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Reader: Dread alert! Quit being a racist and judging hairstyles.

Like the hairstyles it documents, "White People With Dreads: A field guide" just goes on, and on, and on, without benefit of much sanitizing. And that bothers Alisha, who just found the year-old post and offers this: Maybe half of you people out there should stop being racist and stop...
By Patricia Calhoun
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Like the hairstyles it documents, “White People With Dreads: A field guide” just goes on, and on, and on, without benefit of much sanitizing.

And that bothers Alisha, who just found the year-old post and offers this:

Maybe half of you people out there should stop being racist and stop judging people. It’s not your life, it never will be. So who are you to judge others? That just makes you as bad as the next. Get a life and show some humane decency.

Or at least some better taste…

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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