White TV news anchors suspended for wearing Afro wigs on-air

Lol. What a world. We’ve regressed.

Maybe they’re Jews, sporting a Jewfro.

He’s wearing an Adrienne Barbeau wig.

Who's to say it wasn't a tribute to Barry Williams?

Don't you mean Bob Ross?

Well I knew it was SOME Bob.

Gordy is pissed the fuck off.

One would hope viewers are not subjected to the triggering sight of a news anchor who may use hair straightener!!

With that headline. I thought both news anchors also tanned their skin and spoke in a “blaccent”. All that over afros? Granted, there are other classic ‘70s hairstyles they could have used, but still.

We had a white, non-Jewish, guy in high school, who had hair just like that wig.

I mean, they're idiots for wearing costumes to read the news, but there almost certainly was no racist intent or overtone here. Party-fro wigs are a typical element of '70s costumes. Just because some people are ignorant of this doesn't mean we are excusing it.

Obviously miss cunt wasnt around in the 70s or she would know that perms were a big thing on men and women.

Dr. Anika Whitfield, Professor of Bullshit & Grifts

R13 Fat and ugly ,I knew it !

This hairstyle is not exclusive to blacks, plenty of white people can rock a fro.

Dr. Anika Whitfield could use some Slimfast

We have reached peak 🤡!

Robert Heyges was Jewish

Jesus Christ.

When I was a girl in Poland, we all had Afros.

I had Afro. My sister had Afro. Everybody have Afros.

Back in the 70sI took home a white guy with an Afro-style haircut; he was Italian, so it made sense. Then I saw his bush, which looked identical. I thought maybe he blow-dried it. I've never seen anyone like him since.

She's not ugly, you hateful prick. This story is DataLounge catnip.

R19 This is probably normal behavior in Poland. They probably have it as a recurring skit and they just laugh at the same thing over and over.

" but there almost certainly was no racist intent or overtone here. "

Almost certainly?

Are there any job opportunities for racist mind reading and equivocating other than your local Chick-Fil-A?

I loved watching Robert Hegyes on Welcome Back, Kotter. He was Hungarian and Italian, and a Jersey boy through and through.

What does Doctor Whitfield says about Beyoncé whose hair is now the same color as the Dakota wheat fields?

Progressive US Senator Al Franken

No wonder they kicked him out of the Senate

R19 how many Pollocks does it take to make their white people hair shampooed and clean?

Fros were big for everyone in the 70s. My dad (white) had a natural fro. Barbra Streisand had one. Don Henley paid good money to have a ridiculous looking one. It's more a joke about the 70s than anything else. Black people don't have exclusive rights to wildly curly hair.

Both of my sisters, who are white, had Afros in the 1970s.

Beyoncé had an Afro but now she's as blond as Gwyynneth Paltrowe.

Her customers don’t recognise her unless she’s blond.

It's going to take another war to get this nation's population back to reality. People have way too much time on their hands and absolutely no perspective.

He looks like Leo Sayer.

R10 Curly hair is not uncommon in southern Europe and the British Isles.

R28 to this day Don Henley denies ever having a perm. Other 'fro fakers include Bob Ross and Eric Clapton.

So god damned fucking stupid! It's almost as if they don't realise PERMS were big in the 70s, and as others have stated, other races have curly fucking hair. It's not like they were in fucking blackface. Jesus.

Growing up in the 70s we had a TON of guys sporting this hair disaster. Some better than others. There was the JewFro, the I just have a ton of curly hair ItalianFro, the I am Eurotrash wearing my EuroFro, the, I'm a surfer, here's my SurferFro, And, let's not forget Mr. Brady wearing that tragic perm, the BradyFro

The list is endless. Will culture courses ever start being taught in school? This is what the 50s were like, the 60s, the 70s, etc. Of course not. Erasure is the new game in town.

So sick of SJWs and their approach of when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail (even when it almost never does. They just want to pound shit).

Jeff Lynn is a natural curly.

a Queen...

Those wigs aren't afros. They're curly hair. Men used to get perms in the 1970s. Eric Clapton had a perm

afros are frizz, not curls

[quote] Both of my sisters, who are white, had Afros in the 1970s

I hope they are happy that they harmed the black community irreparably

The US is so fucked up.

OP's photo looks like Italian singer Francesco Renga.

The woke overload is going to make this country implode. They were having fun because the 70s were all about goofy fun and perms they looked like wild fro’s were the hair dos! There’s zero racism in their intent. Now this race baiting big bitch needs to run her mouth to prove something. Why doesn’t she drag all the black chicks who straighten their hair and dye it blonde, isn’t that cultural appropriation of suburban white women?

Haven't any of these people seen Welcome Back Kotter???

Thank god my black friends aren’t offended by benign things like this. I suppose they wouldn’t be my friends if they were.

