OK, let me start some mess in here.
1) The MAJORITY of people on this earth are of African decent.
2) Too many people of color act like African Americans are the only ones that are considered black.
3) Many African Americans will not consider others black if their great grand daddy wasn't working on some plantation in South Carolina.
4) White people still call the mixed or biracial people black straight out in your face or behind your back.
5) You *may* get a pass from white people if you are biracial and look white enough ie, finer features, silkier hair; but they are still calling you black.
6) The African Slave trade wasn't a direct line cruise ship from Africa to America....it went to Haiti, DR, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama etc. So if you are from those places, as I am, then sorry to break the news...but you are BLACK. And black people from wherever need to start owning that. Calling yourself something else ain't gonna make you something else...that AFRICANO is in you and reveals himself all the time.
I had to bounce around to different groups because of all of the disharmony and division. I encountered many *people of color* who weren't calling themselves black and were feeling excluded from the natural movement because their hair was less coarse or less kinky or had the looser curl patterns. Some 4xyz people are mad at that and think the other hair textures or curl types did not have issues or did not *have it so bad*. So you got all these black people saying well later for y'all and go linking up with the white chicks. All the division is exactly what the white supremacy system wants. If the blacks can't unite on any level then they (whites) never have to fear being over thrown and losing their power.
I'm not hating on no white people with my thoughts or feelings when I say...they need to stay in their lane. That girl Water Lily has nice curls and all, but she had no business thinking that she was like those previously featured on Curly Nikki. And like so many before her, Nikki simply sold out. Call it business, call it whatever but damn near all the bloggers that threw their hat in on the subject, sold out too. White people have plenty of magazines, websites, groups and the like to discuss their hair woes. In my not so humble opinion, it was a calculated move. Their is an unprecedented movement in the hair care industry where black business is edging out white corporate conglomerates...you better believe they don't like it. They don't want to fight small black companies for shelf space. So you get white people in the mix with the " a curl is a curl" mantra and all the "hair is hair" sayings and soon everyone will be buying all the Loreal and Alberto Culver products again the way they want it.
if the bloggers want to be inclusive with white women, then let them but we BLACK people should unite and leave them behind and let them learn how much white women are willing to support them. This kind of crap will go on and on and on until ALL blacks stand together on the principle that blacks need to own and have something of our own. When we are a strong united front, then at that point anybody else can be let in, but for now black MUST COME FIRST!!!!
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I can't imagine going up to the table and asking ANY of them about those products.
