They say the truth ALWAYS hurts...
What part of "nappy" didn't the parents like?
Was the problem with that a white women read the book, or was it that the book touched on the good/bad hair issue for black women?
IMO it was the latter. The woman did not write the book. The parents ought to be thankful that someone took the time to read to their children. Yes black people DO have knotted up, screwed up (as in tightly coiled) or nappy hair. Our hair is this way because of our indingenous (sp?) climate. Our hair was/is designed to catch the moisture or sweat our bodies would produce if we were still in the Motherland! Our DNA does not know about air conditioning and the 21st Century. It doesn't know knot [sic] to curl up, kink up, nap up anymore because we are just going to process it anyway. The issue is with us accepting our own beauty, not with white people accepting it.
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