'My hair was more than a fire accessory,' says author Rembert Browne. 'It complemented me in a way I had not yet encountered. As if I’d tapped into something about myself that I previously didn’t know.'
When Rembert Browne is overtaken by the sudden onset of strange ailments, all he knows is that something’s off. Is it anxiety? A serious illness? He’s not sure.I didn’t mind it. Wasn’t really thinking about it. At the time, I cared about hooping, playing tennis and making my mother happy. She was at the helm when it came to my hair, and with her in the driver’s seat , she was good, so I was good. Also, to be fair, everyone growing up had something that would get them made fun of.
I witnessed what was happening and didn’t protest. I didn’t know if I liked how I looked, but it didn’t matter; I assumed it was how I was supposed to look — like Boy #6 on the barbershop chart. I felt connected to the rest of the men in the room, and the ones that I’d see once I left.Despite not growing up with a man in the house, I had an amazing childhood.
So much of being young and Black for me was simply listening. Soaking up my surroundings. Studying all of the characters.She found other places for me to get molded as my hair went back to her liking under the oversight of the national chain salon . “Despite not growing up with a man in the house, I had an amazing childhood. That was because my mother was deliberate in making sure I, her Black son, experienced all of the cultural touch points that I needed to thrive and survive,” writes Rembert Browne.
hours. So on my final day, I visited my barber. When I walked in and sat in the chair, he was happy to see me, tickled that my hair was so long. It kind of seemed at first as if he thought I had flown in just to see him. I hadn’t, but I had a confession to make: Two weeks before my September wedding, I had stepped out on him, I said, getting an emergency haircut by a rural Virginian named Darrell, who was white.
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