i'm absolutely lovin this juicy bun in your siggy.... looks so much like longhairdontcare2011
Thank you! best comparison ever
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i'm absolutely lovin this juicy bun in your siggy.... looks so much like longhairdontcare2011
Will people hate me for bumping this? I think there's some good info in this thread.
ETA: I'm am 100% - I've heard "rumors" of white ancestors but I aint seen em, ain't met em, can't call no names or their relationship. Both sets of grandparents are black. I'm light skinned but I have straight 4b hair, not even any 4a. So I qualify!!!
I can't respond to the post either, I'm half Nigerian and half American and the American side of my family is black with some Taiwanese from my great-great Grandmother. Oh well.erplexed
I just wanted to say that not all Africans are 4b, and by Africans I do mean Africans. And since most (somewhere around or more than 80%) African Americans have some European ancestry as a result of slavery... its not like they're 100% anything. Hair isn't directly correlated with skin color. There are white folks walking around with hair we could classify as 4b and coarse. There are "mixed" people with nappier hair than those who claim they are 100% black. I don't think its fair to use "race" as a determining factor when clearly a lot of people can be more than half white and still have that kind of hair. Its about genetics. There are black children (and dark ones) walking around with blue eyes because their great-great-great-great grandfater was white and their great grandmomma was half or something. There are white people popping up "nappy" hair who find out they're not 100% white as well. There is no way to be able to determine someone's hair type based on "race" and there is no way to determine someone's race based on hair type. Nobody really knows exactly what they are these days, especially when not everyone in Africa is 100% anymore either. So why not just ask if any 4bs with coarse hair have maintained length? There are plenty, and it isn't impossible.
ETA--- BTW: I do get where you were going with the thread and no offense seriously to anyone, I just wanted to point the above out. I do get what kind of hair you're talking about, I just thought it woudl be easier to ask if folks had 4b hair, thats all.
Ahh, I remember this thread. I secretly really liked it. I was really struggling with my hair back then and some of the responses were inspirational (if you could find them digging through the arguments). At the time I was still very skeptical.
I have a great grandfather who was supposedly half native american and he and some of his siblings (they lived to be really old so I actually met them as a child) did have silky looser textured/long hair. But other than that, no mixing that I know of (sooo far back, but I guess that takes me out of the OP's target category still). All of my immediate generations of family tho have 4b hair and NO ONE has been past SL unless they had dredlocks. So it took me a while to believe that our hair type could be long without dreding.
Now that I am natural, letting go of heat, and wearing my hair up, my hair is healthy SL and I'm very confident I will be APL this year which will be longer than its ever been in my life.
Ok I has a confused so please don't stone me LOL. I know the long hair as a child part excludes me, but all 4 of my grandparents had a biracial grandparent, would you still consider that as mixed?
LOL! I didn't think so either but everyone has different opinions on it which is why I asked.
Damn did you even read her first post at the beginning of her thread?
Some people really need to go back to kindergarden....
In addition, just b/c one may consider themselves to have 4b hair doesn't necessarily mean their hair grows as slow as someone with 100% African hair.
I really wish people who don't fall in the category just keep it moving b/c they are ruining the thread for those of us who also had this question and would like to know the answer as well... Sheesh!
Le Papillon And just because someone is 100% African doesn't necessarily mean that they have 4b hair or slow growing hair. While we're clearing up stereotypes and all.
I'm so confused
If someone talks about how they are mixed with Indian or something you get a 200 page thread about how most folks aren't mixed, etc. etc. and those who say they are probably aren't, etc. etc.
But when someone says where are the 100% black ladies at....the whole first page is folks giving her a hard time?
I just want somebody to answer the question.
Thank you ladies on the second page for answer the questions.