Wake up, wake up, wake up, its tha first of the month!! Predictable?
Anywho,Happy Tuesday!
My weekend was an interesting one to say the least. Friday Ms Gold & I attend a going away gathering, a mutual friend was headed to China for a couple of months and wanted to send our blessings with her. While there we had discussions about various things of unimportance from Real Chance @ Love to T.O's ego however, a hair conversation resulted from miscellaneous references to us natural chicks in attendance.
In the midst of this exchange there seemed to be an immediate divide in the exchange, of course the relaxed women felt the need to defend themselves and this intrigued me. Do you think the presence of non relaxed hair automatically signals to women who choose alternate routes of hair care that they cannot be accepted?
The conversation wasn't intense at all because we were all friends and we truly could care less about what your relationship with yo scalp may be. However, I imagine had we all been strangers the discussion would have deviated from personal choice to political significance. Where the relaxed sistas at, I know you have an opinion, do we possess an unwelcoming aura to our counterparts?
This is not a new issue though, lord knows we've had our issues about self segregation since the indoctrination that took place during slavery. Please see Spike Lee's portrayal of this never ending issue that inspired the title:
What's really going on?!
FirstLady
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