As long time readers of this series of pamphlets are aware, the ever lovely Lady Nib is an Asian woman; specifically Japanese. From the day of her birth until into her fifties her hair was as black and shiny as onyx, as straight as a die and as thick as a hawser. It was only then that a few silver strands came in. She's always been proud of it, and rightfully so.
Back in the early 90s it became popular for a segment of the female Asian population to bleach their hair to various shades of brown, auburn or even blond and to curl their hair into ringlets. When Lady Nib first saw this trend she said, "Oh my! That looks very bad. These poor girls want to have Northern European hair on Asian faces. It's like putting Ford decals on Dodges. It just doesn't work. In fact, it looks stupid." But, the world, being a slave to the fashions of those who have money and/or fame, ignored Lady Nib's protestations and now, if one watches Japanese television one sees images of many Japanese young women with a set of blondish curls that would drive Farrah Fawcett into fits of jealousy. But Japanese people, in Japan, really don't know much about the U.S. or Europe. They think they do, but once they get to Los Angeles or London they find themselves gobsmacked by a world that they didn't know existed. Some of them, while in Japan, want to appear American or European in a Japanese milieu. They think of Japan as staid and tradition-ridden and that the Occident is hip and with it while the Occidental hipsters look to Japan for what is the new trend. It's all very confusing for them; is manga cool, why do Goths dye their hair black, why do Americans love Godzilla while people in Japan think the monster is a joke?
Which brings us to "people of color" in the U.S. Has the reader noticed that an inordinate number of well-known African-American women seem to have hair that is lighter than the natural color? Many of these women spend a lot of time complaining about how they are "put down by The Man", and yet they have chosen to have their locks bleached to match those of Paris Hilton. There is no way that Beyonce's long curly and honey colored locks are natural or that Raven Symone's chrome head came from genetics. And one must ask one's self why women of color, who are constantly pitching a bitch about the white man and white culture, decide to make their hair as European as they can. It makes no sense unless one factors in the fact that many black men consider European idea of beauty to be the ideal beauty and that black women are trying to match that as best they can. Consider the fact that in South Africa, and even in the United States there are beauty products for black women that are supposed to lighten their skin color. Why?
Be it known that the most beautiful woman (besides the ever lovely Lady Nib) this writer ever knew was an African (not African-American) woman. She was beautiful in every way; mind, body and soul. She had a posture that would make a ballerina jealous. Almost every man who saw her got slack jawed when he saw her. She straightened her hair for convenience sake, but her hair was as black as coal. And, as far as this writer is aware, she never disliked or was jealous of anyone on racial terms. She was what she was and accepted it and people loved her for it. She didn't try to be white. She didn't try to be black. She was just her; a woman comfortable in her own skin and she didn't let the tides of popular culture dictate who she "should" be.
Consider this tirade by Raven Symone about Donald Trump. She's got a chrome head while bitching about Trump's anti-immigration rants. Well, we've got two idiots; Raven Symone and Donald Trump. Trump is right in immigration, but Symone, because of her chrome head, can't tell the idiot Trump that he's racist because she's, in a sense, as racist as she claims that he is by trying to make herself look like a Swede with a suntan.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/views-raven-symone-thinks-trump-behind-steinle-murder
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