She gave us a WORD.
Promise Sawyers, a ten-year-old girl from Nashville, Tennessee, won the internet's heart over the weekend when she wore her Afro with pride after being made fun of by classmates for wearing her natural hair the day before. Again: It's 2019, and black women and girls are still being shamed for wearing their hair the way it was intended.
“So, yesterday, I went to school, and I wore my hair in an afro like this... and a lot of people had a lot of mean things to say about it,” said the fifth-grader in the now-viral video. “So that made me feel some type of way.” Some. Type. Of. Way. Find me a black lady who hasn't been made to feelabout her hair. I'll wait. Sawyers attended her first days at Head Middle Magnet School wearing braids before coming in wearing her natural hair texture in an Afro.
The video has since gone viral, amassing millions of views and thousands of uplifting and encouraging comments. “The video was made at that point, like she’s really taking a stance,” Daugherty told. “The immediate family was more proud of that moment, but we had no idea the impact that it was gonna make and the amount of messages.”
Again: Don't tell anyone, but particularly black women and girls, what to do with their hair. Recently, New York and Californiato stop hair discrimination, so if you're in New York or Cali and you have a problem with natural black hair, suck it up, and maybe talk to a therapist to unpack why black women making choices about their own bodies makes you so upset. Hopefully, these bans extend to other states.
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