One of my favorite book series of all time is Perseus Jackson & The Olympians. In the First Book, the main character, Percy Jackson fights Medusa and defeats her by using his phone as a mirror and cuts her head off. Which is exactly similar to the original greek myth, in which, the greek hero Perseus uses his shield as a mirror to decapitate Medusa and when she died a horse sprang from her body. But I started the story at the end, now let me tell the beginning. Medusa and her sisters, the Gorgons, were very beautiful but Medusa was the most beautiful. She caught the eye of the Sea God, Poseidon. Poseidon courted Medusa and they went to Athena's temple to do the "shake & bake." This angered Athena alot and she chased them out of the temple putting a curse on Medusa and turning her into the ugliest woman alive, a monster. Medusa's hair was turned into snakes and if she looked into your eyes you would turn into stone.
Being a part of the African American community HAIR is a very BIG thing. Hair allows a person to be unique. There is so much you can do with hair, and not every hairstyle is for every person. Black people to hair is like white people to pets. We spend so much time, money, and effort with our hair. And you CAIN'T touch it!
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