This thread is a great example of how people like to mask their own self hate with "black love and appreciation."
"I love BW that is why I only wanna see them with their own hair and own hair color. If she does anything else she obviously hates herself" - Random pretending to love his people
AA are a people who value UNIQUENESS. We love to stand out and we love having our own sense of style. We can't even stand having on the same gear as each other. We name our children unique names and like having defining characteristics.
I saw an old head today with a black leopard suit, black fur coat and some black work boots. Idk how but pops look fresh.
That is the type of shyt we do.
I can't even imagine a Black community where we only have one hair color, only allowed to have a few hair styles. That is literally the opposite of our culture and what we value.
People keep referring to "back in the day" like we had the same options hair wise as we do now. We didn't have the products or even half the education. The internet has allowed use to greatly expanded our ability to express ourselves and we both, Black men and women, have taken off with it and become trend setters.
I see both BM & BW with colored hair every single day. I see dreads, afros, weave, braids, relaxers etc. You name it we do it. Really the only thing we aren't rocking now is the curl. lol
It's crazy how folk in here will sit in here and tell you a BW with blonde hair hates herself and wants to be White but can't tell you who she wanna be when her hair is pink, gray or green. The logic fails.
Not that you have to like ever style but to sit here and say you "hate" or don't understand seeing hair unlike what grows out of the scalp on a AA then you really don't understand the culture or love your culture. That plain Jane imma wear the same style for years everyone in the family got the same 3 hair cuts, I don't ever change it up is for non Black people period. We don't do that shyt. We're expressive and we should NOT assimilate into that mindset.
It's like living in a culture where they wear neck rings or expanded earlobes and then publicly shytting on your people for doing it and saying that your people need to take on the say mind set of WP. That's c00n shyt.
Again, not to say you have to like weave, blond hair or whatever but if you really look down your nose at your people who are trend setters because they they don't operate like WP then you're a straight clown.
If it bothers you that BP like to color their hair, add extensions, have unique styles, etc you're a c00n because you're going directly against your culture especially when you do it in relation to other cultures.
When I see a chick with blonde weave I know she's doing it to stand out, look unique and/or switch it up. I doesn't bother me one bit especially when I know it will be completely different next week.
Anyway a lot of that Black pride "only be natural" is really a disguise for projected self hate. Folks pretend to love their people as a platform to really shyt on them which is funny because it's also another way to "stand out or be unique" just in a very fake and negative way.