Word: haire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stay away from my hair...
...first 12 years of my life, I rarely had to "deal" with my hair except getting it cut and occasionally combing it. I lived in the predominantly black and Latino Mt. Pleasant area of Washington, D.C., and attended basically a black elementary school. We did not see anything strange about our hair. But, in 1989, the year the Berlin wall came crashing down, so did my world of stress-free hair existence when I enrolled in the predominantly white Sidwell Friends School...
...that your real hair...
Apparently, there had not been too many black men in Sidwell's history, and those who were there kept their heads almost shaven (I understand why now). I was a novelty: a black man with more than a centimeter of hair on his head...
...have an afro or a sport cornrows (they're kind of like braids for those who don't know). I cannot count the number of times people I do not know come up to me and touch my hair, saying something dumb like...