Allure Defends Awful Afro Tutorial

Oh boy.

Screen Shot 2015-08-04 at 11.01.31 AMIn Allure’s August issue, there’s a brief (hopefully!) moment of stupidity titled “You (Yes, You) Can Have An Afro.” It’s a piece that explains how white women can have an afro, totally missing the point that white women cannot have an afro. In a statement to BuzzFeed, Allure attempted to defend the article.

“The Afro has a rich cultural and aesthetic history. In this story, we show women using different hairstyles as an individual expressions [sic] of style.

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