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Originally Posted by IncontRHOllable
However, it still leaves me wondering why we take offense to the term? Back in the day, if someone were to call me nappy or say my hair is nappy, I would have been ready to fight, but why is that? The term nappy only means hair that is tightly coiled/curled. For the overwhelming majority of black people, that is how our hair is BEFORE the press/relaxers. I encountered this dilemma years ago and did some soul searching of why I felt the term nappy was bad. In my soul searching I always turn to God, so I opened the Word and realized that I am created in his image, and that includes my NAPPY hair, not to mention that my Savior, the one in whom I believe and worship, had nappy hair (description hair like wool is used to describe Jesus' hair). My conclusion was that if nappy hair was good enough for Jesus why isn't it good enough for me?
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I am really glad you posted this. I have been struggling with this for a while and finally decided to wear my natural hair (it wasn't that big of a transition because I only relaxed a couple of times a year and pressed in between).