Lmao!
How can I be racist if I work with blacks
How can I be racist if one sold me slacks
Iâm not racist Iâm just like you. Iâm best friends with a black or two.
iâm not racist, you see, itâs just a preference
i love eastern culture and its womenâs deference
the west lost its way with no room for clemency
If I love Asian women, howâs that white supremacy?
iâm not a racist, i canât be, you see
my great grandmaâs grandma was part cherokee
plus one time i got called âcrackerâ to my face
donât we all bleed red? i donât even see raceâŚ
Iâm not racist, blacks just need to stop complaining
Living in the past and white people blaming
I work hard, no handouts for every little fraction
If white privilege isnât fair, then how is affirmative action?
So hereâs a question to my naturalistas - is length the new âgood hairâ? My birthday is at the end of the month, and Iâm having a bit of a ~moment~ coming to terms with getting older and all that. I was just on my Facebook looking at old photos of myself in the bloom of my youth (aka like 3 years ago) and came across pictures of myself when my hair was really short. At the time, I really liked my short natural hair.
It was no fuss, simple, and a âlook.â But ever since my hair began growing past 4 inches, Iâve been obsessed with growing my hair out and getting a holy grail fro. Iâm in that weird in-between phase between short and long, my hair is 10 inches to 14 inches all around, but it takes major manipulation (twistouts, banding method, blowouts, the blood of jesus, etc) to get it to look the way I want it to. And all that manipulation has taken its toll - after trying an ill-advised cholesterol treatment my hair is dry and brittle, a lot of it has broken off, and it seems to have simply stopped growing.
When I think about all of the natural hair websites and tumblr pages I go to for inspiration, I find that an overwhelming majority of them seem to showcase natural girls with the hair that I want - long, âBra Strap Lengthâ that hang past the shoulders. There are so many articles, videos, and tutorials about length retention, protective styling, vitamins, the âinversion methodâ (standing upside down for four minutes a day to get your hair to grow), but very little that I have seen celebrating TWAs or closely cropped hair.
Iâm wondering if this is something that Iâm projecting, or do others think that long hair has become the equivalent of âgood hairâ among naturals? Iâm trying to figure out, just for myself, why I feel the need to have my hair be as long and/or big as possible? If Iâm honest, I think personally for me itâs to prove that I can grow it a certain length. I used to perm my hair and my longest length was about sixteen inches. When I went natural, my mother was horrified and said âHow could you cut off all that beautiful hair?! Your hair will never grow back. Youâre going to look so unfeminine with kinky hair!â I wanted to prove to her that my hair could be beautiful kinky, and that it could grow.
I hate this misconception that African hair doesnât grow, and I wanted to be an example of that. But still, my preoccupation, spending hours on stretching and manipulating my hair to mimic an âepicâ fro, seems counterintuitive to the reason I went natural in the first place. What do you guys think? And if anyone has links to sites/blogs that celebrate short/mid-length hair please share!
A confrontational cadence can be familiar in black English, but it might also feed the sense among others that young black men are always about to go off.
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n the aftermath of the Michael Dunn verdict, weâre talking again about how Americans process black boys as inherently violent. And they do.
Yet in an honest, and perhaps more productive, discussion of this topic, we have to allow something uncomfortableâthe possibility that language plays a part in the stereotype. To whites, I highly suspect that often, black boys and men have a way of sounding violent.
Without meaning to, though, which makes it all harder to grapple with. Hereâs an example:
The other day on the subway I heard two black men in their 30s talking about a misunderstanding that one of them had had at work that day. They were just unwinding after a long day, and yet there was what many might process as a tinge of impending battle in their voices, inflections and gestures. âMan, I wanted to âMmmph!â [jab of the arm, click of the tongue] Gimme a break! Anâ I was like ⌠[putting on a challenging glare] donât even start.â
And these were perfectly normal guys having a conversation, which, between black men, was perfectly normal in its tone. No black listener would assume these guys actually meant the hints at violence literally. To us, this way of talking just sounds like two guys letting off steam.
However, outside listeners can hear this way of talking as edgy. Men talking this way can sound like theyâre about to start something. The New Yorkerâs Kelefa Sanneh once came up with a perfect term for this, in the context of writing about rap music and lyrics: a certain âconfrontational cadence.â
Yes, trash-talking knows no race. But two equivalent white men talking about the same kind of thing are much less likely to have that particular confrontational cadence than black ones. This way of talking is more deeply seated in black culture, and researchersâsympathetic black academicsâhave documented it. An article by CUNYâs Arthur Spears, one of the deans of the study of black English, is a useful survey of what he terms black American âdirectnessâ in discourse.
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