How the hair salon became a battle cry for freedom
to, in his words, “ensure confinement is not a punishment for violating an order” and made it retroactive, freeing Abbott from her seven-day sentence.
Luther was no “hardened criminal,” he wrote, she was a “business owner,” a revealing statement that demonstrated a very specific idea of whom he classifies as lawful.On Thursday, Luther was freed; on Friday, Ted Cruz stopped by her salon for a haircut. That Luther has now become a conservative hero is no surprise. The formula to become such a martyr is easily replicated, if you fit the mold : engage in wildly irresponsible, or racist, or sexist behavior, and then frame the subsequent pushback as a personal and political attack, an affront to your freedom. During the covid-19 pandemic, one of those core freedoms has been the right to get a haircut and highlights.
If a wide swathe of Americans has grumbled about their inability to go to the salon during the pandemic, it has to an overwhelming extent been white citizens who have framed their inability to maintain their personal grooming as a political attack on their civil liberties.
There is something luxurious about the process of getting an expensive haircut, or a manicure, or a massage. For some, particularly black women, a sharp hairstyle is an
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