Yes, hair should never be considered "unprofessional" in my opinion. It's part of someone's body, you're basically saying someone's body isn't professional like what

White colonialism. It's a way to force black people to aspire to attain something unachievable (which is to be less black). It's a trick promising acceptance from assimilation that is so well established that it's caused a mass number of black people to do it. To the point that if you don't you're seen as an outlier. But straightening your hair chemically or otherwise, laying your edges and buns isn't going to change someone's blackness . It just further propagates the idea of black people only being palatable if they change themselves. Also It's one of many styles worn by people in "the ghetto or jail" so like most things traditionally associated with those places it's seen as undesirable or representative of someone who is lacking either in finances, education, opportunities, freedom, class, manners, or morals. Though as more traditionally "hood" characteristics/symbols become fetishized or seen as fashion forward via the general public (Ex: clothing, speech, presence) I think it will eventually bleed over into the business/professional sector. But afro hair is beautiful and full of glory and should be celebrated.

In fear, I had to undone mine when the time for interviews came in

@@brynmcclennan973 I think there are certain professions that require hair to be pulled back, for example in the culinary arts or in a medical context, due to hygiene. But then again, most protective hairstyles do keep hair out of the way, so it's really just racism, isn't it?

Because it can be big and obnoxious or unsafe. like the the military, polce work, cooking,etc (Edit: Since everyone is angry at me I never said this was my personal belief. She asked why and i replied with what most jobs/establishments have said or that i heard/seen them say)

Amen. I'm 43 and got emotional

Preach

@@astrogirl2675 My daughter and I are doing our hair right now. Room smelling like cholesterol treatments and braiding hair on the couch

@@4knewt505 cholesterol treatment? What....?

@@DiamondsRexpensive It’s a hair product.

No black, but curly latina and they did they did the gum thing to my hair too :( I hated when they put pencils and stuff on my hair just cause they thought it was funny

@@angelicaflorez6660 We all definitely go through, crap. Curly hair is beautiful, as a Afro-Hispanic with kinky hair, I wish I have curly hair

@@EmilyHernandez-jt4cs oh I think kinky hair is beautiful too! My grandpa had kinky hair 💕 it's just that I live in a part of Colombia where people are more white/mestizo like and in school they bullied anyone who wasn't the usual fair skinned, straight hair girl stereotype

That was horrible. Where were the adults? They should have stopped it

Omg I’m so sorry that happened to you

PLEASE I'll prepare the funds😭😭

@@cheesecake2048 Thank you Afros are so beautiful 😭😭

i'll throw in but do also get pics. we need them for.... _emotional support_

Fr

smack them haters with the “at least my hair healthy”

I SURE DIDNT ASK! and yet-

Been searching for 3 hours and I still don't know

You do know they say that same thing to EVERY girl?))

@@ellyjane1517 I’m sure but she is talking from the girls perspective..

@@ellyjane1517 um what are u on abt

You can hate it but what are you doing to stop it

@@fedhaamour I really can't do anything I'm a minor in an extremely conservative family as much as I want to do something abt it I can't

@@ryleighd7147 there’s a crown act at that you can sign

@@fedhaamour huh?

@@paanora440 I meant there's a petition to end hair discrimination against black women!!

Bro same I asked my mom to show me how to braid and style my hair she made fun of me for not being able to do it myself when she's " been doing it my whole life " then she told me to look it up...

@@kypauze1101 I don’t have the “black hair care” gene. Lol I literally just keep it twisted up and pay hairdressers as much as I can. Or wear wigs. I’m good 😂💖

@@kaniahankston4310 OML I thought I was the only one. My brother's stupid ex girlfriend was payed once to twist my hair. She stopped twisting it because she said she was doing her hair by 7. BITCH WE AREN'T A MONOLITH. I'm sorry that I was never taught. I notice that I learn things better when people actually teach it to me, rather than 'searching it up." They tell us to search shit up and then wonder why half of our generation is "lazy."

Its nothing like a black mom who cuss you out for not being able to do something she never taught you how to do....

