White Women With Black Hair. In the video a black woman identified as gracie. Some argue that when white women braid or wear their hair in cornrows this is cultural appropriation while black women are asked to show race allegiance by keeping our hair natural.
There are many reasons why black women today wear their hair either natural or straightened but for the most part the practice of straightening black hair came from a real necessity to conform and survive and to better emulate societal beauty standards that oppress women of all races standards that just happen to be based around white beauty. Black hair is the darkest and most common of all human hair colors globally due to larger populations with this dominant trait. It has large amounts of eumelanin and is less dense than other hair colors.
That s a lot of deep conditioner and bobby pins.
In english various types of black hair are sometimes described as soft black raven black or. Hair ideals not always associated with natural black hair. It is a dominant genetic trait and it is found in people of all backgrounds and ethnicities. As a black woman in a family of black women with a gaggle of black women friends this was entirely unsurprising.