thankulord13's Comments (1586)

“Obviously a pattern here...the­ir answer to Hillary's voters was Palin...th­eir answer to a mixed POTUS was.......­you get the point.”

“Where's that?”

“I wear my hair natural as well (a recent change after years of relaxing my hair). It's healthier, stronger and prettier, in my opinion, but I certain support a woman's right to wear her hair as she pleases without negative feedback. I'm proud that I have versatile hair that can withstand a variety of styles and textures.

About hair straightening. The idea that hair straightening is a black woman's attempt at simulating a white woman's hair is wrong. Curly and tightly curled hair (which is, generally speaking, how a black woman's hair is in its natural state) is high maintenance (read: time consuming and often expensive upkeep). Straightening it makes is easier for most black women who are too busy and too broke to maintain natural hair while also achieving a presentable look. Even when our hair is straight our hair really isn't similar to a white woman's hair anyway. Aside from wearing similar straight hairstyles, similarities will not be achieved short of changing ethnicities altogether.

And FYI Oleg: perming is what a person with naturally straight hair does to achieve a curly look. Relaxing..­.well, *relaxes* curly hair.”

“The news has reached the general public because of Chris Rock's "Good Hair" that AA women are self conscientious about, and tend to obsess about, their hair. From the perspective of an old, white, northern lady...? Corn rows go everywhere. They are a little black dress of hairdos. I love the look of very close and thought Angela Davis in full Afro was fierce. African hair is stunning.”

“I think one look at Michelle Obama and her hair straightening would pretty much demolish that assertion, thankulord.”

“and it has nothing at all to do with dealing with an easier hairstyle on a daily basis? I know the process by which this is achieved is in no way easy, but a few hours one day in lieu of styling on a daily basis is a motivation.”

“Come to think of it NOBODY that makes sense. I know growing up I always kept my hair short, my shirt buttons buttoned almost to the top in order to impress the public that I was not a trouble maker and to impress my bosses that I was a reliable worker. Now that I'm older me, and my friends, dress a lot more casual. Good catch, thanks.”

“You too D -bag!

Oh and by the way I couldn't care less about Kobe. I just laugh at people like you who feel so invested in someone else's life that you have to jump to their defense and attack someone for something they didn't even say. Maybe you are the one who should get a life.”

“Nobody but the two of them knows what went on in that room when he bent her over the chair and had sex with her when she was merely starstruck and excited to have met him.

I read the Denver Post's reporting of the story at the time, but it was not merely a local story. http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/5861379/

I know he wasn't convicted, but I can certainly have my own opinion. Money wins most of the time. His wife was the only winner. I forgot that case didn't go to trial because they broke the rape shield law and revealed her name, but he certainly did pay up in the civil suit. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2005-03-02-bryant-settles_x.htm”

“She didn't say he was c.onvicted she said it makes her think of the trial and the giant rock he bought his wife after sl.eeping with another woman.

Maybe next time you should read the comment more thoroughly before you get so defensive.”

“You don't say? Or do you?”

“They did find John McCain's black relatives in Mississippi. Remember. McCain's brother attended the family reunion.”

“they never came forward, it would have been interesting if they had, but I don't recall any.”

“very interesting point thanku, never thought of that.”

“My feeling exactly. All of us here in America know that somewhere back there this happened to most of us. And like you, I wonder why it wasn't so important to know who the other first ladies were related to that as far a slavery was concerned. Frankly, Scarlett..­....!!”

“thankulord13

The reason is white people love being able to say you were a slave to some white family. As if one could find anything redeeming in that information.

When will white people get a clue that slavery in America involved rape, incest, murder, dismemberment, and degradations and humiliations inflicted by a group of humans against another beyond imagination.

Does the word holocaust mean anything to white america? Just because no one has seen the bodies showing the cruelties inflicted upon Africans by white americans doesn't give them a pass.

What makes them think that it is okay to say that a member of their family abused a member of someone else's family? Because that is what it was! Abuse, no different than that suffered by our Jewish brothers and sisters at the hands of the Nazis.

The only difference is white america gets to control what the history of their holocaust against the Africans say. White america doesn't even call it a holocaust. Yet, have you ever seen a graveyard for dead slaves? The Nazis didn't bother to bury their victims in graves with human dignity either.

I don't think Michelle Obama is happy about someone telling her a relative of hers was raped regularly by a relative of theirs to produce her linage. Only white america could find news in that. Are we to learn if it was just enslavement and rape or rape and incest?”

“The social cost of a whyte person admitting to a black ancestor is greater than that of a blck person who has a blood tie with a whyte person. So pple skirt away from that part of the equation.”

“Yep. But don't let the "it's all about the white lady" folks hear you say that. They'll list every weak-azzed reason they can think of to insist that the media is not deliberately attempting to whiten Mrs. Obama up.”

“yep... sure makes one say "hmmmmm"”