The Fresno State professor who has received withering criticism for her racist tweets as well as her distasteful and offensive remarks about the late Barbara Bush, wrote a column in 2014 for Salon titled, “Why I can’t stand white belly dancers.”
Randa Jarrar decried white belly dancing for its “cultural appropriation,” commencing her attack by writing, “Google the term ‘belly dance’ and the first images the search engine offers are of white women in flowing, diaphanous skirts, playing at brownness. How did this become acceptable?”
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