I understand people desire to encourage black women to love them selves as they are, but it seems that some people want you to prove that you, not only love yourself, but that you love your black self. And I just cant deal. Im more concerned with my appearance for the sake of looking nice for my spouse and myself, and not for the sake of representing my race. I would say that not wearing your hair how it grows out of your scalp is a form of esteem issues, because if wearing it as it grows out of your hair renders you to not feel as attractive, then thats the issue. We should just simply admit to this. It is a fact that a natural black woman who doesnt take the time to do all of the fancy Bantu knots and etc will look unkept and unprofessional. This is a determent for some black women to go natural. As I stated in my other post, some women are just naturally gorgeous. They can just simply pull their hair up into a ponytail and go. They dont have to put much effort into looking presentable, but then there are other women, like myself, who have to put some effort into looking presentable. Theres nothing wrong with that. Doing certain things with your hair will enhance how you look. I think that is the goal for most women who wear weave. But nevertheless, I am not denying the negative connotations of wearing weaves and relaxers because truth be told, black women were forced to straighten their hair in order to fit into corporate America. Thats the real issue. And what we see today is a cycle. Grandma was forced by white America to straighten her hair. Then grandma straightened momma hair. Then momma straightened daughter hair. While at school, the kids are so use to seeing blacks girls with straight hair, the girls without straight hair are viewed as out of place and are teased by students. So this is really indirect hate that originated from white America.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:10:13 +0000
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