My Hair, My Identity
The residual effects of slavery are prevalent. They show up in every facet of our lives. They are present when we date, in our relationships with our parents, our need for acceptance and assimilation into a world not for us and even in the way we wear our hair.
For so long we have been told that our hair was unattractive, unkempt, unprofessional, so we tried things to achieve a certain curl pattern to have “good hair.” We burned our scalps with relaxers and hot combs trying to be more presentable, more accepted. We glued and sewed other people’s hair on our heads ruining our own. But slowly, we began loving ourselves again. We began cutting out the relaxers, letting our natural kinks and coils grow from our heads toward the sky. We began to adorn our heads with our glorious crowns and what happened? They began to demonize what grows from us naturally. Implementing rules and regulations that made us alter our looks to work or to attend schools.
How is this fair? How is this legal?
A child is told he cannot attend his graduation if does not cut his locs. What would you do if it was your child?
Student will be barred from graduation unless he cuts his dreadlocks, school says
A black Texas student might miss out on his senior prom and his high school graduation ceremony because he wears dreadlocks. DeAndre Arnold, 18, has been growing his dreadlocks since he was a seventh-grade student in the Barbers Hill Independent School District in Mont Belvieu, he told Fox 26 Houston.
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