Watch This Documentary on Braids and Appropriation in America | ELLE

No one should be fired for their hair and heritage.

It’s so crazy because when I see people with braids I think they look beautiful never ghetto

To think that box braids almost got renamed “Kim k braids”😒🙄

Sorta funny how Boris Johnson go out with this hair looking like tumbleweed but black women get fired for wearing their hair in neat braids

we aint angry about you having braids, we angry about being called ghetto when we wear them but when a white person wears it, its tReNdY and its suddenly been renamed 🙄

We’re not saying we’re mad about other races wearing cornrows or other braided styles we’re saying they are wearing them and RENAMING THEM! Example: “Kim K braids”. We just want the credit. Call our hairstyles the correct names.

I am so glad Elle has taken ownership for past wrong doings and using their platform to educate the masses. Love this.

Remember:
The issue is that it’s considered trashy on black people, but trendy and beautiful on others. There’s no issue with wearing it if you acknowledge the cultural origin :)

imagine not accepting someone because of their HAIR. something that has nothing to do with you 🤦🏽‍♀️ sad world we live in

Beautiful skin. Beautiful hair. Beautiful history.

My old boss and I met up recently to have lunch and catch up. We were talking about my time in the office. During this time I wore so many different hairstyles from shaved sides to blue faux locks, to electric blue box braids. He told me, someone, one day came to him and complained about my hair. He never said anything to me because he told them his job is not to police what I look like. I thanked him so much for this because I was deeply depressed during that time and the expression of my hair was the only thing I had to make me feel alive. I'm grateful he respected who I was and how I presented myself. If I had to give that up then I would've felt like I had nothing. My old boss is a cis-hetero white presenting Hispanic man. I say all of this to highlight hair is central to who we are as black women whether you where your hair classically styled or are more experimental.

I'm a white person who was unsure about why braids or hairstyles were culturally insensitive. I was having this conversation with my sister the other day. Then this video came up and I wanted to watch it to educate myself. Now I get why -- it would be infuriating seeing a white woman wear braids and the whole world praises her and says she's beautiful and it's trendy, but when a black person wears it, it's ghetto or something else. Thank you for this video I'm more aware of why it's cultural appropriation.

The fact that all the black stylists here learned braiding from their moms and from their childhood experience and not exactly from a course shows what the word culture means

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the fact is that it's not just racism, it is also sexism, it keeps getting worse and worse. telling women what to do with their hair (at work, in school, anywhere) is a problem in the first place

Your hair doesnt define whether you're unpleasant or ghetto. It's the way you carry yourself. Black, white, asian, man and woman shouldn't be discriminated over a hairstyle. Ugh come on people

The hair goes all the way back to black women putting rice or gold in the braids so if they had to escape they could have something to eat or help them. It’s alotttttt deeper than just a hairstyle

My non black friend are still convinced that my hair magically grows 8 inches overnight whenever I get braids in

YALL SEE THIS? ELLE has recognized their own faults, have EDUCATED THEMSELVES, and have put themselves to educate OTHERS! 10/10

I hate so much when people say " it's only hair" girl is never just hair. I am from brazil and my hair so curly like 4c and people used to bully me because of that. Everyday was a battle until i straight my hair. Its a struggle to straight and put a lot of really bad products almost every month, and even with straight hair people judge it. So is not just a hair. Its part of a group of people that were segragated and these characteristics still being opressed nowadays. It's so funny that black people wear this braids for centuries and now that kardashians and non black people wear it it becomes a trendy
Think about that when u start to talk shit