So when African american slaves were stripped of their African culture when their artifacts were destroyed, they had to build their culture from the ground up again. Even their hairstyles had to be built from the ground up because every slave that was endured the slave trade had their hair clean shaven. African american hairstyles were originally made to facilitate healthy hair because slaves and whites had very different hairtypes. Today when a non African american tries to emulate an african american hairstylesbased on the assumption that it is beautiful, they are stealing the hairstyle culture the same way slave owners and slave madters stole slaves from their land and trivialized their position in america to become slaves