Teachable Moments - Melissa Harris-Perry
Melissa Harris-Perry's Teachable Moment on
her MSNBC News show will make you smile.
She is educating her white audience to our
black hair idiosyncracies. From the hot comb;
the kitchen (& not the one you eat in); weaves -
synthetic or human hair; braid extensions; the
silk head wrap; nappy...the other "N" word; dreadlocks are not dreadful -- call them locs.
I do disagree with Melissa's last few words that
a Black woman with straightened hair is not trying to be white...Maybe not consciously -- but a sister with straightened hair -- subconsciously buys into the Eurocentric standard of beauty instead of being her naturally beautiful Afrocentric self.
Posted by Karen Halliburton at 6/18/2012 9:05 PM 
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Tags: politics of black hair melissa harris-perry kitchen braid extensions nappy head wrap dreadlocks locs eurocentric standard of beauty afrocentric straightened hair black hair relaxed hair permed hair
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