The Way This White Guy Shut Down A Black Woman Defending Kanye West In A Black Barbershop Is Pure Gold
Kanye West has been hitting the headlines incessantly of late, with his odd fashion designs, comments on slavery and weird lurch toward right wing figures being the source of baffled amusement, as well as anger and disappointment among many of his fans.
And so Kanye is once again the topic of many a conversation, which is, in my opinion, exactly what he wants. This particular conversation took place in a barbershop, that precious bastion of a public place where strangers will still readily engage in friendly chat without the aid of alcohol.
The barbershop was in Harlem, and apparently has an almost exclusively black clientele. Except on Tuesday. Tuesday has “a white dude.”
And so the story begins. Tweeted out by Twitter user @RafiDAngelo, it is the hilarious tale of Kanye becoming, inevitably, the center of heated conversation, and a plucky white dude brazenly giving his two cents on the matter in a ‘black’ barbershop. How did it all go down? Scroll down below to check it out for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
It looked like an ordinary barbershop visit to a Twitter user @RafiDAngelo until he saw a white guy sitting there
Image credits: Rafi D’Angelo
People were quick to get behind “Chad’s” comments
"Black Barbershop", "white man" etc. etc. The US really still have a long way to go.
I know nothing but I have heard that working with afro-textured hair is so much different from working with caucasian or asian etc hair that there's a good reason for black barbershops.
Load More Replies...I don't live in the US and I don't know that much about how black and white integrates there but why the big fuss around a white man charing his opinion about a celebrity with black people? If it was the other way around, i.e. a black man chared his opinion about a white celebrity with a bunch of white man, would he be considerd brave as well? Why should'nt he be comfortabel in sharing his opinion with and about the opposit race? It's wasn't like he sad anything racist.
There's a consensus among a large amount of people that white people don't have the right to discuss what is deemed 'black issues' its the same with feminism. There's a group of people that pretty much think men don't have the right to discuss certain things because they're a man and they don't really understand. Same thing kinda.
Load More Replies...I remember reading a true account of a little boy who had been sold.....a woman on the plantation took him through the woods to meet up with his mother and say goodbye one last time. She had to DRAG him off her when it was time to go. I'm white AF and I will 100% tell you I recognize I can't "get it" for myself, but as a mother, that spoke to me and I feel like I "got" a small percentage of it that way. Anybody who tells me that was a choice can go straight to hell and I don't care what color they are.
Here, Here! Cheerio Chadley. Bravo my good sir! :3D
Load More Replies...Kanye seems to say this bombastic, ridiculous, ill thought out, mean spirited, self aggrandizing, illogical stuff all the time. Is the only reason that the media reports on him is because it gets viewers attention? Think Charlie Sheen, Alex Jones, Don Imus and a host of other loud mouths who make no sense but attract attention to themselves.
All I can say, Kanye needs to keep his clam shut because what does he know about slavery? It's not choice. That role was forced upon their hands, it was either die with their family or work for a man that had more land than they have had. And the slavery has been going
If you think about "privilege" in terms of the accumulated wealth and opportunities earned by the sweat of your parents and grandparents, then Kanye also comes from privilege. His mother had a Doctorate degree, worked very hard, and got somewhere on her own efforts. But her earned position gave Kanye that head start-he wasn't in a family fighting poverty. So I agree, I don't think he understands the things families dealing with poverty have to "beat". And I don't think he "gets" slavery any better than I do-a white woman who has no ancestors who lived in America before 1880.
Load More Replies...Kudos to Chad and kudos to Rafi DAngelo. Brilliant answer and brilliantly-recounted.
Off topic: why does bored panda hide comments that have a lot of downvotes? Just bc people don’t agree with you doesn’t mean your comments should be hidden, no matter what side of the coin you are on. Can someone explain this?
I think it’s because they’re usually offensive in some way, shape or form, not just the fact that people disagree.
Load More Replies...Like someone stated truth is truth no matter who says it. Chad good on ya.
Good for him expressing an opinion that is not only accurately but quite eloquently put. I would have just said crazy is as crazy does.
Sounds like "Chad" pretty much nailed it. Yes, I am a middle aged white woman. That doesn't preclude me from recognizing an enormous a*****e when I see one. Even Obama referred to Kanye as a jackass.
