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Hair Braiders Persuasive Speech

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“When one rejects a global beauty standard that denigrates my hair, when I actively love the hair I’ve been conditioned to hate, when I choose to simply look like me even though I’m told that looking like me is not good enough.” “The transition movement is much more profound and much more powerful — and I believe it offers lessons in self-acceptance for people of all hues and all genders.” There has been some stride in the fight of Black expression, since April of this year. Lawmakers in the Texas House of Representatives voted unanimously to abolish Bill HB 2717, a new law that forced hair braiders in the state to comply with what they felt to be unnecessary regulations and certification requirements. The fight began in 1997 when officials arrested Isis Brantley for braiding hair without the proper license. …show more content…

However, there were not any hair-braiding schools in the state. “This vote by the Texas House means aspiring hair braiders from across the state are one step closer to being able to practice an ancestral art that has dated back many centuries ago, without the government approving

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