When I typed "hair" in Google's search engine, I see very few pictures of African American girls' hair. To my surprise there was one lady that stood out to me. She was stretching her hair out and looking at it as if she didn't like it. This woman was looking at her hair as if she wanted it to be something more. Hair to me is not everything, but society seems to think differently. I realize that you are treated differently when you have a perm or you're natural, just like if you are African American or White. It matters how people wear their hair because whether we believe it or not, we all follow beauty standards. But what happens when your hair does not follow the norm? Or it is constantly getting critiqued?
Black girls rock their hair beautifully. But I've seen many websites make fun of that. We are always rocking puffs and afro's that are not like white girls who mostly have long straight hair. There are websites like the Google ¨hair¨ search that are always critiquing us in a negative way. They immediately put white and black hair types ( and ultimately girls) at odds with each other, simply because we look (and are made) different from one another.
When websites show two African American women (or one white woman and a black woman) side by side with different hair types like "She has long pretty straight hair¨ and ¨her hair is dry, matted together, and tangled," they easily give away which type of girl you are talking about. Just like when you say "Her eyes are blue but, her eyes are a boring shade of brown." I see that our physical appearance is not always seen as beautiful or desirable, and this treatment to us isn't right at all, especially today. It is 2018 ya´ll!
By try to manipulate how African American hair is supposed to look, websites are showing an act of racism, which I don't believe in. What I do believe is: hair on anyone is beautiful. It shouldn't matter if you are white or black. XOXO
Black girls rock their hair beautifully. But I've seen many websites make fun of that. We are always rocking puffs and afro's that are not like white girls who mostly have long straight hair. There are websites like the Google ¨hair¨ search that are always critiquing us in a negative way. They immediately put white and black hair types ( and ultimately girls) at odds with each other, simply because we look (and are made) different from one another.
When websites show two African American women (or one white woman and a black woman) side by side with different hair types like "She has long pretty straight hair¨ and ¨her hair is dry, matted together, and tangled," they easily give away which type of girl you are talking about. Just like when you say "Her eyes are blue but, her eyes are a boring shade of brown." I see that our physical appearance is not always seen as beautiful or desirable, and this treatment to us isn't right at all, especially today. It is 2018 ya´ll!
By try to manipulate how African American hair is supposed to look, websites are showing an act of racism, which I don't believe in. What I do believe is: hair on anyone is beautiful. It shouldn't matter if you are white or black. XOXO
