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Tuesday 26 November 2013

AFRO TRUTHS

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IT THEN BEGAN

Madame CJ Walker (1867-1919)

The Walker System is a System where a shampoo, a pomade "hair-grower", vigorous brushing, and the application of heated iron combs to the hair. The "method" transformed stubborn, lusterless hair into shining smoothness.
There is simply nothing wrong with using heat to straighten Afro hair because protective serums are used, so if CJ Walker used brushes and hot irons to straighten Afro hair what really happened?

Well due to the slave trade, slaves were stripped of their identity and culture. Slaves were named after their masters e.g Jones, Morgan, Rogers etc, the master master exercised severe oppressive power to an extent that straighter hair would give you favour before your master. CJ Walker during the 1800's at a tender age was exposed to prejudice. Straightened hair is a result of oppression and prejudice

Garret A Morgan (1877-1963)

Garret A Morgan was also born during the times of slavery and slave trade, he was an inventor; his most notable inventions includes a type of protective respiratory hood, traffic signal and of cause hair straightening preparation. 

Having some parents murdered and some disappeared due to being traded clearly the opposite race was dominant over the other. White people had sleek straight and colorful hair. Their hair radiated light and blew in the wind, they said that God's image is their image in a physical sense. The black man aspired to look like them and that is when self hatred in a form of beauty emerged. The need to have straight hair like theirs began to grow every second of everyday, so yes the crucial need to have straight sleek hair was much. With straight hair, you had more liking and society both black and white accepted you but if you had Afro hair, you were treated like an animal and somehow abused by your own race. Straight hair became a trend both young and old relaxed their hair and boy it felt good every burn to the scalp was worth it. All that Garret wanted to achieve was a way of substituting heat straighteners with cream relaxers to lessen the time and effort on denaturing your kinky hair, that you may be early for work in the house or plantation,  and yes your master will reward you for neatness and presentation of you conformity to his European standards.


Things were tough in America and Europe for African people in the early 1800 and 1900 but it seems like for more than 200 years hair was like bone and sinews, spirit and soul. If you remove the spirit then your soul is non existent and if you remove the sinews then the bone is dead. Therefore if you strip a black man from his Afro or locks you strip them from themselves and presently more mental prisoners roam this earth

                                           
                          THE SCIENCE IN THE RELAXER CREAM


Chemicals like sodium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, ammonium thioglycolate and etc are put on your hair and scalp every 6 to 8 weeks from child hood to adult hod, how do you expect to have healthy, thick hair and a beautiful epidermis. Some of these chemicals clean your houses, some burn steel, some melt heavy metal, some are used to remove nail polish, some are used for nuclear weapons and yet you willingly go to the hair salon of health store to basically denature your hair and finally permanently damage it. Ask yourself as to why you feel the need to use relaxer creams. Is it low self esteem,  the corporate society, your neighborhood, media, peer pressure, religion of modeling. If you never lived during slavery then what is holding you back from being black because you have rights, you are free and you owe it to yourself to be true not the other way around. But if you want relaxed hair due to freedom of choice then you will have to experience thinning,  hair fall eventually alopecia later in you existence. Relaxers are not good period.


WHY HATE ON WOMEN WITH PUFFY HAIR


My mother used to plait my hair with a woolen thread and when Friday came she would wash it with an organic shampoo then condition it and finally hair dry it using a hair dryer with a comb nozzle. My hair grew exponentially in 1 year and it was thick, dark and puffy for some reason I loved it (Good Job Emma Vinah Dada). I was called  names like tree or lolly pop or veil kaffir (meaning dirty nigger) because of that I forced my mom to give me a relaxer and slowly over the years my scalp was damaged, my hair was thinning, growth rate was slow, frizziness and eventually hair fall and baldness around my temples. Corporate,  society and the media always accepted black women with straight hair than black women with puffy hair they are regarded as stupid, and unattractive,  where as they are smart, creative, bright, artistic, so conscious and vibrant. The mentality of straight hair being beautiful will never ever change and most women will not care anyway and continue to be haughty towards the Afro girls. How much more will we continue to tell our creator that he simply didn't know what he was doing when he made us uniquely different and that our hair is beautifully blessed, I guess we will have to wait until he opens our blind minds

LAZINESS IS A SIN

80% of black women all over the world justify their reason for relaxing their hair and those reasons are 1) to hard to comb, 2) it shrinks, 3) not bouncy or wavy, 4) hard to manage 5) not suitable to a white man's corporate comfort. Well this saddens me to know that my sister is slowly digging up her grave like a woman smoking cigarettes. Me and the very few women all over the world work smart to grow healthy strong and rich African hair. We deep condition it with oils such as carrot oil, amla oil and etc, we wash and condition it 2 to 3 times a week, we co-wash it as often as possible for moisture, we use head scarfs when sleeping and style it in different ways but most importantly we save money. We experience no hair loss, thinning,  damaged temples and worst ALOPECIA. we simply work with what we've got and it is not a curse just like many quote Isaiah 3:16-17. African hair does grow long, bouncy and flow if you take care of it properly with patience and time.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND

The ball is in your court, relaxer or no relaxer you are free to exercise your will, I will not judge and afro ladies shouldn't judge as well. This applies to you straight headed woman,  just remember that you were created with love an care and it saddens your maker to see you destroy what he pleasurably put on you head as an exclusive crown of glory. Who has an afro and locks so rich anywhere else in the world? 

NO ONE BUT US
MY PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL WITH THEIR AFROS AND LOCKS

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