I am a 21 year old African American man.
When I was 20 years old before I got my first Drivers License picture for my first time of geting a license here in Michigan I had a long afro.
my mom told me I needed to get a haircut for my drivers license picture, and she convinced me to have all my long hair cut off, and she took me to the barbershop and I did get it all cut off. My mom has always convinced me that I dont look good with my hair in a long afro to take pictures, like a drivers license picture.
Back in the fall of 2008 last year I decided to go on a hair joyrney back to a long afro with my natural hair, cuz I read some stuff online about self hate and stuff and I decided to stop shaving my hair off and cutting it bald with clippers and start growing it out again, to try to represent natural African hair.
My mom doesnt seem to feel good about me going back to my natural hair joyrney to long hair with a long afro style, cuz she told me one day that when my hair is short it dont look nappy. My mom said “when your hair is short like that it dont look nappy, but when your hair was long and hard to comb it looked nappy”.
Now I am trying to grow my hair out again into a long style aka a afro and my mom telling me to keep wearing it short. I bought doo gro to try to grow my hair out faster and everything, and I just found out my mom think i dont look good with my natural hair long.
Im an adult now so i dont have to please mom and I will always tell myself that, but when my mom say negative things about black peoples hair which is my hair and her hair i will let it go in one ear out the other, cuz i aint cutting my hair off at home or the barber shop just because my mom dont like it, and say i dont look good with my hair. Beauty is what you see yourself as not what other people see, if you believe your hair looks good or your skin complexion looks good it doesnt matter what other people say or think about your body features like your hair or nose etc.
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