Whitney Alese
Mar 5, 2023

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How do you want me to respond to this?

Do you want an actual educated answer which I discuss the politics of black hair, starting with the TIGNON laws that made us cover our hair to norms put in place that prohibited Black women wearing their natural texture or risk being fired from their jobs to now schools and workplaces to this day kicking Black kids out of school for their hair as a way to police the Black body…

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Do you want me to dress your obvious ignorance by calling black folks who happen to use a certain product in their hair “ghetto apes“?

That you could read any of this piece and decide it’s better to be ignorant, loud and proud on the Internet for everyone to see says more about you than of whatever folks decide to do with their hair .

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Whitney Alese
Whitney Alese

Written by Whitney Alese

Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.

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