From: HF.GTD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Gabrielle Daniels)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Why we go for non-black women:
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:18:30 -0800
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In article <1467@blue.cis.pitt.edu>,
pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene) writes:
>
>Let me state that I am an incorrigible believer in black form and the
>grace and aura of the natural beuty of black women every where between
>the two poles.
>
>I will stick my neck out and ask: what is a black woman in the American
>context? I know the unambigous answer to this question in my home land.
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Hum.

>Consider the following:
>
>1) Black women very conspicously perm and style their hair in the latest
>   white girl fashions, going to the extent, sometimes, of even dying it
>in the various shades in which white hair exists.
>
>This circumstance presents as a situation where these people have conceeded
>that white women are more beutiful than they are. And if this is so, why
>would they blame any one who went for the real rather than the fake thing.
>
>Although this will never affect me, no black woman with permed hair is
>going convince me that anywhere in her she feels more beutiful than a
>white woman.
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Look, Paul.  At this moment, my hair is permed. I like this way,
after having the "wet look," "natural," "braids (with and without
weaves)."  I am an experimenter, really and so would I say, are
other sisters. We go through fashion changes as well as political
ones.
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Most of the time, we dress our hair and bodies for ourselves. I
frequent a black beautician in the neighborhood.  She takes care of
my hair to see that it's not overblown, overkinked and then some.
Women (Afra-Americans) check each other and say, hmmm.  That's
interesting.  Wonder if I can do/wear that later on...  And if
brother man likes my look, ten times betta.
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I've heard this number since 1966, that a real girl or woman has
her hair natural, whether "bush" or short 'fro.  And really, it's
not the hair BUT WHETHER ONE HAS A PROCESSED MIND.
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I found it interesting that the Black Muslim women in the "X" movie
did have their hair "done" under those veils.
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Subconsciously, I admit, I may want to look like a white woman.  But
most of the time, I like what I see, when it is my choice to be
either straight (permed) or kinked (nappy girl hair!) It's easy for
me to care for it than the bush I used to wear.  I'm simply not not
going through trips and changes over whether my hair is PC enuff for
the brothers and sisters.  What I wear, how I dress my hair is also
an extension of how I see myself.  In other words, attitude and
pride are just as important.  Lotta times people are asking me where
I get my rigs, shoes and hair.  I carry myself as the exceptional
artist woman that I am.  I wanna be different.  I wanna stand out.
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 That can't be. It violates the rules of nature. A white woman
>will be the most (and maybe even only) beutiful blonde haired woman.
>Equally too, a balck woman will be the most beutiful in those attributes
>that are perculialy black. For me these are the only ones that matter.
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Well, great.  Fantastic.  But the shoe won't fit for me and several
million other sisters who'll just look you up and down.  However,
other sister females who'll continue to be natural will listen and
learn...
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Food for thought.  Did the Egyptians or Nubians ever unkink their
naps?
From: patm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Pat Murphy)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:52:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Dizzy Gillespie has passed
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA