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

Western Saharan People Of Africa

The Western Sahara Capitalized as LAAYOUNE is a desert situated in the North of Africa between the lands of Morocco,  Algeria and Mauritania,these people are Nubians just like the people of Morocco.

Western Sahara was a land occupied by nomadic people known as the SAHARAWI, for some reason the harsh desert temperatures were not a negative factor instead they had camels and grew crops (This has made me appreciate mother Africa even more because she still gave food to her children so that they live in harmony). historically, there were no political parties instead there were tribes and each tribe had a chief that rules over it. Suddenly the Spanish came into the land just as they did with Morocco and the chiefs gave away their authority and slowly through time the tribes of Western Sahara faded. 

 THE SCARS OF GREED

Due to Spain being in the land, war was certainly intense to an extent that the neighboring countries (Morocco,  Algeria and Mauritania) got involved. Spain wanted to colonize the Saharawi people but they resisted and that resistance resulted in a blood bath between the two nations. Finally the war against Spain was finally won; but that did not mean the neighboring countries backed off from wanting the piece of that flourishing desert. What is with all this greed, I mean everyone has a share of this earth; it is not too big or too small there is absolutely no reason to take something from someone by force and manipulation. Western Saharan people will not recover from the trauma of 

Spanish rule (I guess time doesn't heal all wounds because the scars still remain).

To my surprise Morocco own 1/3 of Western Sahara in the Northern part and Mauritania owns a 1/3 on the Southern part. It's either Africans have learnt the game of greed or the hand of the Spanish was ruling afar and beyond using Mauritania and Morocco.

ACCEPTABLE SPIRAL OF CONFUSION

History was unkind to the sons and daughters of Kush, what is considered norm became strange, and what was strange became the norm; I mean let us reason for a bit, every country has one currency and the men are the ones fighting the battle BUT Western Sahara has 3 currencies Algerian Dinar , Moroccan Dirham and Mauritanian Ouguiya and the women! Yes the beautifully created women of Western Sahara march to the battle fields with guns to fight, it doesn't mean that women have been fighting since the Spanish invasion but due to bloody battles in time men have fallen hence the women on the front line. This was devastating for the country and is still is, since some of us have tasted freedom,  the Western Saharan people will only dream of freedom it is only a matter of time before God answers their plea.

A BRUISED HOPE

Regardless of the division the three neighboring countries brought, most of the Saharan people fled to Tindouf in the Hamada desert and they are still reside there in our time. The UN has mediated for the Saharan people by sending aid and peace troops to stabilize it, still to no success, war and poverty is the daily activity of the Western Sahara even though it was declared the SAHARAWI ARABIC DEMOCRATIC REPLUBLIC.
The nation gets their food form the UN, gets their shelter from the UN, gets their protection from the UN and gets their hope in the UN. Now that is proof enough to see and know that this country is scared until the end of this present age.

THE JOYS OF BEING A NUBIAN IN THE WESTERN SAHARAN

The Nubian people of the Western Sahara do fish (since it is a good source of protein), They mine phosphate since it is abundant there, They have soulful singers who sing from the gut of pain and anguish. But my favourite thing to know about  this country is that the food is strange but tasty (Lamb and camel stew) who knew that a desert could flourish with life.
When you say your prayers at night, eat your decadent meals, shop for expensive beautiful items; remember the Arabic/Spanish nation in the North Side of Africa. Yield them in your prayers and accept them as Nubians.

JAH IS LOOKING UPON YOU WESTERN SAHARA AND YOUR TEARS ARE NOT IN VAIN   

The Moroccan exploration edition #1

THE MOROCCAN PEOPLE OF AFRICA

Introduction

We as Africans need to appreciate our diversity and way of culture, and that includes our rich history.  Our continent has very deep scars that only God can heal, we are not called the dark continent for nothing and Morocco is one of the countries that fell prey to European enslavement. Today's Morocco is very diverse but with visible racial segregation. It pains me to see The Morro people in hatred of their kinky hair, dark skin and original berber language. 

THE FAIR FARIES

The people of Morocco people have been under the rulership of some European countries  such as France, Rome, Spain, Netherlands,Pheonicia, Belgium and Saudi Arabia.

Morocco gained its independence in 1956 but its customs, laws and practises are heavily influenced by the Islam.

This fair skinned race in Morocco are a mixture of the Amazigh and European, they speak Arabic and Berber (also known a barbaric). Morocco share similar trades as Tunisia, Algeria and Spain.

They are found in most parts of the Moroccan land, living both a modern lifestyle of which purchasing is more prominent, whereas the ancient lifestyleis prominent in trading, occupying rich lands such as Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Fes and Marrakesh. 

We should not hate the fair skinned people in Morocco because it is not their fault that their genes, RNA and DNA got altered due to colonisation. Also they should not worship the European lifestyle and end up despising the darker skinned people in their country. I don't despise mixed raced people especially those who are named Africans, yet it disgusts me when they spit on their customs,  cultures, traditions, languages and religion

THE NUBIANS OF MOROCCO

It pleases me to know that dark skinned Moroccans are nubians but in the country itself dark skinned people are known as Morro and are not Berbers but as Amazigh. Morro people are dark olive skinned toned with wooly hair. You may also also call them Melas (meaning people with melanin)

In Morocco both fair skinned people and dark skinned people are blinded from reality. In Morocco, fair skinned people loath, beat, curse and cuss dark skinned Moroccans to the ground and both worlds live in separate areas due to hatred. Racism due to colonisation in Morocco has defeated the Morro people,  mindset, acceptance of their pretty selves. On the other hand like most countries in Africa, if you come across fair skinned people. 

Their straight hair, snowy skin and colourful eyes are considered perfection, angelic and blessed. Why would the perception be so crooked you ask, well the answer is BRAINWASH.

As I said before it is no one's fault that Africa is scared but it is us who are responsible for the killings directly or indirectly because  we fail to see the beauty of God's diversity

My people whether fair skinned or dark skinned are so much beautiful in Morocco and even if their true culture, customs, traditions and religion has been taken away from them, they still thrive as an African Proverb that says "a mirror is not the true reflection of a living soul but the Creator of all things is"  El-nathan  Shekinah Sidu

RISE MORRO, RISE NUBIA, RISE KUSHITE FOR YOUR LIGHT HAS COME