# AA Dopers, why no Afro?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 2, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582 "2006-12-02T09:16:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/21 "2006-12-03T07:40:58Z")
**monstro** , you are really cute!
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/22 "2006-12-03T07:45:28Z")
Back off! I saw her first.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/23 "2006-12-03T08:50:38Z")
Is it really an afro if a white guy’s wearing it?
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/24 "2006-12-03T09:59:17Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42]
Is it really an afro if a white guy’s wearing it?
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'Round these parts, we call that a “Jewfro.”
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/25 "2006-12-03T13:57:20Z")
:blushing:
Thanks, guys!
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/26 "2006-12-03T17:02:32Z")
First of all, let me join the consensus on **monstro** ’s comelyness.
Secondly, and back to the OP with some reference to the later posts, my observation agrees w. others that a reasonable number of people with the hair texture for it\*\* do\*\* wear their hair “natural”; just that they keep it to a more, well, natural configuration than the big-bowl 'fro of 30 years ago. For however much it was referred to as “a natural”, like many other hairstyles once it gets past a certain point it takes actual work to maintain it groomed to the media standard.
Now I’m wondering about the fortunes of the makers of AfroSheen[sup]TM[/sup]…
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### Author:  [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/27 "2006-12-03T17:10:12Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur Catta]
A thread about the afro and no one’s mentioned [Bob Ross?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross)
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Despite his cheery weekly appearance on TV, he’s been dead for over a decade now, so I don’t think he counts toward current hairstyle trends. Come to think of it, I don’t think he counted toward hairstyle trends when he was alive.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/28 "2006-12-03T18:22:15Z")
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> Is it really an afro if a white guy’s wearing it?
If I let my hair grow out, I end up with a caucaso. Mostly, though, I keep it cut short, since it’s much easier to deal with, that way. If my hair color were closer to my skin color, I’d probably take it off completely (and in fact, did, once, to recover from an accident with the clipper), but with dark hair and light skin, it looks like salt-and-pepper when it starts coming back in.
And **monstro** , while that is certainly a flattering picture, the contrast isn’t really high enough to make out any details about your hair.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/29 "2006-12-03T19:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean]
'Round these parts, we call that a “Jewfro.”
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You can’t call it that if the wearer is a gentile, can you?
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/30 "2006-12-03T20:14:15Z")
Then it would be a goyfro.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/31 "2006-12-03T20:19:53Z")
Jewfro is really more specific than “white guy Afro,” it’s a reference to the specific frizzy, puffy hair that some Jewish guys have. Not that white guys can’t have that. I always got the impression that nobody _intentionally_ grew one of them.
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### Author:  [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/32 "2006-12-03T23:10:05Z")
Being the military aviation geek that I am, I keep trying to come up with a joke about why anti-aircraft gunners wouldn’t want big poofy hair, but I just can’t think of anything that would actually be funny.
Carry on. 😃
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### Author:  [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/33 "2006-12-04T03:52:04Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan]
Tradition 10: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy. This includes things like politics & hairstyle.
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So am I not the only one who looked at the thread title and thought to myself “What do AA and Afros have to do with each other? Is someone using afros to smuggle bottles of liquor into meetings?”
~Tasah
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/34 "2006-12-04T04:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=Alan Smithee]
Back off! I saw her first.
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I call dibs on the guy in the middle, thanks! 😉
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### Author:  [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-dopers-why-no-afro/382582/35 "2006-12-04T06:47:03Z")
There are several kids at my kids’ high school who have huge afros. I hope my son doesn’t decide to grow one, because they look like a real hassle to keep looking good.
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