Dear Ms. Haireality

This response is to Ms. Haireality.blogspot.com for adding some unnecessary drama to my Monday Morning!

RE:

haireality
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You seem pretty ignorant about the hair. Read my post “the globalization of Indian hair” and get some education before you post.

btw…are you so ignorant that you think only black woemn wear extensions?

RESPONSE:

Wow. If there is anyone who is ignorant about hair it is you. My post was not about anyone else but Black Women. I have 25 years of experience in this business and hair extensions is NOT EVEN THE FOUNDATION FOR THE ROOT OF A PROBLEM THAT HAS STEMMED FROM COLONIZATION, SLAVERY & JIM CROW. Yes… BLACK WOMEN are losing their hair due to getting perms, sewn on, glued on, & stapled on weaves. No one talks about the detriment of the black woman though. No one wonders why she must continue to perm her hair and wear weaves to get a job in media or corporate America (READ THIS ARTICLE). No one thinks about the times when black women have been told that they can’t wear their natural afros and braids to work because they look unkempt. That is the way God made black women and the vast majority of the world is non tolerant and ignorant of the fact that this very sentiment that has been perpetuated from Jim Crow is a seed of undying self hatred.

My message is not to you or any other think they know it all types out there. If you were really interested in being more knowledgeable you would ask for clarification rather than assuming ignorance. There are children in schools walking around thinking that their dark skin and nappy hair is ugly and this is not by coincidence. This is by the ignorance of people like you and the perpetuation and de facto inception of a European standard of beauty. You are an uninformed, insolent, Uncle Tom for even trying to qualify yourself by saying that black women aren’t the only women who wear weaves.

Of course I know that and that is not the issue here. Please read : Stolen legacy by George GM James, Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Byrd, Let’s Talk Hair/ Where Beauty Touches Me by Pamela Ferrell, 400 Years Without a Comb by Willie L. Morrow, History of The Picaninny, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 by George M. Fredrickson, some literature on the effects of the harmful chemicals in perms on the scalps of children, and read some books on the history of Jim Crow and Colonization in Africa and the psychological effects that it has had upon the black race after 400 years of slavery and come back to me and tell me that I don’t know about the history of my own people and hair. Thank you!