my hair looks like a puertorican????????

[asummertyme]

thats what a friend of mine said to me yesterday, i wore my hair out and she said wow your hair is so pretty like a PuertoRican's.....is that a compliment?
I am a Afro-Latina...but i dunno why some people associate so called " good hair " with other races with a less kinkier texture? When we we learn that AA hair is beautiful???

 

[caralexis2005]

i get this all the time too! i feel its really ignorant. Black hair comes in so many diff. textures without any addition from racial mixture.

i just think that people associate shiny straight hair with non-black people. It doesn't help that so many black women abuse their hair and makes it look like this myth is true. But its not.

I usually just say "Is that a good thing?" when people say you have hair like "non-black person". Because I see people from all races who have jacked up hair.

 

[bellydancer]

man.... i got my hair straightened and my roommate said "you look indian. i'm so proud of you!" I wasn't very happy about that comment. I still don't know what to say about it. She has this really messed up way of thinking so i'm just going to leave that alone.

 

[bellydancer]

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caralexis2005 said:
Because I see people from all races who have jacked up hair.

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TRUE TRUE TRUE!!!!!!!!

 

[Supergirl]

I wore my hair down at school last year and one of my 1st graders told me that I was Mexican. I know they don't know any better though. Now, these grown butt women that are making these comments to you guys should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[nebula24]

That statement truly shows her ignorance!!! My best friend is Puerto Rican and we both have the same type of hair - 4a/b.

 

[asummertyme]

exactly ladies!!!y r black women targeted for all the ugly hair comments???
i guess the subject still needs alotta TLC, it has been beaten into our heads for such a long time, its gonna take a while to unlearn and love our texture

 

[melodee]

I am also Black and Latina. When my hair is flat ironed and straightened, I get all the comments "you're spanish, right". But when I'm in need of a perm or my hair is air dried or in braids the comments wear down. It's the same ol' me under the hair.

BTW, asummertyme, where does your family originate from?

 

[Purtygurly]

I get that all of the time too, and I have noooo type of Spanish blood in me.

I can't really say anthing either, because my features are a bit ... muddled

I don't take it as an insult, how can I get mad if someone happens to have a touch of ignorance. Am I going to get MAD at them for being dumb or misinformed about black people's hair?

I just let it slide...

 

[Rosalinde]

People have mistaken me for all kind of races. They can’t believe that I am not mixed. My father and mother are both African American. So many people are unaware that slave ships made stops in many Latin countries before arriving in American. And once in America, we all know what happened to slave women. Our DNA is a combination of many different cultures. Therefore, that explains the different shades of our skin, and texture of our hair.

My family taught this to me at an early age in life. The only way to stop these myths about African American women is to teach our children their history, and they will stop this foolishness of thinking everybody (other cultures) else hair is better than their own.

I hope

 

[asummertyme]

i know ladies ur right....i cantwait until it changes!!!
i also wish that more women of color could find places like LHCF, and learn how to care for there hair no matter what texture...
BTW melodee, i am AA/Boriqua