Monday, November 3, 2014

Proof that Taren lied about how much funding she raised for Faces of Autism - $1000 vs. $12000

Would you donate to a charity knowing that non-profit is not allocating funds like they say they are?

Would you donate to a charity claiming to be a non-profit with 501(c)(3) status but that publicly available information is nowhere to be found because no registration for proper status was completed? 

Would you donate to a charity knowing the CEO is pocketing the money for him/herself and not using the money as stated in the mission or other charitable reason?

Taren Guy's Faces of Autism "charity" is the equivalent of those people who set up donation buckets in convenience stores hoping to collect money because "their child has leukemia" or they claim to have "ALS" only to find out they have been scamming people. Taren has just decided to take her scams to the internet.

Taren Guy used the platform of Autism to pocket money for herself and has yet, 2-3 years later, to account for where the money went. When receipts were requested from donors, she skated and hemmed and hawed and never provided proof to those donors, which is against the law.

Furthermore, Faces of Autism was never and is still not registered as a non-profit and thus does not have 501(c)(3) status, which means all monies she collected for Faces of Autism is considered income and is thus taxable money.

I am imploring you, the reader of this blog, that if you donated to Taren Guy's Faces of Autism, and did not receive a receipt post donation or a financial statement to learn how the funds were allocated, please contact me. You can use the "Contact Me" over to the right. Your information will remain confidential.

Taren posted a, now unlisted, video called "RV#19- Questions! Answers! Real Talk #AreyaTV- From Youtube" in which she lies about how much she raised for her Faces of Autism, talks about her now defunct T-shirt business because she wasn't feeling it, how not to be scared of dreaming, making dreams happen, other manner of BS and then had the nerve to shout out Meechy Monroe (like only a sociopathic scammer would do) at the end to garner sympathy for her own failed campaign.

At any rate, someone pulled the audio from the video and you can listen to it here. What she says in the video/audio in a complete lie from the screengrab below that someone posted of their convo with her about how much she really raised, which was 12x more than what she said she raised in the video.

Audio of her saying she only raised $1000 for Faces of Autism:

Soundcloud-rv19-questions-answers-real-talk-areyatv-from-youtube (She says it at 8:42)

Screengrab of her saying she raised $12000 for Faces of Autism (This screengrab was posted by the person conversing with her in this email and is not me and is not my own):












So at this juncture, how can you say she is not lying? Many of you continue to choose to support this chick, even with all the receipts/proof posted of her scams. All because you are enamored by her hair or you think she's beautiful. You gotta come better than that hunny. 

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

It's apparent that a lot of you need to do your research before you start spewing bs about "Why is there a whole blog dedicated...? to this scammer

I see many of you are so blinded by those dry crispy curls that you covet so much, that you are willing to overlook her fraudulent ways.

You are basically saying to her "Please take my money! As long as I can drool over those curls I will never have unless I sew them in, you can scam me out of my money!" Pathetic I tell ya. And most of you are 4a-b-c-ers. The same ones who will overlook fellow 4a-b-c-ers and turn your nose up at them in favor of this scamming thot.


It's a shame, really.


If you are here reading this, do your research and get your education. You might not like the source of the information, but it is there for you perusal. Stop being so blinded by curls you will never in your life have. Stop being covetous of a scamming thot who only sees you as a money source for her.



The information below has been compiled for you. It is up to you to read it and decide for yourself to actually get out of the Matrix (teehee) instead of just blindly following someone who wants to scams you out of your money.


Source of post: emeraldine of LSA (Hey girl!)


For yall just tuning in:

There are no shortcuts in this multithread game. Start from the beginning and sip yo azz some tea. Don't be a stumblebum because skipping around means missing out. 


Courtesy of @ashnspace

Part 1: http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=655405
Part 2: http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=714271

But here's a synopsis since I know people will ask---


Taren Guy is a waning Youtube hair 'guru' with about 225k subbies who actually gives more advice about lifestyle than hair. She is apparently popular mostly because she is fair complexioned and has the type of 3c curls that some impressionable black women think should be the standard for all hair--4a and 4c included.





