Marie Claire met #BlackTwitter on Wednesday, after the magazine tweeted a picture of Kendall Jenner wearing her hair partially cornrowed and labeling the style as “bold” and “epic.”
The intense outrage came from the audacity of the magazine praising Kendall for a “new” hairstyle that she didn’t create. The color of her skin and her family’s affinity to the African American culture didn’t help the case at all.
As a result, #BlackTwitter quickly voiced their disgust with the magazine’s tweets, created hilarious meme’s, and created #EpicBraidLevels.
Can we talk about @marieclaire crediting the Kardashians for everything "WE" have been doing for ages. Thx @TAJrani | #stylechat—
Tunisia Z. Wilson (@TunisiaWilson) April 02, 2014
Bold. New. EPIC! If only @marieclaire called any of the millions of brown and black girls rocking braids these terms with regularity.—
Pia Glenn (@PiaGlenn) April 02, 2014
Seems as if the Marie Claire may need to diversify their writing team. Any woman of color on staff would know cornrows have been around for ages and that there is nothing “bold” or “epic” about them.
After much criticism from the black community, Marie Claire offered up an apology:
We didn’t mean to offend or imply that cornrows were new. Our tweet was poorly worded.—
Marie Claire (@marieclaire) April 02, 2014
We thought her hair looked great and recognize women have been styling their hair like this for ages.—
Marie Claire (@marieclaire) April 02, 2014
What do you think? Accidental racism or just a case of poor wording?
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#BlackTwitter Goes In On Marie Claire’s Tweets About Kendall Jenner and Cornrows was originally published on blackamericaweb.com