Oh, my God! "Butts three shades darker than our faces..." [View All]

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Number23, you are probably the funniest person I've ever met online. I'm gonna have to stand naked in front of a full length mirror to check that out. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl::rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

But, really, I wasn't thinking about the fascination other people have with us but the absurd fascination/disgust/awe we have with ourselves about hair. When I use to go to the beauty parlor to get my hair relaxed after wearing naturals, I've had 3 stylists say to me, "Ugh, you've got that African hair!" All pissed off x( It took forever to realize that my hair is great with lots of movement and body when relaxed and beautifully round and soft when natural. I like it.

But so many of us don't and it all boils down to self-esteem, as a group. Slavery and it's consequences, I think, have driven us crazy on the most minor of things that I think a good, good laugh will make us feel better about, at least showcase the lunacy at work. I mean, Chris Rock's baby daughters who probably need nothing, are worrying about this. It's such a shame.

Remember the Jeri-Curl family in "Coming to America?" How insane and funny was that. I had stopped with the curl long before the movie, but many people I knew stopped pretending that daggone curl juice was a menace and stopped using it. So to me a good movie/documentary can bring about some positive social changes.

Instead of talking about it in our small groups from time to time, it's good to really face it head-on and perhaps laugh at our behavior and begin to throw it back to those who created the farce as their problem, not ours.

(Shoot! It's happened again. I reply to a thread and it appears as an OP and the reply at once. Doesn't anybody know why this happens?)