Whether she's attractive or not is a matter of opinion, though around here you might hear her referred to as troutmouth or goatmouth or crispy curls, in honor of her perpetually parched hair. NOT a matter of opinion is that she is apparently without any sort of full time employment, despite being mother to now 4 kids. All of her children apparently have different dads (4x4), though she claims only 3 daddies (4x3). Her two sons are the oldest and they both have autism. Her daughter is younger and seems neurotypical. The sons are apparently in some foster care situation, having been taken away by NYC ACS when they were found unsupervised while she was out dating various men, allegedly often drug dealers and other lowlifes known to frequent places like Brooklyn's Voodoo Lounge. The daughter, Jada, lives with her father and her father's mother. That father has his own set of baggage, including a charge for stealing copper wire.



So Taren has NONE of her eldest 3 kids with her. At some point she "started" a "charitable" "organization" regarding autism but then shut it down after having collected $12,000 completely unaccounted for dollars, while claiming to some followers that the amount raised was less than $1K. There are receipts including emails and audio files in the part ii thread.

[PHOTO OF HER TWO ADORABLE BOYS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS POST, BUT YOU CAN FIND THEM ELSEWHERE ONLINE]

Despite this mess, she wants to be taken as a natural, sexy, earthy Iyanloprah of the Internetz and has constantly preached positivity. Unfortunately, the positivity doesn't seem to extend to leaving other women's husbands and boyfriends alone because all of her documented baby fathers appear to have been married or involved when she took up with them.

That includes the father of her latest child, Maxwell Ace, who we sometimes refer to as Ace Bandage or Ace Ventura, Thot Detective.

[PHOTO OF ADORABLE MAXWELL IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS POST, BUT YOU CAN FIND THEM ELSEWHERE ONLINE]

Little Ace is a few days old and his apparent father is Michael Mancini McConnell, whom we call BAM, Broke Ass Mike. I prefer Broke Ass Married Michael Manicotti McConnell, or BAMMMM. BAM a community college-educated poser who has claimed to have taught himself microbiology, worked with Diddy and run a successful events company. There are many embarrassing profiles of him on the internet, including an interview in Essence where he claimed to be an eligible bachelor even though he was married. And another where he went on for an embarrassing length of time about wanting to kit out Snuggies for entrepreneurs. Bloop. 




Mike was married to an apparently nice woman when he met Taren. (Sidenote: He also had a child from a previous relationship and these LSA streets want to know about that situation so if you know something, say something!) Taren and Mike started an affair, which was exposed when the wife, Karyn, found a series of sexual emails between the two of them, including one referencing Taren using a glass buttplug. To that end, there is now a blog called Taren's Butt Plug. Go find it and godspeed. There is an uncensored photo of what is allegedly Taren engaged in anal play in the XES Alley. It is also available on IMGUR if you Google creatively. Clutch yo pearls before you look, girls.

Fancying themselves a legitimate power couple, and explaining to Mike's wife that they were "soulmates", Taren introduced Mike as her boyfriend on social media but it was quickly revealed that he was married to someone else and that he had impregnated Taren. 

The backlash you see here began in earnest around that time. Karyn threw SoulmateMike out and Karyn's outraged godmother, Nana, came to LSA to read Mike for filth in Part I. It was epic and completely warranted: as per Nana, there had been no estrangement or separation in the marriage. Mike simply was having a vigorous extramarital sex life while Karyn was holding down a real, paying job and trying to support his entrepreneurial dreams by pumping money into his failed company, Team Mancini. The affair blindsided her completely.

Meanwhile, Mike was, additionally, badmouthing Karyn, his OWN wife, to people in the world of PR whom she (Karyn) had had longstanding relationships. Karyn does have a social media presence but I will leave other people to link to it if they so choose. I won't be doing so here. This alleged attack on Michael's wife blew up in their faces as certain key figures though out fashion, travel and beauty sided with Karyn and pulled support from Taren and Mike. Taren did a seemingly successful meet and greet tour but this was apparently just because they were desperate for cash and their connections were slowwwwwwwwwwwly drying up, much like her 'fro.




Now Taren is not a powerplayer in the Youtube space but did have a relationship with Dickey of Hair Rules in NYC. She hosted an event there back in 2012 but it was poorly planned and was blasted by Melshary Arias in this video.






