A young African American woman shares a story that has been a hot topic in the news recently, natural hair in the workplace. She talks of her memories being a little girl and getting her hair combed by her mother on Sunday night, no chemicals just natural, that's all you need. But as a child she didn't understand why the other little black girls had straight hair like the pretty white girls. Because in her young eyes white was beautiful, black was not and she didn't have anything that she could find in them that was also in her. Instead of looking inwards or to her mother as an example of beauty she continued to look outside. As she grew into herself, she gained an understanding of black hair and the pride that her mother was trying to instill in her. As she sits in an interview where she is the only black person, she is excited for this moment. She is prepared, she interviews well, she nailed it.

To find out weeks later that while everyone believed she was the best interviewee they didn't think her Afro puff was the kind of representation they wanted for their company. This is a coming of age story where one little girl becomes a woman and still must accept racism is still alive and well, it just presents itself in very different ways.