I had a similar experience. As a kid, my hair would be in a puff or a natural braided style with bow bows sometimes. Maybe a pigtail on special occasions. I would get a blow out at the Dominican salons (this was in the mid 00s when they were all the rage) once or twice a year. My family was shocked at how long my hair was once straightened. As a middle schooler, my mom left me to do my own hair without any guidance. I started straightening it in middle school after wearing a bun and blow out. I started getting perms after my mom realized how long my hair was while straightened. They were fine at first until they broke off my hair so badly that I had to wear fake ponytails. My hair grew back after she stopped the perms from the salon. I rarely washed my hair because I was so afraid of it reverting and I also didnt know how. I was a straight natural until this year. I hated being my hair and started to question why I wore my hair straightened all of the time. It didnt feel like me, this also was during the same time that I began healing from my childhood. On a quest to find my authentic self, I big chopped. My hair went from bra strap length to a buzz cut. I had horrible heat damage - hair was straight in many places, my curls went from 4a to 2c because of years of straightening. in college, I was so embarrassed when people saw my hair on a wash day because of how strangly it was. My mom would yell about how dry, thick, and how tender headed my hair was as a kid. I internalized that and saw straight hair as better. Mind you that I also went to a predominantly white middle and high school. She would get upset and make fun of me that I couldn't do my hair as a kid while not even showing me how because she didnt love or know how to do her own. It's just so sad. I have a lot to process still..

Eh not in my eyes

@@Zombina638 wow, who fucking asked!

​@@Zombina638 you mean not in your limited perspective

@@bethanyreynolds7270 no but keep yapping

@@LangkeeLongkee Honestly we probably would still be ostracized for it. Simply because we are black. Just because wearing black hairstyles may become more mainstream (which I really hope it doesn’t) dose not mean that black women would be praised for it just like a non black person. For example acrylic nails black women made it popular ridiculed for it then non black people got there hands on it (pun not intended) and it got more popular and black women to this day are still called ratchet ghetto unprofessional for literally just wearing nails. So even if black hairstyles are more mainstream we’re still gonna get hate regardless.

@@LangkeeLongkee Yeah I would love to share my culture with non black people in America but until I can happily wear my culture without being ridiculed for it it’s not gonna happen anytime soon. :/

@@LangkeeLongkee a lot of trait that we already have (like big lips and hips) are seen as desirable on white and non black women, but seen as ghetto and “unkempt” on black women in America

Yep

@@LangkeeLongkee that’s exactly what I’m saying... Black women were told to cover their bodies and big buts since slavery, but then the kardashians made it “fashionable”. I (and many other black women) remember getting bullied for our big lips RIGHT BEFORE the whole Kylie Jenner lip trend came out, making big lips now more wanted and desirable, even thought we were told that our big lips were ugly. Hair styles like box braids and corn rows were seen as ratchet and ghetto until the kardashians (once again) made them desirable and “mainstream”. Do you see the pattern? Things that black women have had for literal centuries were seen as “unkempt”, but on white people, it is seen as more desired...

Same!

They will never understand that.

Apparently, it's not JUST HAIR. Every show that has a makeover session has white women crying or refusing to cut their hair when it was voluntary (as part of the TV show format) and would be done by a professional. It seems to me that their identity is just as intertwined with their hair as black women.

they didn’t say it was “just hair” when they were making fun of it

@Ash Hegde um who tf said I was on welfare, and WTH does welfare have to do with freaking hair. I swear like y'all are so annoying. And even if someone was on welfare they don't have the right to care about their hair? 🧐 miss me with that BS

@Ash Hegde If you have nothing of value to say, just own that. Stop embarrassing yourself.

This would lead you into a paradox... if you don’t treat it like just hair it never will be... if you really want this to not be a problem you need to take the steps toward you own end goal

@@Willow-ej7sc how? Our hair is never been treated like "just hair" and if u think that its ignorant. Mainly because our hair is scrutinized and hated on from everyone, including our own ppl. And we as black women do try to treat our hair as "just hair" but still get hated on for that, so idk what ur saying.

