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.
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