I could blog about all the times people make fun of my afro, proof of how Black natural hair is unacceptable and ridiculed in society. But those comments I get are a dime a dozen. Someone made an interesting joke to me the other day however, and as usual concerning my hair.
It went as follows:
"Hey Rob I really like your hair, it's so cool, it's almost worth the hundreds of years of oppression"
Immediately I was confused and befuddled. My hair is part of my natural identity. Is this a joke in the guise of a comment concerning his beliefs on how it's not worth being Black because of the oppression we've faced.
This remind me of the infamous racist white liberal essay by Neil Poedhertz in which he poses the question, is all the pain and the suffering [the holocaust] worth being Jewish.
All sick.
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Some of the things people say about natural hair confuse me also. The funny thing about my experience is that I get most of the crazy comments from other Black people.
Natural hair isn't so cool that it's worth hundreds of years of oppression, it stands in protest of hundreds of years of oppression.
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