Well I can’t fall asleep so I’m doing this shit now. I was originally going to watch all 3 videos and talk about them in one post. But this got very long after just watching one of them, so I’m gonna have to make multiple posts. As stated in the first black hair video review; I am a black woman so I’m one of the best people to call out his bullshit bc I have life experience of this shit.
Starting with The Truth About Black Hair. 18 seconds in and he’s saying that people ‘lost their minds’ over his first Black Hair video. No Greg, I saw people calling you out on Twitter and I saw a Youtube reaction video. Nobody ‘lost their mind’ non-black folks were saying that you a WHITE MAN shouldn’t be talking about BLACK WOMEN’S hair. You said racist shit such as, ‘I bet she hasn’t washed her hair in 4 years’ about a girl with gorgeous braids. ‘She looks fun’ because someone decided to wear her hair curly and not style it, etc. You also fetishized us the entire video, the ‘she looks fun’ comment being an example of that. People were, mostly, trying to politely correct you about a topic you are very clearly ignorant about. But I guess that qualifies as ‘losing their minds.’
37 seconds in. No Greg, it is not awful for you to be white. Nobody said that. Also we CANNOT wash our hair DAILY. It damages our hair and it is extremely unreccomended to do so because of that. Washing our hair daily has the same effect as anyone, POC or white, blow drying and/or flat ironing their hair daily. It kills our hair.
43 seconds in. It is not a rumor that we can’t wash our hair daily and it is not a lie. Did you talk to any black men or women before filming this video? Because I can tell you rn they all would’ve told you the same thing which is; We cannot wash our hair daily without damaging it.
46 seconds in. He’s talking about the ‘lie’ that we cannot wash our hair daily and tries to debunk it by saying ‘oh but not black men?’ Black hair is all the same in the sense of washing it, Greg. Here is a screenshot from an article written by a Black man, talking about how to care for men’s Black hair.
Please not that Greg is looking at an article specifically talking about black women’s hair.
59 seconds in. ‘Nobody has said that black women’s hair is unprofessional. At least not in my videos.’ I will give him the videos part of that, but the first part is wrong. Here’s some screenshots of links to articles where black people talk about instances where they were told their natural hair was unprofessional. This has also happened at schools. I have heard stories about kids getting their braids cut off, sent home, or excluded from classwork because of their natural hair. All of which was reported at one point by news stations. I myself got told that I should still be a slave, called a faggot and a nigger the very few times I wore my hair natural to school. Btw, I was trying to spell instances not instincts.
1:13. ‘Black people are terrified of swimming because of messing up their hair.’ Not true. I personally won’t swim after straightening my hair because it takes me awhile to do it and I don’t feel like washing, detangling, separating, detangling again, blow drying, and flat ironing my hair again so soon. It has nothing to do with ‘vanity’ as he claims. It has to do with the effort and time that went into our hair.
1:56 he brings up us needing to wash our hair daily again. No we do not. He points out there are special shampoos made so we can wash our hair daily which is true but that shit is expensive as FUCK and even if the one he’s looking at isn’t, it ends up being expensive anyways because we need to use a LOT of product in our hair. I think people with naturally straight/wavy hair only need to use the size of a quarter or less for all their hair? Correct me if I’m wrong. Well we need to use way more than that. I use an entire handful of shampoo and conditioner for my hair, and that’s just in SECTIONS. I wash my hair in 5 sections and use a handful each time. For more clarification as to why it’s expensive here’s a picture of all the products I use when I wear my hair curly:
Looks like it would last awhile because the bottles are tall and the containers are wide and tall. But guess what. It doesn’t last long at all and here’s how expensive those products are from Walmart which is my go to store. Whole Blends Conditioner: $7.68. Cantu Moisturizing Curl Activator Cream; $5.97. Cantu Define & Shine Custard; $9.83. Cantu Complete Conditioning Co-wash; $4.97. Cantu Leave-in Conditioning Repair Cream; $5.97. In total I spend $34.42 on my hair. Not counting my shampoo because it’s in a clear container attached to the shower and I don’t remember what kind it is, but I can say for sure it’s cheap. The shampoo Greg brings up is called Natural Daily Shampoo for thick and curly hair which is on Amazon. The shampoo itself costs $10.95 and I can’t see how much the shipping would cost because I don’t have an Amazon account. But I can tell you rn that shampoo is not worth it. We do not have to wash our hair daily, so why the fuck would I spend $10.95+ just so I can? My hair is going to be just as clean and just as undamaged without it. Also, not everyone’s hair is the same. Not every product is going to work on everybody’s hair. My mom uses a far more expensive brand for her curls than I do, so does my sisters. All of them are different brands. I’ve used my mom’s stuff before and it didn’t keep my curls tame like it does hers. My hair got huge, dry and very frizzy.
2:04 just because we don’t wash our hairy daily doesn’t mean we don’t shower daily. Because I wear my hair straight, I wear a shower cap when I bathe which is daily. When we wear our hair curly, we still shower daily but we don’t wash it. You know what we do though? Wet our hair to keep the moisture in and prevent it from gettin big and frizzy. Wanna know how long it takes for my hair to feel gross, smell bad and my scalp start to itch? A week.
2:33 ‘if you’re a black person maybe consider just using conditioner. So it can smell good all week rather than not washing it for a week.’ We have to use leave in conditioner which is a lot more expensive than normal conditioner. If we use normal conditioner, we would be washing our hair daily. With leave in conditioner, we can leave it in for longer than a day. But the second you wet your hair, it’s out and you gotta wash your hair again. So either way, we still ain’t washing our hair daily.
3:35 no Greg you were not right at all. You were completely wrong. I’d say try harder to get these facts right, but I’d rather you just stop talking about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
3:45 ‘if you have an opinion on a type of hair it doesn’t mean you hate them. It means you have a fair and reasonable opinion.’ No. You have a racist viewpoint about our hair because you were never educated about us and now when people are trying to, you get pissy and defensive. Nobody should have that kind of opinion on a different hair type. Questions? Yes PLEASE ask us questions because we would love to educate you! Stating things about our hair and then acting like it’s true for every black person? Not okay and pretty racist.
Also LOL at him ‘dating black people.’ and ‘having a black foster brother.’ You must have paid zero attention to them or their hair because you wouldn’t be making these videos if you had. It is very clear you never asked questions about our hair when you had the opportunities too.
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