Hahaha Chad you I accept the trade of getting You for Kanye. Welcome Chad the black man
We don't choose our genes. The only genes we choose are our jeans. The sooner everyone realizes this, the better.
chad is just another brown noser wanting to be liked ! screw white guilt! nobody alive today has ever kept any slaves nor picked any cotton
This has to be some of the most racist s**t I have ever seen on Bored Panda. But, because it's a black gay man saying it, it's alright. This is why it's wrong...."I usually get my hair cut on Thursdays, but this week I went in on Tuesday, so you know, there's a different group of regulars there. Apparently, Tuesday has a black dude." That wouldn't be acceptable, and this isn't either.
I'm hoping that it wasn't boldness on "Chad's" part, I'm hoping he saw a room full of people that he wanted to engage with as part of a neighborhood.
Load More Replies...But I mean "black black" ... Like Tyrone black. Like jail. Like a sperm donor and not a Dad. (you get the idea; flip the script and suddenly folks get all offended)
For a couple of years, I was the 'Mexican guy at the barbershop'. Tone, the barber, knows how to do a mean fade, and my (stick straight) hair has always been difficult to work with. I only stopped going because I found a place closer to work, but their fade will never be as good as Tone's.
Americans are strangers. I am fom Brazil and here we can clearly see a white blonde dude with natural afro hair. Or a black woman with a straight hair. I am black pale and I have straight hair.
Incognegro... hoteptres.... LMAO I definitely learned some new words today! What a great writer!
What about is this discussion? It is a story. Great story. Nothing about racism. And without labelling black and white the story has no point (For those who need it: doesn’t mater on the colour the attitude is important). Good job @RafiDAngelo .
It's an in-joke. The general rule is "keep it in the family". For example, my husband worked with some women who made outrageous jokes to each other. The men stayed out of it like flies on the wall. I could go into greater depth about this if you want.
Load More Replies...Wtf?! Is there really such a thing as Black Barber Shops and White barber shops?! Why can't it just be called a barber shop. Good on "chad" but at the same time the whole thing makes me feel so uncomfortable. Why can't people just be referred to as their gender or whatever?!
What a horrible article. If this was the other way around, people would flip! This article is racist as s**t. This guy is "brave" because he disagreed with black people? Can you imagine the outrage if this was the other way around? I hate this SJW b******t because it's so hypocritical. Also, Kanye is allowed to have opinions, you ignorant a******s. This article is so full of nonsense and hypocrisy. Typical SJW f*****g garbage.
Ok...I'm sure there are going to be a lot of opinions on this but here goes anyway: Anyone else see how god awfully racist this is? Because hes white he should sit there quietly and try to not even be seen?? And keep his opinions to himself?? Just because he white in a black barber shop? Sounds like dude didn't even think Chad (which would be like me assuming this guy’s name is Tyrone because hes a black dude and then I'd get s**t for being a racist...admit it) should BE there. Isn't that what the African American community fought (is fighting) all these years against happening? And for inclusion??? I’m not saying there hasn’t been struggle and I’m not saying racism is dead and I’m not devaluing ANYONE’S feelings but, I mean, come on!! The street goes both ways friends.
That's not how I read it at all. I honestly just don't believe anyone was saying he should just sit there because he's white. What I gathered was that it was unexpected, but very welcomed. They listened to Chad, and all agreed with him. I think they may have been surprised to see a white man in a typically black barbershop, but it certainly didn't sound like he was unwelcome.
Load More Replies...Respect.... I imagine myself discussing some of Erdogan ideas inside a turkish barbershop....
Yeah white people never have had anything to themselves. Good call.
Load More Replies...Nobody said it wasn't. Sorry Paul, you'll have to make yourself a victim in some other way today.
Load More Replies...Because he was backpedaling, trying to salvage the situation, and has never apologized or shown humility. His attitude remains one of arrogance: "Everybody misunderstood me." He's also forgetting that the abolitionists who were actively helping slaves had to do so in secret, and he's saying it all from the comfort and privilege of his modern-day celebrity status.
Load More Replies...He called neo-nazis very fine people. He was sued, more than once for discriminatory practices when he owned rental properties. He has the support of the white supremacist community. Oh and he hired literal white supremacists. So I guess there's all that.
