Topic For Today :
I posted onto Twitter today “ All black girls have good hair. ” The tweet was sent out to encourage black girls to not be so insecure about their hair. There’s far too many women who are told that their hair is not beautiful because of the texture or curl pattern of it, which in turn goes to create a lot of other deep rooted issues within them. Nowadays women feel if they don’t have a curl pattern of 3b or 3c that their hair isn’t gorgeous. I sent that tweet out to make black girls feel good about themselves, to reassure them that they are more than worthy of feeling beautiful, and that they will never need anyone’s approval to believe so. The definition of beauty is constantly being reinvented everyday, in all kinds of different ways. Which is why it broke my heart to pieces when I came back to see such spiteful and degrading comments. And from my own people, and not only that but male figures. I still can’t wrap my mind around how negativity works. How do you think of something so malicious… type it out on a social platform and publicly post it in hopes that other people will see it? I don’t care how corny it sounds, but words do hurt. Seriously. It takes a few seconds to come up with a rude comment that you somehow found comical and post it, but there’s literally grown women in their 40s walking around still insecure about things people said to them when they were in grammar school, it’s not necessary, we need to be more compassionate and loving towards each other, empowering each other as well as ourselves instead of tearing each other down. ALL HAIR IS BEAUTIFUL! THICK HAIR, KINKY HAIR, WAVY HAIR, THIN HAIR, SHORT HAIR, LONG HAIR, COILY HAIR, CURLY HAIR, CRIMPY HAIR, ALL HAIR. But above all HEALTHY HAIR IS THE MOST IMPORTANT.
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This is why as Black women we need to protect each other because our men for the most part are not fucking here for us. Malcolm X wasn’t lying when he said the most disrespected woman in America is the Black woman. They are the last to lift us up and the first to put us down. Our community is the only one where our men actively shame our women for having the features of our race (unless it’s on a NB woman) and I’m fucking sick of it.
Crystal Valentine & Aaliyah Jihad - “To Be Black and Woman and Alive”
