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.