I just wanted to briefly comment on the hypocrisy that this video reveals. There's a double standard when it comes to African-Americans and whites. In "Good Hair" and on the posted article about the little boy who was facing expulsion for his cornrows, cornrows are unacceptable in the eyes of the community and even in the eyes of the African-American women who mask their hair under purchased (and sometimes stolen), foreign hair. Whilst Bo Derek, a white woman, can wear cornrows and be idolized as a sex symbol (even in the 1980s). Maybe communal rejection of cornrows, afros, and frizzy curls isn't so much an attack on the hair but a subconscious, or even conscious, attack on typical wearers of that hair.
I just wanted to briefly comment on the hypocrisy that this video reveals. There's a double standard when it comes to African-Americans and whites. In "Good Hair" and on the posted article about the little boy who was facing expulsion for his cornrows, cornrows are unacceptable in the eyes of the community and even in the eyes of the African-American women who mask their hair under purchased (and sometimes stolen), foreign hair. Whilst Bo Derek, a white woman, can wear cornrows and be idolized as a sex symbol (even in the 1980s). Maybe communal rejection of cornrows, afros, and frizzy curls isn't so much an attack on the hair but a subconscious, or even conscious, attack on typical wearers of that hair.
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