[jancsika]

It takes black Americans way longer than everyone else to wash and do their hair. (Guessing 2-5x longer for doing hair, and perhaps an order of magnitude longer to do a full wash.)

The cost to black women to get their hair done is generally more than any other group.

Almost all black women (and probably black men) have had to develop some coping mechanism for the number of non-black people who want (or at times, demand) to touch their hair.

Digression-- I remember a black doctor who had a coping mechanism for the number of patients who assumed he was the nurse and asked him where the doctor was. He would spin 360-degrees and then present himself to the patient again. :)

As for the sibling comment-- my first three sentences are falsifiable.

Edit: clarification

[HeyLaughingBoy]

> (and probably black men) have had to develop some coping mechanism

My "coping mechanism" for the time before I just shaved it too short to matter was to simply say, "OK, go ahead." It's not a big deal and I don't have a problem with a natural curiosity.

[edit] Asking is fine, "demanding" I would have a serious problem with.