Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Blogging isn't very mommy friendly...

So at first it was my goal to blog weekly, then that change to bi-weekly, and then that changed to monthly...and now it's looking more like bi-monthly lol...my goal in creating a blog was to inform people about how they can make more green and healthy choices.  But seeing that I'm to busy to write posts regularly, I need to change my approach. I think Instagram may work better for me so I'm going to try that.  Hopefully I'll get more time to dedicate to this in the future, but until then my posts will probably be pretty sporadic.  You can find me on Instagram @BlackGreenNHealthy

Saturday, January 2, 2016

My child does NOT have good hair

Happy 2016 y'all.  I hope your year has been rosy, cozy and full of fun so far...but I got a favor to ask...can we PLEASE leave phrases like "good hair" in 2015.  If I hear it one more time my brain might LITERALLY explode.  My child is bi-racial and I often get comments from well-intentioned family and friends about the not so kinky texture of her hair.  It makes me FURIOUS.  My child does NOT have good hair because there is no such thing.  There's no one texture/color of hair that is definitively better than other.

For those of you not familiar with the concept, good hair is basically hair that ain't nappy.  In other words, it's hair that is silky and smooth like that of someone who is Caucasian.  It's basically a cousin term of phrases like "light enough to be a house slave", "pass for white" and other incredibly out-dated, close-minded, despicable terms used to spark division and resentment between dark-skinned and light-skinned blacks.  The fact that these slave-time, pigheaded terms are still used today is infuriating.  Slavery ended in 1865!  How is that 151 years later we still haven't come together as the beautiful, hailing from the Motherland race that we are?  A house divided cannot stand.  If we want to progress and successfully combat the many issues that face our race we cannot waste precious time and energy fighting each other.

It's been said before and I'm gonna say it again: Black is beautiful.  No matter how dark, how light, how bright, how night, it is LOVELY.  I am sick and tired of colorism and the burden that it casts on our society.  When I hear about how dark-skinned women feel less confident and less beautiful because of their deep shade of ebony it pains me.  When I see young girls RACING to the hair store to buy themselves a pack of silky smooth weaves it KILLS me.  When I hear about light-skinned blacks feeling that they aren't "black enough" or distancing themselves from darker African kings and queens my heart SHATTERS.  Here's the hard truth: no matter how hard you try to disown a part of your identity you will FAIL.  It's written in your DNA and it is absolutely gorgeous the way it is.  Stop fighting it.  Embrace it.  Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you who you're supposed to be, how your supposed to act, or how you're supposed to be treated.  Give hatred a blind eye and go 'head and bless your corner of Earth and community in the way that only you and your uniqueness can.

PEACE.  *drops mic*