Eighth-Grader Sent To Principal’s Office For Her Natural Hair Being 'Too Poofy'

[Dwolf]

And when I said that some black women contribute a lot to the self hatred that young black children develop I got told that I was pandering. I recently left my job at a cosmetic department store. A lot of the things that I would see black women say towards kinky natural hair was sad and disgusting. I remember one woman coming in with her son and daughter. Her son has thick kinky beautiful hair. Do you know how many people of any race would love to hair thick hair like that? Anyways the mother says that she wants to make her sons hair curly so that she can comb it. I told her that she can deep condition the hair, wash it out, and put the sons hair in jumbo braids and then unbraid. With a look of disgust she told me that her son has very nappy hair (the daughter started laughing and the son looked like he was about to cry). I kept telling her that the ONLY way to permanently change someones hair texture from kinky to loose curly is using a texturizer. She gets mad and tells me that I have no idea what I am talking about. I told her that I have the same exact hair texture as her son so I know how to take care of hair like that. She dismisses me and goes to my coworker and get's told the same thing.

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[CASHAPP]

And when I said that some black women contribute a lot to the self hatred that young black children develop I got told that I was pandering. I recently left my job at a cosmetic department store. A lot of the things that I would see black women say towards kinky natural hair was sad and disgusting. I remember one woman coming in with her son and daughter. Her son has thick kinky beautiful hair. Do you know how many people of any race would love to hair thick hair like that? Anyways the mother says that she wants to make her sons hair curly so that she can comb it. I told her that she can deep condition the hair, wash it out, and put the sons hair in jumbo braids and then unbraid. With a look of disgust she told me that her son has very nappy hair (the daughter started laughing and the son looked like he was about to cry). I kept telling her that the ONLY way to permanently change someones hair texture from kinky to loose curly is using a texturizer. She gets mad and tells me that I have no idea what I am talking about. I told her that I have the same exact hair texture as her son so I know how to take care of hair like that. She dismisses me and goes to my coworker and get's told the same thing.

And I always say one of the cowardly things is how Black fathers wont call out the mothers who say this shyt. Tell me I'm wrong. But then they have no problem(the fathers) yelling at their son or nephew to cut their hair and look "presentable"

 

[CASHAPP]

@agnosticlady have you ever been personally been able to show a little girl who was poisoned by their mother's ignorance to actually love her hair? How do you do it?

 

[feelosofer]

I tried to say this in another thread, but Black women are a poison unto themselves when it comes to Black beauty. It's not Black men making women feel bad about their hair. Men have been saying for years for women to get off that hair hat wave. But women cut each other hard and deep over traditionally West African-based features.