Justin Bieber has been accused of cultural appropriation, and being a “dilettante … dipping his toe in the culture”, after changing his hairstyle. Stephanie Cohen, co-founder and legal and political organiser at the Halo Collective, a natural hair organisation, told the Guardian: “When I see a white person in mainstream media sporting a black hairstyle, it makes me angry. “I’m angry because this standard does not exist when a black person simply wears their hair in this way. You can’t just wear something so historically significant and ignore the struggles behind what the hairstyle purports.”Cohen said Bieber had “no right” to wear the hairstyle. “The term has been so normalised in the English language that people often are ignorant towards its connotations,” she said.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2021 16:07 UTC