Respecting our Genetics

Friday | November 4, 2016|

Listen: “Taurus Riley – Shaka-zulu while reading”

Who or what is beautiful in 2016? Is it; a pretty smile, a beautiful face, long straight hair? Who or what do we complement in 2016 as the most acceptable? Is the lightest skin tone the measure of the most beautiful? What is the standard for appearance in the corporate world? What are we accustomed to accepting as true and comfortable? And so many questions can be asked, these are some of the questions that forms the foundations in creating social monsters to the African populous when wealth isn’t considered.

The African Insignia isn’t only the dark colour of the skin or the roundness of the nose; it is clearly identifiable by the swirling growth of the hair. After slavery Africans had the ideology that the European look was that of royalty and not their native appearance. As a result, many African women began wearing wigs to be identified with the European appearance which was the beginning of the disregard of true African beauty. Later, women and men began straightening their hair through potentially harmful chemicals meant to be “more appealing” which has now evolved into a culture of many African women to reach their beauty’s full potential. By doing this not only has the Africans degraded their natural feature but they also gave premise for the other races to  feel and be superior to the Africans because of the rejection of self and widespread self-hate spanning and transcending into racism.

Racism is still a somewhat serious issue in 2016 because the problem isn’t solely a direct assault on races but a terrifying indirect assault on humanity. However, today this is solely for the Black Africans existing without the knowledge of who they are as it relates to their hair’s deportment.  Many Africans denounce their appearance to the world without knowing, the first delusion created by the African is that his/her hair is better straight. By the laws of nature and genetics this is a negative depiction of a true African, The African hair grows in swirls and as such its true nature is round.

The suppressed cultured African isn’t aware of what happens when he/she accepts or compliments another African to be perfect by having straightened hair they are growing a colossal monster within that individual that his/her hair is not accepted in its truest form and it must conform to a pattern to be accepted. This has subliminally defeated the beauty of the African populous; because now to the suppressed cultured African keeping one’s hair in its natural state and certain length is most times considered to be a psychological disorder or even worse considered madness but nothing less than negative connotations. Psychological surveys and studies have proven that this is also one of the main reasons Dreadlocks Rastas had been alienated by society in earlier times and the same reason why a well shaven head or a low hair cut is accepted by normal and corporate society suffering or casting cultural suppression, it is evident that the closest an African male can get to straightened hair is by brushing the natural swirls out of his low cut hair. To date the normal and corporate grooming for Africans was not conceptualized by the Africans, “goat is not sheep.”

How can any other race accept or respect the African race if the African doesn’t accept true self. If our natural hair’s appearance is considered derogatory, the question we should ask ourselves is how can we change it? How can we get our own people to love themselves? The solution to this entire mind offset of self-image and minor/major race hate or racism is to simply accept each and every African individual in their natural form, complement the natural occurrence of each and every African and it will resonate with the world that Africans love the genetic coding of their hair and is now available to be loved and accepted by the world. Let the compliments and acceptance begin with you, unfreeze or reaffirm your natural passion as to who or what is and isn’t beautiful. Then and only then can you peacefully sit back and watch African Kings and Queens really come to life.

Kevaughn Fraser

President

African Cultural Renaissance Movement