Load More Replies...Your utter and complete obsession with Trump, combined with your unwillingness to find anything to criticize him about, is quite frankly incredibly creepy. You are aware Trump is not your god, correct?
Load More Replies...This comment would make sense if it were not for the fact that it's attached to a story in which Chad does the opposite, he contradicts a maginalized person of colour, female at that and wins the the love and respect of all involved and goes on to be celebrated in the pages of Bored Panda. The whole story is basically a feel good Hollywood movie in the vain of Dances with Wolves or Dangerous Minds.
Load More Replies..."Black Barbershop", "white man" etc. etc. The US really still have a long way to go.
I know nothing but I have heard that working with afro-textured hair is so much different from working with caucasian or asian etc hair that there's a good reason for black barbershops.
Load More Replies...I don't live in the US and I don't know that much about how black and white integrates there but why the big fuss around a white man charing his opinion about a celebrity with black people? If it was the other way around, i.e. a black man chared his opinion about a white celebrity with a bunch of white man, would he be considerd brave as well? Why should'nt he be comfortabel in sharing his opinion with and about the opposit race? It's wasn't like he sad anything racist.
There's a consensus among a large amount of people that white people don't have the right to discuss what is deemed 'black issues' its the same with feminism. There's a group of people that pretty much think men don't have the right to discuss certain things because they're a man and they don't really understand. Same thing kinda.
Load More Replies...I remember reading a true account of a little boy who had been sold.....a woman on the plantation took him through the woods to meet up with his mother and say goodbye one last time. She had to DRAG him off her when it was time to go. I'm white AF and I will 100% tell you I recognize I can't "get it" for myself, but as a mother, that spoke to me and I feel like I "got" a small percentage of it that way. Anybody who tells me that was a choice can go straight to hell and I don't care what color they are.
Here, Here! Cheerio Chadley. Bravo my good sir! :3D
Load More Replies...Kanye seems to say this bombastic, ridiculous, ill thought out, mean spirited, self aggrandizing, illogical stuff all the time. Is the only reason that the media reports on him is because it gets viewers attention? Think Charlie Sheen, Alex Jones, Don Imus and a host of other loud mouths who make no sense but attract attention to themselves.
All I can say, Kanye needs to keep his clam shut because what does he know about slavery? It's not choice. That role was forced upon their hands, it was either die with their family or work for a man that had more land than they have had. And the slavery has been going
If you think about "privilege" in terms of the accumulated wealth and opportunities earned by the sweat of your parents and grandparents, then Kanye also comes from privilege. His mother had a Doctorate degree, worked very hard, and got somewhere on her own efforts. But her earned position gave Kanye that head start-he wasn't in a family fighting poverty. So I agree, I don't think he understands the things families dealing with poverty have to "beat". And I don't think he "gets" slavery any better than I do-a white woman who has no ancestors who lived in America before 1880.
Load More Replies...Kudos to Chad and kudos to Rafi DAngelo. Brilliant answer and brilliantly-recounted.
Off topic: why does bored panda hide comments that have a lot of downvotes? Just bc people don’t agree with you doesn’t mean your comments should be hidden, no matter what side of the coin you are on. Can someone explain this?
I think it’s because they’re usually offensive in some way, shape or form, not just the fact that people disagree.
Load More Replies...Like someone stated truth is truth no matter who says it. Chad good on ya.
Good for him expressing an opinion that is not only accurately but quite eloquently put. I would have just said crazy is as crazy does.
Sounds like "Chad" pretty much nailed it. Yes, I am a middle aged white woman. That doesn't preclude me from recognizing an enormous a*****e when I see one. Even Obama referred to Kanye as a jackass.
Hahaha Chad you I accept the trade of getting You for Kanye. Welcome Chad the black man
We don't choose our genes. The only genes we choose are our jeans. The sooner everyone realizes this, the better.
chad is just another brown noser wanting to be liked ! screw white guilt! nobody alive today has ever kept any slaves nor picked any cotton
This has to be some of the most racist s**t I have ever seen on Bored Panda. But, because it's a black gay man saying it, it's alright. This is why it's wrong...."I usually get my hair cut on Thursdays, but this week I went in on Tuesday, so you know, there's a different group of regulars there. Apparently, Tuesday has a black dude." That wouldn't be acceptable, and this isn't either.
