A white TI who was merely a staff sergant told us that we could not have our hair like that because it was although it was considered a hair style among black people we non-black girls were doing it to be fashionable. This made no sense to us, so we approached the master sergant in charge of our squadron (who was a black woman) and she was extremely angry with this staff sergant. She told her that she cannot associate a hair style with a race and what we were doing was okay.

I think it’s a little absurd to associate a race with a certain hairstyle