There’s the guy who wears his 70’s-style afro ironically, and then there’s the guy–like Lenny Kravitz–whose afro is a way of saying “I’m sexy, just like those fly brothers in the Blaxpoitation movies.” Then, finally, there’s the guy in this picture, whose afro is less a statement about culture or style or hotness and more a side effect of his interest in things other than fashion or irony or sexiness, things like–perhaps–discrete mathematics…

Ajuan Mance