She also more recently had an endorsement or promotion deal with Motions hair care. Outrage over her general irrepsonsbility led to this Change.org campaign as well as this defense written by Te Ericka Patterson on her blog.[refuse to give this hoe any links for clicks to her blog]. In a supreme act of karma, when Te Ericka tried to delete the ethering comments on the Taren post, she somehow deleted every single comment on her blog.

Additionally, and with supreme irony, she did this Mothers' Day video for BET http://www.bet.com/video/b-real/2014...taren-guy.html

Taren doesn't have a job and Mike apparently doesn't either. With the pregnancy progressing and money low, they launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise money for what they said was a television network called AreyaTV. They sought $80K from subscribers but raised only $440 in a few weeks. Yes, you read that correctly. Meanwhile, behind the scenes they apparently were not paying the people who were working with them and bilked a partner in AreyaTV who invested a 5-figure sum. That person claims to have then started the TarensButtPlug blog in retaliation.


[Refuse to give this hoe any links for clicks to her "You Spoke, We Listened!" video, but if you choose to watch it, that's on you.]


At some point, this danming document was released by an allegedly spurned party to all of the AreyaTV dysfunction, which revealed that apparently Mike wanted Taren to ask for over $100K.


[The INITIAL budget for the Areya campaign]




Other attempts to generate resources failed as well. They had a baby registry at Babies R Us but nothing apparently was purchased by their online acolytes. They did receive an empty Tiffany piggy bank from the team at Carol's Daughter.

According to friends she has attributed these failures to the jealousy of darker skinned and kinky haired black women who she feels are envious of her curly lightness. Indeed, back in June, she made a very condescending video telling 4c and other kinky haired types of women that all they needed to do was accept themselves and stop hating on curlies like her. At about the 8:00 mark she starts to imitate a stereotypical 4c commenter by changing her voice, suddenly twisting her neck, waving her finger in the camera and generally acting like a belligerent, ignorant black woman.

[Refuse to give this hoe any links for clicks to her "RV#18: Natural Hair "Separation" Equals Bullshit " video, but if you choose to watch it, that's on you.]

Building bridges to the darker community, however , Taren has made "friends" with one blogger, the incomprehensibly named HIMAY10NENCE. You pronounce it "high maintenace" but she's not and we don't; we call her Himalayas around here. Anywhooo, Himalayas (aka Nakesha) is always taking up for Taren, despite her own generally ratchet, no fvcks given approach to life...and hair.


She has 10x less subscribers than Taren so I'll leave it to you to figure out what that 'friendship' is really about. In 2009, she made a video called 'Don't be a Side Chick' but now she's the sidekick of a sidechick.....

[Refuse to give LowMay10nence any clicks for her hypocritical video "Don't EVER be cool with being the side line chic ! Throwback from 3-27-09 - YouTube video, but if you choose to watch it, that's on you.]


Well back in Taren World, apparently lack of income made maintaining a Brooklyn apartment untenable --some say she was facing eviction-- so Taren recently moved from Bed Stuy to East Orange, NJ, a relatively high crime, low income city in North Jersey. It's not clear if she's living with Mike because he has disappeared from social media, at least for now and all of her recent photos seem to be selfies.

Anonymous sources who claim to know Taren, Mike, Karyn or others connected to this situation are coming out of the woodwork with all sorts of scandalous accusations, which range from Taren having been the mistress of the owner of The Voodoo Lounge to her having stolen money while working as a store clerk to her having been a paid prostitute. I can't confirm ANYTHING that's not a public record. I just sip. 

Taren to date has NOT addressed her custody situation. She has NOT addressed Michael's marital status, though she claims at times to be his fiancee, while flashing something resembling a mood ring. For her part, Michael's wife may address what has happened at some point in time but not before the divorce is final. For my part, if you come for the wife or the kids, I will come for you. They are innocent in this mess. 

We all like to kee-kee but keep in mind:
1. Read, understand and obey all of the rules of LSA. If you get infracted, waived or banned we can't get you out of jail, boo.
2. Don't say anything libelous, defamatory or untrue and expect anyone on this thread to shield you or take up for you. We are not here for fan fiction parading as truth. And no one is here for straight up harassment either.
3. Keep in mind that these are real people we are talking about and let YOUR conscience be your guide.

