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Unregistered(d)	Re: Very thought-provoking	#21	[-]
Posts: 0 (02/27/02 15:11:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have to agree with LBellatrix. There is a definete culture difference between Africans living in America and Black Americans. And when you are an offspring of an Afrincan living in America you sometimes get caught between the two cultures. For instance. I am first generation American. I've never had chitlins and lots of other "soul food". And I hate it when Black American's dog me because I'm not familiar with it.. ("You ain't black") Ok...I'm off my soap box.
Unregistered(d)	Re: Africans and Locks	#22	[-]
Posts: 0 (02/27/02 15:19:43) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Z3000zee, threading is simplying taking sections of the hair and wrapping them in thread then bending them to a particular style. Here is a picture of it: pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL...424093.ptp
Unregistered(d)	Amen Chroma!	#23	[-]
Posts: 0 (02/28/02 06:11:00) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Right here with you girl! I like to call our condition 'cultural hybridization' -- "African-American to the fullest extent of the term." Just remember--- there's no shame to it. I started caring less about being 'black enough' when i left high school. PS- Where are your people from?
ceas	threading	#24	[-]
Posts: 113 (02/28/02 08:35:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Noko, my Mom threaded my hair as a little girl. In Jamaica it was accepted and praised as beautiful. When I got the the states (the south) at age 6, I was ridiculed and called "Medusa". That was a learning experience for me. I quickly learned that many American black kids had a disdain for anything African. I remember at a later age, watching a documentary on African culture, most of the kids in the class were snickering and laughing. I realized they were ashamed and embarrassed to be associated with "African-ness". I hope things are different today, this was in the 80's. Have things changed?
Unregistered(d)	Re: threading	#25	[-]
Posts: 0 (02/28/02 09:11:31) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	don't mean to butt in ,but nope ceas, it hasn't changed at all imo. i'm african - american, and i have strong features. i was called every derogatory name in the book because of it (that was also in the 80's) by children and adults. it seems that it hasn't changed much these days. i know children african and african - american that are teased constantly.
Unregistered(d)	Re: threading	#26	[-]
Posts: 0 (02/28/02 16:55:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ceas, I think the designs/styles are beautiful. They definately aren't excepted here. A friend of mine is from Nigeria. I met her sister one time who had her hair threaded. She asked me about my twists and I asked her about the threading. She seemed to be wearing it proudly but when I asked her she seemed almost embarrassed by it. "People don't do it here." It is interesting. I have noticed similar styles among lower income Blacks. It seems that sometimes they have preserved the West African aesthetic of our ancestors - flamboyant hairstyles - as opposed to the European aesthetic - conservative styles. One time I wore my hair in a style that had these young Black kids trippin'. All they could do was make fun and point because they were not use to seeing my hairstyle. One child asked me, "What kind of style is that?" "Afropuffs!" I say proudly. "Well, what is that in the back?" "My hair is just out." "You like that style?" "Yes." I grin at him. Oh yeh...we have a long way to go...
z3000zee	Re: Africans and Locks	#27	[-]
Posts: 77 (02/28/02 20:18:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks Noko. .
lyndaslocs	Re: Locs	#28	[-]
Posts: 1 (10/04/05 08:56:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Black people in America have had to improvise a response to living in an oppressive society much like a musician improvises a piece of music. We may not do things the way it was done traditionally way back when, but we have synthesized a unique culture. Our locks are really our own contibution to the world. It's good to get background on what locks mean in different African cultures, but the textures of hair we have will lock if we let it and it looks beautiful when it does. I don't appreciate people from other cultures looking down on us for locking our hair. If you don't like locked hair, no problem. Just let us be.

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