This is why moronic assholes like Donald Trump will keep getting elected. Many people are sick and tired of extreme leftist cancel culture. This is not progressive it is actually the opposite.

[quote] This is not progressive it is actually the opposite.

It's puritanical!

[quote] “We apologize to all viewers who were rightfully offended by the segment

The Crackers are grovelling!

They don't have the whip in their hands anymore!

Omfg

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

Art Garfunkel is cancelled!

I'm just trying to fathom what it's like to lose your job of 20 yrs over this.

[quote]Maybe they’re Jews, sporting a Jewfro.

Brandt at least is old enough to know that in the 1970s you had people with Jewfros, like Gabe Kaplan, but also white people with big perms, along with the large disco Afro style. He wore an Afro wig, the dummy.

And I know everyone here is old enough to know the difference between a disco perm, a Jewfro, and an Afro, so I don't know what the point is of acting like it's all the same.

Using the word ‘Fro’ is actually the only culturally insensitive thing here.

Not all piles of curly hair have something to do with Afro-American culture.

Saying someone having a pile of curly hair atop their head is copying Africans or African-Americans is false.

Unless the anchors said, ‘hey look at my fro’, they weren’t misappropriating anything.

Not sure if either of them had personal photos from way back that were similar to the wigs they wore on-air, but it would have been great if they could produce them while stating, “Hey, this is what I used to look like!”

Now Karens come in black!

[quote] “We apologize to all viewers who were rightfully offended

The old whiteys are grovelling in their apology to their new masters.

ALL parties involved--including the suspension decision makers--are fucking morons.

Gabe Kaplan, you in danger, gurl!

They always have, r54, they always have:

Suspended? Fire them. Immediately.

What is the point of wearing Afros? Wide collar shirts and paisley print, a big porn stache and feathered Farrah Fawcett hair would have been just as relevant.

But no, let's make the Negroes a big joke by wearing Afro wigs.

Those Negroes and their funny hair. I can't get enough I tell ya.

Based on that picture I'm not getting anything about the 70's. I don't know what that is on top of his head so those that are morons might possible think he's making fun of Black people.

Gabe Kaplin and Jewfros aside, it does look like he's "taking the piss" out of Black hair.

You want to groan about the woke but those of you who want to overlook the fact that Black people have been used as the butt of jokes for hundreds of years are being obtuse. You can't tell of group of people to just "get over it" after 400 years of abuse.

Yes! I have suffered 400 years of abuse.

R57 = Zombie Marcia Strassman.

Does anyone actually believe r44 has ‘black friends’?

Disco Stu says —

I had a big curly perm back in the day -- and my gayboy hairdresser friend was the one who gave it to me. Prior to that, I was rocking the "long, straight hair parted down the middle" style of the late 60s/70s.

A good example of this style was Barbra Streisand in "The Main Event."

I looked much better with the perm.

In the US today, there are schools that are anti-black hair and try and regular how black girls wear their hair. Similar situations have happened in workplaces.

So I don’t give a fuck if a white guy in racist ass Arkansas gets shit for wearing an Afro.

It’s not “regressive” or “woke”, you guys are just finally getting a taste of your own medicine.

Who actually complained about this?

R36 Yeah and white people wore cornrows when I was growing up in the 90’s and 00’s. So because white people were copying black hairstyles in the 70’s, the Afro is no longer a black hairstyle? Lol

R61 Absolutely. This didn’t happen in NYC. People talking about Jews, they’re not in Arkansas and it’s for a reason too.

R68 A black person from a civil rights group.

I honestly opened the article like what’s the big deal until I saw it happened in Arkansas.

And for people talking about Jews, there’s no Jews in Arkansas and for a reason too.

Am I cancelled?

[quote] This is why moronic assholes like Donald Trump will keep getting elected. Many people are sick and tired of extreme leftist cancel culture. This is not progressive it is actually the opposite.

1. The vast majority of white have been voting for Republican candidates and Republican economic policies that don’t benefit their economic interests for 60+ yrs. That continued with Trump and will continue post Trump. Their stupidity didn’t start with Trump, nor did it end with Trump.

2. Republican love cancel culture. They invented invented it.

3. Black hair, like black skin, has always been demonized in this country. Whites emulating black hair in the 70s didn’t change that. Black people wore “naturals” as a symbol of pride. Black people currently still wear natural hair as a symbol of pride and rejection of white standards of beauty.

4. With no knowledge of anything outside of your own very limited white experience, it’s not your place to tell nonwhites by what they may or may not be offended. Regardless of how many personal anecdotes you have regarding whites emulating black hair. I will also add that laws had to be recently passed. In order to protect black people from being discriminated against because of their hair.

5. Whatever the joke is supposed to be. It doesn’t make sense. Certainly most people don’t give a fuck about this. And the network is simply trying to save their on ass from bad PR.

They need good PR!