@@LangkeeLongkee I didn't over simply anything, because it is that simple.

@@LangkeeLongkee oh my bad

@@paige2166 well, yea... that’s why I said a change would be required for it to be seen as such, I already see it that way but many others don’t, if you think this requires more nuance that’s fine

Oh Lord 🤣🤣

@@monie948 what

@@gingerbread9691 so dramatic. It's not true imo. I mean unloved woman on earth? *Eyeroll* Who are you trying to get love from? We have Our men, family, children, community,sisterhood, friends etc

@@gingerbread9691 if Black women wld stop trying to find love from their oppressor they won't feel that way. 1st item of change is them fkn STRAIGHT wigs/sew-ins. Love your own hair. Yt pipo &others are looking at us &not understanding the whole wig thing. & I agree bc it's gotten way out of hand ☹️. 90% of us wear them. Fros are rare. When we change our self image to what TMH/God made us &stop wearing other women hair, our community will be healthier spiritually, and all other areas of our community will start to heal.

@@monie948 I don’t know where you got the idea from that black men protect black women? And I’m not talking about the few that you know I’m talking about the entire collective of them

Because it's just hair. This victim mentality is lame and you need to stop blaming everyone

@@angela8737 did you not watch the video-?

@@raverie1225 I watched it and there are so many holes in this video and KZfaq doesn't prove everything. Sounds like American education

@@angela8737 oh shut up

@@angela8737 your not Black so your opinion doens't matter yt privileged person

in my fam they still call less coarse hair “good hair” and i hate that term sooooo badly. my sons hair isnt as coarse and family always saying oh they wish they had his hair, he got good hair, etc and mentally i’m over it. i dont even say anything to them abt it atp🤦🏾‍♀️

Thank you queen 😂💙

wtf america is so weird

i have looser curls and i think 4c is beautiful❤

No one is obsessed...just curious as to why you spend so much money on hair? I can't imagine spending that much money on my hair to get it done! Mind you, I can't imagine spending more than 30 bucks on a haircut...guess I am cheap. Also, why come in with your hair looking different constantly? A cut, sure, but I don't care what color your skin is...extensions and all that mess are just weird. Wear your hair the way you want and quit caring so much about others. I have quit caring about what others think and I am much happier...it comes with age btw. We all just end up old anyway so why worry about aesthetics and just work on what is on the inside.

The American Education System shocks me so often... I mean... You could think that a country that is proud of its pluralism would let that show in the educational system as well :(

Same but in the UK I have a lot of black friends and I always hype them up about theirs braids and hairstyles

Schools obscure this part of our history partly out of shame and partly because educating us about the depth of own mistreatment would pose a threat to the status quo. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

That's because the United Daughters of the Confederacy got so powerful, they ended up being able to dictate what schools could teach their students.

Same, here in the Philippines we learn about African poetry and Black history

I hate it.

Personally, it can be worn by any woman of any color but I hate how non-black women especially white women use it as nothing but a silly little trend or a hairstyle that they created (looking at you, Kim. K). If I see a non-Chinese person wearing a traditional Chinese dress, I will feel represented but if they started wearing it to be popular or trendy, then what's the point of wearing a traditional dress. The same applies to this situation. It is hair but it's more than that. If you wanna wear it, cool but credit who created it and make sure you fucking respect them.

But if someone tells them it's ok, they will be ALL ears. 🙄

If it truly was "just hair" then black women wouldn't be getting fired from their jobs or sent home from school literally because of their hair. They know it's a bigger deal but to excuse themselves from their mistakes and fucking racism then they cry "oh it's just hair"

@@adam.n-steve No, it cannot be worn by any woman of color. It's like you missed the entire point of this video. Also, if you're Chinese (Asian) like you made it seem in your comment about feeling represented, you have *no* say in what someone can do with Black culture. Your opinion on absolutely anything that has to do with permitting the use of Black culture is irrelevant.

