4.3 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The cleaner the engine, the less fuel you use. |
| 0:03.0 | New Eso Supreme Plus 99 petrol, |
| 0:06.0 | Triple cleans and protect your engine |
| 0:08.0 | to help give you more miles per tank. |
| 0:11.0 | It's a little like cycling with a tail wind. |
| 0:15.0 | Or walking with extra long legs. |
| 0:22.0 | New Esso Supreme plus 99. |
| 0:25.0 | A fuel you could use less of. |
| 0:27.0 | That's thoughtful driving. |
| 0:28.0 | Eso. When we are doing our heads with head wraps, scarves and bonnets, we embrace an age-old |
| 0:40.0 | black custom worthy of celebration. This is too in a black history, what you didn't learn in school. Our people have been rocking head wraps and different head coverings for centuries. |
| 1:03.4 | It's a tradition that predates coloniality and despite when anyone says it's a beautiful custom we should hold on to. |
| 1:11.7 | Head wraps were worn as traditional attire in many African countries like Ghana and |
| 1:16.8 | Namibia, where they're called Dukus or Duke. Certain headrapped styles indicated wealth, marital status, and family lineage. |
| 1:27.0 | During the 1700s, Louisiana's Tignan laws prohibited black women from being in public without covered heads. |
| 1:35.0 | The system used these laws to shame our hair and bodies, |
| 1:39.0 | and although they were rooted in anti-Blackness, |
| 1:41.0 | and sisterly, we had already been proudly wrapping our heads long before. The Tignon Laws did create a ripple effect though and for many headscarves of all kinds became |
| 2:05.4 | associated with servitude because of mammy caricatures like Aunt Jemima. |
| 2:10.6 | Although some folks chose to carry this shame and the respectability politics |
| 2:15.6 | behind it, we don't have to. Head wraps, bonnets, and scarves are all a part of who we've always been and companies like the rat life are |
| 2:26.5 | embracing the tradition. Like head wraps, our customs from fashion to, make us who we are. |
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