In both Britain and America, statistics show that black people are significantly less likely than white people to be able to swim. This may seem peculiar. But thankfully, Michelle Obama, the former First Lady, is on hand to enlighten us.
You see, it’s all the fault of white people’s “beauty standards”.
“Let me explain something to white people,” she snapped, during a live event to promote her new book about her “style journey”, The Look. “Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern. So when we straighten it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness. That’s why so many of us can’t swim, and we run away from the water.”
