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Originally posted by inspiration4
Explain why it's an issue.
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It's an issue for 2 very distinct reasons:
1) When a white woman has dreads, box braids whatever "black" (not the right term but whatever) hairstyles, society says it's "cool" and "edgy". However, when a black woman has those same exact styles, it's perceived as "ratchet", "messy" or "dirty".
2) In relation to reason 1, society looks down on black women who do have those styles and basically creates this barrier to which, if you want to be black and accepted into regular society, you have to wear a nice straight or wavy hairstyle as a woman to be accepted (and as a man you have to have a shaved hair style so it's a similar thing but I don't want to delve too far off the topic of women).
I would also throw in that when in the 2000s, black women were basically all over the claw nail style that you see on majority of your faves these days. Black women were bashed for having those nails and that style being "ghetto". Now in the 2010s, it's suddenly accepted because white women started doing it.
