On tiktok there’s a video of a little white girl saying she wants braids “like the brown girls” her mother was recording it. And people were sitting there cooing and saying “aww let her have the braids 🥺” and then it was shown someone gave her said braids. And I see a lot of black people just eating it up and pandering to her and her momma.
Now no ill will to the little girl, because she is a child but my anger is towards the momma. She used her child as a way to get black people to sympathize with her daughter just to have her get what she wants. And it hurts my soul because little black girls can’t even wear the hairstyle without white people making a fuss. How are we going to sit and gas this little girl up when our own kids are getting bullied, mocked, and even having their hair taken out by white teachers because they don’t like their hair? Little black girls are taught to not like their 4c and to have it straighten out to look more “passable”.
I personally never had to deal with that growing up but I have friends who did. And it’s so heartbreaking to see the black community showing more love to a little white girl who “wants to look at the brown girls” but those said brown girls are getting ridiculed for wearing those same hairstyles. It’s not right. It’s unfair and it pisses me off to know end.
It’s no secret that black hairstyles are usually seen as trendy whenever a non black person does it but when we wear our own hairstyles it’s seem as unprofessional, nasty, dirty, and all kinds of shit. We’re taught that having straight hair is more “classy” than wearing hairstyles that are dated back to slavery. Yet this little white girl gets a pass?
Im tired of shit like that. I’m tired. We need to do better.
And it’s not just hair, it’s part of our culture and we are allowed to keep it to ourselves. You’re just mad that you get told no