I'm hoping that it wasn't boldness on "Chad's" part, I'm hoping he saw a room full of people that he wanted to engage with as part of a neighborhood.
Load More Replies...But I mean "black black" ... Like Tyrone black. Like jail. Like a sperm donor and not a Dad. (you get the idea; flip the script and suddenly folks get all offended)
For a couple of years, I was the 'Mexican guy at the barbershop'. Tone, the barber, knows how to do a mean fade, and my (stick straight) hair has always been difficult to work with. I only stopped going because I found a place closer to work, but their fade will never be as good as Tone's.
Americans are strangers. I am fom Brazil and here we can clearly see a white blonde dude with natural afro hair. Or a black woman with a straight hair. I am black pale and I have straight hair.
Incognegro... hoteptres.... LMAO I definitely learned some new words today! What a great writer!
What about is this discussion? It is a story. Great story. Nothing about racism. And without labelling black and white the story has no point (For those who need it: doesn’t mater on the colour the attitude is important). Good job @RafiDAngelo .
It's an in-joke. The general rule is "keep it in the family". For example, my husband worked with some women who made outrageous jokes to each other. The men stayed out of it like flies on the wall. I could go into greater depth about this if you want.
Load More Replies...Wtf?! Is there really such a thing as Black Barber Shops and White barber shops?! Why can't it just be called a barber shop. Good on "chad" but at the same time the whole thing makes me feel so uncomfortable. Why can't people just be referred to as their gender or whatever?!
What a horrible article. If this was the other way around, people would flip! This article is racist as s**t. This guy is "brave" because he disagreed with black people? Can you imagine the outrage if this was the other way around? I hate this SJW b******t because it's so hypocritical. Also, Kanye is allowed to have opinions, you ignorant a******s. This article is so full of nonsense and hypocrisy. Typical SJW f*****g garbage.
Ok...I'm sure there are going to be a lot of opinions on this but here goes anyway: Anyone else see how god awfully racist this is? Because hes white he should sit there quietly and try to not even be seen?? And keep his opinions to himself?? Just because he white in a black barber shop? Sounds like dude didn't even think Chad (which would be like me assuming this guy’s name is Tyrone because hes a black dude and then I'd get s**t for being a racist...admit it) should BE there. Isn't that what the African American community fought (is fighting) all these years against happening? And for inclusion??? I’m not saying there hasn’t been struggle and I’m not saying racism is dead and I’m not devaluing ANYONE’S feelings but, I mean, come on!! The street goes both ways friends.
That's not how I read it at all. I honestly just don't believe anyone was saying he should just sit there because he's white. What I gathered was that it was unexpected, but very welcomed. They listened to Chad, and all agreed with him. I think they may have been surprised to see a white man in a typically black barbershop, but it certainly didn't sound like he was unwelcome.
Load More Replies...Respect.... I imagine myself discussing some of Erdogan ideas inside a turkish barbershop....
Yeah white people never have had anything to themselves. Good call.
Load More Replies...Nobody said it wasn't. Sorry Paul, you'll have to make yourself a victim in some other way today.
Load More Replies...Because he was backpedaling, trying to salvage the situation, and has never apologized or shown humility. His attitude remains one of arrogance: "Everybody misunderstood me." He's also forgetting that the abolitionists who were actively helping slaves had to do so in secret, and he's saying it all from the comfort and privilege of his modern-day celebrity status.
Load More Replies...He called neo-nazis very fine people. He was sued, more than once for discriminatory practices when he owned rental properties. He has the support of the white supremacist community. Oh and he hired literal white supremacists. So I guess there's all that.
Load More Replies...Your utter and complete obsession with Trump, combined with your unwillingness to find anything to criticize him about, is quite frankly incredibly creepy. You are aware Trump is not your god, correct?
Load More Replies...This comment would make sense if it were not for the fact that it's attached to a story in which Chad does the opposite, he contradicts a maginalized person of colour, female at that and wins the the love and respect of all involved and goes on to be celebrated in the pages of Bored Panda. The whole story is basically a feel good Hollywood movie in the vain of Dances with Wolves or Dangerous Minds.
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