From The Atlantic, which was founded in 1857 by Francis H. Underwood, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell:
Swim Caps Are Keeping Black Women Out of Pools
Their limited design is yet another contributor to America’s racial disparities in swimming.
MARISSA EVANS
AUG 13, 2018
Black women used to be enterprising about their hair. The first black millionaire in America, male or female, was Madame CJ Walker, who invented the conk. But now the thinking is … why aren’t those white racist Korean black hair product entrepreneurs getting those white racist Chinese to manufacture us racially appropriate swim caps?
