Black People and Hair

What Say I ? Here's what I say:

There's a question buried in all that gibberish that requires an answer ? Seriously ?

Is it a lot of trouble to relax/straighten hair?

R2 Not to relax ie perm. But to straight using non chemical means yes. 4c hair extremely yes. Even blacks with quote unquote good hair, our hair insanely coils and curls when wet and you need to come through the tangles. Use a detangling conditioner. Yes I’m a Mary whose aunt owned a hair salon growing up. Only blacks with non Afro textured hair, a very small minority, is it easy. Even biracial blacks like Shemar Moore and Halle Berry have afro textured hair. Rashida Jones not so much.

I liked Chris Rock's documentary about this, don't recall the name, late aughts I think. Black women spend a LOT of money on their hair.

DL will use any dumbass reason to start yet another Meghan Markle post.

R4 It’s called good hair. Hair, along with the brown bag, was one of the defining characteristics of a black person’s potential for upward social mobility. Confounded with the reality that mixed race blacks usually have European textured or influenced hair. All of that made them more desirable and “passable”.

R5 I’m trying to get white people into Megan’s psyche. She is a victim. And I know black girls probably gave her hell growing up be cause she is a lightskin long hair don’t care, but she doesn’t know how to act black. It’s hard to explain. And the white kids probably thought she was too weird looking. Poor child was tortured. And thus now she is an adult cunt.

Nothing to contribute, I'm afraid, OP (for which I apologize), but I remember snickering when my Nigerian neighbor took an issue of "Hello!" magazine with MM on the cover into the bathroom with her (this must have been 6-7 years ago), and exclaiming really loudly, behind the closed door: "Prince Harry's girlfriend is considered BLACK?!", followed by uproarious laughter.

I always have to remind myself that she's supposed to be Black.

R9 As a child she looked more black.

As a child she also had more nose.

I say, you ought to save this for your next klan rally

I was born blonde with what people would call 'good hair,' but once I hit puberty, the Jewfro happened, and my hair darkened to a light ash brown. That’s when I started straightening it.

I’ve been relaxing it since I was 15, and now that it’s got some gray, the relaxer sometimes turns it green. Sometimes it fades after a couple of shampoos, and other times I’m stuck with green-and-pepper hair instead of salt-and-pepper. Honestly, I find it laughable as I write this. But I still douse my hair in what my husband finds hilarious—the brand Dark & Lovely. He always says I’m lovely, but definitely not dark.