Are we really this petty, it's only hair!

[AFTT47]

While I've never much cared for white people wearing locs, I'm not gonna hit anyone over it. I'm also not going tell anyone what can and can't do with their hair. However, the fact that white people in this country can't understand the significance of natural (unstraightened) hair in the African American community and the struggles we have with the right to wear our hair the way it grows, and wear it healthy manageable styles irritates me. So it's not just hair. It's never been just hair. Hundreds of years of denying black beauty. Of being told your hair is ugly, dirty, nappy, unprofessional, inappropriate. And white people can't leave even this unassimilated. So while this woman is very wrong for hitting someone, I can somewhat understand where she's coming from.

Sorry BrokenQuill but that's idiotic. Like most people here, I have nothing but sympathy for the injustices black people have suffered in this country but it's ridiculous to claim a hair style as belonging to you. Indeed, the adoption of so-called black hairstyles should signal to you an acceptance of you and "black culture", that you are a part of US.

If you really want to withhold black culture as your own, please work to make it unacceptable for white people to listen to your abominable rap and hip hop so-called music.