I will likely update this synopsis but PLEASE KINDLY do not quote me with a ton of questions. Anyone who is reading will help you if you are not being hella lazy. I am just a humble reader like yourself and you really have to read allllllllllll 3 parts to get all of the dirt.


Everything I have written is ALLEGED and I believe it to be true but in no way guarantee the correctness or authenticity of anything I am writing. 


TAREN
Taren on MySpace, which includes some INCREDIBLY thotty photos including livingroom toplessness 
Taren on IG 
Taren on Twitter 
Taren on Facebook 
Taren on Indiegogo 

MIKE
Team Mancini, Michael "Mancini" McConnell's company http://teammancini.sqsp.com/blog/ and their services reel 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br2-0qM11K4

COMMENTARY / SHADE TREES
Piggy Lipton, anonymous friend of LSA who is ethering Taren
Taren's Buttplug on Tumblr 
Taren's Buttplug on Twitter 
Taren Guy Is A Charlatan Blog  (this blog)
The BAM and BAT Show
Sip The Tea - Taren Thread


REFERENCE GUIDE
Baby Maxwell Ace McConnell aka Ace Ventura Thot Detective, Ace Bandage
BAM Broke Azz Mike, Broke Azz Married Mike, Broke Azz Manicotti Mike
BAT Broke Azz Taren, Bish Azz Taren
BAM & BAT Mike and Taren, of course
ChrisClassic Legit music producer and social media fixture. Taren's friend and possibly more . . . . Per some leaked emails, Chris certainly has Mike worried about 3 AM text messages . . . AKA WrinkleHead
Dickey Friend in Taren's head, owner of Hair Rules Salon where she hosted an event but maybe not a 'real' friend
GhanaSands Taren's vloggr ex boyfriend but shockingly not the father of any of her children. He has not been accused of anything untoward and he's foine so look him up if you go that way.
HIMAY10NENCE pronounced "high maintenance"  aka HIMALAYANS aka Nakesha. Taren's alleged friend and baby Ace's play Auntie. One of the dustiest vloggers to ever hit the Tube. AKA Lomaintenance or Nomaintenance
Maurice Father to Taren's only daughter, Jada. Con Ed Copper thief.
Plug, Slug, Ugg Taren, Mike, Himalayas
TAT Thott azz Taren, currently only in rare use

Friday, September 19, 2014

Special thanks and shout out to those who have visited this blog

I just want to say thank you to all who have visited this blog. It has had many views from around the world since it was started back in the spring. So much tea has been spilled it's like a Lipton Tea Party!!!









Anywho, since adding the comment box, I've received many messages, some good, some bad.

Many of the good ones were saying they had no idea all of this was going on and they glad they were able to research for themselves about this scamming thot and her scamming baby daddy. Some were asking if I knew her personally or in some business capacity. Some even offered to help run this blog. While I am not looking for additional bloggers at this time, I may consider it in the future. ;)

Now, many of the bad messages I received, were of course from the ones who were so damn dumb and blinded by all those curls, they refused to see the truth, asking why dedicate a blog to this chick and her scamming ways, etc.

I normally don't post comments sent to me, however, this particular comment to me just made me shake my head and further proves what the folks over at LSA were saying about many of Taren's subscribers and followers being so enamored with her hair, they are willing to overlook all the other BS.




How much more pathetic can you get? One megadose of self-esteem is needed for the person who sent me this.

You can keep being okay with being blind and dumb. This blog will continue to educate the masses when they search her name on search engine. If you choose to be willfully ignorant, that is fine, just say out of my comment box. Thanks.

Many thanks to those who have come here to read and support the "boycott" of this chick and refuse to be scammed by her. 

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Taren says her vision won't be clear to the mediocre minds and people hate on what they can't do LMAO



You didn't buy that either, huh? She's calling anyone who is not buying her BS or donating to fund her high school project quality produced "network", a hater with a mediocre mind and people are hating because they can't do what she is doing.

Why is it always the most ain't about sh*t people claiming to have haters? You're not doing anything but sitting around scheming your next plan, with someone else's husband I might add, on how to get money without working a real job that requires you to pay taxes, so why on earth do you think an-t-body is hating on you boo?

