9 Times White Folks Tried To Claim A Black Trend As Their Own
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Veronica Wells
Bantu Knots
If you ask White folks, Crazy Eyes, from “Orange Is The New Black” was the first person to wear bantu knots. How do I know? Well, when Rihanna showed up at the iHeart Music Awards earlier this year, rocking the knots most Black girls have known very well, people said that’s where the look came from. Close but no cigar. That’s an almost ancient African hair style. The style was so new to White folks, they didn’t know quite what to call it. So the dubbed Rih Rih’s bantu knots, “hair nubbins.”
It wasn’t long before they started showing up on fashion runways.
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