• NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth
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    20 days ago

    That’s funny, because I had a lady I work with tell me to feel her hair.

    We were talking about how she always had different hairstyles, and then she explained all this stuff about weaves and fake hair, and then she had me feel her hair to tell the difference.

    I did not retain all/any of the knowledge of artificial hair, but I do remember she always had kickass hair styles.

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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      20 days ago

      It’s about consent.

      The fact that you’ve heard “Don’t touch a black person’s hair” is because SO MANY nonBlack people would just walk up and start touching us without so much as a “How do you do”.

      Black people aren’t particularly different than anyone else. The way we are treated is often quite different.