I realized that we tend to say things that make no sense such as
'You have good skin'
'You have good hair'
'Im mixed with Cherokee'
'I want my child to have good hair'
'I need a perm'
etc
To some African Americans this may be seem like a normal convo but to other Africans (who are proud) think that its offensive. Fortunately I never had that mentality since most of my family members are immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa. We are proud of being black so we would never tell someone they have good skin because they are light skinned. What makes light skin good and black skin bad? And seriously, who needs a perm? You dont 'need' your hair to be straight, you want your hair to be straight. It just gets me upset when I see a black women act like nappy hair is bad.
The reason I asked this question was because one of my frinds told me she wants her daughter to have good hair so she wont marry a nappy haired man. So I am guessing she considers good hair to be straight hair. Thats really sad
What do you think causes people to think that they are inferior?
I think the cause of it is the media. I visited Jamaica once and mostly all black families are proud of being black. I hardly saw a woman with straightened hair, a few of them had it but the majority had fine dreads. And they looked so beautiful with it so I dont know why we are brainwashed into thinking straight here is good. Only 10% of black females have natural hair in the US; the other 90% either wear weave, use relaxer or wear wigs. What does this say about us, doesn't it scare you all that we will do anything to make our hair straight? I dont see other races looking for ridiculous ways and inventions to make their hair look like ours, so why do strive to be like them?
This is mainly due to the media in the US. In other countries all they show on TV is African movies, Indian movies, news, and movies that teach certain values. In the US you would hardly ever see an African movie or an Indian movie. Sure we have channels dedicated to news but we also have channels dedicated to BS such as Vh1 and 'E'. These channels praise white people and make us blacks look bad. Even the news does it. When last have you seen a real African movie on TV? I haven't seen one in a while, instead I see lots of Hispanic, white and Asian movies. I guess the media doesn't want us to know anything about Africa...The media SUCKS. Ever realized mostly ALL shows only have one black guy? CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Greys anatomy, House..etc. DO you think this is just a coincidence?
So what do you think about this situation?
@ jessica- I expected one black woman to get offended...lol You are too brainwashed to understand hun.
'You have good skin'
'You have good hair'
'Im mixed with Cherokee'
'I want my child to have good hair'
'I need a perm'
etc
To some African Americans this may be seem like a normal convo but to other Africans (who are proud) think that its offensive. Fortunately I never had that mentality since most of my family members are immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa. We are proud of being black so we would never tell someone they have good skin because they are light skinned. What makes light skin good and black skin bad? And seriously, who needs a perm? You dont 'need' your hair to be straight, you want your hair to be straight. It just gets me upset when I see a black women act like nappy hair is bad.
The reason I asked this question was because one of my frinds told me she wants her daughter to have good hair so she wont marry a nappy haired man. So I am guessing she considers good hair to be straight hair. Thats really sad
What do you think causes people to think that they are inferior?
I think the cause of it is the media. I visited Jamaica once and mostly all black families are proud of being black. I hardly saw a woman with straightened hair, a few of them had it but the majority had fine dreads. And they looked so beautiful with it so I dont know why we are brainwashed into thinking straight here is good. Only 10% of black females have natural hair in the US; the other 90% either wear weave, use relaxer or wear wigs. What does this say about us, doesn't it scare you all that we will do anything to make our hair straight? I dont see other races looking for ridiculous ways and inventions to make their hair look like ours, so why do strive to be like them?
This is mainly due to the media in the US. In other countries all they show on TV is African movies, Indian movies, news, and movies that teach certain values. In the US you would hardly ever see an African movie or an Indian movie. Sure we have channels dedicated to news but we also have channels dedicated to BS such as Vh1 and 'E'. These channels praise white people and make us blacks look bad. Even the news does it. When last have you seen a real African movie on TV? I haven't seen one in a while, instead I see lots of Hispanic, white and Asian movies. I guess the media doesn't want us to know anything about Africa...The media SUCKS. Ever realized mostly ALL shows only have one black guy? CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Greys anatomy, House..etc. DO you think this is just a coincidence?
So what do you think about this situation?
@ jessica- I expected one black woman to get offended...lol You are too brainwashed to understand hun.