Speaker 1: On Monday, January twenty ninth, The New York Times published
Speaker 1: an article by Alison Krueger titled quote, They'll take the
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey hairdoo. That is. The gist is that a
Speaker 1: lot of men are taking to their local barbershops and
Speaker 1: asking for a haircut. The article cites a TikTok video
Speaker 1: from barber Jeff Dougas saying that his brother came in
Speaker 1: with photos of Kelsey for reference. Travis Kelcey is receiving
Speaker 1: a lot of backlash because this article never talked about
Speaker 1: the history of black barbers and the black haircuts and
Speaker 1: the fade. Black people are so used to seeing our
Speaker 1: culture stolen. Here we go again.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think we should be mad at Kelsey
Speaker 2: because he didn't know not Kelsey. See see, you know
Speaker 2: these people are dumping it on him like I fade
Speaker 2: been out, that's out way years. Don't so I'm talking
Speaker 2: about decades that hair cut so old? Hell y'all, Kelsey
Speaker 2: bot stop star Ecker. Yeah, asked Louis doctor Dre damn fade.
Speaker 2: I can't count the people that had had fades, they
Speaker 2: had stopped. They just but you know, like the ladies
Speaker 2: were talking about on the commercial break, they tried to
Speaker 2: give bo Derrek credit for break for the break. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she got that front braid up here, right, What's what's
Speaker 2: what's wrong with y'all?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it's like that. We're still not seen. Right.
Speaker 1: We get no credit for for creating these trends in
Speaker 1: these you know, it just gets stole.
Speaker 2: Travis kelty A made no damn Fade famous. Yeah, asked
Speaker 2: Travis where he got it from? Yeah, that which one
Speaker 2: of the football players he saw.
Speaker 3: He got it from on his team as a culture musical,
Speaker 3: all of that fashion and everything.
Speaker 2: Before he was born here, way before he was born. Man, Look,
Speaker 2: white kids is dread and they had not making dread
Speaker 2: locks and all this. Hell, yes, we already know where
Speaker 2: it's come from. Here's here's what I try to tell
Speaker 2: young black They go to tell people out of the
Speaker 2: country too, white kids do what they see black kids do.
Speaker 2: You don't see black kids doing what white kids do.
Speaker 2: Trend sets. Black people start all the dances, what we wear,
Speaker 2: that's how we do our have we We don't we control.
Speaker 1: All that except the trends.
Speaker 2: Ain't. No Black people run around trying to get in
Speaker 2: rock and roll, m and it's not white.
Speaker 1: It's copied or duplicated. It's not even that. We just
Speaker 1: give us credit.
Speaker 2: And rock and roll came from little Richard and and
Speaker 2: and and and uh.
Speaker 1: Pretty boy, what's his name, Chuck Berry.
Speaker 2: Chuck Berry. It's a whole lot, but it didn't.
Speaker 3: Black history, monk, that's black history, yes, all right.
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