The E! Network's Giuliana Rancic had to apologize for comments she made on Fashion Police about Zendaya's new dreadlock look at the Oscars. On the tongue-in-cheek COMEDY and FASHION evaluation show, Rancic said that Zendaya must have smelled of patchouli and marijuana in reference to her hairdo which she was sporting for the Oscars, as a fashion statement presumably, since she wore a pixie cut to the Grammys just a couple weeks ago. Well, the shit just hit the fan! Zendaya took to Instagram gave a huge dissertation on dreadlocks and race and how respectable people wear dreadlocks and how certain people, without naming anyone specifically, who made insensitive comments about her hair were basically just being super racist and might as well be in the KKK. Okay, maybe she didn't go that far, but you get the idea. Anywhoo, Rancic, either facing pressure from E! or just not wanting deal with further bullshit, felt compelled to apologize via twitter. Here's the thing, racism and stereotypes are bad. But, not everything is RACISM!!! Dreadlocks do not belong to one race alone. There are black people with dreadlocks, there are white people with dreadlocks, there are Asian people with dreadlocks, there are Hispanic people with dreadlocks. There are dogs with dreadlocks for crying out loud!! And yes, many of these people, like it or not!!! smoke weed and smell of patchouli, and many also do not! We KNOW that. Giuliana was making something called a JOKE about the stereotype of dreadlocks--and for the record it's a pretty well known fact--black with dreadlocks you may or may not smoke weed, white with dreadlocks you definitely smoke weed. And there is nothing wrong with that!! So shame on you Zendaya for insinuating that there is!! I would like an apology!
