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“One thing a satin bonnet is not meant to be is a hair accessory” — MsVCharles Natural Hair & Satin video.
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There Is Nothing Wrong with Dark Skin
You don’t have to come from Africa to have dark skin. You can come from any part of the world and be born with a darker shade of skin.
Instead of demonizing dark skin. Understand the beauty in color.
Reblogging this for the message and also for people who don’t know what actual dark skin is. When a writer writes a character as having “dark skin” this is what they are talking about. Every single one of these women are beautiful.
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"Hair styles in the African-American community then, as now, carried a certain weight or meaning, and whether or not to straighten one’s hair - conking it with various chemicals - was a contentious issue. Until he went to prison five years later, Malcolm would continue to conk his hair, though he eventually came to disdain the practice. As an NOI leader, he would routinely recite this episode from his early life as the ultimate act of self-debasement. Yet the 1940s aesthetic of the conk was far more complicated than the mature Malcolm could admit. Most middle-class Black males, as well as many popular jazz artists, rarely tortured their hair in this way, preferring a short, natural style. The conk was the emblem of the hippest, street-savvy Black, the choice of hustlers, pimps, professional gamblers, and criminals. It was directly influenced by wavy-haired Latinos, whom Blacks sought to emulate. Similarly, the zoot suit uniform was an act of defiance against white standards of behavior. In the wave of national patriotism following Pearl Harbor and the United States’ going to war, zoot-suiters were widely identified with draft-dodging. For this reason, in 1942 the War Production Board banned their production and sale. In 1943, hundreds of Mexican Americans and Blacks wearing the suits were beaten up by uniformed sailors in Los Angeles’s streets, prompting the city council to declare the wearing of a zoot suit a misdemeanor. Similar smaller riots took place in Baltimore, Detroit, San Diego, and New York City. Malcolm’s obsession with jazz, Lindy Hopping, zoot suits, and illegal hustling encompassed the various symbols of the cultural war waged between oppressed urban Black youth and the Black bourgeoisie."
Manning Marable - Chapter 2, The Legend of Detroit Red, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (via poemsofthedead)
they criminalized zoot suits then as they do saggy pants now. whats changed?
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It’s why they went after la mota, too. The damn Mexicans and Blacks were spliffin’ it up all jazzy n free. Can’t have that.
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