This has made news in the last 3weeks in the US.
CBS/AP) CBS announced Thursday that it has fired Don Imus from his radio program, following a week of uproar over the radio host's derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
Imus found himself at the center of a storm after he called members of the Rutgers team "nappy-headed hos" last week. Protests ensued, and one by one, numerous sponsors pulled their ads from Imus' show. On Wednesday, MSNBC dropped its simulcast of the program.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/12/national/main2675273.shtmlDude came back & blamed his remark on Hip hop music.
Thats not the point of this thread... Well not exclusively anyway.
It brings up an interesting debate.
The age old debate of what is considered a beautiful African/ black woman?
Over & over again we are bombarded with images (what up Deac? :wink: ) of black women with straightened hair. Weaves. Dark & Lovely Relaxer. Wigs.
Who are the universally accepted "good looking black women"?
Beyonce/ Ciara (?)/ Nandipa from Isidingo (?)/ Gabrielle Union/ Tyra Banks/ Hale Berry/ those Channel O girls (?)/ Our Beauty Queens etc. (Deac pictures please).
Do all these sisters not have more caucasian features? At least the hair?
How does that affect the psyche of our sisters? Are they conditioned to think that is what they have to look like to be considered beautiful?
When you look at the basketball team of ladies in question NONE of them have "nappy" hair. All of them have weaves/ relaxed/ straightened hair.
It looks like they too have rejected their natural hair.
How does it affect our brothers? Are we not conditioned by the same white owned media the same way? Believing that is what a "hot girl" should look like? If we think like that then surely that will cause our sisters to further regress & conform to said
unnatural beauty standards.
Have we been conditioned to reject our naturally "Nappy" hair to the point where we hate it so much we do unnatural things to change it to look like the other (wo)man's?
I want to hear especially from the sisters.
From the brothers too.
Lets talk.