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Topic: WC - Blogathon
Still braiding my hair. These days I wear it in an afro, au naturelle.
White women worry about weight and black women worry about their hair.
I've done just about everything with my hair. I used to get it braided in the long braids with natural hair extensions. I used to straighten my hair and get it cut layered and curl it with a curling iron. I always wanted long straight white women's hair where you could go swimming without any fuss. But slowly I came to accept the kind of hair that I have and ultimately love it in it's natural state.
It's a big thing in the black community. The fight against the straight and nappy. Although with the popularity of dreads more and more black women are going with their natural hair and not putting all the products that make it more palatable to look at in a so-called white world.
When you write about a black character especially a woman, you have to write about her hair. A black woman's hair is just as much a character as the woman herself. What are the reasons behind choosing to change her hair or deciding to keep it natural? There is always an underlying story to match that...
