Not supposed to have 4 type hair

[dyh080]

Most of you are either too young to remember or were not even born yet but I remember hearing a promient black leader/minister in the late 80s or early '90s say that we weren't meant to have what we on this board refer to as type 4 hair.

He said our hair was supposed to be like that of which most newborn blacks. Unfortunately I do not recall him explaining why blacks' hair changed.

Funny, I also don't recall anyone questioning him.

Also, his "organization" was promoting a shampoo and conditioner of which he said if you use it, your hair will revert back to what it was designed to be. ( It may have been a ploy to sell his products but I really don't think so...he had/has a lot of other things going on). By the way, they no longer sell those products.


I realize this sounds bazarre but I really DID hear this. Any thoughts?

 

[Solitude]

I've heard some craziness like that before...like, we have this texture of hair because we did something bad, like sinning or something & if we never sinned, our hair would stay soft like a newborn baby.

I am a religious person, but I do not believe there is any truth to that at all. It makes absolutely no sense. There are also nonsense theories about why we have such dark skin...won't get into that.

 

[Aireen]

I think it sounds like crap with no scientific evidence to support his theory. If that's the case then my skin colour should be more high yellow instead of the brown shade it is now. I know I'm being facetious but those are my thoughts.

 

[Krystle~Hime]

Since when a minister is a trichologist ? ¬¬

I think it was just an commercial argument for make people buying his revolutionary products..

 

[Junebug D]

I've heard something like this before. The explanation I heard was that our hair just turns type 4 because our mothers don't take proper care of it after birth. What a load of crock.

 

[southerncitygirl]

ahhhh the many ways that white people have brainwashed us.....first stripping us of our culture and turning us against each other (divide& conquer) then force feed us christianity...smh. it sounds like he's trying to talk that ish about that mormaons talk about black people being cursed by god that's why we're dark and have curly/kinky hair....i believe this is/was called the curse of ham?

 

[Napp]

please tell me this is a joke

 

[Krystle~Hime]

But you know, we aren't even meant to be African !!! we are not meant to have this huh dark skin, don't be complexed and lemme introduce my brand new cream which is gonna reveal your real baby pale skin and being yourself ................
seriously

 

[Aireen]

ahhhh the many ways that white people have brainwashed us.....first stripping us of our culture and turning us against each other (divide& conquer) then force feed us christianity...smh. it sounds like he's trying to talk that ish about that mormaons talk about black people being cursed by god that's why we're dark and have curly/kinky hair....i believe this is/was called the curse of ham?

I don't get it, if this is true why do certain religious groups only pick on Black people? Natives and Asians look different too, do they pick on them saying that they're cussed and doomed until the end of time?

 

[southerncitygirl]

I don't get it, if this is true why do certain religious groups only pick on Black people? Natives and Asians look different too, do they pick on them saying that they're cussed and doomed until the end of time?

chile now you know don't nobody want us nappy headed heauxes and we are the bottom of the trash heap......it truly disgusts me and most of us believe the hype

 

[Aireen]

chile now you know don't nobody want us nappy headed heauxes and we are the bottom of the trash heap......it truly disgusts me and most of us believe the hype

You know, it's really what you believe; in my mind black people are beautiful and everyone's trying to cop our swag.

 

[dyh080]

I've heard some craziness like that before...like, we have this texture of hair because we did something bad, like sinning or something & if we never sinned, our hair would stay soft like a newborn baby.

I am a religious person, but I do not believe there is any truth to that at all. It makes absolutely no sense. There are also nonsense theories about why we have such dark skin...won't get into that.

Totally agree.

 

[curlyninjagirl]

Sounds like the biggest load of crap!!

