english: And so before they were staples of the multibillion-dollar hair-care industry, our dependency on tools and products, like the hair relaxer and the pressing comb, were more about our survival and advancement as a race in postslavery America.
non_english: I pre nego što su oni bili važan deo multimilijarderske industrije za negu kose, naše oslanjanje na sredstva i proizvode kao što su kreme za ispravljanje kose ili prese više je bilo vezano za naš opstanak i napredak kao rase u postrobovlasničkoj Americi.