“Stop Wearing White Lady Hair!” Whoopi Goldberg Says She is Sick Of Cultural Appropriation Claims

On a recent episode of The View the crew discussed the backlash Pepsi & Kendall Jenner received because of their most recent commercial. You can read about the controversy and watch the commercial HERE.

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Whoopi admits the the commercial missed the mark, however, she scoffed at the idea that Kendall Jenner’s participation is an example of cultural appropriation.

“You know this culture appropriation stuff starting to really make me crazy,  it’s starting to make me crazy. You know because, If we’re going to go with culture appropriation, wear natural hair..because if we’re wearing white lady hair isn’t that appropriation as well?”

Watch the episode below (fast forward to the 4 minute mark to hear Whoopi’s point of view):

Do you think Whoopi has a point? Sound off below!

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15 Comments

  1. I always wear kinky hair. ???

  2. No. Whoppi doesn’t have a dog in this fight. Just because her money and Hollywood status has allowed her to look however she pleases does not mean that the rest of us have that privilege. Many don’t wear weave to appropriate but to assimilate. And a larger portion wear weave to stand out and be their uniquely sickening selves, so idk what she’s talking about. *dismissive hair flip*

    1. If that isn’t the biggest load of BS right here…
      I too am sick of hearing people cry over “cultural appropriation,” it’s incredibly divisive. As a black American, I’m really worn out over the division lately, enough is enough.
      We all take part in one another’s culture in one way or another. If you don’t like that — don’t you take part in anything that isn’t part of your own culture, don’t wear your hair a certain way, don’t do any of it. Since you want to cry over people “appropriating” our culture, you can stop doing anything having to do with anyone else’s culture. How about that?

      1. We don’t do anything in black culture because the black culture have been destroyed! You have been reared to think white or any other ethnic group is better than you! Younger Black women are more insecured than ever and the older women were just as bad after all the truth staring in their face after making homosexual boys! Damn shame a nation within a nation and the women are rooted in white skin!

    2. OMG… I agree. That is a BS comment from Coco. Thanks for calling her out Mason!! You said it!!

  3. I thougjt she was moving out of the country when #45 became president. Please move and be quiet. In case no one has told you, you are not a style icon. We have choices to wear our hair ANY WAY WE CHOOSE. From stick straight, to super kinky. A TWA to extensions made of real hair or fake. Shut your mouth. Mind tour business and fix YOUR hair, matural or not, it is not cute. If that offends you, then stop telling black women how to wear THEIR hair.

  4. I like Whoop but she’s not one too talk when she has mingled and dabbled in interracial relationships all her life. How a black women wears her hair does not dignify how black or not black she is! And that Pepsi commercial was wrong on so many more issues than “appropiation”. It was down right disrespectful too the many who’ve lost their lives for the civil freedoms of people of color.

  5. No, Whoopi is totally off the mark. She is just another Black person who has professed her love for the dominant culture and has made money from her love affair. She has lost her right, to me, to speak on issues that affect the average Black person in America. And when the dominant culture copies something that the minority culture has as an identifier or a product, repackages and renames it, then sells it to members of the dominant culture (which supports its own), that is cultural appropriation.

  6. Being considered afro American dissent necessity mean you have kinky hair. My ancestors had some Indian traits, and some Hispanic traits. I can’t explain how difficult it is at times to find someone to do my hair. I am sure many others have similar experiences. I like the kinky look. I like some straight hair styles.Perhaps the mixture of origins puts some of us in a sticky situation. Most people prefer what’s easy.

  7. Emily Posts says:

    Once again Blacks in Hollywood felt the need to lashout at who “Black” women…. Why because Kylie nonblack decided to make a dumb Pepsi Commercial….. That says more about Whoopi “Goldberg”….. So she with a MICROPHONE and A Camera choose to attack all black women with hair extensions…… WTF
    If she wants to give lessons about appropriation she might want to start at her Last Name!!!!! IMJS…… So shes a practicing Jewish person…. LOL OOOOOOOkkkkkkkk Love her but really….
    Its so annoying that black people in Hollywood always feel so comfortable attacking blacks in defense of random white people…. Like who cares about Kylies dumb pepsi Commercial what did people think that she was going to start a revolution… Have you seen her family its bunch of users and opportunists…. Why wouldn’t she do what her family does best when Pepsi gives her $$$ and access opportunity to do it????
    But uhhhh about all this attack on women who chose to wear their hair the way they want They should put their middle fingers up to all these celebrities trying to tell them what to do….
    Why and who that is really black expects more?? LOL You black people better wake up….. Because all this multiculturalism propaganda has your heads to far up in the clouds.

  8. As a non-American black, I do often find that “appropriation” accusations are whining. I guess it’s cool when you identify the source; like plagiarism. Can’t we just call it that. It’ll be so much easier and clearer to identify. Claim a trend – Bad; Ackknowledge the Source – Good.

  9. She definitely has a point. What black person you know is born with straight, blonde hair? I’ll wait.

  10. AnotherThinker says:

    We can make all we want about cultural appropriation but the reality is that this is the norm for all of human history. We merge cultures, period. Any historian can tell you this. We can argue about it all you want, but in five hundred years they will still talk about how cultures have merged. This is just human fact. I also believe that it hinders civilization development and evolution over time to suggest that we should tell people what to do, wear, or how to act or to “stay in their lane.” Of course, people will try to do so, but it won’t work.

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