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serenitynow!

Shamus I know that angry face is not directed at me cause I love you

shamus100

Hither love, I want to whisper something in your ear...

mrsjones5

Don't get me started on the relaxers and the hotcombs- when I complained as a child, my mom would say, "honey it hurts to be beautiful."

My mother burned me with a hotcomb once on the back of my neck when I was a little girl. I still have the scar.

serenitynow!

"Hither love, I want to whisper something in your ear... "

Why so you can rip my face off? Maybe you should just call me on the phone.

MrsJ- I been burned so many times. I refuse to press my hair or get another relaxer, I can't take it anymore!

sooner7 we're cool. As many times as I have stuck my foot in my mouth in my life, I really try not to hold things against people esp if their intentions arent bad.

shamus100

Oh love...

Not all monkeys rip faces off.

Come here please. i need to tell you something. I need to whisper it. In your ear.... hither love...

tec

I like the way you said it the second time around too, Serenity. I also appreciate the insight into the hair issue - since I never knew it was an issue until you posted.

As for this:

"honey it hurts to be beautiful."

Perhaps that should instead be, "honey, it hurts to be what society says is beautiful."

Hope that doesn't offend anyone. But seriously, I find most people beautiful in their own way. I'd never do that much work to become beautiful.

Tammy

leavingwt

Anyone who has seen the 1973 film, Coffy, should know better than to grab a black woman's hair, right? Gotta love Pam Grier.

SixofNine

We put alot of time, effort and money into our hair. Don't get me started on the relaxers and the hotcombs- when I complained as a child, my mom would say, "honey it hurts to be beautiful."

Hope you didn't internalize that ;)

cuz it's not necessarily true

although this beautiful chica seems unconvinced:

shamus100

I looove afro's.

(hard to believe but I'm being serious)

serenitynow!

"Hope that doesn't offend anyone. But seriously, I find most people beautiful in their own way. I'd never do that much work to become beautiful."

""honey, it hurts to be what society says is beautiful.""

That's exactly right. Being told while I was suffering to straighten my hair that I was doing it to be beautiful, the implication that the kinky hair I got from nature was not beautiful was not lost on me, even as a child. That is an issue that has plagued black people from slavery time. There have been many books written about it. Hair is just hair to most races of people, but for black people it is not just hair. That stuff goes deep, there is lots of emotion tied to it. Not only does it take alot of work to get our hair straight, but lots of work to keep it straight. Our hair will dictate how we exercise, how we sleep- you'd be surprised the lengths we go to keep that style right overnight.

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