Plus, I'll bet all the white girls he dated felt his hair at least or twice. Jocks tend to be fairly drunken, and dudes’ teammates probably all felt his hair once while they were drinking. That’s my guess? The dudes? Almost all black males in fancy schools are, um, more athletically than scholastically inclined. Plus, dealing with white people all day she would be estranged from black culture, making interaction with blacks fairly awkward.
Even if she had been from the hood, she was not from that hood. Girls who went to Episcopal High School, smack in a not-super-good area of Richmond, Virginia, might have found local hairdressers, but black culture is less cosmopolitan. Not a lot of black hairdressers in the small New England towns of so many boarding schools. She felt left out too, and maybe could only have her hair done when she went home. That’s what it feels like, thanks” instead of oohing and aahing and being affiliative. I wish mine were more x or y” felt her hair and said “oh. That made her feel incredibly self-conscious because the girls who had been saying “ooh your hair’s so x.
Because the black girl felt left out, and kids are curious, they all felt her hair. Teen girls are involved with doing each other's hair and such. Because the schools were only nominally integrated, they made white friends. These are elite blacks, whether by their parents’ status or by being smart (for blacks) and getting a scholarship to boarding, or at least private, school. Smith My guess is that extremely culturally black blacks do not end up as Congressional aides.