"Your hair so Nappy...

[Eisani]

well this is how you know its a "black" joke (someone black came up with it joke)...

okay so let me break it down for ya. I don't know if you ever been to the "hood" before but that’s what the police do to black folks in the "hood". They roll up in their police car and park. For example, like a group of black boys could just be hanging out (in a group walking or standing in front of a house) and the police will "bother" them by parking and intimidating them by just sitting in the car and watching them like they already guilty or they are waiting for something to pop off just cause they black. "Roll up and Park"

Did that make any sense? I hope I explained it well enough.

ETA: 'Boys in the hood' movie is a great example.

BB any time you have to break a joke down like a fraction...forget it

that reallyy sucks im spanish but my hair is really coarse not like ur regular spanish girl and my friends make fun off me all the time in public not in public..... ive gotten soo use to it i dont even say anything back

I'll be nice, but can't promise others will follow suit.

 

[CurlyMoo]

we clown each other too much.......

but it's just how we do

I used to have a deep fear , that I would be up in the club, with my big poofy reverting press and someone would yell out 'get a Relaxer B&%$!" and the whole crowd would roar with laughter at me

I have this same fear when I walk down the street with my hair in an afro.

 

[SelahOco]

I'm talking about black people making rude comments to another black people about their hair in front of non black people thinking its funny or okay to do.

He told the other black boy his hair was nappy its like the police, it rolls up (natural hair curls) and parks (I guess the idea that natural hair does not move, so it’s stiff or does not move). He thought he was funny but embarrassed the boy in front of white people.

 

[SelahOco]

And all the time I was thinking the lady drinking the water was you

And all the time I was thinking it was a guy!!!!

 

[BostonMaria]

I didn't get the joke either but laughed anyway

I think some people just like to embarrass others for their own amusement

 

[antisocial]

And all the time I was thinking it was a guy!!!!

I watched one of his/her youtube videos and still don't know what it is.

It's Pat!

 

[MangaManiac]

Stupid may be stupid, but we don't live in a world of just black people. And sorry to say it many other ethnicities still believe in many of the stereotypes and negatively self-projected images of black people.

While I want to say I don't care about the audience I can't. When we're living in an ideal world THEN I'll just brush this off as people being stupid. But until then, in reality, things like this do make us look bad and it's something we need to take action against.

Just MHO...

 

[Bene]

Kinda off topic, but I remember a few years ago I was watching an informercial. It was for a hair product, and Debbie Allen was the celebrity spokesperson, and the product was some sort of conditioner/straightener (I'm not sure exactly what it was). She brought her daughter (about 12-14 years old) along.

Anyway, Debbie Allen starts going on and on about how unmanageable her daughter's hair is and how frustrating it is to try and tame it, while her daughter stood there quietly. And all I could think was: How embarrassing?! That poor girl, an adolescent, going through the most awkward years of her life and her mother is on tv pretty much telling the world how bad her daughter's hair is. I was mortified for her

 

[beans4reezy]

Kinda off topic, but I remember a few years ago I was watching an informercial. It was for a hair product, and Debbie Allen was the celebrity spokesperson, and the product was some sort of conditioner/straightener (I'm not sure exactly what it was). She brought her daughter (about 12-14 years old) along.

Anyway, Debbie Allen starts going on and on about how unmanageable her daughter's hair is and how frustrating it is to try and tame it, while her daughter stood there quietly. And all I could think was: How embarrassing?! That poor girl, an adolescent, going through the most awkward years of her life and her mother is on tv pretty much telling the world how bad her daughter's hair is. I was mortified for her

Yes, I vaguely remember Debbie Allen pimpin' some hair straightener a few years back.

 

[Bene]

Yes, I vaguely remember Debbie Allen pimpin' some hair straightener a few years back.

I just asked someone about this, because he was watching it with me, to see if maybe he remembered the name of the product. His response "I don't know, maybe Nappa?"

He's a fool

 

[Solitude]

That's not why. I hear white folks calling each other pasty all the time, but somehow, someway, I don't feel compelled to ask them stupid stuff about their skin.

I will not take responsibility for the fact that they ask stupid questions.

Right. Sounds like regular ole "ranking." I grew up in a diverse area, and people of all races rank on each other. Not that serious.

 

[delray712000]

oh i get it alright. the first time i transitioned to natural i was head usher at me church. you would think that the people in the church would support you because you are basically going back to the way God made your hair. Deaconess said that i needed a perm and did not care who heard. the next Sunday she said you need to put some carrot oil on your edges cuz they are just falling out. the next Sunday she said when you gone let me do your hair cuz you need it and your daughter too.

I told her that i know how to perm and hot comb my hair but i am transitioning. it was so embarrassing because everyone is looking and laughing and you just know that they all wanted me to look like them with straight hair. so her husband tops the cake "i did not even see any hair on your head" my hair was not that short but he was being the comedian so he could generate laughs.erplexed

there i was trying to press my hair so i would be excepted and then crisis in my family came and i felt i needed a perm because i could not deal with the crisis and constantly keep my hair straight to stop the jokes. later i left the church and i am 17 months post now.

i should have gone to another church and stayed natural because i would have some serious progress by now.

