Possibly the worst thing I’ve heard...

I'm sure this is isn't going to come out right but

This story makes me feel better.  WAIT because I was ranting and raving all over my building at school yesterday.  A guy I know and hang out with was offered to be set up with a cute girl we thought was his type.   And he said, "Umm hello, she's asian"  as though it were a disease and we should have all known better.  I've heard him make bigoted remarks about homosexuals before (which I always lecture him about) but this was new and more offensive.  So the making me feel better part is that someone else gets this worked up when people are immature, ignorant, a**holes.

As to the idea that racism is only/primarily in the south.  This was a born and bred new englander in new england.  But I'm touchy about people claiming the south is worse.  I've lived in FL, TX, NH, and RI and have found bigots everywhere.

Kalika, excellent work telling her where she could stick it.

rachel - what color is your hair naturally before you use the vampire red?

wow..all i can say is....wow....was she crazy?? it's not very smart to just walk up to anyone, to begin with...then to spout off ignorance like that??? whew....sounds to me like she had a "few rooms for rent on the top floor"..if you catch my drift...

this woman is crazy i mean its 2005 i cant believe there are still peeps  judging someone because of  the skin colour  

i always use ethnic hair care products for my hair

i love the dark and lovely ultra cholesterol conditioner its the best for my bleached hair and my 613 extensions

Go, Kalika, for giving her what for!  I can understand people not thinking hair products not marketed to them are any good (heck, I only recently discovered the great finds in "ethnic" hair care, but my grandmother--of fine, thin, permed, Irish brunette hair--has always used hair cholesterol).  But to be so rude and stupid amazes me.  No, I take it back, it doesn't amaze me...it just makes me sad.  Where I live, the number one ethnicity is Asian, so I think I have a slightly different perspective than people who grow up in other communities. Still, people should be able to treat others with respect no matter where they were raised.


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Kalika...

no bleach ...lol..bad bleach...it covers the natural just fine...

sorry i didnt like comment on the troglodyte but my dad is kinda that way....no way that bad....but it just ...AARRRGGHHHH

Never ceases to amaze me the things people will say. Not so much that there are insecure, uneducated jerks in the world, but that in this era of lawsuits and hyper political correctness some people absolutely do not miss a beat when tossing out some crazy ass verbal slurs. It's like they just don't think there's any reason to consider whether children and others who will be more affected are within earshot.

But then my very liberal seeming co-worker today seemed rather...not offended, but slightly scandalized that my mom was in a relationship with a black dude. Like bi-racial relationships were only something you do to experiment in youth. What a dork. I pointed out that my mom wasn't a southern redneck( No offense to the big hearted redneck's if any of you here are.  I have native southern friends with the biggest hearts.) He's good natured though, and meant no harm by it. I thinks it's like ccross said, he's just lived a rather insular life.

People can still be pretty sh*tty though. BTW, my bro's x, Kalika, stopped using cholesterol treatments when she realized that were marketed for black hair. Like she would suddenly grow an afro or something. Sheesh.

Wow...what's so amazing is that she felt so comfortable and free to spew that crap to a stranger in a store...what was she thinking? Were you suppose to say "oh thank you for pointing out that these are "black" products, I almost spent my "white" money on them."

Latte and Sherri-you both live in Michigan? Me too.

un beleivable- i would of set her straight in One second, glad u held your toungue Kalia

 

oh good grief kalika...

at first i thought you were going to say she didn't think the products were cross-usable for different textures. guess i gave too much credit, huh.

i live in east TN, i am originally from east TN but i've lived up and down the east coast. i am white and from fairly insular, ignorant country farm people, frankly. my dad told me the first time he actually saw an african american was when he was 18 YEARS OLD.

i know what you mean shan about the south, but i also feel like so much crap that comes up is shear and pure ignorance, and unfortunately i've lived other places outside the south and heard stuff that made my jaw drop. i guess now i do feel like when stuff does come up it is my obligation to question their statements - sometimes people are ignorant and sometimes people just don't want to hear anything outside what they've heard their whole lives, and rarely they are just evil. i also know many awesome people of all races in the south who do their part to break stereotypes, and in a couple cases i've known people who were like - oh wow i've never thought of it that way. i don't think it's the south in specific, it's uneducated people who never hear a dissenting voice, or get their opinions of other groups of people of whatever ethnicity, background, or religion from the media.

it hits a nerve with me, always has kalika. good for you. i agree latte most people would be shocked to know where their products come from even manufacturing-wise. i think also people would likely be shocked to know that the likelihood of having someone of a different race in their own family tree is pretty dang high!

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Kalika...

Which PH color matches the vampire red?...is it the burgand rot or something..that's the color i usually dye my hair....sometimes I add a bit of raven and or fire red/infra red....Getting some PH on the first and I was just going to basically buy pretty much all the reds ..see which ones i liked the best or which ones compliment each other the best and re-dye if I have to..