129. "RE: Why go natural? My personal reasons for going au natural" In response to In response to 0
I admit it is not so unrealistic to say that "going natural" could be more of a fad for some people over others. However, since I am a natural sista(been one for 5 years)if it can help my fellow queens(and kings too, but there is not much of a stigma placed on black men who ditch the texturizers and the hair clippers)see one can be BLACK and BEAUTIFUL and NATURAL too then by all means let them experience this through a fad. Maybe one day this "fad" will turn into a LIBERATING FEELING that one does not have to conform to WESTERNIZED STANDARDS of beauty which have OPPRESSED us for way too long. For me, going natural was at first a very scary experience. At that stage of my life I was still bound by the generational effects of PSYCHOLOGICAL BRAINWASHING that the oppressor has placed on virtually ALL people of the AFRIKAN DIASPORA. So eventually I went back to CHEMICALIZING my hair. After a while I TRULY WOKE UP and saw that I just wanted to please the people around me who had not yet become(and still haven't)comfortable with their own natural BeYOUty. Now I'm happily nappy and LOVING IT.
Jah Bless,
msmalele
"MANCIPATE yourself from MENTAL SLAVERY none but ourselves can free our minds.""Redemption Song" Bob Marley
"Don't remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain." Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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NATURALLY
Naturally is what I prefer to be not PERMED or PROCESSED to satisfy she or HE but me only. . . 'cause you see the kinks, coils, nap or whatever you may call them are a JAH-given gift not a curse not something negative But something to uplift. . . my culture via the Motherland Obviously it's my choice if I decide not to take a hand and stick it in a box pulling out some straightener to tame my natty locs For love of myself can't be gained chemically It comes from within quite naturally.
Since Naturally Black is Naturally Beautiful I must be proud And naturally, Black and Beautiful Who always was a trifle Yellow And plain though proud Before.
I've given up pomades Having spent the summer sunning And feeling naturally free (If I die from skin cancer oh well-one less black and beautiful me) Yet no Agency spends millions To prevent my summer tanning And who trembles nightly With the fear of their lily cities being swallowed By a summer ocean of naturally woolly hair?
But I've bought my can of Natural Hair Spray Made and marketed in Watts Still thinking more Proud beautiful black women Could better make and use Black bread.