Her basic framework was this:
Black women are mad at me. Here's why: (posts 1-10 of people bashing her). It's horrible and awful what Black women and girls go through every day of their lives since birth...BUT I'm white and I went through something horrible once with my hair so I deserve to be on a Black hair site because natural is in the dictionary. Anything that's for Black women is surely for me too. When did they get to have something of their own in this country?[/I]
Her complete dismissal and then turning to playing the victim is not eloquent. It's insulting that she even attempted to verbalize her plight as the same as Black girls and women, EVEN after it was clearly spelled out for her. She could just put her hair in one long braid or a bun and magically be accepted again. Not so for Black women.
Why is it that black folks always have to play nice? Why must we be the bigger person?
I don't quite understand the purpose and reasoning.
Next, we should have a WET tv station I guess. or HWCUs (oh but we already have those...they're called regla tv and regla schools).
Don't know about you but in the end I want to hear "well done", so I will try to be the bigger person.
I have absolutely no interested in seeing another sphere of Black life be "Columbused".
All. Of . THISOT: I happen to see an Article regarding the BET Awards and the press was dissing Nikki Minaj. (I probably spelled her name wrong). But I understood perfectly why Ms. Minaj did what she did and said what she said at the BET Awards about that White Girl (wannabe rapper) Because they try to come in on everything we have and try to take over.
LHCF was created because we were pretty much kicked off the white womens board. We all used to post on long hair forum and they were really crappy with the black women. Then they suggested we get our own sub-forum, then they didn't want us there either so Beverly created this board for us. Now they want to sing kumbayah? They have zero desire to "understand" our hair other than to assure themselves that theirs is more desirable...lol. nah, they can stay in their lane IMO.
LHCF was created because we were pretty much kicked off the white womens board. We all used to post on long hair forum and they were really crappy with the black women. Then they suggested we get our own sub-forum, then they didn't want us there either so Beverly created this board for us. Now they want to sing kumbayah? They have zero desire to "understand" our hair other than to assure themselves that theirs is more desirable...lol. nah, they can stay in their lane IMO.
Yes GoldenRule, I remember quite well. I was a member lurking over on the "other site" prior to LHCF but the info seamed really inadequate. I was also a member of Blackwomenshairandbody (or something like that) on Yahoo. This was around 1999-00, when LHCF started it was so refreshing to say the least. They had no info over on "other site" and I got the sense that I was NOT welcomed.
Natural Hair Drama & Division: Are Black Women Th…: http://youtu.be/7QlYCcKcffc
My Natural Sistahs response to CN Blog/Twitter situation. Good video!
Sent from my Speak & Spell using LHCF
I have no clue how what she's saying relates to this WW in our space.
My answer depends on whether or not Lorraine Massey was the original person to bring conditioner washing into the natural mainstream.
Why is it that black folks always have to play nice? Why must we be the bigger person?
Yeah...all they talked about was MONOI oil, what shampoos smelled the best and the cutest scrunchies. I mean, a lot of them already had really long hair. There isn't much you can do to it once it's that long.
Subscribe, It's a reference to a spiritual, iirc. God would be the one saying it, not slave masters and such.Who do you want to hear that from? Cause a lot of black people between 1650 - to 1850 were patted on the back and told "well done".
You think we as a people have gotten this far because we were the bigger person?
They always do.She knew damn well what she was doing!