Dear Black Girl, Do Whatever You Want To Do With Your Hair.
Dear black girl, You don't have to pretend about the kinkiness, tougheness and nappiness of your black hair. Damn, you have to wear your hair relaxed whether it is dry and brittle, to get through the job interviews. It's how the black hair is policed. It's a form of oppression tied to white supremacy. You know they tell you otherwise, how unkempt your hair is, when you wear your natural hair, they don't even compliment you when you wear your Bantu knots or Afro, it's unclassy they tell you, clad in it in a scarf. What if when you wear dreadlocks, the narrative is about creating you to be who you are not, the stories they tell you is different from who you are, they say maybe she's a goon, one of the bad girls, oh, the generation of the aggressive Africans that stab people in the subway. All because of the narrative of the dreadlocks you wear. They don't consider the fashion statement of the dreadlocks. When have natural hair been
