Florence Pugh has issued a lengthy statement admitting she was complicit in cultural appropriation for years before she finally realised what she was doing.Amid ongoing Black Lives Matter protests worldwide and calls for an end to systemic racism, the Little Women star took to Instagram to address her previously unprincipled behaviour.
Pugh penned that she had set her hair in cornrows when she was 17, something she now regrets.Explaining “the history and heartbreak over how when Black girls (wear cornrows) they’re mocked and judged, but when white girls do it, it’s only then perceived as cool,” Pugh confessed she was affronted when a friend called her out for adopting the braided hairstyle.
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