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Originally posted by Poplife:
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?
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Pop,
I think you and I have had this type of discussion before. If I found it would make me sick then I guess I'd find an alternative to relaxing my hair. My hair isn't CURLY it's KINKY
. Right now with the full plate that I carry, it's much easier for me to get my relaxer every 6 weeks and continue to wrap it at night. If I tried to go natural right now I'd turn up with a head of moss not hair
Why not just respect other's choices to perm as we accept your choice to go natural?