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Yabrosiff13 t1_j6b9ge1 wrote

Maybe PoC should be more comfortable with their natural hair. Why shouldn’t that be normalized?

The only “product” i use as a white person is head and shoulders once every few days.

The natural hairstyle of PoC should be ok right?

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13-Penguins t1_j6bwnpp wrote

In a perfect world, yes, but beauty standards have long pushed for straight hair as the norm to the point where a lot of black women begin relaxing their hair very young. There’s also a stigma in a lot of professional settings that natural hair isn’t professional enough, to the point where some office and school policies would ban natural hair styles. Which is why the Crown Act had to be instated in the first place.

It’s gotten better in recent years, a lot more black women including myself are going completely natural. But even then, a lot of people have noted that the natural hair community does still have a “texturism” problem where looser curls and completely slicked edges are preferred. Some hairstylists won’t even work on 4c hair.

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