You know, 60% of white people have curly or wavy hair. So fuck this straight hair noise. The majority of people in the world do not have straight hair.

The sociological, cultural, and historical contexts of your experience and her experience are entirely different. Your school did not teach you well at all.

I'm truly enjoying the irony of the fact that she had to change her hair because it was "distracting". I'm pretty certain that it's far more "distracting" to education to be forced to leave your school, or for school administrators to spend their time desperately trying to solve a PR nightmare instead of focusing on…

You don't seem like an idiot, so I just assume you're being obtuse. Granted, people get told to cut their hair everyday for reasons having to do with societal norms. However, the reasons black people get told to cut their naturally growing, un-sytled-yet well-kept hair are insidious: black children learn that they, in…

A local professor at Drexel, Dr. Yaba Blay, created Locs of Love after Tiana Parker's experience. I hope that someone gets the videos (and Dr. Blay's book!) to Vanessa VanDyke and her family.

I didn't like a dumb hair rule at my privet school. I challenged the rule and the school administrators had a vote. My hair won and the rule was changed. You don't have to follow every rule without protest.

With all due respect I think you're missing the point here. Putting the issue of race to the side (for the moment) the school had a girl that was being teased and harassed, and instead of supporting her and trying to work with her harassers to make them understand why what they were doing was wrong- they tell this…

Yes, yes and yes! EXCEPT for this: "Let's all understand that natural black hair doesn't work like other hair."I'm sorry @Isha Aran, but I take issue with this statement. It is not that (natural) black hair is different, but that all hair types are different (from eachother) and there is no standard hair type (that is…

Or that is just how his hair grows and it's only distracting if you choose to view it through a particular lens.

*white man voice* As a man, people tell me to cut my hair all the time. I will chose to ignore the socio-historical context in which Black women's hair exists and the political nature of possessing and choosing to wear Black hair naturally. I will apply false equivalencies in this situation and continue to view…

No. Goodbye.

Look. I get it. You let others dictate what your life will be. However, there are others who are leaders and will not let others tell them how to deal with their bodies.

Your opinion regarding a little Black girl's hair is irrelevant, you have nothing of substance to add to the discussion, go home. Bye.

You cannot possibly be this dense in real life, so in case anyone takes you seriously:

Does Florida have a middle name? I feel like I need to shout at it to go to its room and think about what it's done.

I. Do. Not. Understand. I'm Irish and I've got hair that actually introduces itself to seatmates on the train. GTFO.

Haha, I always wished for straight hair. Once I got into my twenties I figured out how to tame and style it, and now I love my frizzy curls. Except on rainy days like today, when it eats my entire face and starts pulling items that aren't firmly attached to the ground into orbit.

Alternately, you could try and exercise some basic human empathy and reach the conclusion that both you and this girl deserve to have your reasonable preferences respected. Good job for going for the asshole option, I guess!

Listen. Fuck that school and fuck the administration. Her hair is fucking beautiful. Oh yeah and fuck whoever was teasing her about it.

But but, it's her natural hair...it looks like that, on it's own (and it's AWESOME). I can see that the school doesn't want pink mohawks or whatever (which I don't agree with, but that's a separate issue), but it sounds like her natural hair is just that cool without any prodding (I say this as someone who has thin,…