To the extent that it happens very occasionally, yes, actually, but only really among progs. They don't speak as openly about it as their other beliefs, but they have a serious obsession with black people's hair, particularly black women's.
It's a whole bunch of prog shit crossed together. You have the black fetishism, the simping, "European beauty standards," and as a subset of that, mythology about "natural hair" being socially unacceptable. As such, black women's hair is something like a lesser holy relic to progs. Being allowed to touch it is basically being ritually confirmed as a good ally, the way a unicorn only allows somebody pure of heart to touch it.
See also: Progs desperately wanting a black guy to call them cool, as the "coolness warrior-monks" they see black men as.
To the extent that it happens very occasionally, yes, actually, but only really among progs. They don't speak as openly about it as their other beliefs, but they have a serious obsession with black people's hair, particularly black women's.
It's a whole bunch of prog shit crossed together. You have the black fetishism, the simping, "European beauty standards," and as a subset of that, mythology about "natural hair" being socially unacceptable. As such, black women's hair is something like a lesser holy relic to progs. Being allowed to touch it is basically being ritually confirmed as a good ally, the way a unicorn only allows somebody pure of heart to touch it.
See also: Progs desperately wanting a black guy to call them cool, as the "coolness warrior-monks" they see black men as.