Ever since the release of the critically acclaimed (though mostly Academy Award-snubbed) Martin Luther King biopic "Selma" last year, the film's director has become a force to be reckoned with in the U.S. African-American community, but after months of success, it's now Ava DuVernay's hair making news.
DuVernay has been such a success in the activist community that she even got her own Barbie a few months back, in a special collection released by the Mattel brand that would see a few new dolls auctioned for charity, but now, as she goes on a Twitter rant, Ava DuVernay's hair makes headlines.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ava DuVernay's hair controversy sparked last weekend, when the "Spider-Man 2" director went to her personal Twitter to tell the story of how she'd missed a ride on a train that day - after a random man just came up to her to touch her hair.
Uproxx reports that the man just randomly reached out to grab Ava DuVernay's hair last Saturday, in a very public place, taking to himself to examine it - and when DuVernay asked him what he was thinking with this crazy attitude, the stranger just asked her "is this racial?"
Missed train dealing w/ a man who touched my hair + when I asked what in all the hells he thought he was doing replied "Is this racial?"
— Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) June 13, 2015
According to AOL, the director was gladly not alone in this, and when the stranger randomly touched Ava DuVernay's hair, many women around her starting defending her and her perfectly understandable desire not to be touched anywhere in her body by some random man in the street; when the man was "attacked" by women supporting DuVernay, he started yelling at all of them, which prompted the police at the train station to approach the scene and ultimately remove the man from the premises, and he was ultimately arrested.
However, the stranger who grabbed Ava DuVernay's hair is now pressing charges at one of the women in the train station, claiming harassment.
