Ducks In A Row: A History Of White Characters With Cornrows

Edward Norton wears them in his new flick "Stone," but he's not the first palefaced perpetrator.

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Fact: Nothing looks quite so good as the pallid scalp of a white person with cornrows. You want sex appeal in the entertainment biz? Just take a pale face and pull and twist the shit out of their limp locks until you have perfection! Edward Norton knows. In Stone, his new movie with Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich, he plays Gerald "Stone" Creeson, a convicted arsonist who rocks jailhouse tats and 'rows to go with his jumpsuit (check out the trailer here). From salons to cell blocks, Norton's name is about to be on everyone's lusty, salivating tongues. Or not. Should your brain not register sarcasm, white people with cornrows is a bad (meaning bad) look, but at least Norton isn't the first melanin-deficient actor to go there for a role. Check out a history of white characters with cornrows...

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