This is the story of Black hair

Author Emma Dabiri says the stigma around Afro-textured hair is a construct. Here's where the myth comes from.

[lt]

it's sickening that you have to have laws to stop discrimination about afro hair . 🤦🏽‍♀️

[noble]

Imagine needing a law passed to be able to wear the hair that grows out of your hair to work.

[kahnicacole]

Our hair grows towards the sun like a flower 😁

[khadijasenghor]

“Remove the kinks from your mind, not your hair” - Marcus Garvey

[janices]

My hair has been fried, dyed and laid to the side in my efforts to fit in. But now I wear it in its natural state and I don't care who likes it, as long as I do!

[tru_kru_bahbee]

People truly don't understand the psychological damage that comes with consistantly being told/shown that you are not allowed to wear your hair the way that it grows out of your head.

[Jasminedabs]

We need women with 4c hair that are unambiguously Black representing Black women on a wider scale.

[tammat]

We get told we're "insecure" and "trying to be white" when we wear wigs and weaves, we get suspended from schools and fired from our jobs for wearing braids, and we get told that our afros are "unproffessional", "messy", and "nappy". It's almost as if we're not allowed to have hair. 😭

[gisellespringer]

This world is sickening on so many levels.

[rubycrosby]

My mom always relaxed my hair. Saying how much she disliked it. I vowed never to make my children feel less than and embrace and love everything about themselves.

[kk]

No body’s knows what it’s like to be fearful to wear you real hair to work, not only because of it being viewed as inappropriate but the questions!!! “Can I touch your hair?” (Most don’t even ask they just do) “what did you do to it?” “How long is it?” “Why don’t you wear it more often?” “Oh I didn’t see you there, I thought you were somebody else!” 😒 Like I change my hair every month, you don’t know who I am by now?? 🙃 WHY IS MY HAIR A POLITICAL STATEMENT??? I’m just living my life,

EDIT: For everyone under the comments making excuses and missing the point on purpose, you wouldn’t walk up to a woman and ask are her breast real would you? You wouldn’t walk up to your boss and ask how much money he makes would you? NO! Because it is hella invasive and rude! So why do it to us? We are telling you stop with body language because if we say no then y’all cry victim! So now that you know better do better. And stop comparing children to adults, children also drink out of the same cups and bite off the same food. Do you think that’s okay too??

[Elijah_myhighway]

We get insulted for wearing weaves by the same people who tells us that our natural hair is unattractive.

[osoteirra]

It’s the fact that these white girls wear braids, but we literally got kicked out of school for wearing them..

[e.deborah]

As a Nigerian, this was so shocking when I moved to the States and heard students getting punished for their hair. I was like: 😑 Really?

[reinhardt]

One of my friends used to work at Disney. They told her to remove the long braids because they were inappropriate.
Yet a white man was able to keep his long locks.

[checkmattee]

Why are long braids and afro deemed "inappropriate"? What's inappropriate about it? Is it a danger to society? Are people going to die if they see those hairstyles? Does it carry guns and shoot at people?
I seriously don't understand.

[momoiida]

Mainstream media NEVER shows that clip of MLK, Jr. speaking those affirmations about our collective natural selves as a people. I've never seen it before.

[muffettuffet]

And another thing.. many woman APPEAR to have short hair because the coils are so tight it looks this way. Take a look at some DON'T LET SHRINKAGE FOOL YOU videos... you will be amazed

[mdooms]

Even in the afro hair community curly hair is more acceptable and considered beautiful and "good hair" as opposed to 4C type kinky hair! Vanity...it's all vanity. We can't change what grows from our scalp. If a white person was told to change their natural hair to dreds or get braids to get a job...it would be unheard of. But it's ok to treat us that way????

[Sf-jiis]

Majority of the girls in this video have the curls pattern that is accepted in society.