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You love natural hair? Really? Where?
"Oh! She has natural hair!" they scream with delight when the black woman shows up with a nice huge, curly afro, or worse an out of control growth of black hair that has no one controlling it.
Ugh.
Well my responses to these screams of delight are always the same: Do you suppose she shaves her underarms?
I mean, the purpose of the praise given is to allow black hair to be black hair, but if that is the goal then shouldn't she be suspending ALL hair maintenance?
No shaving of the pits? No bikini waxes? That caterpillar growing above your upper lip: Why are you killing it?
Look, I enjoy a good well kept afro: Neat; under 5 inches in length; under control when you move your head.
I also recognize that the general audience doesn't want African American girl to be afraid of their natural hair. Yeah, I get that as well.
But on the other side of thing, I get hair cuts to tame my hair. Don't go telling me I should let my hair do what it wants. Frankly I LOOK BETTER in hair that is under control.
It's NOT a black and white thing, either -- for one thing, you have no idea how "afro" my hair becomes when I let it go long. It's simply a matter that, YES, shaved pits are, to me, cleaner. Bikini waxes are more tempting. Shaved legs more silky and an uncontrolled afro just is a mess.
My barber completely agrees.
So if you scream with delight over uncontrolled "natural" afro hair, then I simply ask you to feel that same way about her/his pits, landing zone and legs ... or back ... or belly ... or upper lip ... or feet ... or extremely thick uni-brow (ugh).
If you have no problem doing that, then let me wander the woods for a couple of months and we'll hook-up when I come back out, natural look, smells and all.
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Yeah, I thought not.
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