I have just seen an advert for this home braiding kit. All the girls featured were white (presumably enough black girls already do it, so they are trying to encourage white girls to get it).
If white girls are "not allowed" to have braided hair
, isn't this sending about a bad message?
And what are tight braids, which black people normally have, really that much different from the slightly looser braids, that typically young white girls used to have?