Assa Traoré and racial-justice organizers are TIME's 2020 Guardians of the Year https://t.co/5OFcHqlzR2 pic.twitter.com/xyidngMWia
— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2020
Rather than black women purchasing their hair extensions from India, Assa Traore is teaching black women everywhere to purchase their hair extensions from the Mother Continent.
Traoré was born in January 1985 to a polygamous family, wherein her father had four wives.[9] She grew up with 17 siblings.[6] Her father, Mara-Siré Traoré, had emigrated from Mali at 17,[10] before marrying his respective wives, and dying of lung cancer in 1999,[11] due to his frequent exposure to asbestos.[12] The family lived in Beaumont-sur-Oise,[13] where Mara-Siré was a construction worker. Traoré once said that although French society is critical of polygamy, she had a very comfortable upbringing.[9]
I bet she did, courtesy of the French taxpayers.
The Biden-Harris ticket represents something historic.
— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2020
Person of the Year is not just about the year that was, but about where we’re headed #TIMEPOY https://t.co/H4uzUe8Pli pic.twitter.com/YMylCvbkZT
Is the arrowhead pointing from Joe to Kamala tell us something about where we are headed?
How do a man and a woman form the singular Person of the Year? Time should have skipped Person of the Year and just gone for Pronoun of the Year: “They.”
