Discrimination is often dismissed because it doesn’t sound “reasonable.” But that’s the thing about discrimination — it never is.
When Black people say we’ve been treated differently because of our hair, too many still can’t believe it. They think something as natural, as divine, as the way our hair grows couldn’t possibly be the cause of harm. Yet our coils, locs, and braids have cost people jobs, dignity, and belonging.
Discrimination based on hair isn’t reasonable — it’s real.
And the disbelief itself is part of the wound. Because to be told your truth is “too small” to matter is to be told you don’t matter.