Could you please appreciate my brown skin and nappy Afro hair?
I will wear my hair in extensions that embrace my african culture when I feel like
But I will also ROCK my natural afro hair and I expect you to appreciate it too
It is true that my hair will never actually look like Caucasian or asian hair which is one reason I place value on hair of that texture because of course as humans we tend put value on the beautiful things we can't actually have.
A Caucasian woman should value my hair just the same because she'll never have hair like mine either.
Now there's another problem. The actions a lot of black women take concerning their looks speak this to women of other races. "hey I have brown skin but I'd rather my complexion were a bit lighter, closer to your tone" and/or "I have Afro hair but your hair is 'nicer' so I'll pay loads of money for mine to look like yours". So, in the minds of SOME women of other races "well they'd rather have hair like ours and they think we have better skin tone so we must be the better race". They therefore can not value the things that we condemn, the things that we don't even want to see when we look in the mirror. We basically see our true reflection and go "ewww how disgusting,it's about time I became someone else" in our heads but what what we say out loud is "I need to get a new weave".
Now that slavery days are far gone and it's not a crime to be black we seem to miss those days like we're adapted to being slaves so we enslave ourselves in our own skin. Inside of some of us is a black man or woman yearning for freedom, imprisoned for no crime whatsoever. The transition from being slaves to right having humans means that can just be black and be seen and/or heard. What would diversity be if we're all light skinned and have long silky hair? Are we trying to reduce the number of things that we can actually call 'beautiful'?
"It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful"- Bill Cosby.
"It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what the colour of my skin is or whether I'm a man or woman".- John Lennon
"white us beautiful, black is beautiful and they compliment each other"- me
Happy black history month yo!
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