RepShontelBrown,
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Anti-Black hair sentiments lead many Black women to use chemical hair relaxers.

However, studies have shown that these products may pose serious health risks.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and I have called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate the safety of these products. Read more: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/05/rep-shontel-brown-wants-straight-answers-from-the-fda-on-hair-straighteners.html

StillIRise1963,
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@RepShontelBrown I relaxed my hair from the age of 5 to 50 every 6ish weeks. This is very disturbing news.

gimulnautti,
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@StillIRise1963 @RepShontelBrown If straightening and / or lightening your hair is what gives you better service, social integration and decreases your likelihood of encountering racism (like it does), people having to do this deserve protection. I’m white but know enough that a ”colour blindness”-rhetoric is just newspeak for continuing with those slight acts of micro-racism everyone does without any consciousness of it involved.

jacobrogers256,

@gimulnautti @StillIRise1963 @RepShontelBrown fr people should be socialised from a young age to not be racist. You should not have to put yourself at risk just to appease white people so you can survive.

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