Great, despite the glaring leaps of logic as expected from films of this genre, now I want to watch this movie.

Agreed, and if you watch that followup Dr. Phil episode where she’s sent to a therapy ranch - minus her mom and minus an audience - she actually softened up REAL quick and acted like any 14-year-old girl getting to play with horses. She dropped the stupid accent. Of course then it was right back to Dr. Phil and all…

But they’re not going to prime her to turn it around. She’s being rewarded for acting like a brat which gives her no incentive to change. Worse, she’s being rewarded as some sort of novelty for engaging in the sort of behavior that non-white girls of the same age would get criticized for. The only thing she’s…

I don’t think rewarding someone for their bratty behavior is priming them to change that behavior.

“Latin America, where people tend to associate darker skin with poverty, bad manners, and being less attractive.

None of the women mentioned in the article had a DUI. Your comment is needlessly judgmental and not relevant to the issues under discussion, and your lack of sympathy (let alone empathy) is disheartening. Apparently you have never received a speeding ticket or a parking ticket, which I find difficult to believe.

Way to miss the point. Anyone would get tickets and lose their license if cops decided to spend all their time trailing them the way cops in racist areas follow black drivers around.

Fallout 3. Video game in which post-apocalyptic America is presided over by a computer with Malcolm MacDowell’s voice.

So this just seems like an appropriate post to mention this.

Typically in those policies spiked hair and Mohawks are specifically mentioned, so to add a rule about two inches in height to that would have a disproportionate effect on natural black hair which unlike most white or processed black hair isn’t flat

He refuses to go over 88 lbs.

So are you in the habit of telling white girls with waist lenght hair that they have to cut it? Is there some reason why the Black girl with natural hair needs to limit the length of her hair when no other girls are being forced to do so?

If this girl is using combs and stuff to give her hair volume, then it is an intentionally affected style, I am a dude so I wont bother to get into how it would be defined, but putting effort into creating a style does kind of negate the ‘punished for being natural’ thing.

And many people in these comments are still disregarding the hurtful premise of using the death of black people to rehash the election. Nice to know that people have no problem to use black lives and deaths as props in order to prove a point in a verbal spat.

To address your questions, natural hair in Black/African-American people varies in texture - fine or coarse strands, wavy, loose or tight coils/curls, kinky, etc. I’m not quite sure what you mean by “proper shape” (because, really, what is a “proper shape” for an afro?), but for those with tighter/kinkier curl…

Combing your hair to remove tangles, so it doesn’t become matted and foul-smelling is not styling it. This is what it looks like when you don’t style it a whole hell of a lot. Or at least, this is why MY hair looks like when I don’t do much to it on occasion. It has nothing to do with how clean and neat I’m trying to…

You should make an effort to learn more about your students’ lives if you’re really tone deaf enough to think that somebody’s hair being a little bit tall warrants telling them they can’t style it in a way befitting their culture and their hair’s texture because it’s “too distracting.” An afro is the equivalent of a…

I use a pick on my beard. I’m not styling it. I’m combing it. It’s not so much fluffing it as it is uncoiling the spring that our hair can be.

“Distracted” is code for what they really want to blurt out, which is, “that shit is ugly, why am I, a precious white person, being forced to look at it?” I think the sight of the particularly frizzy haired students touches on a fear that’s embedded in white people from young- the appearance that you’re not entirely…

I wish someone was compiling all these stories and sending them to Shea Moisture so they can understand what “hair hate” really is and the real world ramifications for black women from school to work