- Dec 18, 2014
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Black people are in a very dangerous place. They have gone from a history where black women fought for civil rights and proudly wore their Afros as they sang out loud “I’m black and I’m proud”, to a time in which black women call each other “ugly African monkey” for looking natural. - See more at: http://newafricanmagazine.com/not-ugly-looking-natural/#sthash.R16Kf0nO.dpuf
- Akua Djanie-
How bad can it be sisters and brothers when someone calls you an ugly monkey
because you choose to wear your own natural hair. The hair you were born with
hair not knotted and matted down under thread, glue and long to the top of your
butt weave.
What has happened to all of our minds the past 45 years? Where has that black and proud spirit
James Brown long ago sang about and Nikki Giovanni recited to us in her poems gone away to? When I see
commercials on T.V. advertising shampoos and oils for the current "trendy style"
of Afro twisted hair styles, I ask myself is it really just a temporary fad or do these
ladies know what afros are suppose to represent?
How bad is it when we give top priority to weave, fake nails and eyelashes and forget
any attitudes we are suppose to have about being black and proud of our own natural
hair and facial characteristics?
Please take time and read the astounding link below;
http://newafricanmagazine.com/not-ugly-looking-natural/
And to those of you who remember the "black pride age"
and those of you who are too young to have knowledge
of those phenomenal times I want to you to hear the black pride and cultural
greatness that permeated Africa America.You will under why I am perplexed
at the black attitudes and opinions of our times.
- Akua Djanie-
How bad can it be sisters and brothers when someone calls you an ugly monkey
because you choose to wear your own natural hair. The hair you were born with
hair not knotted and matted down under thread, glue and long to the top of your
butt weave.
What has happened to all of our minds the past 45 years? Where has that black and proud spirit
James Brown long ago sang about and Nikki Giovanni recited to us in her poems gone away to? When I see
commercials on T.V. advertising shampoos and oils for the current "trendy style"
of Afro twisted hair styles, I ask myself is it really just a temporary fad or do these
ladies know what afros are suppose to represent?
How bad is it when we give top priority to weave, fake nails and eyelashes and forget
any attitudes we are suppose to have about being black and proud of our own natural
hair and facial characteristics?
Please take time and read the astounding link below;
http://newafricanmagazine.com/not-ugly-looking-natural/
And to those of you who remember the "black pride age"
and those of you who are too young to have knowledge
of those phenomenal times I want to you to hear the black pride and cultural
greatness that permeated Africa America.You will under why I am perplexed
at the black attitudes and opinions of our times.