What r31 said. We're a nation of lazy idiots with no real problems, spoiled and privileged beyond belief. We've lost all perspective because there are no real hardships in life.

Yeah I would love to understand what people are talking about with “cancel culture” and how conservatives are sick and tired it. They just cancelled abortion and are trying to go back to cancelling gay marriage.

[quote] What [R31] said. We're a nation of lazy idiots with no real problems, spoiled and privileged beyond belief. We've lost all perspective because there are no real hardships in life.

We’re fighting the same battles we fought 60 yrs ago. Life was very privileged for some 60 yrs ago and that has not changed. Which is why those 2 television personalities didn’t know any better.

He’s going as Howard Stern for Halloween.

CANCELLED.

It's a Sinclair station, so they didn't give it a thought before air time. The surprise is they could be so easily mau-maued into an apology, with suspensions and firings.

The problem with living in the right wing bubble where everybody's on the same page is that when you come out of it you're totally unprepared to deal with the greater world, where people may have very different points of view. It used to be called the difference between being provincial and cosmopolitan (or urbane.)

I don’t get it - was it insensitive to black people or people with naturally curly hair?

Such a twagedy...

He looks just like Larry from Threes Company.

[quote] I'm just trying to fathom what it's like to lose your job of 20 yrs over this.

While people like Zuckerberg get away with murder and are filthy rich.

[quote] The problem with living in the right wing bubble where everybody's on the same page is that when you come out of it you're totally unprepared to deal with the greater world, where people may have very different points of view. It used to be called the difference between being provincial and cosmopolitan (or urbane.)

Tribalism is exactly the type of thing the left wing has been encouraging.

[quote] African American activist Dr. Anika Whitfield

It was a very stupid stunt that played right into the hands of that person on the hunt for outrage 24/7.

These are Afro hair styles in the same sense that Page Boys are. It's just a name - it's not about who wears the style.

People be so damn stoopid.

Afros are not even popular with the black community anymore.

R187 So irrelevant. You think some local Southern red state local white news station in Arkansas was just being cute and innocent? You’re either naive or in denial.

Doesn't matter. It's the name. Sadly it sticks sometimes. You know, like "Karen".

Those so-called "afro" wigs don't even resemble African American hair. It's just curled, longer hair that reads white boy/girl brown hair.

[quote]We’re fighting the same battles we fought 60 yrs ago. Life was very privileged for some 60 yrs ago and that has not changed. Which is why those 2 television personalities didn’t know any better.

BULLSHIT. We're a nation of petulant whiners with no real problems. When you're obsessing over shit like this or how sitcoms from 30 years ago weren't diverse enough for your liking, you're beyond privileged.

r82 Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus was one of the greatest things ever.

So we're mad that those guys wore afros like everyone else in the 1970s, but we are OK with the fact that that Sinclair snatched up all these channels to push their conservative agenda?

Talk about some token bullshit. Useful idiots indeed! Keep on fighting for those symbolic victories as you're fed into the meat grinder.

True beauty is natural...

R91 Oh that’s such bullshit.

Racism is extremely alive and well. You choose to ignore it and deny that.

Like who gives a fuck about sitcoms? Those are outrage panic issues brought up on Fox News.

Studies show black people still get passed over on job applications because their names are “too black”. Now how the fuck is that a privilege?

No, R95, he's saying that everyone is privileged nowdays.

We're not threatened with Nuclear War anymore or about to be invaded by Japan (in the 40s) or Cuba (in the 60s).

R91 is saying that we have become flabby, nail-gazing pussies who obsess over minutia.

R95 What does that have to do with wearing Afro wigs?

The Left has become the new MORAL majority. They’re just a bunch of scolding harpies who want to censor everything just like the Right, and this includes art. That is not liberalism. Fuck them. I’m so sick of their insanity being catered to.

R95 and white people get passed over because they are too old. A friend told me once that the reason that "too black" names get passed over is because the companies are afraid since they have an afro-centric name they will be apt to pull the racism card at the drop of the hat. Like you just did. See how that works?

If the wigs were blond or red I wonder if there would have been a problem. What was the natural hair color of the anchors?

R100 it doesn’t matter. They would’ve found something else to bitch about

R99 And how is that less racist?

R97 What does complaining about sitcoms from 30 years ago have to do with a man wearing an Afro wig today?

R96 So because we didn’t live in the 40’s and 60’s, we’re privileged? Despite those generations having it economically better than us? When you could buy houses selling furniture and teaching lol. Got it.

R100 oh please. Funny how gay men find white southern Christians from red states like Arkansas offensive until black people get offended by them. Then it’s all “oooh what’s the big deal?”

How DARE they steal our old wigs?!

Those just looked like curly haired wigs to me, I wouldn't have thought "Afro." People just look for things to get offended by. And the station shouldn't have caved and fired those guys.

r62 proves my point