"Bad Hair"

A couple of weeks ago I was in Target getting headbands to hold back my hair. At the end of the aisle I stood in, there was a group of four teenage or pre-teenage Caucasian girls discussing matters related to petroleum-based products. One girl was explaining how a black friend used such products to do her hair - which was a cultural phenomenon to these young ladies. One girl said, I only feel bad for them, because if you have to use this it means you have "bad hair." Another girl shook her head in disagreement, and then the one who uttered the words about bad hair looked over and noticed me. Embarrassed, she covered the side of her face closest to me, and whispered to her friends. They quickly slid away, and I was left feeling personally discriminated against. It also made me paranoid about all Caucasians have latent racist thoughts like that. I found myself uncomfortable, and weary of others as I finished up my shopping. Racism hurts in personal ways.

That girl had essentially said all African American hair is "bad hair."

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