No it's not just hair!

[Shinagami]

Being forced? By who? Nobody's forcing you to do anything.

[CapnAwesome]

All that is still your opinion, which you have a right to, but it holds no weight in whether people should actually do it. I've seen people of all races with hairstyles I really don't think suits them, but am I going to go up to them and say "why have you dyed your hair blonde when you look like Michelle Obama?"? No, that's a jackass thing to do.

And oh "it's unnatural!" - Yes just like living in a house, wearing clothes and keeping yourself warm with central heating. If "natural" is what you care about, ditch all your personal belongings and go live in the nearest forest.

Hyperbole much? Yeah, my opinion is that it looks like crap when people mimic other races hair. This is a forum for expressing opinions. I don't know why you say this as though it's some magical end to the discussion.

[The Valkyrie]

I couldn't do an afro.

My hair is naturally straight.  The moment I washed it I'd likely look like I've been struck by lightning!

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  Really.  Just take a deep breath and leave it at that. 

Besides, the kinky hair is not just a black phenomenon.  Here is Anne Lamotte, a once wonderful writer who now writes novels so Christian I despair reading them.

She's white and blond.  Here is her hair in it's natural state:



Here's how she wears it since a couple of black girl friends taught her how to deal with the kinky hair she didn't like:



Should she straighten it because she's white?  May she not wear dreadlocks?

She looks part black.

[Regina]

Not seeing the black tbh

Also random but kind of related tangent - I'm wondering who did Rachel Dolezal's hair. All this time she had the world fooled she was mixed, but some zealous woman or gay out there knew her hair wasn't naturally curly. It's a mindfuck tbh.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Not seeing the black tbh

Also random but kind of related tangent - I'm wondering who did Rachel Dolezal's hair. All this time she had the world fooled she was mixed, but some zealous woman or gay out there knew her hair wasn't naturally curly. It's a mindfuck tbh.

Carol Channing?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...Warren.jpg

[BrokenQuill92]

Not seeing the black tbh

Also random but kind of related tangent - I'm wondering who did Rachel Dolezal's hair. All this time she had the world fooled she was mixed, but some zealous woman or gay out there knew her hair wasn't naturally curly. It's a mindfuck tbh.

That got me too! There's a beautian out there that knows something and we girls tell our beautians EVERYTHING.

[vixene]

Not this again [emoji19] stop giving black women a bad name. There are far more pressing issues within black communities.

[Napoléon]

It is totally ironic that afros aren't really acceptable until white yuppies start doing it. Give me a break.

Yeah... hyperbole...

I see what you mean.

[Nope]

My husband has very coarse hair that grows up and out but not down. It doesn't even curl but just frizzes. I could see if he was a female doing twist outs to turn that frizz into pretty curls.

This is sort of off the subject but the discussion on curls interests me.

BQ, you gave a number and letter for curly type hair. What would my husband's hair be? He keeps it very short. I went to the naturally curly site and  I believe that my oldest daughter has between 2b and 2c.

I don't see my son's type hair listed in the photos on this site either. Like my husband, his hair doesn't grow down, but he has definite curls in his hair. My husband's hair doesn't really curl. It just frizzes out in a cloud.

http://www.naturallycurly.com/hair-types