💗💗 thank you for learning I'm an American so perspective like these don't even come across my mind

@@loverrboyy2879 Yeah, our country is such a huge melting pot, yet for some reasons not everyone has come to accept that still.

i live in america but the area i live in is 91.1% white (literally that’s the official number) and i don’t get much exposure either so these videos are def very helpful

Wasn't Australia all Black before whites came and colonized it?? Btw, there is NOTHING "pure" about whiteness on the planet... they've done waaay too much to atone!

@@loverrboyy2879I’m from a small country in Central Europe (I grew up being part of the majority culture in an environment where the “wrong kind of white” could elicit racial abuse and even governmental discrimination, to give a little context). I also watch these videos. They are educational, offer me glimpses into different cultures and experiences. And maybe they will help me examine my own preconceived notions and how I interact with the world.

Thankyou

Omg It was always a question in the back of my mind as to why the majority of young girls I saw had shaved heads. 😳 that’s very upsetting, damn.

@Pingo it’s absurd isn’t it? and the thing is, nobody truly understands the source of that rule, yet the public schools insist on following it

Yhhhh ik!! I’m Ghanaian too I don’t live there, but I realised that all my cousins in Ghana had to have their hair cut... when I asked why even they couldn’t tell me :(

@@UnfilteredMay im half ghanaian and i always thought that since hairstyles in Africa are often used as a status symbols, schools required girls to keep their hair short to minimize class divide and bullying based on wealth. Kinda like school uniforms. I don't know if that's even true or if it is, if it actually works. But I think that girls should be allowed to wear their hair however they want. Forcing them to all wear the same clothes and have the same hairstyle kinda eliminates individuality and self expression. It's super sad

You hit the nail right on the head

Truly, wondered why I didn't find you sooner

I aspire to have my editing chops be more like hers like omg 😍 so good. All her content is so good

Yesssss 🙌🏾 💯 agree

Definitely. I’m a new sub

not at how jessi ripped of a black female artist for drip mv and snubbed her on ig when she confronted her about it

O damn that is a good point

So Ive beeen listening to Korean music for ten years and been hanging out with black ppl for 30 years. I dont really understand why Kpop fans are ok with black rappers rocking canerow and dreada but take issue when Asian rappers do it. I find Kpop fans to be some of the most racist ppl Ive ever met and its ironic considering theyre listening to Asian music. Why do ppl listen to Kpop music and then discriminate and be racist to Koreans? Just sad.

​@@army4chair345which artist did she rip off? The production? If she did the artiat can sue otherwise it is likely just inspired like most music and art is inspired.

​@@DarkAngel2512becuz when you're using a culture as an aesthetic, then it is deemed as cultural appropriation/cultural colonisation. u wouldn't understand if you dont do your research

word? people...

The audacity

The caucasity

Yare Yare Daze

Purple paper wig???🤨

Personally as a black american I see it as just hair? Because yk it grows out my head I don't think much of it is that bad I'm not sure

@@celinas7197 Well this “hair” has history

@@chenmae9747 as everything

@@valehuber2232 Where did you come from? No duh everything has history, but was I talking about everything or do you need to reread my comment?

I believe that one day black people will be able to wear their hair as they wish, and maybe when it will happen, non-blacks will be able to wear culturally black hairstyle. It's not "just hair" until it's perceived as 'just hair" by your manager or teacher or politician. If you terribly want dreadlocks somehow, put in the work. Defend black women, help them and act to make this world more welcoming of them. Fight for their rights and maybe just maybe one day it will be "just hair"

I was told by a guy that I liked, "I would definitely date you if you weren't black." The worst part about this was that HE was also black. Darker than me, even.

@@radioactive_baby0706 I’m so sorry you had to go through that people can be idiots, and how is he going to say that when he’s black too and darker than you, some guys are unbelievable

@@tysheriadorsey9934 it's called self hatred, low self esteem, insecurity, etc, etc.

@@exhalencee I don't feel any of these things only a little anxious at times but that's about it.

@@tysheriadorsey9934 i wasn't talking about you. i was replying to a comment about black boys who hate darker skinned black women, even when they are darker skinned themselves

@Ash Hegde Stop replying with these useless comments. You're not adding anything

I can relate

@@mariedit9935 ??? Yalls hair is the closest to theirs ???

