Recently, Sexyy Red shared an Instagram video of her natural hair, using the moment to shade Black women with coarser hair. She captioned her video with, “You carpet hair beanie neck haux could never.” Now, without the caption, the video was meek in nature. The rapper was simply showing that beneath her signature red wigs, she has maintained the health of her natural hair. But where she lost the plot was in her colorful commentary that left Black women, her presumed core audience, catching strays when she said that us “carpet hair, beanie neck hauxs” could never. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SEXYY RED (@sexyyred) The implication was that we, as Black women, cannot grow the same type of hair that grows out of her head. This issue is a lot bigger than Sexyy Red, who is just perpetuating a long-held system of beliefs that prioritize proximity to whiteness by way of longer hair. But it strikes as particularly odd that Sexyy Red, someone who has benefited — or depending...
