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Instead of writing about the explosive Oversight Hearing Committee to help provide insight and analysis for Victory Girls readers, I am writing about the problem of “hair deserts” for African American college students in rural areas. Deanna wrote this morning told you about Witness X, the Gay, married agent, who deserves more respect for his identity of ethical rather than Gay. Unfortunately, both sides make a mockery of the “checks and balances” function of the Congress. So you get hair deserts.
This is the NBC article that got me started on “hair deserts”: “Black students at remote colleges still need hair products — enter a vending machine.”
Black students at remote colleges still need hair products — enter a vending machine
When Rahya Kelley isn’t attending classes or practicing with her cheerleading squad at Olivet College, she styles the hair of Black students on campus. But it can be tough for Kelley to access Black hair care products.
There is a Walmart 12 miles from campus, but she said it doesn’t always carry a reliable selection of Black hair care products.
“The only time I was able to go to the beauty supply store was when I went home or if one of my friends were going to the beauty supply store and I would tag along with them,” said Kelley, a rising senior studying business administration.
Then Kelley learned about Beauty Genie — a new company providing vending machines that dispense products like edge control and deep conditioner — from the company’s CEO, Ebony Karim, who is best friends with Kelley’s mother. Kelley, 22, worked with other students in the Hiram Archer Student Success Academy, a mentorship program for students of color, to bring the vending machine to Olivet College, where 18.1% of students are Black.
Beginning Aug. 1, Olivet will be the first college campus to host a Beauty Genie vending machine, stocked with bonnets, combs and other Black hair care items.
This is of a piece with the Democrat Media Industrial Complex narrative. Black folk are unable to obtain driver’s licenses, doctors, lawyers or ethnic hair care products. They are oppressed by the cis-het White patriarchy. Now, me, if I was gonna write an article about Black Hair Deserts, I would have written about the entrepreneurial spirit of college students, and I would have written about adapting and overcoming problems, but no. Let’s divide Americans by color and ethnicity.
Beyond that, I want to tell you that being away from your regular hair person is a problem for people of every color. It’s another thing that unites us. AND, it’s clear that no White Person at NBC has ever straightened or permed his/her hair or seen that 20-year-old movie “Legally Blonde”. To quote Elle Woods: “The rules of hair care are simple and finite.”
I simply had to tell you about hair deserts. I watched the whole Oversight Committee “Whistleblower” hearings and they were an explosive bowel movement. It was clear that the two whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and the “Gay guy” Joe Ziegler, are men of the type who pledged in the Declaration of Independence: their “lives, fortunes and sacred honor, the Swampcritters in the House have no honor and haven’t read The Constitution. One of the most frightening moments was when Kweisi Mfume got galled by the attacks on the “Checks and Balances” provided by the IRS, FBI and DOJ:
NEW: Democrat Rep. Kweisi Mfume appears to forget what the three government branches are in America.
Did he actually forget or did he just accidentally say the quiet part out loud?
During testimony on how the DOJ stepped in to protect Hunter Biden, Kweisi argued that Americans… pic.twitter.com/Qm3G15MjOd
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 19, 2023
Do you wonder why I chose to write about hair deserts. Each branch of the government is a check and balance on the other two. Yes, the DOJ, FBI and IRS provides checks and balances on the American people, but not in a way in which the Founding Fathers would approve. I wouldn’t want to live in a Democracy conceived by Kweisi Mfume. Eek! I am so glad I live in a Constitutional Republic.
Let’s talk about hair deserts and entrepreneurial spirit. It’s a lot more insightful than that hearing today. I am not telling you about the nightmare I had today (I fell asleep) that Gerry Connolly (D-VA) had a red Gibson girl hairdo and was wearing a purple and white polka dot dress. He was lecturing me, but I didn’t hear words:
Another POS Rep. Connolly ignoring the IRS whistleblower’s testimony & evidence of Biden Crime family crimes & corrupt ties to the CCP, Russia, etc. Using his couple minutes to ask the whistleblowers how they feel about Trumps mean words at rallies about people like Fulton County… pic.twitter.com/t0oDxXZeqk
— Heather Mullins (@TalkMullins) July 19, 2023
Congratulations to the vending machine entrepreneurs.
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I know that they are a “giant, soulless corporation” (and I haven’t checked, I don’t need them cluttering my home page) – but I would think that Amazon would have quite a large selection of black hair care products. Vending machine products tend to be very expensive compared to anywhere else.
Liz says: There are hair deserts, and hair desert emergencies.
I’m thinking the vending machines address the latter.
Robin H says: I call BS on the hair desert. Is there a place on earth that Amazon won’t deliver to?? They somehow have to get the vending machine stocked, right?
Liz says: You’re assuming they have a mailing address, and the campus has computers with internet services. How very racist of you. Your privilege is showing. [/sarc]
Cameron says: There is a Walmart 12 miles from campus, but she said it doesn’t always carry a reliable selection of Black hair care products.
Is that because of the shoplifting?
GWB says: Black folk are unable to obtain … ethnic hair care products.
Yes, because they’ve never heard of Amazon or any other “mail order” company. Heck, until real recently, Gold Medal (huge black hair product company) still sent paper catalogs out in the mail.
Also…. I have personal involvement in the “ethnic hair care” arena. It can be a HECK of a lot more than Reese Witherspoon ever did for her hair. It is a HUGE investment in vanity for some folks. (I think it’s equivalent to a crack habit in terms of money.) There are evidently women who won’t let you touch their hair during sex because you might disturb their careful constructions (like weaves). LOTS of chemicals – harsh ones, mild ones – and lots of fake stuff. They even made a documentary about the industry and their customers (“Good Hair”, with Chris Rock). It’s definitely a thing – but it’s also a thing because lots of people are sheep who follow fashions of the famous people and won’t step back and examine what’s important.
GWB says: Also…
Black students at remote colleges still need hair products
You know, we used to have this system to take care of students. It was called parents, and the method for support was called care packages. Have Mama send you some chia butter from her beauty store.
GWB says: Lastly, it was really hard not to hear “hair desserts” in my head as I read this. Not cool, English language.
Scott says: Honestly, seeing as the “cure” for this problem is a vending machine company run by the friend of the complaintants mother, this seems more like an elaborate marketing scheme than any real problem. As many above have pointed out, are these supposedly educated college students not bright enough to utilize the evil empire of Amazon?? ( you know they don’t have any moral objections…)..
Kweisi Mfume is a racist idiot with a criminal background, who was NOT elected for his intelligence, or understanding of our founding documents, and Connolly is no better.. Why is it that most of the minorities in Congress seem as if they were elected for their skin color and nothing more?? There is no question that there are intelligent people, capable of critical thinking in all the represented races, but the majority of the ones sent to congress (primarily on the “D” side of the isle) are racist morons with room temp IQs
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