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#menwithlocs LOST KINGDOM

It is a well-established and known fact that the number of African American women and men globally and nationally wearing Locs are grossly underestimated in the statistics on Natural Hair.     The Natural Hair industry has its roots essentially as a “cottage industry” an almost “underground” “subculture” industry which pioneers like Madame CJ Walker opened up.   They created a path for struggling Black Women particularly, to have a means of providing for their families.   I recently reviewed “ethnic hair care” industry statistics which definitively indicated many segments within the industry that are unaccounted for by mainstream American reports.   Black Men are definitely not even a part of this equation, not at all. They are non-existent in this arena as in most ( except Sports of course).   It’s really crazy when you think about it because if you walk down any Urban community in America in 2015, you’ll see throngs of “Kings”, Black Men, wearing the ...