Politics of Black Hair

Warning to the mothers who put beads on their
daughter’s braids….

A pediatrician used to think all the  young
African-American girls walking around with colorful
beads in their hair was — harmless.

Not so.   A 7-year-old girl fell backwards onto
a 2-inch diameter hairball hanging from her braid.
She got a dented skull fracture with internal
bleeding.   She required an emergency craniectomy —
surgical removal of a portion of the skull. Yuck!

It left a permanent depression in her head.

The little one, required plastic surgery to repair the
defect.

In another case, a girl’s bead deeply embedded in her
skull bone.  She too had to  have an emergency craniectomy.

So mothers, you may want to think again,
before you reach for those 3 packets of beads
you were’s about to unload in Ariana’s hair.