Deante’ Kyle
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Building a legacy around hair, especially when black women is a big thing.
The history of black hair in this country and the way it's been treated.
Even in a place like Louisiana where it's mandated you cover your hair because of all of these different things.
And then when they started doing fancy things with the hair coverings.
Yeah, that was a problem.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, never just be left alone and just like rock out.
But I think that that's a beautiful thing because there's a lot of historical context to being ashamed of our hair.
And that's the forward-facing thing.
Yeah, same thing with locks, too.
Same thing with locks.
As soon as you get some new growth, you're trying to retwist it again.
And then you wonder, like, why my hair thinning out?
It's like, you ain't giving it no time to have integrity.
You twist it up, twist it up.
And he get a chance to do his thing.