9 Times White Folks Tried To Claim A Black Trend As Their Own
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Veronica Wells
Doobie Wraps
Leave it to Rihanna to show mainstream culture a thing or two. And I do love her for that. It’s like she’s teaching a class on modern day Black culture and mainstream Americans are her pupils. When she showed up at the American Music Awards in 2013, Black girls across the nation gasped. Homegirl was literally wearing a preservation tactic on the red carpet. And while we knew it was a doobie, roller wrap, wrap, or doobie wrap, mainstream Americans were fascinated by the style and sought to name it. Glamour came up with “faux pixie crop.” Kind of like Columbus did with the West Indies. Some took issue with the style, or accused Rihanna’s stylist of stealing it. But others, embraced it fully, wearing it out as a fashion statement.
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