I remember this story came first came to light. It still amazes me that even though black are in a country and society where black people are the racial majority, they still have to fight for the right to wear their hair natural in school because it’s “unkept” or “needs to be fix”. This want or need for Black girls to assimilate to whiteness in an African country truly shows how dominant and necessary the power of whiteness and its influence is. White/European culture should not be the dominant culture in a country where White people are not racial majority. I expect this in the United States, because everything that Black people have the right to do at one point in time had to be fought for. South Africa in a lot of ways reminds me of the United States. Both countries have a livid racist and segregationist past, and both have a long way to go.