Taren is a selfish, greedy yet broke, soon to be baby mama for a 4th time with 3 baby daddies, never been married, welfare receiving, subsidized housing living, WIC check getting, food stamp spending thot who can't keep her own kids and legs closed to married men if someone paid her to do it. What about any of that is hateable/enviable?

I'll leave this with you to give you something to think about:


Friday, August 22, 2014

Proof that Areya TV is steeped in shadiness and fraud. Even Miss Cleo will tell you that!

Some valid questions were posted under the "Q & A" video about Areya TV but most have since been deleted because somehow Taren thinks people are supposed to just hand over their hard earned money with no questions asked. LOL Anyone who does ask questions or has concerns, she claims the questions are disrespectful and rude and deletes the questions. Isn't that a total contradiction to Always Reveal Everything You Are? *raises left eyebrow*

You know what's disrespectful? Having the absolute nerve and brazen arrogance to even think your social media subscribers/followers are supposed to fund the lifestyle you want but are too lazy to work to make happen.

Not only that, insulting your subscriber's and potential investor's intelligence when they ask questions about why they should donate to you, seek to get clarification on the objective of your business and a business plan, or executive summary at least, that outlines what your projections are and how the money will be allocated. Not just some arbitrary and general budget that's steeped in unnecessary overhead (aka their salaries to sustain themselves until they can come up with their next scheme)

That's what is disrespectful as hell and is further proof that she only sees her subscribers/followers as a money train. She does not give a crap about any of you. You are only clicks and views to her.

She wants to reinvent the wheel and call it progressive.

Without further ado, here are some of the questions/comments:


Budget Breakdown (LOL)

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Not a conspiracy: Proof that Taren is indeed pregnant by a married man. The wife confirms it by stating that she is still going through divorce from Mike.

Now let me first say that we're not going to drag the wife or bring her into this "messiness" because she is a true class act and has not said or done anything regarding the online shenanigans about Taren and the baby daddy. Does she even need to at this point? It is intended to stay that way and if you indeed do try to come for the wife, you better believe, LSA, LHCF and the rest of the 'Net will come for dat azz!

The post below are print screens that are strictly for reference purposes only.  They are some posts from social media, one of which is from the wife, labeled "W" for reference below and the others are from social media users, labeled "I1" and "I2", respectively.


How much more proof do you need? Straight from the source herself.

ETA: Taren calls all this online talk about her being pregnant by a married man, not having custody of her kids, etc. a  "conspiracy". But when one of the parties Taren played a part in causing hurt and anguish to, confirms that she is indeed divorcing the man Taren is pregnant by, what more can Taren say?

So, now that we've gotten that out of the way, some of you misguided thots might be like "Well, their marriage was over anyway", "Taren and Mike are soulmates, they deserve to be happy" and any other nonsense you'll say to give a pass to your thot leader, but you can't seem to understand that their selfishness and wishing to be happy was at the expense of someone else. And these are people whom you willingly support and who think you are stupid enough to give them $80K collectively. Taren is someone who makes bad decisions after bad decisions with no self-accountability. This is someone who cannot seem to stay away from nor seem to use birth control to keep from permanently attaching herself via a kid to other women's men.

How would you feel if it was your man she was gallivanting around the globe with and arrogantly flaunting on social media? Just like I thought.

As the "illustrious" Nene from RHOA would say:




With all that said, we wish the wife much success in life and in all her endeavors and may she be blessed with a real man who treats her like the true beautiful, classy queen she is, uplifts her, takes care of her and loves her without conditions. She truly deserves it!


Friday, August 8, 2014

Taren Guy wants you to give her $80,000...no questions asked. LOL

In yet another episode of the As the Schemes Turn, Taren Guy has thot (lol) of another way to scheme her followers on social media out of their money. A network as she calls it. This time she's going for the gusto--- $80,000 to be exact. (smells like maternity related costs, lifestyle expenses, and new move to a new state expenses if you ask me, but that's not my business <insert Kermit tea pic here>)

If you didn't already know, she has failed in previous attempts to make...I mean raise money to finance a lifestyle she has dreamed up in her head and made a vision board for, but is too lazy to go out and work to make happen, even with her supposed degree in Social Work (how ironic). She tried to sell energy drinks. FAIL! She started her Faces of Autism site, seeking donations and selling wristbands and such. Then because of not being able to feature her sons like she wanted due to not being the custodial parent, she discontinued that venture as well. FAIL! She also attempted an Areyaa Foundation before, with the word Areya being a direct steal from Ateya's YT channel

Anywho, Taren has thought up a way to make money for yet another so called business she claims will be a "Progressive Lifestyle & Entertainment Network". In the screenshot of the vid promoting this new venture, it features the racially ambiguous Big Hair Girls. Hmmm. 

