LET’S TALK ABOUT PERMS
If we think Black women perming their hair and wearing weaves are the only ones consumed by the White aesthetic, we’re already losing. The overt is always the easiest thing to critique. Let’s try examining the casual things too. Not just perm boxes, but Christianity too.
No one wants to talk about the religious perm we use to relax our religion. How we throw Christianity on to straighten our spirituality. Who “going natural” with their spiritual beliefs? Who gone give up the religious crack they put on their head known as Christianity?
What happens when we stop perming our head, but continue to perm our mind?
Posted on March 17, 2011, in Critical Thinking, Free Thought. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
ok! SAY IT!
oh my goodness!! WHATCHU SAY!
this comparison is truly genius. it disturbs me the way in which we’ve only begun to look at the damaging effects of things like perms, but not enough black people are willing to question the way in which they’ve been converted to a European (and Eurocentric) religion. theres a part in a poem by maya angelou where she says “..because we have banished the gods of our ancestors, our children cannot pray…” i think that fits with this so much.
this is a great post!
Truly enlightening.
I Really Wants too knoow what perm does to your hair my hair is very nappy and a lot of split ends you think perm is the best way to get my hair straigten..?