Only in America: College students spar over the cultural appropriation of dreadlocks
Officials at San Francisco State University are investigating a videotaped confrontation between an African-American woman who grabbed a white student with dreadlocks and accused him of cultural appropriation. "You're saying I can't have a hairstyle because of your culture? Why?" Cory Goldstein asks the woman. "Because it's my culture," she responds, blocking his path. "She kept grabbing me,'' Goldstein later said.
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