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Clarence Page: What’s so wrong about ‘respectability?’ Let’s start with hair
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Four-year-old Gus Jett Hawkins plays with mother, Ida Nelson, in Chicago on May 21, 2021.
Let’s talk about hair.
Cue the soundtrack to the Broadway musical “Hair” theme song: “Gimme a head with hair/Long, beautiful hay-ahh …!”
Stop the music. I mean real hair!
And respectability. Let’s talk about that too.
The “politics of respectability” have taken a real beating lately, even from people who have benefited from practicing it.
All of these themes came to mind in a bill proposed by freshman state Sen. Mike Simmons a North Side Democrat appointed to the seat earlier this year who, like my own millennial son, has a robust headful of dreadlocks. ....

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