How to wear a bandana if you aren't black?

[Schadrach]

When I think of bandanas, I think of white bikers...and golden retrievers.

My beagle is offended by your racist belief that only golden retrievers may wear bandanas![footnote]Seriously though, he loves wearing clothes of any description.[/footnote]

The modern push is pushing against the segregation.

Speaking of not wanting to be seen like a white guy in dreadlocks, 2015-2017 there was some hate directed at white guys in dreadlocks, including a San Francisco State University employee assaulting a white student for wearing them because dreadlocks are "her culture", and a whole spate of articles about how it's wrong or racist for white guys to wear dreads. So, the modern push in clothes high be seen as "against segregation", but the push in hair has been in the opposite direction fairly recently. As a hair accessory, I'm not sure where you'd count this.

 

[CaitSeith]

I don't know. Like Rambo? Or like Howard Langston?

Spoiler

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Either you got acquaintance friends who base their people-of-different-colour and clothing assumptions solely through the narrow medium of GTA San Andreas, or it's being projecting obliviously onto them. Either way, as a person who dabbles in the humble bandana while brandishing a level of melanin so deficient its only saving grace is natural camouflage for a potential ground war in the salt lakes of Bolivia, all I can advise is...pretend you're a chemo patient. It's not what I'd do personally, but if your friends are mostly that shit, it's an efficient method of filtering them out.

 

[Saelune]

When I think of bandanas, I think of white bikers...and golden retrievers.

My beagle is offended by your racist belief that only golden retrievers may wear bandanas![footnote]Seriously though, he loves wearing clothes of any description.[/footnote]

The modern push is pushing against the segregation.

Speaking of not wanting to be seen like a white guy in dreadlocks, 2015-2017 there was some hate directed at white guys in dreadlocks, including a San Francisco State University employee assaulting a white student for wearing them because dreadlocks are "her culture", and a whole spate of articles about how it's wrong or racist for white guys to wear dreads. So, the modern push in clothes high be seen as "against segregation", but the push in hair has been in the opposite direction fairly recently. As a hair accessory, I'm not sure where you'd count this.

No one should have dreadlocks. They are gross. Wash your (general you) hair.

 

[Erttheking]

On your head.

 

[Xprimentyl]

The struggle to defy established ?black? stereotypes is already hard enough without having to address patently absurd, made up ones?

Now, in all seriousness, can anyone tell me how to shop at organic grocery stores when you?re not white?

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

The struggle to defy established ?black? stereotypes is already hard enough without having to address patently absurd, made up ones?

Now, in all seriousness, can anyone tell me how to shop at organic grocery stores when you?re not white?

Step One: Mentally prepare yourself for the onslaught of "Excuse me, do you work here?"

 

[CaitSeith]

On your head.

Be more specific, please. Don't forget non-black people cannot make heads or tails of bandanas. /jk

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I don't know. Like Rambo? Or like Howard Langston?

Ok, but how about a wildcard idea:

Spoiler: Like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

 

[Hawki]

The struggle to defy established ?black? stereotypes is already hard enough without having to address patently absurd, made up ones?

Now, in all seriousness, can anyone tell me how to shop at organic grocery stores when you?re not white?

Step One: Mentally prepare yourself for the onslaught of "Excuse me, do you work here?"

Odd. At work, people ask me if I work here, when I do.

"Sir, do you work here?"

What I Want to Say: "Gee, I'm shelving, and I'm wearing a uniform with a council logo. Why don't we take a wild guess?"

What I say: "Yes sir/ma'am."

 

[Silent Protagonist]

Got a guy at work who wears a bandana most of the time, does it like this [https://raven.contrado.com/resources/images/2018-5/88394/personalised-bandana-282950_l.jpg?auto=compress,format]. Though in his case its to hide his bald spot, with the big bushy beard he's got as extra camouflage, so sort of the opposite problem you have

Quite a few people I work with wear bandanas the same way as shown in the image linked above. I think they do it for the utility of managing sweat and dust rather than for aesthetic reasons, but I think it looks good.
I'll also second what most people here have said of not thinking of bandanas as a black thing. I guess they kind of had an association with inner city gangs in the 90s, but that seems to be more of just an extension of the bandanas as being associated with groups of criminals thing in popular culture such as with biker gangs and cowboy bandits. These days if I see someone wearing a bandana I usually guess that they probably work in construction.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

The struggle to defy established ?black? stereotypes is already hard enough without having to address patently absurd, made up ones?

Now, in all seriousness, can anyone tell me how to shop at organic grocery stores when you?re not white?

Step One: Mentally prepare yourself for the onslaught of "Excuse me, do you work here?"

Odd. At work, people ask me if I work here, when I do.

"Sir, do you work here?"

What I Want to Say: "Gee, I'm shelving, and I'm wearing a uniform with a council logo. Why don't we take a wild guess?"

What I say: "Yes sir/ma'am."

Which I feel for you.

Meanwhile, I'm in a muscle shirt because it's hot, I have headphones in and I'm looking for a new grill skillet at Bed Bath and Beyond. And I STILL get the question.

No name tag or anything. Maddening, I say!

Sidebar: so, I ask "Are you on Duty" when I don't see said associate stocking. Is that asinine as well? Because you never know if someone's walking to clock out or anything.

 

[Marik2]

Maybe just wear a pony tail?

 

[Schadrach]

No one should have dreadlocks. They are gross. Wash your (general you) hair.

Shockingly, we agree about something. Though I generally don't sweat how someone wants to keep their hair, which makes the whole "wearing dreads while not black is cultural appropriation" thing even more absurd to me.

Personally, I wash mine daily and either wear it loose or pulled into a tail if I need better control of where exactly it is.

 

[Saelune]

No one should have dreadlocks. They are gross. Wash your (general you) hair.

Shockingly, we agree about something. Though I generally don't sweat how someone wants to keep their hair, which makes the whole "wearing dreads while not black is cultural appropriation" thing even more absurd to me.

Personally, I wash mine daily and either wear it loose or pulled into a tail if I need better control of where exactly it is.

We probably agree on tons of things, but we disagree on the important stuff.

 

[Tanis]

Well, just don't wear red or blue...doge?