How do you get comfortable wearing natural hair in professional settings?

News Flash: we are all “mixed” and in other news water is wet. African American read Black is historically Mixed. Frederick Douglass, Zora Neal Hurston, Langston Hughes...Barack Obama none of them considered themselves MIXED. If you are speaking as a Black woman be that. That’s why you feel uncomfortable. Barack Obama is “mixed” I read his books he never once calls himself MIXED. He says he is a Black man with a white mother. You can call yourself anything. This is America but I will not cry for you Argentina. Kamala identifies as a Black woman. I know in academia y’all privilege the exotic it raises your value so go on feel your feels. I’m boarded with it. You like to talk about feeling uncomfortable because it’s how you negotiate power. Your Long thick hair has to be Put away in white spaces So that you can live White on the zoom. Girl, bye.

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