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Royal Crown

​Products with names like "Royal Crown" hair grease promised to transform the "difficult" and "nappy" texture into something more manageable, more acceptable, and freer.

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'Curl Out' Hair Relaxer

The purpose for marketing Black hair as "ugly" is precisely to make the true wearers of the crown willingly give up their divinity. This is achieved not through physical force, but through coercive tactics like ridicule, mockery, and the exploitation of vanity.

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Clairol

They are the lost sheep, guided not by reverence for the true shepherd, but by fear through the deception of the "wolves in sheep’s clothing."

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