She claims the $80,000 will go towards a studio, staffing, equipment, talent, etc. All of that with $80,000 of your money. (They say a fool and his money will soon part. Don't be that fool.)

The reason for this post is to warn you. While many entrepreneurs start up several businesses that have failed before starting an actual successful business, Taren has a track record of swindling money from her followers with no follow-up or accountability as to where the donated money went or how it was spent (e.g. Faces of Autism). Not only that, when inquiries are made about her businesses, she gets very defensive, calls people trolls, haters and/or rude, deletes any and all comments and then blocks that person. Doesn't sound like some who will Always Reveal Everything You Are or a true entrepreneur looking for feedback, good, bad or indifferent. Just someone looking to live a lifestyle beyond their financial means subsidized by others. Others meaning her followers, who she now obviously thinks is dumb enough to fork over $80,000 collectively, no questions asked.

Some of you may very well be stupid enough to donate your hard earned money to this charlatan and that's fine too. Just don't be on the blogs, on message boards, on YT or elsewhere crying about how Taren took your money and ran, with no explanation. 

Instead of forking over your money for yet another scheme of Taren's, why not donate the money to a much more worthy cause. YouTuber Meechy Monroe is in the fight for her life against brain cancer and is seeking donations to offset medical costs associated with treatment. 

If there was ever a cause worthy of donation, Meechy's would be it. If you can't donate anything but $5, that's great! Every little bit helps. So head on over to Meechy's donation page and help her out. This will also let the natural hair community know that you stand united and won't be taken for your money by swindlers who are too lazy to get a job and wants to live a champagne lifestyle on a Thunderbird budget.

Toodles~~




Saturday, July 5, 2014

Kind of off topic: Boycott Natural Hair YouTube gurus who have teamed up with CurlyNikki and sold the movement to whites

A few days ago, I wrote that the Natural Hair Community was trolled by some white, attention whoring chick and some of the Natural Hair Gurus co-signed her attempt to join the movement.

Well, since then, it has come to light that some of these gurus have, in some way, aligned or associated themselves with these white companies for financial gain and that is why they are okay with whites and non-blacks to join and mostly likely co-opt a movement created by and for black women, exclusively.

Many of them are saying that the Natural Hair Movement was never about race. Is that right? 

So who are these Natural Hair Gurus you should boycott? Here is a list*:
  • Well, we already know Taren Guy aka Taren916 has sold herself to a company 
  • Curly Nikki 
  • Denim Pixie (Quest for the Perfect Curl)
  • CharyJay 
  • The Natural Haven (JC) 
  • NaturalChica 
  • SunKissed Alba 
  • Melshary Arias
This is a running list and as more information is uncovered about the Natural Hair Gurus who are selling themselves to whites, they will be added.

The following is some more information compiled by a member named luxe (hey girl!) over on Lipstick Alley about why we need to boycott these Natural Hair Gurus. Even if you have reservations about the site itself, it is great information!!!

"For those that need background.

Curly Nikki featured a white woman on her blog. Not a big deal when you consider the fact that CN is now owned by NaturallyCurly/Texture Media. However, things reached a fever pitch on Sunday when the white woman got on twitter proclaiming that black women were being exclusive, the natural hair movement was not created for black women, and that the blog is called "CURLY Nikki not BlackNikki". She deleted certain tweets once she got called out, but we have screencaps.

The thread covering everything is here.

There have been numerous articles, blogs, tumblr and facebook posts surrounding her reaction and both sides of the argument.

Some blogs/responses:

Other responses (from twitter, facebook etc) were posted in the thread mentioned.

