if you are thinking person, that image does not require any more commentary than I gave it.




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