I really do believe these white folks and non-blacks in these labs really do have the intrent of trying to kill us off with their products. Obviously they know something we dont.
NBC News: Chemical Hair Straightener linked to Uterine Fibroids and Cancer in Black Women.
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OperationNumbNutts
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Nah dude. He's right. I don't know how old you are but years ago there was a hair relaxer product called Rio marketed to black women. In the infomerical, a breh passed it off as a product he invented. After a lot of women hair started falling out people learned it was a cac the owned the company. This stuff did and still happens.MasterOfAllHeSurveyz
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman
"The mirror reflected Shorty behind me. We both were grinning and sweating. And on top of my head was this thick, smooth sheen of shining red hair - real red - as straight as any white man’s." - From the Autobiography Of Malcolm X
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The lies in this thread people tell themselves. That's bad enough. But, then have to temerity to try to convince others of their delusion that both black men and women didn't adopted methods to style their hair like white people since ever.
"The mirror reflected Shorty behind me. We both were grinning and sweating. And on top of my head was this thick, smooth sheen of shining red hair - real red - as straight as any white man’s." - From the Autobiography Of Malcolm X
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The lies in this thread people tell themselves. That's bad enough. But, then have to temerity to try to convince others of their delusion that both black men and women didn't adopted methods to style their hair like white people since ever.
You know it was forbidden for non free black women to be seen in public without head coverings. Just as you see in Iran today except it wasnt for religious purposes
You know most 'conditioner' has anti frizz on the label and even white bytches are tryna purge out thier 1.5%
You ever seen these white chicks lay their head on an actual ironing board and iron their hair flat so they can blend in their weaves
shyt is comical
MasterOfAllHeSurveyz
All Star
Let me guess, you read about the Tignon Law in the Essense article last year.
Read The Devil's Lane as a selection in the C.O.W.S. Book Club almost a decade ago.
Let me guess, you read about the Tignon Law in the Essense article last year.
Read The Devil's Lane as a selection in the C.O.W.S. Book Club almost a decade ago.
No I studied it during my module on race, genocide and the politics of mass murder
This is why more of us are natural NOW. You can sit and chat with the women in family who were corporate directors and execs in the 80s and ask how they were treated by the white hiring managers, etc when they showed up with natural hair/straightened hair.
Y’all act like women are making shyt up. White ppl still say shyt to me about my hair
I don’t care because they can’t force me to change it, but if they still act stupid now imagine how they spoke to your mothers, grandmothers, aunts, etc back in the day?
Sindicated
Knowledge is the Greatest gift
This is the dumbest shyt ive read in this thread and proves you just want to wade in victimhood, and Blame Black Men obviously you dont go outside cuz every other young Black Man either has dreads, or a nappy fro youll see very few Black Men with a low cut.
Im even rocking a curly fro and don’t remember the last time i had a fade or waves.
Why do yall let people like this on this site shes full of shyt and just wants to point the finger at Black Men no accountability on her part.
Man I've had a fro since a kid, I learned how to fade the neck and temple for myself and got a curl sponge. Ain't gonna front when I finish school and look for conventional jobs the low cut/waves will be how I do it during the search/interviews, but once I get something worth it 5-6 months in fro + curl sponge byke, natural is the way.
I was lazy about moisturizing and used to relax for like 5-6 months that shyt probable helped weaken my corners, told the current girl I'm talking to I want her all natural across the boards
Yea but you're leaving out chunks of context here
Natural hair's corealation with negativity stems from a behavior pattern
Black men largely love how natural hair looks. The aesthetic itself is not the source of the negative perception
This is a bad comparison. 1. A lot of black men have locs and their hair grown out. You must live in a cac city/ grew up around white people. 2. What if a lot of us don’t want to grow our hair out?
Nah we can't act like the faded nappy fro ain't been the default black man hairstyle for the last decade, and the amount of black men with locs now vs 10-15 years ago is night and day
As far as the "touch your hair" issue that appears to be more of a woman thing because outside of the most c00nest of c00n nikkas a request to touch a black man's hair is getting shut down or at least met with a
. Women, because they tend to be more agreeable, let more microsagressions slide which is why they're more likely to be hired in those type of working environments 
There is no behavior pattern though, only conjecture. I've seen more of swirlers and divestors who have perms than natural hair, so I could easily make the false claim that women with perms are more likely to be a part of those groups. The truth is the way a woman wears her hair has nothing to do with her ideology, but some have tied the negative imagery of divesting to natural hair because they have seen some who do have it though there are plenty on that tip who use perms.
Also, I have come across plenty of brothers from all socio-economic backgrounds who prefer their women have their hair straightened. So I am not going to doubt what sisters have said about this issue, because I have seen it first hand myself.
What I will do is point out our sisters can't blame brothers in general for their desire to straighten their hair when they have told us brothers who do prefer natural hair styles to mind our own business over and over again about the issue. We are not the cause of them doing it to themselves when they have admitted many times that they do it for themselves, not men.
MajesticLion
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Don't forget the anime hairWhat do black men have to do with perms?Black women style themselves based on trends and other women, not men’s opinion. Black men have been saying we don’t like the excessive make up, long eyelashes, and weave, yet that’s how the majority of young black women style themselves.
