Mel B among Britons taking fight against afro hair discrimination to parliament - I love Mel. When I moved to the UK for university was the time when the Spice Girls were just taking off big time. It was totally not my type of music, I was always indie and alt rock, but they were always on the tele and newspapers, so she was part of the backdrop of me discovering my home country for the first time. I find this afro hair protected status thing quite strange. Won’t it lead to more bullying in reality for regular afro wearers? What about white people with perms? Do they get protected status too. Is Gerry going to do the same for red heads? I could get a partial beard protection in that case. What about asian straight black hair? How are we discussing hair styles as a government rule? Isn’t this a little bit ridiculous? While we are here, what about freckles? I have a lot of those. I want my freckles to be a protected characteristic! I bet I’m not allowed to say that. Definitely my favorite story so far this week :) www.theguardian.com #