A nuanced conversation about the biases against natural hair

[anon67018654]

@Melz2

However I did once have a girl at a party just start touching my hair, as she “admired” it; and before I even had time to realize what she was doing, (let alone flash on her) my friend who I was with suddenly had her hands all in the girl’s hair… and the irony here is that my friend is White, and she caught and deflected the microaggression and unintentional disrespect before I could even say a word.

From my white experience: White people do that to each other and black people to white, too. A black German African girl (technically an ((African-American)-German, I guess) from another class girl got all offended (“I don’t rub off!”) when I flinched when she tussled my hair. Also, white women in general are kinda touchy, by far the biggest group of people who touch me unasked for, especially in winter, when I wear short sleeves.