So it’s 2018 and we are still having the same conversations and rightly so.

Let me explain I want to understand why texture discrimination is still going on?, I want to understand why there is such a thing as people who have locs or dreads. Or whatever you feel to call them is not natural?,  🤔🤔🤔 like who came up with this nonsense and tell me where I can find them cause they clearly need a slap.

Lets talk facts if we left our hair alone still washed it and moisturised but never combed either using hair tools, or our fingers our hair would do what form locs! Why do you think kinkier hair textures tends to loop around itself so easily and form knots it’s doing what it wants and it’s happily locking then we have to decide do I want to leave my hair like this or you know use a product with a lot of slip and get rid of the tangles.

Your hair just needs a hug and so it’s giving itself one it’s so blessed, but that is primarily how locs are formed. They are called free form you leave your hair alone and it will eventually loc up on its own. There are other forms also where manipulation is used to form the locs those are the so called more appealing because apparently free form locs are not desirable miss me with that bullshit.

Having your hair parted and each individual twisted loc is much more attractive then your hair free and doing what it wants ok then. Fyi I love all locs no matter how they are formed I just hate the double standards as if we black people do not have enough to deal with.

The other side of texture discrimination is type 4 is represented less. When we look at hair companies they are not showcasing us and our kinkier hair textures.

It is always looser hair textures now it’s not the models fault, I don’t blame them I blame these companies who try to act like black people are a monolith and we can be seen in one form even though we all have different skin tones, different hair types it is a joke.

Then when we look on YouTube a lot of the time YouTube vloggers even someone as big as naptural85 has less views and subscribers compared to someone whose hair is yes natural but looser textures aka type 3. Their hair is more curly rather then kinky they typically get more views more subscriptions. Where is the love for those who have kinkier hair where is the love?

Now people may disagree but I have seen this time and time again it is as if colurism and texturism are now intertwined.

Speaking of love let’s learn to do better and heal some of the past wounds that we have inflicted on each other those scars run deep like a scab that falls off then reattaches. Learn to love one another.

Finally I would just want to say that if you choose to do the exact opposite, of what the so called natural hair community wants you to do. Then so be it you have every right to do as you please if you want to use hair grease in your routine then use it I most certainly will be once I’ve taken these box braids down. Remember when we was younger and our mum or grandma would wash our hair but it in Bantu knots then when it was dry plait it up and grease our scalp. Do you remember the length retention our hair did not grow because of the scalp but because of low manipulation one hair style that lasted to wash day the following week.

When we are constantly in our hair and expecting it to grow it nuh work. So I’m going back to hair grease I’m going back to one protective hair style that will last a week or so and leave mi hair Di rass alone , I’m boycotting the natural hair community’s standards and writing my own……..

Written by Sistah Soul ❤️