An Ebony writer (article listed above) chimed in very early in the debate speaking about the importance of the Natural Hair Movement and black women having safe spaces to commune and share experiences, motivations, and stories etc.

Curly Nikki decided to respond (I refuse to link her blog, if you want to read her response it was posted in the thread I mentioned above) and focused on attacking Jamilah (author of the Ebony article) rather than discussing the debate at hand or the ignorant comments that Sarah (the white woman) made. She also tried to claim that her blog was always all inclusive and that she never started it for only black women, though her bio specifically says the opposite.



She [Curly Nikki] basically sold out for white money/clicks/pageviews and is willing to alienate the black women who got her site to the place where it is today.

Melshary, Taren, SunKissAlba and others all spoke out in favor of CN and Sarah. The original thread is worth the read if you actually care, if you just want to be obtuse, kindly find a seat on the sidelines and stay there."

So there is it people!!! This is why I said in a previous post that you have to be careful in who and what you support. Don't let this movement that was created by and for black women be given away by self proclaimed innovators and pioneers of the Natural Hair Movement who are nothing more than charlatans who only care about your clicks and views which = money. They have no integrity and are willing to compromise who they are and what they represent for money, not realizing this movement is bigger than them and US!!


Thursday, July 3, 2014

Kind of off topic: The Natural Hair Community Divided by a white troll who could give two fucks about black women and their hair

So, this happened, which sparked an online commotion between black women/the natural hair community and the featured guest on Curly Nikki, which by the way is NO LONGER OWNED by Curly Nikki, but is now owned by TextureMedia Inc.

What is happening RIGHT DAMN NOW is a real live Columbus-ing of the The Natural Hair Community (for black women with tightly coiled hair). They might as well give us smallpox infected satin scarves while they're at it.  This mess is happening right in front of our eyes and up under our noses and we are letting it happen.

This entire debacle makes me so angry and sad for our already weakened and divided community.

Why?
  • Because you have the blind, ignorant and uninformed black women who want SO badly to be approved and validated by whitey, that they will fight against their own (other black women) to ensure the white man's acceptance in the community. (This is what this white troll wanted to happen all along. See pic) 

  • Because you have the shifty and flighty natural hair YTers/vloggers/bloggers who hop on whatever side of the fence is the most popular and most controversial at the time, abandoning their core audience, even for the moment, for revenue and more hits (cough*Taren Guy*cough)

  • Those who have the voice to speak and depolarize and diffuse the tension and buzz right now, have remained silent out of fear of losing followers.

  • Marginalization of black women's struggle in the this society as it relates to our hair. Some brainwashed new blacks who are being purposely obtuse are saying "Well, it's just hair" when they know good and damn well it's not. It's more than just hair for the black woman, especially black woman with more tightly coiled hair.

  • The dismissive attitudes of whiteys and new blacks who have attempted to silence the voices of black women who have chosen to speak out and speak up when our space is invaded by those who don't understand and will never experience our struggle. They don't understand that there is a separation that needs to remain as that.

  • Those who have attempted to be diplomatic have just given up trying to diffuse both sides because it is a fire that has somewhat gotten out of control and they feel "What's the point?" 

  • The inevitable-- the term #TeamNatural as WE black women know it, WILL indeed be appropriated, as with everything else that willfully ignorant black people have given away for the white man to profit off of. The shit is happening RIGHT before our eyes and it is just jaw dropping.

  • Because of how #TeamNatural will be appropriated, the representation and reserved space that was exclusive to black women, will now be extended to women of fairer skin and more loosely textured hair, to white women and other non-blacks with non-4b-c hair. 
If you don't think it is scary, perhaps you are the willfully ignorant new black I referenced above. There is nothing wrong with separation, as it relates to black women with tightly coiled hair, in that natural/afro textured hair has been politicized and militanized. A white women with curly hair will NEVER be told that she is a militant and being radical for wearing her hair curly. A white woman will never have the threat of demotion or job loss for wearing her hair curly. A white woman will never have a national debate over the military's decision over her curly locks. A white woman (or her white child) will never have the experience of being threatened with expulsion from school because her hair is too big or too long. 

To say otherwise, is very dismissive of the struggle endured by black women with natural/afro textured hair and trivializes our pain.