- ayanasioux:
- I mean other races in America feel the same and I do mean if you don't know a black person then you don't know what you're talking about. But I know a vast variety of races and dehumanization was strong on African Americans a long while ago because of slavery and so the feelings of looking too much like a "nigger" is stuck in the conscious of many black people. When girls say "nigger hair" and when my neighbor says he doesn't want to get darker or have "nappy" hair because he'll look like a slave, are you going to tell me that that's because of "what's in"? I don't know where else the term nigger was ever used other than slavery.
I don't understand why you keep using that term for hair.
If its an offensive term, don't use it.
Quotes dont make it any better.
Were you around when hair relaxers were invented? I'm curious.
They straighten their hair, because it's in. I don't think if you asked someone who has straightened their hair why they do it they'd say "Because I want to look white, because my ancestors were slaves."
It's not ONLY blacks who straighten their hair is what I'm getting at.
And straight hair is not a strictly 'white' trait. Like I said, I have wavy-ish hair. I am also white. I straighten my hair. I think it looks better. I think it looks better on everyone, regardless of skin color.
Why does hair have to do anything with race? You're the one who brought it up in the first place, weren't you?
It's a style of hair. A lot of people want straight hair, and I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with white people or slavery. I'm sure in the recent past all races were curling their hair or putting up in bee hives. It's a style thing, I'm pretty sure there are no racial tensions behind it.