Most of the time, people come up to me asking if my hair is weave or if I have extensions. I'm pretty sure this happens to a lot of black women today. It's like people think that we can't have good hair or something. Many of us have great hair from our parents or from taking great care of it. Black women can have naturally beautiful curly hair. We don't necessarily have to "train" our hair to be that way.
Another trend against natural hair is black girls going to school with afros and getting sent home because someone in the school system doesn't see it fit for them to wear their hair like they want to wear it. For example, an African-American high school student Tayjha Delevelux from the Bahamas was threatened by her principal because her principal thought her hair was "untidy" and "unruly".
Additionally, the principal commented that hair "looked like it hadn't been combed in days." Last time I checked, school is for children to get their education to one day pursue a career, not to be judged because their hairstyle doesn't fit someone else's standards.
These girls are trying to learn and get through school but how can they if they are constantly getting suspended for this stupid reason and having to fight to go to school. A person's hair has absolutely nothing to do with school. I could see if they were getting suspended and expelled for fighting or something but come on...hair?!
Also there is nothing wrong with black women getting weave, braids or hair extension. People try and say that this is black women trying to have hair like "white women". That is not the case. All these chemicals such as perms are dangerous to our hair and can cause a lot of damage.
Getting weaves and braids are ways to protect the hair without have to make an permanent damages to the hair. I mean it's nice to try something different once in a while. Braids are good to have for maybe 2-3 months before taking them out and during the time your hair is braided it is growing.
We should be confident and proud of embracing our different hairstyles and textures and not be ashamed because it doesn't fix into someone else's standards. We should be lifting up our black women and not shaming them because their hair and allowing us all be different and unique with our hair because at the end of the day, that hair is the hair attached your head.
