 like most things as it relates to especially the black population in what is essentially the Atlantic world we do have to go back to transatlantic slavery so we do have to go back to a moment of black people being in really like sort of acts of deprivation I would say as it relates to self-care right because you're just not able to self-care right and you're sort of having to use what's in your environment and so in the you could go back to there's early examples of of lie for example like the product that that idea of lie has been around for hundreds of years so you will have cases in especially during in the US southern plantation where they would mix lie with potatoes and other kinds of things because it was a known kind of plastic chemical that could straighten the hair so they realize that and so during slavery to sort of speed up this story you had a division of labor so if you worked in the house and you were a house slave as opposed to a field slave the house slaves after a while the plantation master was like we want you to look more like us so there was more of an imperative to straighten or wear a wig that they felt more comfortable with you in their home essentially now we can flash forward and think now 20th century you're a black person if you want a good job it's it's now generations that pathology of hair has to mirror the employer who is white