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Amimnoch

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10. If big hair is justification, then the 80's must have had no education.
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 08:43 PM
Nov 2013

Having gone to high school back in the 80's, if big, poofy hair really posed that much of an obstruction, there would have been no education in the 80's.

Of course I say this somewhat tongue in cheek, but really, in my high school, the vast majority of the girls had HUGE hair! Most schools across the country had it.

I really think this was a case of aversive racism. Plain and simple. Her natural hair didn't fit what they "felt" was the appropriate model to be followed, which is her hair was too ethnic.

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