Clarence Page: What’s so wrong about ‘respectability?’ Let’s start with hair
Let’s talk about hair.
Cue the soundtrack to the Broadway musical “Hair” theme song: “Gimme a head with hair/Long, beautiful hay-ahh …!”
Stop the music. I mean real hair!
And respectability. Let’s talk about that too.
The “politics of respectability” have taken a real beating lately, even from people who have benefited from practicing it.
All of these themes came to mind in a bill proposed by freshman state Sen. Mike Simmons — a North Side Democrat appointed to
