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Topic: Dark Skin Brothers Hair Posted: April 01 2005 at 5:23pm
Why do dark skin brothers catch so much hell about their hair texture? Although most Africans are dark or brown skin with coarse hair. Here in America it is seen as "nappy or bad hair". Light skin brothers with the "good hair" are seen a good looking. That's not cool!
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 5:43pm
Did you know that most of the African slaves came from Nigeria, Gana, Niger, Senegal, Sierre Leone, and Gambia. All countries on the West coast of Africa. Some came from other African countries but most from the West. Most are dark or brown skin people with coarse hair. That's why I can't understand this hang up with coarse hair. Tell me if you feel me. Please reply. I want to know your thoughts on this matter.
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 5:48pm
Here in America I think there is a disconnect with Africans. I like sporting waves. Been doing it since I was young. But have you notice that most brothers cut their hair low to hide the naps or wear hats. In the civil right era we sported afro's. Now we hide it with ball caps. Just thinking about hair and how it effect African American Males. You Dig! Thoughts........
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 5:52pm
I know I try to hide the naps cause I got "nappy roots". I'm proud of my culture, but I don't think I can be myself. America is not ready for NAPPY ROOTS. They think it's bad, hell black people think it's bad. My light skin mother think it's bad, so I wave it or braid it or cut it off.
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Posted: April 03 2005 at 11:03am
One good thing about having coarse hair is that it can do things that other hair textures can't do. Course hair makes the best dreadlocks, the best braids, the best platts, and............ coarse hair can make a political statement as well.
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Posted: April 12 2005 at 4:42pm
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Posted: April 12 2005 at 6:57pm
lol yo im mean i love being black but some times it aint easy .....at skool teachers pick on me the most to answer questions cause im black ....i be tell my friends but they dont understand ......this is problay the only site i no the i can be black lol
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Posted: April 13 2005 at 4:53pm
Dig it. Now days people try so hard to fit in that if you don't act, LOOK, or think like them then they think something's wrong with you.
I give props to all BLACK MEN/men of color for having enough faith to be different. This is what makes a true leader.
We been through hell and still going through it right now.
Discrimination against Black men is very high in the US.
Have yall been peepin all these Brothers getting put in jailed, put down, degraded, and even dissed by our own sister's. They saying we sorry, we gay, we DL brothers, we given them AIDS, we don't want to work when they know that women are more accepted in corporate America than Black men. It's a sad state of affairs!
It's getting hard for a brother to keep his head up.
But like TUPAK said "You gotta keep your head up"
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Posted: April 14 2005 at 5:00pm
Yo im fron Nigeria but p[eople be thinking i got indian or puerto rican in my family but yo how can i get waves on the top and back of my head cus i got it crazy on the sides and i be brushing it alot.
Holla at ya boy BK/QN finest. My waves is so lethal makes you sick to death.
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Posted: April 15 2005 at 10:27pm
Not sure if any one remember, but before the year 2000. Dark skinned brothers were in. No one would be ashamed if people said their complection made them look like Wesly Snipes or Eddie Murphy. Its one of those social fads.
A few of my white friends say they hate being cracked on for being so pale. They keep saying how the guys with tans get all the girls. LOL
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Posted: April 16 2005 at 12:17pm
Kimboking your right. Boy do I remember!
Now people with tans may get all the girls, but people without tans get all the J.O.B.'s. And people without tans can afford all the girls/womem. Confused!
How can we as a people get over thesesocio-economic issues when we don't support each other. Many of us Black/tan men can't even afford to support a family.
We can't expect others to respect us when our own women won't or don't respect us. We need support and motivaion to feel strong and that comes from the family. Family is not just your brothers and sisters, but your wife or girlfriend, but also your entire race.
These are issues that our so call "leaders" and "head of households" must resolve or we will be doomed to keep repeating this cycle of family destruction.
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Posted: April 16 2005 at 12:33pm
That's why I use this emotion because it's true in many cases but not in all cases.
You see everbody wants to be like the "Have Not's", you know the people with the permant tans, But nobody wants to have their economic problems or family problems.
Did you know that their are 5 females to each Black male? This in itself causes many of our problem. Too much competition for one group and not enough for the other group.
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Posted: April 16 2005 at 12:40pm
Us males are out numbered so we are in trouble without role models. That's why the women are doing so much better than us because they have mama, grandmama, and now great grandmama, great great grandmothers that are still living, mentor programs, and now business women too.
Ask yourself what do we have?
We have each other! Males
That's why I volunteer at the Dallas Juvenile Justice Center so I can help all these young fatherless boys. Somebody got to do it.
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Posted: April 16 2005 at 6:13pm
Thats so nice. Makes a brother want to cry.
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Holla at ya boy BK/QN finest. My waves is so lethal makes you sick to death.
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emotion because it's true in many cases but not in all cases. 