@@yeeyeejuice5747 what?...

@@nevadaite Hispanic people hair is literally if not almost the same as in their hair is the beauty standard...so how is it not like white woman's it totally is

@@yeeyeejuice5747 Not really. Being latino doesn't mean any thing about how you look, its not a race. For example I have very very curly hair, like, not like the ones in shampoos commercials, similar at some point in the videos, specially in the front, in the back is more easy to deal. Always people asked me why I don't treat it well or like that. I still don't feel confident about it

🤢🤮 how does your teacher even still have their job ???!?🗣👏🏼

omg as a black girl who did theatre in a white neighborhood i felt this so deep, it almost made me cry I'm so sorry

Ugh this reminds me of how a high school near mine where the students were all wealthy white kids put on a production of West Side Story. High school theatre directors can be the worst.

Your teacher needs to get fired like for real I don’t play around with that b.s she’s a racist and I’m not here for it

I really hate almost every school project that has black people involved in it. It always endup in pure racism. Like in my school it was black people's day, the day where slavery ""ended"" in my country. For that they put a white girl to be the main topic, she was supposed to be Princess Isabell while all the others students were slavery. The problem is, it did not showed all the slevery fight, black and poc fight to make Isabell assign it, they just made her as a complete white savior, like if she was an angel that came to help black people, like if black people did nothing SHE freed them. When actually, she took YEARS to assign the end of slavery, my country was the LAST to end slavery and EVEN SO it continued, it did not had the same amount of cruelty but it continued. And not even gonna talk about the way they represent egypcians...

What's AFAB?

@@squidwardtentacles7144 assigned female at birth

your mom is wrong for that!

Typical black mom who has some internalized hatred for herself,taking it out on others. It’s really sad. I’ve heard a lot of sores of moms being disrespectful to their daughters and their own crowns in that regard and it’s heartbreaking...

Why not just say youre a black man instead of saying AFAB?

yeah and they're literally just a kid... they have no clue until someone rudely points it out to them

Tbh this happens a lot, not just about hair. "Youd be so pretty if you lost weight" even if you're at a healthy weight is a common one.

This happens everywhere. Not trying to get people to look away from the racism. But I do want to point out nowadays or maybe its always been like this people think it's okay to just have an opinion and tell people it like they think its special or something.

im so sorry :c

Black boys would also say this to me and other black girls in my school And I used to get so angry

So I used to have short hair and sometimes I would wear weave one time when I wore it at school some guys called me she man

Now everybody wears them

@@monie948 Exactly

I’ll make an exception 😤

@@Shanspeare XD

I love that for you. Keep finding ways to be yourself!!! Because you!!! Deserve!!! It!!!!

I'm so sorry you felt like this. I've always felt jealous of people with smooth black hair and considered dyeing my brown hair black

@@Shanspeare thank you love that for u too!

I'm sorry I just don't feel like this is the same ma because its not no one is checking for asian womens hair the way you felt was on you the way we felt was from other people constantly intervening in our culture to assert their privilege and dominance over people they once had in their talons

​@@yeeyeejuice5747 they said to an extent, and its also jus their personal experience so

In UK its not recent. We have so many black people in London near where I live that its normal to see anyone of any race with their hair in dreads or canerow.

It's possibly jealousy. I had an older black woman at my job years ago tell me that if she had her hair in braids like mine was at the time she wouldn't be taken seriously or professionally at work. Hers wasn't a mean comment but it made me see things from her perspective.

Internalized anti blackness is rampant

We are our own worst enemies at times

I get that from older generation black women too. My kids and I wear braids and twists. The comments are always about getting blow outs or straighten out hair. My daughter lives her curls. I like braids.

It's unfortunate but many of the elders in our community grew up embracing self hate that said straight hair is good and professional and natural is not. The so called "good hair" vs. "bad hair" narrative.

Wonderfully worded. Afro-Latina trinbagonian sister here and I completely agree.