 

[glamazon386]

The joke was funny but he didn't have to air dirty laundry like that. There is a time and place for everything - even if he was just clowning.

 

[newbiemom]

Children nowadays have no respect or common sense of what and where is appropriate conversation. I don't have a problem with him saying that in front of white people if those white people were his friends but to be rude and beligerent in public is a nono.

 

[Southernbella.]

Stupid may be stupid, but we don't live in a world of just black people. And sorry to say it many other ethnicities still believe in many of the stereotypes and negatively self-projected images of black people.

While I want to say I don't care about the audience I can't. When we're living in an ideal world THEN I'll just brush this off as people being stupid. But until then, in reality, things like this do make us look bad and it's something we need to take action against.

Just MHO...

I used to feel that way, but I got sick of carrying that yoke. Life's too short to be worrying about others' opinions, especially since so many of them don't want to believe otherwise.

They don't get all upset that racist white people make them look bad (and they really should ). They are footloose and fancy free while we're constantly on the guard to make sure we don't embarrass the race.

I believe in doing right and living well, but for me, not for white folks. I refuse to let them have that much power of me.

 

[HeavenlySkies]

Wow lol the other day, I was taking my clients to the movies and this lil girl -had to b 15 or 16, and another little girl, same age but with a sewn in, were waiting outside the theatre to get tickets. Some boy wanted to get the girl with the sewn ins number. He says to her "I like ur hair, it's so nice and long" girl says thankyou and smiles it off. What does the friend say? "N!gg@, dat ain't her hair! She got a weave!" Loud as all get out. I was embarassed for the girl. Now ignorance is ignorance no matter what color. But when she started yelling, every single white person in the line turned around with a look of disgust. It was a mess!

lmao her "friend" was a hater!​

 

[andromeda]

Kinda off topic, but I remember a few years ago I was watching an informercial. It was for a hair product, and Debbie Allen was the celebrity spokesperson, and the product was some sort of conditioner/straightener (I'm not sure exactly what it was). She brought her daughter (about 12-14 years old) along.

Anyway, Debbie Allen starts going on and on about how unmanageable her daughter's hair is and how frustrating it is to try and tame it, while her daughter stood there quietly. And all I could think was: How embarrassing?! That poor girl, an adolescent, going through the most awkward years of her life and her mother is on tv pretty much telling the world how bad her daughter's hair is. I was mortified for her

I think it was Rio.

The bold is wrong on so many levels:
endorsing a ham product
using your child to sell a product
mocking your child and her god-given texture in the process
as you mentioned, the added vulnerability of an adolescent child
i could go on...

 

[Optimus_Prime]

^^^ I thought the relaxer was Copa. Maybe she did both? (shrug)
I have a bad sense of humor and I also know that spanish ppl come from spain, so I'm off to see what else is poppin in the ot forums.

 

[yaya24]

oh i get it alright. the first time i transitioned to natural i was head usher at me church. you would think that the people in the church would support you because you are basically going back to the way God made your hair. Deaconess said that i needed a perm and did not care who heard. the next Sunday she said you need to put some carrot oil on your edges cuz they are just falling out. the next Sunday she said when you gone let me do your hair cuz you need it and your daughter too.

I told her that i know how to perm and hot comb my hair but i am transitioning. it was so embarrassing because everyone is looking and laughing and you just know that they all wanted me to look like them with straight hair. so her husband tops the cake "i did not even see any hair on your head" my hair was not that short but he was being the comedian so he could generate laughs.erplexed

there i was trying to press my hair so i would be excepted and then crisis in my family came and i felt i needed a perm because i could not deal with the crisis and constantly keep my hair straight to stop the jokes. later i left the church and i am 17 months post now.

i should have gone to another church and stayed natural because i would have some serious progress by now.

Some of these recent church stories really have me like erplexed

 

[andromeda]

^^^ I thought the relaxer was Copa. Maybe she did both? (shrug)
I have a bad sense of humor and I also know that spanish ppl come from spain, so I'm off to see what else is poppin in the ot forums.

You're right. Just did a quick web search and it says she did Copa in '00, so that's probably the one Bene is referring to. I remember hearing on NC that she had done one for Rio, which was back in the 80s.

 

[kinkycotton]

really! the content of refrence in the joke is very clear! lol

!! That's exactly what my hair look like when it's "naked". Too bad he has no idea how versatile natural hair can be but since I do I'm starting to become more comfortable with being me.

He just mirrored what he thought everyone else was thinking and tried to seperate himself in the process. Please, most white ppl I've met loves kinky hair or just don't give a damn.

 

[Rain20]

Thanks for breaking the joke down BB. I really didnt get the police part either. I was thinking "why would they just park?" I did get the roll up part though.