[Angela24960]

I don’t know the answer, and this might be totally bogus, but I heard in a biology class that it has something to do with the shape of whatever the lice use to hold on to the hair shaft. Also, it isn’t that they don’t get on black people, but that the population of lice that attach to white folks’ hair cannot hang on easily to black hair because the hair shaft has a very different shape (blacks’ hair shaft being flatter, and whites’ being more round). If it were a population of lice that was evolved among black people, then it would be vice versa. The other story I heard was that it was because of the products we black people put in our hair. Who knows? I can only say that I’ve never had lice…

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Name : Angela24960, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 40, City : Baltimore, State : MD, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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