Why must black women continue to perpetuate and promote the shaving of harmless animals so that they can have long flowing Europeanesque hair?
Janet Jackson was spotted and photographed at the recent Cartier bracelet benefit looking like she killed ten horses to make that hideous weave she had sitting on top of her head. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY????????? My heart weeps 
The average black woman wears a weave for reasons unbeknown to me. I can only hypothesize several factors: lack of self esteem, job stipulations, society’s defacto rules, lack of love for nappy hair, imbued self hatred, or the mark of superstardome also permeated by European standards. I want us as black women to take a stand and throw the fake hair back at the man.
I mean… I am a victim of wearing weaves/braids for beauty aesthetics but I have always had a strong sense of self and what it means to show the world that they must accept me for who I am and not expect me to conform to other standards of beauty.
Most non-blacks don’t even realize that most African-American/Black/Negro/Negroid people’s hair grows kinky and coily and NAPPY if you will. There is nothing wrong with nappy aside from the fact that you may be banned from corporate America if you ever try to enter the premises looking like Angela Davis and Huey P. Newton at a Black Panther Rally.
It is completely unfair and blasphemous how we have become afraid to be ourselves and how we have settled for allowing others to create rules for us that stifle our love for self. Janet Jackson’s photo at the Cartier bracelet benefit reminded me that we need to love the hair on our heads and stop covering it up with other animal’s or folks hair. What are we hiding from? Who told us it is not okay to be nappy?
Why have we settled for these rules? No one tell’s the white man that he must tan before coming to work… so why should the black woman have to apply brain damaging lye to her scalp before becoming a newscaster or a brand name celebrity or just a woman that men would like to holla’ at?
Did you know that 8 out of 10 Black women wear some type of hair weave? African-American women in the U.S. alone spend at least 20 billion dollars on hair care products and services each year. Over 80% of this 20 billion dollars is spent on hair weaves, hair extensions, and hair replacement products and services.
Perms have countless amounts of detrimental chemicals in them including sodium hydroxide which can cause your brain to turn green and your scalp to look like a baby’s bottom after several years of applications.
Women please be cautious of how you define the standards of your own beauty for other people and do not allow anyone to define those standards for you by creating rules and stipulations that cause you to have to alter your self image… I know this is easier said than done and I love to look Divaliscious too with hair flowing down my back but this becomes an issue when others think that that is what we should look like on a consistent basis rather than the way God made us… NAPPY! 