This is very well worded. I'm a girl who is born and raised in West-Europe, and I am from African descent. I had a similar experience as you. I completely agree with your comment.

I agree 100%. I am a Caribbean American who grew up in a diverse city, and my hair was always appreciated. My views now are similar to yours.

If it's any comfort to us, it really doesn't matter. We will always be criticized for something whether it is our hair or anything else. If not our hair, it will always be something else they will find to point out. The Most High made us different and unique. Even the Messiah we have hair of wool like his.

I love that 🥺 thank you! 💜

As you should 😌

You’re very beautiful!

@Sese E this girl I thought was my friend in my freshman year was talking behind my back saying my hair couldn’t grow and that’s why i have box braids when in reality my hair was longer than her’s 💀

@Sese E You’re hair is beautiful length doesn’t matter. You shouldn’t care what ignorant people think

Not to mention that slave traders would shave their heads so they wouldn't be able to communicate with each other. Hairstyles sometimes showed whether they were married, how many kids they had, and more importantly which tribe they came from. It's quite sad how far the rabbit hole goes.

@@adamisgreatfightme it’s so sad that they were treated so badly and so cruelly. And yet people still deny that any of that affects black people today ☹️. Even though that trauma is carried throughout the generations

😔

smh ppl are sick

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

I just hugged you. I can relate. I once got joked at a black hair salon when I went for a perm and the beautian lined up 5 large jars of perm and a broom and announced to the salon that's what she needed to do my hair. I stopped going and have been in braids for 20 years and yes, I do my own hair. BTW, I see your profile pic and you're very pretty. I like your eyes. Stay strong, Queen 👑. From an old lady living in southern arizona.

I hope you just ignore opinions. People are casually cruel and can't mind their own damn business. My sister is similar... she's slowly learning to love her own hair, but still prefers her wigs. Our hair is lovely. I look at old pictures of African Americans and their hair and they did wonderful styles. We can do the same.

@@opaluni I was looking at a group of soldiers at my job and I saw the young black females sporting twists, locs, fro, braids. I was so proud! Then I remember the echoes of the generation before me that would call it beadybeads and nappy. They looked at natural in confusion, saying "why would you do that to your hair?". We just have to push past them and stay healthy and hold on to our uniqueness.

Your hair is beautiful

Youre so pretty in your pfp

"Imagine telling a Muslim woman that she's not allowed to wear her hijab to school, " They did that in France :S

@@punkykenickie2408 DID THEY REALLY WTF!!! Stop the world I wanna get off I hate it here.

@@accountforthepc373 it’s actually happening in a few countries, some places like Quebec refuse Muslims from certain jobs cuz of it. I just wanted to say hijab isn’t culture but religious. But I get ur point

im genuinely curious here, are there circumstances where “appreciating the culture” is a valid reason? im mestizo and personally would like to see more native (south) american culture in media and such, but could totally imagine how frustrating it would be to see it mistreated or misrepresented. i think a lot of peoples “its just hair” arguments are gut reaction to a misunderstanding due to lack of experience- the idea that nobody under *any* circumstances should ever wear a durag for ex because of race *feels* inherently wrong to somebody who doesnt have the experience of negative racial implications. it feels like a lot of people, blatantly or not, miss the reason why these things can be harmful when theyre treated like accessories and nothing else

Hello ,as long as non black people acknowledge the roots of the hairstyle , is it okay for them to wear the hairstyle? Is wearing one simply considered appropriation I'm asking because recently a kpop idol whose song was recently released recently apologized for wearing a certain kind of braids for cultural appropriation in her music video, when can someone wear them and when can they not?

Same new subscriber here 👋🏾

YES!!

thats kind of sad 😥

@@terejosh13 why?

I had this exact experience with my close friend he kept pointing out how cool my braids and different natural styles were and always wanted to watch me do my hair. I was so taken aback because of all the negativity I had gotten (having short “bad” hair and being called a boy all the time). It really does hit different

Sis, share your wattpad experiences with me, also I need some hair ideas you look beautiful in pfp

He probably wanted some of that kuch

same. and i’m british

@@kianaw.8096 You can say British white, bc there’s Asian British, black British etc

I used to want my hair a lighter color as well. You know what helped me embrace my dark colored hair? I watched dramas where the women had dark hair that was considered regal. So now whenever I think of dark hair, I see it as royalty

@@U_Ozone Period.

