Hair

After reading the past two articles about African Americans in reguards to their hair I no longer feel its the same for a white woman when she gets a perm or stragatins her hair. My reasons for this are because this is a personal choice, and when African American girls grow their forced by their mothers to go to the hair salon to get their hair chemically strgatined in order to look more "acceptable" to society. Society has built this standard that long silky hair is attractive and that nappy, dreaded, braded hair is just the opposite. As both atricles, and video in class talked about African Americans are looked at differntly and taken less seriously when they keep their natural hair, and dont add any chemicals to change it. I myself have never been fully happy with my hair and have contemplated chemical hair straightining several times, but I never felt I had to get my hair straightened to feel normal, and to be taken seriously. I was just a personal preference that I thought I would look better with straight hair. I dont understand who created these judgements of what is acceptable and what is unacceptable in todays society, but I think it is unfair that African Americans cant feel comfortable in their own skin becuase of these stereotyes and judgements made towards them.