Are Black hair and beauty magazines racist?
Black hair & beauty magazines are not racist, there are ones for Caucasian women as well so I don’t know why this is even a issue. What people need to know is black female hair is different from Caucasian hair or all other hair from different races. All races in the world have fine hair except for black women, which is coarse hair. As a result both hair types are treated differently when it comes to relaxing, shampooing, conditioning, braiding & etc. Why this is a issue is ridiculous. known Black hair & beauty magazines: Hype Hair http://www.hypehair.com/ http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=hyp… http://www.google.com/images?q=hype+hair… black hair sophisticated
Wow. In America having Black TV networks, pageants, schools, etc are considered racist (which is odd because those things began because of exclusion from “mainstream” ones) but never magazines. The problem is, and you already said it, is that the people who complain don’t understand the difference in a “niche” market versus genuine racism. If the hair and beauty magazines preached that “Black hair is the best hair and you should kill anyone who doesnt’ have it”, then these people would have a viable complaint. However, since they do not and are more about us finding ways to style, comb, take care of, etc OUR OWN UNIQUE TYPE OF HAIR, then the complaints are not valid. **Please understand that at the heart of these kinds of complaints is FEAR. Fear that this difference will further splinter us from the mainstream mentality. And/or a deep belief that WE ARE SIMPLY INFERIOR and therefore, are not entitled to trying to find our own entertainment or answers to issues.** If you must write abo
Well said! I was just looking at an internet article the other day that featured actresses in their 40s and 50s, and the title was “Beautiful Skin in Hollywood”, or something similar. It dawned on me, when surfing through the 15 something pictures or so, that Halle Berry was the only black actress that was featured- all the others were white or Latino. So you see, it is a very subtle issue of race- and it’s so subtle that many whites have problems understanding how it can be racist- but they get upset at the likes of, say, Ebony Magazine, or Essence, or other publications that cater to the black community, as you have said it. Their sense of entitlement is so strongly pronounced from day one that they don’t even realize that anything mainstream caters to them.
