OK, first there was Bo Derek in the movie "10", with her cornrowed and braided blonde hair and beads bouncing in the air as she ran down the beach; now there's Jessica Simpson and her clip on hair. Yeah, that's right. I mean, come on, Bo Derek made braids acceptable to white people now let's see how many white women are subjected to hair weave jokes after Jessica's new entrepreneural venture.

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