‘Now She Looks Tidy and Presentable’: White Woman Calls 911 on Her Racist Unapologetic Mother for Shaving Three-Year-Old Biracial Child’s Hair Off Without Permission

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In a now-viral post on Reddit, a woman recounted why she called the police on her mother after she shaved off her biracial daughter’s curly hair. The post, written on the r/AITAH board by user OrneryExchange8001, has since been removed from the platform’s moderators but received more than 17,000 upvotes after it was posted on September 8. The Reddit user wrote about her 3-year-old biracial daughter, Zoe. Viral reddit post details a grandmother overstepping her boundaries. (Stock Photo/Pexels) “Zoe is biracial – I’m white, and my husband Tyler is black,” she wrote, according to the New York Post. “Zoe has the most stunning curly hair, and I’ve always taken great care of it. She absolutely loves her curls, and we’ve made it a fun bonding activity to style her hair together.” Unlike Zoe’s parents, the toddler’s grandmother wasn’t a fan of the 3-year-old’s hair, making disparaging comments like, “It looks so wild,” “That’s just too much hair for a little girl,” and “Wouldn’t it be easier if it were straight?” Zoe’s mother said she always brushed the comments off as “harmless,” until one babysitting experience involving Zoe’s grandmother ended disastrously. Zoe’s mom said she left the 3-year-old in her mother’s...

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