I'm white, and when I was in elementary school I used to go in the mirror and pull my eyes bc I thought they were so pretty like that, and I saw people with eyes like that (asians) and I was so jealous of them... beauty is in the eye of the beholder!! Love your individuality

I used to hate my dark hair and my roots (im from south america) and wiiished i was born as a blond american or european, bc we were conditioned to view everything from our lenguaje to our costums as not classy enough, in retrospective i view the way i felt about my country and my appearence and realize how important representation is, specially for a race that has suffered historically so much demage as black people, every young girl should have strong characters to look up to, and never grow up feeling like they are ugly

THIS

But it isnt your hair if its your weave. That isnt racism. Intent matters.

I'm so sorry, your hair looks beautiful😌

Why are you coming and share your experience here ?

@@queennzinga5988 because even if I had a bad experience it still is much better than a black person's experience and it also doesn't give me any right to wear box braids, dreads etc. I want people to understand that, especially when many defend Kim K for wearing those haorstyles.

stay strong girl, there are some horrible people who feel jealous or attacked by someone's hair i do hope your better now

@@mochitea5638 yess thank youu! I love my hair now and all types of curls. I hope everyone learns to embrace their unique beauty and love themselves for who they are!

idk if it helps but my school definitely went over slavery and the oppression of black people up until modern times. In my APUSH class we went over Jim Crow laws, brown v board of education, tulsa, black disenfranchisement, the Little Rock nine and told us the Civil War was about slavery. So there is hope!

tell them what you think about their hair. let them know you think their hair is beautiful. they look up to u as a big sister and take what you say to heart

It’s really not hard

commented this in p much the first five seconds but loved this video

I’m a type 4 (b &a) LSBW (2 Blk parents) too. I quit relaxing my hair a long time ago. I don’t do much with it though. Not into time-consuming hair routines. I felt the same way when I was relaxed. Spend as little time as possible. Right now, my hair is a mess and I’m going to go to the barber 💈 and get it cut down into a fade of something.

same, i have long 4c hair and a lot of people praise it but somehow can’t fathom the idea of dark skinned black people with the same hair.

Period bestie !

Same💆🏽‍♀️

so me too!!!! i felt free and it definitely made me embrace not only my hair but my blackness more.

THIS DOES NOT COMPARE THIS IS A CONVERSATION FOR BLACK WOMEN AND FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND

@@yeeyeejuice5747 ??? they're just sharing their own experience. people understand issues better if they can find something to relate to

@@yoshita4140 nah bullshit. this over inclusiveness is how black women get silenced in the first place

@@yeeyeejuice5747 thank you!

Start off by not putting white girls above u . Their hair being straight doesn’t make it perfect or better than yours.

I feel the same way & agree with everything you said. (Well, except that I don't think white people should feel like they need to apologize for having an opinion or wanting to be part of a conversation - but I get why you said that. I'm also white, but from a fairly large city.) It sounds like you have a great mom! There were students with natural African American hair at my school when I was growing up, so it looks normal to me, and I agree that box braids are really pretty.

Thank you for taking the time to educate yourself, if only more people were like you

I feel like anyone who doesn’t have bone straight hair, has some sort of story. But a black girl with super kinky hair guaranteed has something she went through with her hair

It's due to colorism and antiblackness which is world wide due to colonialism, the justification for race based chattel slavery, imperialism. Colorism being that the "closer to whiteness" one is physically, they are better. E.g. wanting straighter hair, paler skin.

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@Tori depends on the hair, mine is 4a/4b, so just condition it, comb from ends to roots in sections, detangle before washing and style accordingly

White people used many things to justify slavery, which religion included. Simultaneously, it's not a Christian thing per say as many non-White Christians existed before and even now, after. It's a white supremacy thing.