I Am Not My Hair by India.Arie

[Nunya]

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If someone is going for a straightened hair style, ofcourse they are not going to want curly roots. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70392-silly.gif[/img]

Just like someone who's dyed their hair, they don't want their natural colour showing...

So they go for touch ups...

Black people were straightening their hair long before they met white people who had naturally straight hair. For these black folk, straightening their hair was no indication of deeper psychological issues.

They recognised the awesome diversity and complexity of their hair and they revelled in it... in trying out something new...

If someone now feels that they must wear their hair straight, it should be taken with the same grace of someone who feels they must wear their hair low, locked, plaited etc.

*I* am not my hair. Thank God.

[Seveen]

Re: I Am Not My Hair by India.Arie

I just love this essay by Alice Walker - This was a talk given on Founders' Day, April 11, 1987, at Spelman College in Atlanta

Eventually I knew precisely what hair wanted: it wanted to grow, to be itself, to attract lint, if that was its destiny, but to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was. What do you think happened? (Other than that I was now able, as an added bonus, to comprehend Bob Marley as the mystic his music always indicated he was.) The ceiling at the top of my brain lifted; once again my mind (and spirit) could get outside myself. I would not be stuck in restless stillness, but would continue to grow. The plant was above the ground!

Oppressed Hair Puts A Ceiling on The Brain

[tsophra]

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[img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] waiee

tap chat fawt (yeah..baby..finally got to use that [img]/forums/images/graemlins/bannana_purple.gif[/img])dat deh arguement no come yet [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

you know darn well black peeps nuh like dem natural hair

you know darn well there's a difference between those tribal hairstyles and the western influenced ones and if we love the complexity and diversity so much.. how come we run gu remove it ASAP? .

Considering our history and the environment we live in its no wonder we have these issues..but nuh act like dem nuh exist [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70388-shameonyou.gif[/img]

[Nunya]

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Who said they don't exist? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70392-silly.gif[/img] What I am saying is, yuh cyaa si de whole a wi an say de whole a wi have identity issues.

I don't. And I wear my hair straightened.

And if we allowed our hair to remain the way we were born with it, then we'd not be maximizing its complexity, its diversity, its changeability.

I don't look at a dreadlocked person and think that person is more intouch with their true selves than I am. Cause I know me. And I know that I am not my hair.

[kia027]

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In seveen's link, I noticed an article written by Sharon Harvey Rosenberg.. I clicked on it as it related to natural hair & the surname intrigued me. In my travels about town when I do see interracial couples (black woman, non black man) I am seeing many of these women with natural hair..

just something i have been noticing for a while

[Seveen]

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In seveen's link, I noticed an article written by Sharon Harvey Rosenberg.. I clicked on it as it related to natural hair & the surname intrigued me. In my travels about town when I do see interracial couples (black woman, non black man) I am seeing many of these women with natural hair..

just something i have been noticing for a while

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that was me - dreads and his hair was bone straight - he loved to point out to folks that i had dreadlocks - not braids - intriguing [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70402-thinking.gif[/img]

[kia027]

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he was proud of ur locks? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Wish he could get some locks too? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[tsophra]

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I don't know about "been in touch wit true selves" what the heck does that mean?

I am talking about our inability to appreciate ourselves.

Its not about maximising nutten..its about..changing..hiding ..disguising

if its about diversity..why don't we switch back an forth..you know..strait one day..kinky the next? How come all these attempts to make it permanently strait? Even when di dang ting bruk of wi hair and bunn up wi scalp wi still a dweet.

maximising.. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/704555_dwl.gif[/img] a dead

[Nunya]

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~lol~

Yuh flippin well know whe mi a say, yuh jus a try provoke me... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[tsophra]

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mi knoe sey yu juss nuh waan bow to the mystical super consciousness of de locked sisterood [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]..is aight doe [img]/forums/images/graemlins/bannana_purple.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/bannana_purple.gif[/img]

[ColeS]

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Mi a get mi dreads soon soon a nuh...

But yuh know what it all cum dung to? - yuh haffi learn fi bi comfortable inna yuh natural state first before yuh can be comfortable inna yuh "straightened" one ... and most people just do it backwuds, like miself.

And if yuh know seh yuh can be comfortable both ways, then yuh conquer it all and yuh is definately nat yuh hair.

But like MG - mi nuh sure if mi too buy it eeda. It sound as if shi using a "excuse" and shi might feel seh becaw shi put it inna sang, then people wi accept it. If you dont care, why sing about it or put it out there? \o/