Are White Men More Appreciative of Natural Hair?

Imani says:

love clutch-

figure your own SELF out
you are so jugdemental
black people like you are
the main reason black people
continue to have a difficult time
working together, loving each other,
living together and supporting each other.
black people like you are the reason
for the damaging self-hatred among black people
that keeps us at each others throats
back stabbing each other, high crimes against
each other, high prisons rate etc…
here you attacking me for loving my own people
here you are trying to figure me out for being
pro-black…well, somebody black should be
pro-black. do you attack mexicans, or asian people
who support their own people…or just black folks?

lexibugg says:

First i cannot make any general statement in regard to the entire population of either white or black men’s feelings toward natural hair. i can however speak on my particular experience and you can interpret it as you will. when i wore relaxed hair and long straight black weave that hung to the top of my A**, black men were all ways in my face, regardless of the fact that my, at the time boyfriend, was standing right next to me!!! i have since married a different man, who happens to be caucasian. A month before our wedding i shaved my shoulder length relax off, and only had about of centimeter of hair left to show for. he loved it, he hated whatching me struggle with the flat iron and the breakage, and the frustration of not feeling as if my hair was appropriate enough to be seen in public. he was so happy for me when i went natural, he said he could literally see the weight lifted off of my shoulders. he loves the way it feel in between his fingers and can’t keep his hands out of it, and he has been very supportive while i found the right product and styles that work for me, and we have both watched my hair grow to the middle of my back, unstretched!!! as a result of this several other women in my life want to do the same. my bestfriend, who is married to a black man want to use curly extentions while she transitions, but has to wait until her husband deploys because his exact work were”that mess looks like a ratty birds nest, i hate nappy as hair. so my friends hair is fried, and no more than an inch long, and i have watched her 11 year old daughters hair fall out,i went from shoulder length, to ear length and she has six inches of stringy, broken, fried mess. it is so broken the baby can’t even where her own hair any more, she has to wear braids. my mother also wants to go natural, but she cannot cut her hair because my step dad hates women with short hair, he says, ” if you can’t grow it, buy some!!” my mom has one of those big plastic storage bins full of weave, hidden in the back of a hall closet, in a crawl space, and is in a constant struggle with her hair. i intend to help her grow it out, but she has to hide her hair under a weave until it reach a length her, black southern husband finds appropriate!!!
since i have gone natural, even though my hair is just as long, black men are no longer “all in my face”, not that i mind, i just noticed, but that could also be because i have move to the suburbs, and no longer live in downtown seattle!! and the men that do look now are either older black men, or white men. i have notice more white men looking at me since going natural, bu again that could be the change of environment!! i felt to most beautiful when i met the man who is now my husband, i don’t think i would have felt comfortable enough to grow out my natural hair, if i’d married a black man. my experience growing up told me that i had better do all that i can to keep my hair long, and straight, and being bald was the ugliest think i cold have done, a man would have perfered me to be fat rather than bald!!! but again that could have jsut been the men in my family, or even the particular uncle i spent the most time around!!! like i said this is m y personal experience, interpret as you see fit!!

Queen Janine says:

Late..but I’m quite convinced that the origin of the “white male/natural black female” stems from slavery…and is a manifestation of a sick exotic fetish (whether known consciously or subconsciously). PERIOD.

Does he “appreciate” her hair? Her natural beauty? Her melanin? YOU DAMN RIGHT HE DOES! She’s the creator of all things. Why NOT gravitate to that energy that resonates within her? She’s the EXEMPLAR of beauty! …and has been since the beginning of time.

He isn’t attracted to Sheniqua from the block for a reason. Naturals carry an inherent power and we wear it on their sleeve..or our crown rather. No chemicals blocking that third eye, cluttering that pineal gland.

I could go on for DAYS…but you get the gist. PLUS its late. going to bed.

Peace.

Anonymiss says:

This is nice && all but I really wish we could say the same for black men. I really want to go natural. I was for a while && then I went back to the perm but now I really miss that natural feel and look. I don’t understand why so many black men prefer straight hair over natural hair. I personally find natural hair to be far more beautiful even though I’ve worn my hair straight for most of my life. I always make sure to complement black women I see rockin their natural hair because I know some of them don’t hear it enough from other black people.

Tamara says:

This is a stupid article & even stupider video. As a black woman, I don’t think white men give a crap about our hair, whether it’s natural or processed. Even if they are into black women, I don’t think it’s a huge deal. Also, what’s up with the chick in the video being so elated that her white professor took an interest in her hair? It’s almost like she has gotten some sort of ego boost from attention from a white man… sad.