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Blacked Out Through Whitewash
by SUZAR
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"Acquired Anti-Nappy Syndrome"
(AANS) fuels the
Worldwide War on Nappy Hair

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Epidemically around the world, hundreds of millions of Nappy People are afflicted with full-blown AANS, ­"Acquired Anti-Nappy Syndrome." While no nappy person is born with it, they acquire it from their parents and family. AANS victims assault their hair with scorching metal combs and grease, frying each nappy strand until it is straight, to imitate the straight limp hair and hairstyles of Caucasians. In the process, some burn their hair and scalps. Others assault their hair with "chemical relaxers" (sodium or calcium hydroxide) which are so dangerous and poisonous that it burns the scalp shortly after applied, causing blisters and even permanent scalp and hair damage if left on too long or used too often. Additionally, chemicals from these relaxers are absorbed into the bloodstream; they are carcinogenic and can even cause birth defects. And since nappy hair keeps growing out as nappy as ever, the assault must be periodically repeated to maintain artificial straightness. Thus the hair is repeatedly damaged, forced to be what it is not, forced with "lye," to lie by lying straight. The scalps attached are likewise repeatedly damaged, by exposure to, and absorption of applied poisons.

But the worse damage appears to go unnoticed or even unacknowledged since this has become accepted "normal" behavior; this is the damage to the psyches which own the scalps. This psychological damage is "Acquired Anti-Nappy Syndrome," a form of self-rejection and self-hatred. The outward manifestation of this inner dis-ease is the War on Nappy Hair. AANS perpetuates and holds this war in place. The War on Nappy Hair was taken to such extremes, that in some Caribbean islands during the 1980s, not only was it illegal for Blacks to have locked hair, but if they dared display it in public, they could be arrested or even shot and killed on sight by the police! ­who were Black themselves! And nappy foreigners sporting dredlocks, attempting to visit these areas, were detained at airports and not permitted to stay in the country unless they wore wigs or hats to hide their locks.

AANS is rampant among the Nappy
only in Euro-centered, Euro-imitative societies

This means practically the whole world. Thus around the world, Nappy People have been successfully conditioned by their European colonizers to reject or scorn everything that makes them unique as Afrikan people; their sable skin of varying beautiful hues, full sensuous lips, broad noses, Afrikan culture, Afrikan names, and their divine nappy hair -spiraling hair expressing the divine Spiral Principle of Creation. The dictionary (like everything in these societies) promotes AANS by demeaning key words which commonly relate to Afrikan people. Example: "kinky," like the word "black," is associated with undesirable characteristics. By the same token, key words commonly relating to white people are elevated, thus "straight," like the word "white," is associated with desirable characteristics. Reflecting this attitude, the literature in the boxes of "chemical hair relaxers" refer to straighter hair as "fine," and nappiest hair as "coarse."
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While it is mainly women that show the visible evidence of AANS, nappy men are just as afflicted; their compliments and attention seem to favor women wearing straightened hair; or perhaps they have little choice since AANS-afflicted women are everywhere. They are the overwhelming majority. AANS is also evident with Nappy Men today, though not as rampant as it was from the early 1900s to the 1970s.

It's hard work to keep all that nappy hair straight. It's time consuming as well, wasting countless hours that can be productively used in nurturing self-knowledge and self-respect. For who will respect you if you don't respect yourself? If 90% of whites were always perming up their straight hair to imitate kinky hair, this would clearly broadcast the statement that they don't like themselves (self-hatred); and are rejecting part of themselves. Furthermore, keeping nappy hair straight is COSTLY. In America alone, Black people annually spend billions, that's right ­billions of dollars on Black hair care at a time when Black colleges, businesses and organizations are facing financial ruin.1 This stands as a shameful witness to the success of the campaign to turn Afrikans against their own natural traits and thus against themselves.

Furthermore, AANS damaged hair is probably destroyed in its ability to transmit energy or be antennae. Instead of tuning into higher vibrations, such enslaved, maligned hair probably tunes into lower energies or likely, no energy at all, since it is cooked, hence dead.

The good news is that there is increasing evidence
that many among the Nappy are healing from
AANS;

they are accepting and loving their natural spiral-hair, particularly as they awaken to knowledge of their true history, true culture, and true selves, ­and reject the false, anti-Afrikan history taught to them in anti-Afrikan school systems established by anti-Afrikan people. Fortunately, AANS and its outward symptoms are not permanent. As fresh new virgin hair grow out of those poisoned scalps, so can AANS exit forever.

Dredlocks were formerly abhorred by Nappy Americans.

The term itself is derived from "dread," for locked hair was considered "dreadful" ! British soldiers coined the term "dreadlocks" during Jamaica's colonial period, from the soldiers' attempts to oppress the Afrikan Maroons who revolted against slavery. Now, not only is locked hair accepted, it's even fashionable. In fact, people desiring instant long locks can now buy pre-made locks of any length or thickness, made from human hair. Thus a day is surely comin' when Blacks stop regarding nappy hair as "bad hair," and straighter hair as "good hair." They will have completely thrown off the negative racist conditioning causing them to imitate their colonizers at the expense of their self respect. As a result, Acquired Anti-Nappy Syndrome will be healed. Manufacturers of hot combs and relaxers will go out of business. And Nappy People will end the War on their Nappy Hair. Once more they will esteem their precious Nappy Hair as the ancients did, ­as the spiraling "Hair of the Gods."
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It happens to millions of Black girls
.everyday around the world:

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( "Pearl!" ) My mother broke our conscious daydreaming. ("Come over here and let me touch up your edges.") I wanted to run and hide! She set me down in the chair and pulled the hot comb from the big wood-burning stove. My mother started pressing my already altered and straightened hair.

I was always afraid of that hot comb! I held my breath as the heat from the comb moved across my scalp. Metal teeth pulling knotted hair until forced to lay flat. I wiped my damp hands on the long skirt of my pink, terry-cloth robe. With tension I bent my ear down and out of the way, then pushed my feet hard into the floor until my knees began to tremble. I lost my thoughts with the heavy smell of the burning hot comb.

She guided the comb near my ear. The sizzling sound of frying hair grease captured me motionless. I looked hard in my Grandmother's eyes, who looked breathless back into mine. This was one time I knew not to move for fear of branded teethmarks on the neck or ears. Not today! It just couldn't happen, especially this morning.

From The Bamboo Forest
by Irasha Pearl

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Browder, BF, 81.
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