Tight Curls or Silky Straight???

[serenity_24]

Originally posted by allsmiles_22:
Like AKA2D'91 said "THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD". One cannot sit around and weigh the slavery affects of whether to perm or not to perm-that's a waste of time. We as black people got too much going on in life-THE HERE AND THE NOW-to worry about that.

If you want examples- our current political situation, the AIDS crisis in Africa, the rise of AIDS among your black women, the poverty in our black communities, the health problems of the black population, etc. These are some real issues that we need to address because this "bad white world" isn't.

We need to focus on the BIGGER, SERIOUS and more SUBSTANTIAL problems rather than the insignificant ones. Once we have established our position in society, then we can focus on how we look in it.

My solution: We all just need to put our relaxed or permed heads together and find way to combat the pertinent problems at hand.

It's not about how we LOOK, it's about what we THINK of ourselves as African-Americans.

If you never uderstand the past how can you begin to know the reasons why things happen in the presemt or how to deal with them in the future? That is the very reason there is a thread going about Sell Outs. It's the same issue: How you feel about being black.

Think about this: The thread about Babyface was a big topic. It was mentioned that the rest of the world doesn't want to look at dark skinned women with short hair on TV. How can a person that cant stand the look of themselves in a natural state (without makeup and no perm) fight for the cause to get more shows on TV that represent the full spectrum of African Americans? I would think that that person would be indiferent if not opposed to the cause. To them it would be such a small issue. (remember I am not speaking of anyone in particular)

It's also amazing to me to think that we proclaim to be educated and cant do more than one task at a time. I feel we can have as many discussions as we want, that doesn't mean we are not in our communities actually addressing some of the "Bigger Issues".