Pop star Halsey, who has said in the past that “I look like a white girl, but I don’t feel like one. I’m a black woman” tweeted yesterday that “perfumed white people shampoo” given out for free by hotels “alienates people of color:
https://twitter.com/halsey/status/989680930926166016
Until this very moment, we never knew tiny bottles of shampoo could be racist:
This is so so true. https://t.co/CfooJFcBah
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) April 27, 2018
The blow dryer might be racist, too:
https://twitter.com/AyanaTheDIVA/status/989743520184352768
What the hotel industry really needs is Uber, but for tiny toiletries:
https://twitter.com/pardesoteric/status/989955864181157888
But this might not go over as intended:
Lmao imagine if hotels had two shampoo types and labeled them “For Blacks” and “For Everyone Else” how the outrage would be ? https://t.co/0GefopRBR5
— ?????? ♥ (@Xiaxue) April 27, 2018
Others, despite their white people hair, agreed with Halsey:
Hotel shampoo makes my hair feel like Brillo pads. Don’t know why exactly but it’s terrible. https://t.co/NDcrZth5yJ
— Autumn Rowe (@AutumnRoweMusic) April 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/realmandyrain/status/989957512500686848
But, come on:
Me & my “white privileged hair” (whatever that means) can tell you hotel shampoo universally dries out & destroys your hair. Crap shampoo doesn’t discriminate. https://t.co/CNvrn2iwfa
— Britt McHenry (@BrittMcHenry) April 27, 2018
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Now, has the very wealthy Halsey ever considered bringing her own?
TRUE story, I just carry my shampoo in a travel bottle since I started traveling YEARS ago. Hotels (even really nice brands) just don’t carry people of color products https://t.co/WZYuGKOwu7
— Atima Omara (@atima_omara) April 27, 2018
We suspect hundreds of thousands of Americans bring their preferred products with them every day:
Because bringing your own stuff to a hotel room is hard https://t.co/bIBx6vzqO7
— Bunni ? (@ActaBunniFooFoo) April 27, 2018
For example:
I always bring my own shampoo and it has never crossed my mind that hotels are racist. Holy victim mentality, Batman
Does she expect hotels to offer every variety of shampoo imaginable so as to not discriminate against any hair types?
I can’t believe there are ppl this entitled https://t.co/zr3UmYvTA3
— Yasmine Mohammed (@ConfessionsExMu) April 27, 2018
Or maybe someone in the entourage can pack it?
It's fun to pretend that as a multi-millionaire performer you don't travel with a team that brings your own preferred hair care products with you to your luxury suites… score those social justice points though. https://t.co/Iv9jN2odWi
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 27, 2018
She later did admit to bringing her own hair care products on the road, but said it would be a financial burden for other women to bring their hair care products with them:
https://twitter.com/halsey/status/989684220971765760
And she’s not sorry for any anger that she’s caused:
https://twitter.com/halsey/status/989853291591811072
Over to you, hotel industry:
https://twitter.com/halsey/status/989854625242038272
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