 

[eajaye2u]

I know who you are talking about. But I wont mention his name here. He is still quite revered by some of our hair sisters. They re too young to have heard him say these things. Don't want to insult anyone. However, he is not a christian and he is well respected in the black community. His "brand" did not take off. That's why the products are not out there now.
Peace

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[dyh080]

I know who you are talking about. But I wont mention his name here. He is still quite revered by some of our hair sisters. They re too young to have heard him say these things. Don't want to insult anyone. However, he is not a christian and he is well respected in the black community. His "brand" did not take off. That's why the products are not out there now.
Peace

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Thanks....I didn't want to say his name either. I can tell by your response that you know exactly who I am talking about.

 

[changingSeasons]

^ lol dang I wanna know!

 

[naijamerican]

I know who you are talking about. But I wont mention his name here. He is still quite revered by some of our hair sisters. They re too young to have heard him say these things. Don't want to insult anyone. However, he is not a christian and he is well respected in the black community. His "brand" did not take off. That's why the products are not out there now.
Peace

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I'mma need for you or anyone else who knows to come out and spill it! Who is it? I want to know! I don't care how revered he is if he's spitting hot garbage nonsense!

Please?

 

[beana]

All I wanna know is if his hair returned to its "baby" state after using his products

 

[guyanesesista]

I wonder if he was using his own product. Or if his family was. We weren't meant to have this hair? Well his product was not meant to take off. How bout that?

 

[Kash]

I know who you are talking about. But I wont mention his name here. He is still quite revered by some of our hair sisters. They re too young to have heard him say these things. Don't want to insult anyone. However, he is not a christian and he is well respected in the black community. His "brand" did not take off. That's why the products are not out there now.
Peace

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hmmmmm, i'm thinking Louis Farrakhan...

 

[PerplexingComplex]

How does that even make sense?
What about babies that are born bald?

 

[Aireen]

How does that even make sense?
What about babies that are born bald?

Then apparently those babies are supposed to be bald all through life.

 

[Theresamonet]

I know who you are talking about. But I wont mention his name here. He is still quite revered by some of our hair sisters. They re too young to have heard him say these things. Don't want to insult anyone. However, he is not a christian and he is well respected in the black community. His "brand" did not take off. That's why the products are not out there now.
Peace

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OMG! I can't stand when posters do this...It drives me crazy. :skitzo:

What is his name? Please.

 

[DarkAngell]

sounds like an inferiority complex to me.....

 

[naijamerican]

hmmmmm, i'm thinking Louis Farrakhan...

I have tried googling his name and "hair products" to no avail. Honestly, this doesn't seem like something he would say. What the OP said sounds like something a self-hating Negro would say , and let's just say that LF could never be accused of being so. Never that!

 

[theLovelyStyle]

I havent heard it but its no surprise to me. Someone will always use religion to make a buck.

 

[BlackMasterPiece]

Good ole slave master's Christianity working its magic once again.....I can't believe so many Black folks believe the foolery that comes outta these preachers mouths.

Its pure self-hating ignorance and I have no desire to even know the man that said it.

 

[Junebug D]

Elijah Muhammad thought that the "original" Black people had slim noses and straight hair.. google that. But he wasn't around in the 80s, so it must be one of his direct followers.

 

[naijamerican]

Good ole slave master's Christianity working its magic once again.....I can't believe so many Black folks believe the foolery that comes outta these preachers mouths.

Its pure ignorance and I have no desire to even know the man that said it.

The person who is alleged to have said this is not a Christian. He could be a minister in another religion. Even if he is Christian, not all of them preach foolishness. Some of them do (and that's a topic for another thread in a different forum) but I am not entirely certain that religion can be implicated here. Foolishness and sheer idiocy are what's at work with this gentleman, underscored by the fact that only a simpleton would invoke God into a weak, pitiful argument just to sway people to his side. Just my opinion.

 

[EllePixie]

Well I thought that Elijah Muhammad's followers said that black folks without kinky hair were tainted by the white man?

I need to know who this is...it's so far fetched that I MUST KNOW. This is like that time this dude told me that he was born with good hair and then he got a haircut when he was 1yo and then it turned kinky and bad.