What is it?
It does annoy me sometimes depending on how it's used. I don't like when it is used in a condescending tone of by someone who feels that my pride/blackness depends on the natural state of my hair. In that case I just feel like saying cut the drama. At other times it can be funny.
It does annoy me sometimes depending on how it's used. I don't like when it is used in a condescending tone of by someone who feels that my pride/blackness depends on the natural state of my hair. In that case I just feel like saying cut the drama. At other times it can be funny.
Very well said. I think a lot of women wouldn't mind the word so much, but the way that it is used is what bothers them.
Or maybe the existence and usage of the term awakens the harsh reality check that some women don't want to face. I know what fiendish relaxer ways look like because I was there. I also recognize when I'm projecting my former habits on somebody else as well.... but then just watching and listening to what people say about their (over)dependency on relaxers parallels the ways in which people "struggle" with narcotic dependencies.
By the time folk get to LHCF, it's like a recovery zone.... and hearing "creamy crack" is like when a hit dog cries the loudest...it's hitting a sore spot. But there is hope.
it annoys me. at first i thought it was funny. then i started to really think about it...
why CRACK? isn't that the SAME drug that "certain people" used for genocide (for lack of a better word right now) in the black community in the 80s and 90s?
i guess it is like the "n" word...take a negative term and turn it around into a term of "endearment" or as some kind of joke...
i wonder who "injected" that term into our community anyway
i'm just wondering...
thanks for the replies, y'all
Or maybe the existence and usage of the term awakens the harsh reality check that some women don't want to face. I know what fiendish relaxer ways look like because I was there. I also recognize when I'm projecting my former habits on somebody else as well.... but then just watching and listening to what people say about their (over)dependency on relaxers parallels the ways in which people "struggle" with narcotic dependencies.
By the time folk get to LHCF, it's like a recovery zone.... and hearing "creamy crack" is like when a hit dog cries the loudest...it's hitting a sore spot. But there is hope.
but just b/c you relax, does that make you a relaxer-feind?
i don't think so. *shrugs*
but just b/c you relax, does that make you a relaxer-feind?
i don't think so. *shrugs*
You know, now that you mention all that, that's exactly what relaxers did in the black community.
I don't know about some women, but i didn't come here for recovery. My hair has never been a disasterous state. I came to learn about better care for my relaxed tresses. I don't see why that term should apply to all. Just because you were addicted to it, doesn't mean others are. That said, i've only been relaxed for 4 years, but i've never suffered in any way from it. It is just easier for me. Why is that so hard to believe?
I don't know about some women, but for me, relaxers are easier, and thats all there is to it.
Really?erplexed
You know, now that you mention all that, that's exactly what relaxers did in the black community.
IMHO, It does if you relax as soon as you get the slightest new growth. It does if you feel bad about yourself when you're overdue.
If you ever said, "I need a relaxer," then you might be a fiend.
You know, now that you mention all that, that's exactly what relaxers did in the black community.
What she said.
I don't relax my hair but the first time I heard of Creamy Crack, I thought it was funny. Still do. Some of us are addicted to the stuff. Can't get enough. Gotta get those roots right.
But at the end of the day, it is just a term. Not even close to the N word.
Really? It left thousands of children mother/fatherless not to mention placing a terrible distress on our community? Or maybe I missed the part about it silently creating physical, mental, and emotional disabilities within our children?
Boy. I sure didn't learn about that in school. You learn something everyday.
Please tell me you're playing.
If you ever got a headache because you had newgrowth, you might be addicted. I know I used to get headaches.