A video of a white woman comparing Black women’s hairstyles has caught a lot of flak and attention online due to her comparisons and deeming which styles she believes are “elegant” and “not elegant.”
The video was posted by a TikToker under the name @Amira.Bessette, who has nearly 350,000 followers and touts herself on the social platform as an “Elegance and Etiquette Coach.”
In the video, she compares and contrasts styles like afro puffs, short curly hair, bantu knots, low kinky-curly buns and ponytails, as well as long, wavy hair. She selects which, in her opinion, are elegant and which aren’t. She deemed bantu knots and afro puffs as “not elegant.”
The video has since been taken down, but not before it made its rounds on the internet and was stitched by other TikTokers and screen-recorded for other social media users to repost to different platforms.
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People who saw the original video reported that @Amira.Bessette commented that she would not be apologizing because she “was trying to be inclusive.”
In a stitch to the original video, TikTok user @big.meech_, who is also a white woman, condemned the woman’s conduct and demanded that she apologize to the Black community.
She gave a scathing criticism, in which she included why the video was harmful to a group of people who historically have faced various forms of discrimination, including against their natural hair. She also called out the coach’s uninformed actions and the hurtful impact the video had on Black women and men.
“Either you are completely ignorant to the ways in which Black people and Black women specifically have historically and continue to be policed for their natural hair or you are aware and you made the video anyways,” user @big.meech_ says in a video response.
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