Looks Like Marie Claire Forgot Black Women Exist (?)

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Marie Claire tweeted about Kendall Jenner’s trend setting style of having a full head of straight hair with a few tiny braids on the side. A lot of people felt slighted by this, as if Marie Claire was suggesting Kendall was “inventing” braids. Is this systematic racism? Or is Kendall’s style different enough that it’s legitimately new? Or….. ?

The original tweet:

Some of the responses:

https://twitter.com/ShonDPhoto/status/451418205668786177

https://twitter.com/ohitsbarbara/status/451419537292795904

https://twitter.com/YolieTheJew/status/451422298851905536

https://twitter.com/LaKeidraDenay/status/451424288994631680

And then Marie Claire took back their Tweet: