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4:25am July 20, 2014

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The Daily Show 2014-07-17 - Operation Black Hair

“Jessica Williams investigates an Army regulation that ignorantly discriminates against black servicewomen and their hairstyles.”

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Are yall serious? Wigs and weaves THATS IT? Wigs get in the way and weaves are super high maintenance… What the hell is this shit?

Locks are the PERFECT hairstyle for that. So are some low maintenance twists and braids (NOT BRAIDED EXTENSIONS.)

Like ok “hey I’m in Afghanistan, let me go into this village and see if anybody can retighten my weave.” Or “Let me see if it’s another black chick in our camp somewhere that can take this weave out, rebraid my hear and sew this weave back in.” Or “Let me take seven hours to cut this weave out, unbraid my hair, deep wash it, rebraid it and sew this weave back in.” NO US MILTARY. NO.

One of the prohibited hairstyle examples just looks like a TWA? I mean, you’re not supposed to go for that one specific type of short, lower maintenance style that the military is kinda known for—at least if you’re a woman?

Not that there’s an obvious problem with anything there that they apparently have problems with. But, that one seems particularly weird.

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