It's time to talk about black rugby players' hair, says BBC Sport columnist Sadia Kabeya
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Unless you grew up with this hair or have learned about it, you would not know the deep-rooted connection a black girl has with her hair. When I first started playing rugby in South London, it was with people who looked and sounded like me and my hair did not feel like an issue.Rugby is a predominantly white sport and as I rose through it and felt more like a minority, I felt added pressure about my hair.
If I was not a person of colour and my hair was naturally long, I do not think I would get these comments.Naturally, people are curious but they can ask flippant and naive questions, asking why my hair is so long and why I need to have it like it is. People think if they have a question in their head they have to ask it but sometimes if they just took a second, they might realise they could answer it themselves or that they do not actually need to ask it.If we were to flip the situation on its head, every time I asked someone with straight hair a question about it, it would seem weird.When I go to bed, I wrap my hair in a satin headscarf because it keeps it neat.
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