Very much so!! The curl pattern and texture is not the same across the board, hell, even in families it can vary! I have very fine mostly straight hair. My daughter has curly/wavy hair that is thicker than mine, my son has a LOT of very straight hair. My granddaughter has to go to a specialty hair salon if she ever gets her hair cut (it's never been cut) because her father is African American, and her hair is fine with a definite curl pattern.

The "white" dude could have afro hair. Believe me or not but I've had worked as barber for two years and even before, I have seen blonde afro. Even if he doesn't I don't see a point why he couldn't go there anyway if it works for him and he likes be cut.

I was a stylist many moons ago and did a 3 yr apprenticeship. I can't see why I couldn't learn how to deal with afro hair also. Or are people saying that white folks are not allowed to put that into their curriculum or we are too stupid for it [fortunately I am not stupid, having gone on to University and made a career, so I think I could handle a semester on Afro hair]? Other way round, there are black stylists that do white hair just fine [say whaaaat?]. C'mon, it smells of self segregation and in my books that's incredibly racist. How about whispy, blonde hair only salons? Or Asian only salons [their hair is far more difficult to deal with than afros and yet I have cut it just fine].

Very true. There are actually two different types of head lice, one for white hair and one for black. Each can't hang onto the other type. So yeah, different.

Thank you for that constructive comment!

Monilip, white people tend to have a different hair texture than people of color. That's all they meant. It doesn't mean all white people have fine hair. I would say just Google the information.

Yep, also "black barbershop" is not just a place people get their hair cut. It's a socio-cultural arena which has, historically, been a place of refuge from the world. There it's safe to talk about things with freedom, and express ideas that are ignored in the real world. 50 or so years ago, a black man could be killed by a while mob for just existing (see Jim Crow and lynching). So having a safe space from a world that doesn't view you as important was critical to survival, quite frankly.

Well said. My 11th grade white English teacher got his hair cut at a black barbershop, because he had very tight curly hair, and just didn't get good results at a regular salon.

When I went through cosmetology school in high school 1989 we were scheduled to go to another high school with a majority black students in cosmetology so we could learn how to treat ethnic hair. Unfortunately we got snowed in and couldn’t go and they never rescheduled. Luckily now most cosmo schools and CED classes teach about the different hair types.

The stylist who most-often cuts my hair once remarked to a fellow stylist "I LOVE cutting white people's hair, it's so damn easy! Snip, snip, done!" While I've never cut hair myself (aside from the occasional self-imposed buzz-cut) I can appreciate how difficult it must be to cut afro-textured hair.

We call it afro barbers. Not black barbershop...

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I'm sorry, what is "caucasian-type hair"? I know people who are very white and their hair is very curly, like little springs. In my own family there are people who are definitly "caucasian-type" and their hair is so curly it looks like afro hair (when not cut very short). I understand need to hairdresser to be specially for special kind of hair (there is nothing wrong with that: where there is a need, there is also a supply) but seriously, not all white people have straight hairs and sometimes it's a bit more difficult to cut them than "whacking off a few inches" :/

It is not that there would be a barber shop that would be consulted mostly by people from a distinctive community. It is the labeling of something by skin colour which just sounds not right to me.

I love going into A&F just to freak out the tiny people who work there. "Do you have the distressed jeans in a 54" waist? wait never mind, I think I can fit into that size 0 over there"

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So racism and hate is ok as long as it is circumstantial?

They were just discussing this (Chris Rock film)on an episode of the excellent "99% invisible" podcast (about "the" hair chart) As usual, an informative and interesting show

You're correct. I'm 50 and I've lived here my whole life.