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Actress Florence Pugh Apologizes For Past Cultural Appropriation

Paul Bois
Actress Florence Pugh Apologizes For Past Cultural Appropriation
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Academy Award-nominated actress Florence Pugh (“Little Women”) responded to the current woke wave by apologizing for all her past offenses of cultural appropriation, in which she braided her hair into cornrows and painted henna on her hands.

In a lengthy Instagram post, Pugh explains her evolution of thought from when she was a 17-year-old girl braiding her hair into cornrows to her newfound sense of white fragility.

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