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Hair care as a means for Madame C.J Walker to become not only the first African American female millionaire, but the first self-made WOMAN millionaire period, isn’t surprising. African people, specifically women, pioneered the beauty industry in Egypt (read Reality Check: The Hair Is Korean). We still use the same products, accessories, and styling tools. Sorry not sorry Bassem Youssef, to break you out of your delusion. Imagine putting raw shea butter in that 1c hair (trust he doesn’t know what that means, because it isn’t meant for his porosity). Unless Bassem Youssef is Greek, no one is stealing your culture by claiming Cleopatra. Furthermore, you can have her. She’s the one who ruined Egypt’s 3,000 year rule, including the Ptolemaic’s 300 year dynastic reign, starting with Alexander the Great. She’s birthed from, and escalated the geopolitical shift that leads people like him to fallaciously believe they’re the original ethnic group of that region, the architect of all these great innovations. Let me know when he needs an Afro pick for that “coiled” hair (also created in Egypt). Clown.

Stop stereotyping black people. Especially black women as offensive caricatures created by the white imagination, subsequently using systemic racism to pigeonhole us into your dehumanizing stereotypes. We’re the blueprint for entrepreneurship, beauty and style. The Victorian bustle dress was modeled after Saartjie Baartman’s body. We’re entire era’s of fashion, still, to this day. Stop whitewashing and falsifying history, be grateful we elevate everything instead of disparaging us. Do you think Madame Walker was having an epigenetic moment when creating the ‘Hair Grower’? Via: African American Collection