The Downside of Weave: Naomi Campbell’s Bald Hairline

Me :] says:

Wow….this kinda sucks for here. But I really hate the fact that people put this picture up, I feel like everyone is gonna be like “See! Black women really are bald.” It’s a shame. And I don’t think it’s about what country you live in, it’s about where the population is. Like, where I live in AMERICA, it’s a predominately white area and in the stores there is a whole lot less of a selection of black hair care products, stylist and salons. But if I go further down south, where there are more black people, there is more access to black hair care products, stylist and salons. So if you live in a predominately white are in England or France or Germany or ETC. then yes you will have less access to hair care, because people won’t make money because there aren’t enough black people to make a profitable amount of money. It’s all about demographics. That’s why i don’t understand the whole “there isn’t much access to hair care in the Caribbeans” statement, but hey. I thought a lot of the people in the Caribbeans were black, but I’ve never been there so I don’t know.

S says:

@ Charlene- Thank you for posting that article. Like I always knew, Naomi is bald from plain old fashion neglect!!! Like Errol Douglass stated in the article “She would see a difference if she left her hair for a year and had intensive treatment,” says Douglas. “ But Naomi would never be seen without a weave. I’ve given her all this advice but she’s not going to do it – she just needs to take some time out.” There are a few women who come into the hair shop that I see and their scalps look the same way. One does have a medical condition that I know of, but the others…..girl, please!!! They cannot go a day without a weave and their hairlines are nonexistent. Not only is this look downright embarassing, but this also speaks about a larger issue in our community: SELF ESTEEM!!! It seems as if some black women hide behind these wigs and fake hair. But that is another comment for another day.

serenissima says:

@ Latifah

you can take out the braids and weaves, stop cutting and blowdrying, and just do you. thats what you CAN do

Egmond Codfried says:

kindly start a thread about Jane Austen (1775-1817)

JANE AUSTEN IS ALL ABOUT BLACKNESS

Blacks need to research history to liberate themselves. They have to find out what was stolen from them and claim it back, in order to strengthen their identity. Who are we, where do we come from, what is our history, where did it go wrong, when and why? That eurocentrist will hijack Black History, as the British sites about historical blacks indicate, will just not do. Since I have started my research there been historical blacks ‘discovered.’ A grand total of five. At this rate it will last forever. What do we care about one ‘black’ woman in a British Roman cemetery? And black by who’s definition? We know there were Blacks in the Greek and Roman world and they shared equal status with whites.

Blackness is more a question of identity then head shape or DNA There are those with a Irish or Jewish identity, which has nothing to do with the length or shape of their nose, but their ideas, ideals, problems, geographical movements, politics, solidarities etc.

Snowden in Blacks in Antiquity has proven that there was no racism as we know it today in antiquity, but rather 20th century American researchers imposing their racist views on the ‘colour-blind’ Greeks and the Romans. The Greeks were aware that Egypt was the source of their civilisation. And they did not have rules against race-mixing. They understood black skin only as an adaptation to environment. And they looked up to Africans, as blameless. Africans were favourites of the Olympian gods, who would spend 11 days each year to feast with the Africans. The war god Mars was represented as a black man.

Then the political issues surrounding Cleopatra have no bearing at all to us living today. Declaring Cleopatra black, according to the definitions of eurocentrism, is of no use to blacks living today, dealing with the racism today. Race Theory and Racism is a liberation ideology starting in 1760, to free Europe from a reversed apartheid system, when the nobility and royally was black identified. They intermarried because blue blood was black blood. Anyone who was not white was considered superior to whites. They were a fixed mulatto race from very fair to very black, some looking more African, Asian or white. But they shared a black identity: blue blood. The whites then were not the whites we know today. They were born in a system ruled by blacks and coloureds; they knew nothing else. If anyone questioned this system he was despotically silenced. This also explains the ferocity of the French Revolution which ended the Ancien Regime, which was black rule.

Now I understand that blacks are frightened away from Jane Austen (1775-1817) because of all the blond actresses playing personages, who in fact are clearly described as very brown and black. Austen writes about things that still influence us today, the causes and the aftermath of the end of black rule in Europe. In Emma (1816) she points to the dangers of race-mixing and blacks trying to civilize whites and raising them to equal status. These are the causes of the downfall of blacks, their own folly. She was writing about historical realities, not wishful thinking. Emma is not a straight romantic story; it’s an allegory, its Black History and confirms my blue blood is black blood (1500-1789) research.

On builds on the research of the ones who came before. There is no need for young blacks to go and rediscover the wheel time and time again. And we do not need whites to explain to us who is black and who is white. We are not that stupid! The sources are just the novels by Jane Austen who wrote for and about the 3 and 4 black families in an English country village, who were a gentle or noble elite. Towards self-improvement and to warn blacks about the dangers ahead. Austen teaches us the use of correct language, good manners, prudence, relations, culture, reading of good books and women rights. She shows how blacks have many colours or looks, invites us to look at blacks in all their diversity. She urges blacks not to be afraid to change or they might be loosing even more.

Egmond Codfried
The Hague