Black Women In Bomb Bikinis

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No wonder they copy us, we’re an entire vibe no matter what we’re doing. No one steals looks from the trailer park, but trust the hood influences fashion. We invented the beauty industry so, duh (read Women’s History: Madam C.J Walker). We also taught white people hygiene, how to bathe, while they walked around shitting in the streets and poisoning themselves during the Victorian Age. Without us they’d be a dirty, ugly mess. Never forget it. We are actual magic and they’re scared of our power, demonizing our spiritual practices to oppress us and harness our energy. Know your worth, take whats owed. Via: HelloBlackChild

Women’s History: Madam C.J Walker

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Hair care as a means for Madame C.J Walker to become not only the first African American female millionaire, but the first self-made WOMAN millionaire period, isn’t surprising. African people, specifically women, pioneered the beauty industry in Egypt (read Reality Check: The Hair Is Korean). We still use the same products, accessories, and styling tools. Sorry not sorry Bassem Youssef, to break you out of your delusion. Imagine putting raw shea butter in that 1c hair (trust he doesn’t know what that means, because it isn’t meant for his porosity). Unless Bassem Youssef is Greek, no one is stealing your culture by claiming Cleopatra. Furthermore, you can have her. She’s the one who ruined Egypt’s 3,000 year rule, including the Ptolemaic’s 300 year dynastic reign, starting with Alexander the Great. She’s birthed from, and escalated the geopolitical shift that leads people like him to fallaciously believe they’re the original ethnic group of that region, the architect of all these great innovations. Let me know when he needs an Afro pick for that “coiled” hair (also created in Egypt). Clown.

Stop stereotyping black people. Especially black women as offensive caricatures created by the white imagination, subsequently using systemic racism to pigeonhole us into your dehumanizing stereotypes. We’re the blueprint for entrepreneurship, beauty and style. The Victorian bustle dress was modeled after Saartjie Baartman’s body. We’re entire era’s of fashion, still, to this day. Stop whitewashing and falsifying history, be grateful we elevate everything instead of disparaging us. Do you think Madame Walker was having an epigenetic moment when creating the ‘Hair Grower’? Via: African American Collection

Reality Check: The Hair Is Korean

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Caucasians aren’t the only people with straight hair, that’s first of all. Although they’ve forced their beauty standards on the oppressed, deeming natural black hairstyles unprofessional (until you steal it and make it fashion), your strands aren’t admire in our community. Here’s a reality check for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the hair is Korean. Weaves and wigs are made from the thick, shiny, gorgeous bundles of Asian and Hispanic hair. White hair is affiliated with lice and thinness. That’s right, colored people admire the hair of other colored people. Gasp! I mean this is probably the biggest shock to the white imagination. Mind you any beauty supply store would have shown you this, a sacred place, many run by Asian people.

Unfortunately I have more bad news for caucasians. I know white washing ancient Egyptians is the goal. Completely dismissing the geopolitical events that resulted in the shift to mostly Mediterranean inhabitants today, but, but, facts are facts, especially artifacts. The wearing of wigs to serve different looks, for protective styles, as well as the products we use in our hair (coconut oil, shea butter, castor oil etc…) date back to ancient Egypt. We’re not new to this, we’re true to this. Did Oreo’s Super Bowl commercial not white wash me. That’s a statement not a question. Via: Hulu Girlfriends

Updated: 5/5/2024 1:30am


Fear Turned To Hate

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In the beginning, Orisha was a land where the rare and sacred maji thrived. Each of the ten clans was gifted by the gods above and given a different power over the land. There were maji who could control water, others who commanded fire. There were maji with the power to read minds, maji who could even peer through time!

Each maji was born with white hair, the sign of the gods’ touch. They used their gifts to care for the people of Orisha and were revered throughout the nation. But not everyone was gifted by the gods…Because of this, every time new maji were born, entire provinces rejoiced, celebrating at the first sight of their white coils. The chosen children couldn’t do magic before they turned thirteen, so until their powers manifested, they were called the ibawi, ‘the divine.’

The maji rose throughout Orisha, becoming the first kings and queens. In that time everyone knew peace, but that peace didn’t last. Those in power began to abuse their magic, and as a punishment, the gods stripped them of their gifts. When the magic leached from their blood, their white hair disappeared as a sign of their sin. Over generations, love of the maji turned into fear. Fear turned into hate. Hate transformed into violence, a desire to wipe the maji away.

Via: Women From History