Are Certain Hairstyles Exclusive to Specific Races? 14-Year-Old Girl Receives Backlash for Wearing Box Braids

Aside religious sentiment causing chaos, issue of racism may be another crucial problem facing us today; but one has to ask if the racism card is pulled out too quick in some cases.

A few days ago 14-year-old Mallory Merk decided to try something new with her hair – blonde box braids. After sharing a few photos with her Twitter followers, she was met with criticism and harsh remarks from the ‘black community’ on how her hairstyle is inappropriate and offensive to black people. One would have expected the reverse, like white backlash and black embrace.

See a few negative tweets below;

Good comments on her box braids: