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Originally posted by Talaxe:
In retrospect, if I wasn't a business major, trying to break into a white, male dominated society and had longer arms, I would let my hair be natural. But I am being realistic. I wouldn't even wear cornrows or "black hair styles" to an interview
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I'm feeling you Talaxe. I too am a business major, but I refuse to perm/press for anyone other than myself when I go to interviews. My mom hates to see me leave the house and go to nice business looking like the black Little Orphan Annie in a suit, but like my dad says "Someone's got to do it". I can't sit around and wait for another generation of black women to make the natural look acceptable in Cooperate America. I have to be me...NOW! *lol*
Luckily people tend to see my hair as apart of my character. I guess curls just suit my personality because I am sweet, upbeat, and on the feisty side. Also when I said my hair is curly, this is not a euphemism for kinks. It means actually CURLY.
Back to the original topic: I wonder why it is so hard for some black people to accept perms and white mentality are historically intertwined. Why won't people address where their "preference" is rooted. Why the resistance. I think it’s sad that in some places so many people have relaxers that non-blacks forget that our hair is not naturally straight. I definitely don’t think people her perm want to be white, because even when I had a relaxer my friends said that I was rather afro-centric. But ladies, if scientist found that relaxers were making women across the world sick, how many of you would stop? Why or why not?