“Repeatedly ask” “pretend it’s not hurtful”
It’s true, all that famous self restraint can take its toll.
Imagine being whipped up into a constant state of stress by your race ideology which you inflict on yourself?
Imagine nursing bitterness and anger in your heart against others only to experience the rottenness of soul that comes from being bitter … even as the wound you are inflicting on yourself does no harm to those you despise?
There are no safe spaces when your real enemy, the one who is really harming you and teaching your kids to do likewise, is looking back at you in the mirror.
And as for "safe spaces" every one of them would say "damn it,this country is one huge safe space!"
I once picked up a leaflet on “white privilege” out of curiosity. I read as far as... blacks must walk further to get their hair products at a drug store... and quit reading.
I do not have to imagine living in a constant state of stress.
I have been hearing this fable for years.... white people wanting to touch black people’s hair. Nobody I know has the slightest desire to touch the hair.
I have been hearing this fable for years.... white people wanting to touch black people’s hair. Nobody I know has the slightest desire to touch the hair.
Just last night me and all my white friends went out into the local black community and went on a black hair touching spree. I mean, that’s all we’ve dreamed about forever, to touch some black hair.
What is it with black people and the obsession with their “special” hair?
Black Fragility
Lived all over the world.
Had a bunch of people touch my hair. Mostly because I was the first person they had seen with hair like mine.
It annoyed me as a child.
But when I became an adult (or more accurately, a teen) I put away childish things.
Something this person would be advised to do.
And who the heck says “you talk white.”? Sounds like something a black person would say.
So tell them to shut up.
Quit living in the past — slavery’s long over and gone — or you’ll have no present and no future.
With all the problems these people face, they worry about hair, skin color of other blacks, white people won’t pay attention to them, what white people eat, the food is too bland, etc, etc..;
Some kids were always touching my hair, because it was long.
Some would even maliciously put gum in it. I’d get home, and my mom would see huge knot and take it out with grease. Some kids were mean, some kids were nice. That’s life.
They’re like children constantly whining for attention. It’s a constant pounding everyday on the internet.
The only known serial hair toucher/sniffer is current puppet president.
Oh, for crying out loud.
I don’t know anyone who goes around wanting to touch anyone else’s hair.
I have no desire to handle someone else’s hair. You never know how clean it is or what might be living in it.
Can’t wait for February to be done with.
The enslavement of Africans in America began in the 1500s.
Some slaves were sent to Brazil and the Carribean areas, but not the territory of the United States. No colonies there except for the one in North Carolina which disappeared without a trace. So bad history. More importantly, virtually all those picked up by slave ships had been enslaved by Africans in Africa.
Lots of space in Africa
She says people of many ages and all races out in public ask to touch her hair, that it looks sharp but feels soft, and that many black people are fascinated by the style and admire it.
One of the hardest things about being a minority is that you often don't realize that your experiences aren't necessarily unique to your racial, sexual or ethnic group.
In other words, get over yourself. Every group has good and friendly folks and also jerks and aholes. Go for the good stuff and ignore most of the rest.