chicacanella
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Her son's friend comes in and has wavy hair and it is wet from the snow/rain and she's like, I like your hair cause he was brushing it. Then she says to her son, "X, why can't you do your hair like that?" I am like, I can't believe this mess. This woman also has wavy hair is in her 40's, how can she not know by now that black people have different hair textures. I mean, that comment was so "to the left." Perhaps I am looking at it from a LHCF perspective but she seems a little naive about textures.
For instance, when she was 12, my grandmothers just put her hair in two big pig tails and they would fall down easily. She trys doing the same to her daughter and said, "I used to wear my hair like this when I was 12." Umm, are you forgetting that your daughter's hair texture isn't the same as your texture. I'm talking after the wash, she would just try to brush it and put it in pig tails.
Then she told my cousin who has a mixture of 3c/4a hair that some people's hair wasn't meant to be long. The girl's hair is barely to her neck.
Then she called one of her daughters with 4a hair, "rough" but the one that looks like the girl from My Wife and Kids gets the more positive comments. "Yeah, so and so hair is sandy brown, kind of reddish, very fine."
Yes, these are the dynamics found in a black household. Light hair/dark hair, nappy hair/wavy hair, light skin/dark skin. No wonder people come out as screwed up as they do. I'm still shocked I witnessed this.
For instance, when she was 12, my grandmothers just put her hair in two big pig tails and they would fall down easily. She trys doing the same to her daughter and said, "I used to wear my hair like this when I was 12." Umm, are you forgetting that your daughter's hair texture isn't the same as your texture. I'm talking after the wash, she would just try to brush it and put it in pig tails.
Then she told my cousin who has a mixture of 3c/4a hair that some people's hair wasn't meant to be long. The girl's hair is barely to her neck.
Then she called one of her daughters with 4a hair, "rough" but the one that looks like the girl from My Wife and Kids gets the more positive comments. "Yeah, so and so hair is sandy brown, kind of reddish, very fine."
Yes, these are the dynamics found in a black household. Light hair/dark hair, nappy hair/wavy hair, light skin/dark skin. No wonder people come out as screwed up as they do. I'm still shocked I witnessed this.
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