karmashines said:True, but in order for black women to feel comfortable about her natural hair the black community in general has got to feel comfortable about it both men and women. I can not tell you how many times I've been teased both as a child and as an adult by my own community for having my hair in a more 'natural' style... at that time it was braids/cornrolls. I was also insulted by one of the beauticians I went to when she saw my 'virgin' hair. I didn't go to her anymore after that, but I shouldn't have been treated that way.
Conversely, I have had non-blacks compliment me on the same hairstyle, which doesn't make sense. Why do I receive compliments from the very race who caused us to feel ashamed about our hair in the first place, yet get denigrated by my own?
Is this a rhetorical question? Why do we love the image of the White Jesus, even though the rest of the world knows better?
You are treating this one psychosis of our people, as if it is some independent issue from the rest of the issues that already plague us.
As far as Madame CJ Walker, you may not agree with the product she produced, but as far as her contributions to the black community and her entreprenurial vision she was on the ball!
If you say so. The same thing can be said for CONDALEEZA RICE as well.
What "contributions" from WALKER do you speak of? "DARK AND LOVELY" hair relaxer?
As far as entreprenuralship, there are far more important things that concern our people; such as our mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual development.
When's the last time you saw a camel go through the eye of a needle?
Besides, what's wrong with being able to have variety in our hairstyles? I don't think it's a crime to have your hair relaxed for a change of pace...
If you really have to ask me this, even after the info that brother SUN SHIP and I supplied in our last posts, then I honestly feel sorry for you.
This sounds to me, like "what's wrong with smoking weed", or "what's wrong with eathing Swine"?
There is far too much info available these days at our disposal, for questions like these to go unanswered.
white women put chemicals in their hair to make it curly.
#1) So once again, we return to what white people do, as a benchmark? And then you honestly wonder why Brothers are not perceiving sisters as beautiful?
#2) Most white women do not do this. You can hardly say that even SOME of them do it. The amount of white women who put such chemicals in their hair is miniscule, in comparison to those who don't......And even moreso in comparison to the sisters who do it.
For white women, it's a "change of pace".......For Sisters, it's a standard of beauty.
Didn't you just get done telling us, how the beautician got bent out of shape at you?
C'mon sis, break those mental chains.
The problem is some of us value it too much, and have shame in how our hair is in its natural state.
There you go.....But the question I now ask is: are you one of those sisters who walk with this shame of your God-Given hair?
PEACE