I can get like a paper thin what I call "chomo stache", that's about it. So I just shave it all off. I guess i'm lucky I have really thick hair on top of my head and am not balding

  • fifthedition [none/use name]
    ·
    2 years ago

    The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard

    What follows is the lost story of American facial hair. Like countless other histories, it is rife with contradictions. It begins with white Americans at the time of the Revolution who derided barbering as the work of “inferiors.” It continues with black entrepreneurs who turned it into a source of wealth and prestige. And it concludes with the advent of the beard—a fashion born out of desperation but transformed into a symbol of masculine authority and white supremacy.