Video: African Hair Racism

[BraunSugar]

http://youtu.be/vbbdey96TJ8

I saw this a while ago & ran into it again. I'm not sure if it is supposed to be empowering, but if it is then I think it's a fail.

Part of me wondered if it is supposed to be a joke...

Anyway, let me know your thoughts on it.

 

[DrC]

I don't know about this being empowering but .....ummm I already do this. I have 8 lacefronts and as soon as I get home I take it off and hang it on my bicycle handle bars...


ETA: I am confused as to what he means by "African Hair Racism" and I wonder if he knows what he is describing is called Protective Styling.....

 

[belldandy]

I am sick of videos like this...
You can't tell me what to do with my hair. I don't even like wigs.

 

[Aireen]

I'm sorry but why is a man dictating what we should do? erplexed If I wanna spend my money on relaxers, I'm gonna do it. I don't give a crap what you think, what your new found 'philosophy', or 'solution' is. So sick of all these nobodies on YouTube regurgitating the same topics over and over, spewing the same nonsense bs, and telling me what I need to do with my life. Focus on you and yours, I'll focus on me and mine.

 

[westNDNbeauty]

Lol. I'm sorry. This is ignorantly funny and he is so serious.

....his poor spouse. smh

ETA: How the heck is he going on and on for 9 minutes? lol "Grow like live stock"? #Cmonson!

 

[sweetlaughter]

last time i checked there are more than 3 styles black woman can wear their hair in its natural state...

 

[DrC]

I'm sorry but why is a man dictating what we should do? erplexed If I wanna spend my money on relaxers, I'm gonna do it. I don't give a crap what you think, what your new found 'philosophy', or 'solution' is. So sick of all these nobodies on YouTube regurgitating the same topics over and over, spewing the same nonsense bs, and telling me what I need to do with my life. Focus on you and yours, I'll focus on me and mine.

Exactly. Its a personal preference. And he sounds like he is trying to assemble a movement but he fails to realize is not every black woman wants to be natural.
I also could never understand the men who talk about black women self hating themselves because they have a relaxer.

 

[BraunSugar]

He says that we should stop wearing weaves & putting chemicals in our hair & get a set of 12 wigs so we can be ourselves under the wigs. Um, what? Then he says we can stop giving our money to outsiders by buying relaxers and weaves & we can just buy wigs. The same people who sell me relaxers and weaves sell the wigs too! So me hiding my natural hair under a wig makes me more of "myself" than a woman who relaxes or wears a weave?

He said all that out loud and it made sense to him???

I'm sorry y'all but I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought this man sounds crazy as hell.

 

[Aireen]

Exactly. Its a personal preference. And he sounds like he is trying to assemble a movement but he fails to realize is not every black woman wants to be natural.
I also could never understand the men who talk about black women self hating themselves because they have a relaxer.

^ This. I would like to go natural one day but I do genuinely like my relaxed hair. If I do, I'm going to do it for me, not because some MAN wants to start some hair revolution to prove some tired old point that no one really thinks about at the end of the day.

I think the people that talk about black women reflecting self-hate through relaxing think about hair and others way too much. Even if it's true, why do you care? As long as you're not self-hating your identity, you're good to go.

 

[BraunSugar]

I don't know about this being empowering but .....ummm I already do this. I have 8 lacefronts and as soon as I get home I take it off and hang it on my bicycle handle bars...


ETA: I am confused as to what he means by "African Hair Racism" and I wonder if he knows what he is describing is called Protective Styling.....

No no girl. You are 4 wigs short. You were supposed to buy the series of 12 wigs!

I have some wigs too. I'm not wearing them because I'm concerned about "outsiders" as he put it, seeing my natural hair or because I wanted to "be myself" under the wig LOL

 

[Aireen]

Dude also needs to correct his title. I don't get the reference to something as serious as racism when he's discussing something as trivial as protective styling in comparison. erplexed Maybe it all goes back to his 'point' he failed to properly express.

 

[DrC]

No no girl. You are 4 wigs short. You were supposed to buy the series of 12 BEVERLY JOHNSON COLLECTION wigs! -----

 

[LadyRaider]

I *think* he's trying to helpful. Saving women money from continuously buying weave and perms. The wig is just a way to "pass" in white society when you have to. Otherwise in other situations be natural (locs, fros, etc.)

 

[SND411]

Interesting how more BW going natural has produced these faux intellectuals pretendind to have wanted BW to go natural before the trend started

 

[Iluvsmuhgrass]

Exactly. Its a personal preference. And he sounds like he is trying to assemble a movement but he fails to realize is not every black woman wants to be natural.
I also could never understand the men who talk about black women self hating themselves because they have a relaxer.

Especially when they had S-curls/texturizers. Just saying....

K. I'm done.

 

[Sianna]

I couldn't stand to listen to the whole thing. But, the parts I did listen to... it didn't benefit me in any way.

I mean, I get the point he was trying to make, but I think he ruined the impact of his message by stressing that we should wear wigs to "fit in" or "get by" in this society. Not trying to be funny, but "these people" he's speaking of have never made a negative comment about my hair. Any derogatory or unflattering remark I've ever heard about my (or any black woman/girl's) hair came from a lil' closer to home, if you get my drift. erplexed

Not every black woman wants natural hair, not every black woman feels she has to fit in with mainstream society, and not every black woman wants to wear a wig. We're all different and have our own set of likes, dislikes and values. That's just the way it is. Period.

 

[Mizz Diamonds]

Wow that was a joke right? And he got someone to actually co-sign. Not only that but what a annoying voice.

 

[lilyofthenile]

Freedom of choice!

I think as a black woman, or just as a human being in general, we should be allowed to wear our hair the way we want it to.