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How society perpetuates white beauty standards
A white dude showed his mom a pic of me with my hair straightened instead of a picture of me with a natural hairstyle.
If I always wore my hair straight, this situation would be irrelevant. But in this case, I can count the number of times I wore my hair straight on my hand in my entire lifetime.
My hair is in a natural style 99% of the time.
Though he didn’t mean harm, it was a perfect example of how society perpetuates white norms for people of color.
But my hair is rarely straight
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