If you’re interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an  account here  and check out our  how-to post  to learn more. Opinions are the writer’s own and not those of Blavity's. ____ “Elle est très, très jolie!” Those are the words my eight-year-old sister, who lives in France, says as we flip each page of My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood  and come across yet another Black woman with natural hair. Sometimes, she looks up from the pages and asks if I can do her hair in the same style, and her face lights up when I tell her, “Yes.” Three years ago, this was not the case. As we walked through the mall one day, past a giant poster of a Black woman with an afro in front of a clothing store, my sister scrunched up her face and announced, “Elle est moche! She’s ugly!” And when she said that, I knew she was talking not only about this woman on the poster but also about herself, whose hair was a reflection of...