africanamerican.beauty.hair.makeup.extensions.natural.perm.self-esteem
I'm assuming i should start with African-American. Its become apparent to me that my race seems to be the most controversial when it comes to the IDEAL BEAUTY. This proclaimed race that can range between extreme ideas of perfection. This world of differences where we pick and choose, whats right and whats wrong. This division we've created to justify self-worth. To be a race so diverse, it seems that who we are [AFRICAN, YET AMERICAN] is what has made this division. The division, beauty.
My skin is dark, there for I am African to some extent. My skin is fair, therefore to some extent I am African. To some extent, I am African but African isn't NATURAL for America. Africa tells me that my hair is thick, my hair is coarse, my hair is beautiful. America tells me, my hair is nappy, it's not right, therefore i should change it. Don't get me wrong, no one person has ever walked up to me, pointed and said "CHANGE YOUR HAIR"... but we are in the west and we do as westerners do.
Because of this, there's an internal combat with ourselves, with our people. Unconscious yet extreme. Some have a fight, with being "me" or being what my people have been taught for years that "i" should be.
MY POV: I feel that who YOU are, natural, permed, bald... whatever IT maybe, if IT makes you HAPPY, if it makes YOU, YOU... BE IT! This war is only psychology, judging whether someone is "THEM-SELF" because of their hair is pointless. There is no right, there is no wrong.
As a people... we are to some extent, AFRICAN... we are to some extent, AMERICAN. But there is no doubt, that who makes US happy...is ourselves, and that's the greatest choice of all.
the bestie and i.