The Hair issue in America: From an Historical retrospective (Part 2)

The part 1 of the Hair issue in America was about the evolutionary retrospective, this part will go a little back in history to shed the light on the hair texture and skin tone impact on African American  mentality, and how it reflect on their daily behavior and attitude, the post is mostly an accumulation of extracts from PDF texts treating the subject, the title of the paragraphs represent the PDF source of the text. 

At the end a Video that I made years ago, but never published until this post, Part 1 being deleted from YouTube...

All cultures make the distinction between "us" and "other." Persecution of "others" has long been a human behavior pattern. However the unique form of racism seen in the western world developed as part of a struggle between classes (nobles versus serfs; royalty versus commoners; Northern Europeans versus other Europeans; all Europeans versus non-Europeans). In nineteenth century United States, Europeans were seen as superior to Black slaves, and a relation developed that was different from servility. The slaves were converted into a pariah group, outsiders who were banned from society and the major institutions of social structure.

The Relationship of Skin Tone and Hair ~~Stefanie R. Snider

The impact of skin color in the African American community has been heavily documented. Light-skinned persons are viewed in a more positive manner—as more attractive, more competent and successful, and having greater social status. Perceptions related to African Americans' hair texture have not been studied as systematically, but evidence suggests hair is perceived in a similarly biased manner.

For hundreds of years, skin color or skin tone has played a significant role in the lives and social status of African Americans. “Black history provides considerable evidence that the skin color of African Americans has exerted powerful and persistent influences on societal attitudes toward and treatment of Black persons—within both White and Black cultures”(Bond & Cash, 1992, 879). The treatment of African Americans created for some a skin color bias or made them color conscious. Skin color determined how African Americans were treated and what jobs they were given.

Slaves who were considered lighter-skinned were given jobs and chores that were more respectable inside the house, such as cooking, cleaning, and attending to the children. On the other hand, the darker-complexioned slaves were given more menial jobs, such as working the fields, picking cotton, and laboring manually. After the abolition of slavery, the impact of skin color influenced the lives of African Americans in reference to status and achievement. Social clubs were segregated during this time, which led some prosperous African Americans to organize “blue vein” societies in the early 1900s. They were called this because, to join, the individuals had to be light enough for their blue veins to show through their skin. The requirements to become a member of the club were, thus, certain Caucasoid features. There were other tests that potential members had to pass in order to be accepted into this elite group. An African American had to be lighter than a “paper bag” and be able to pass the “comb test” for what was called “good hair.” To pass this test, the person had to have hair texture straight enough for a comb to pass through it easily (Bond & Cash, 1992).

The privileged treatment given to African Americans who had light skin and other Caucasoid features suggested to many Blacks that “the more they physically conformed to the White, majority standard of beauty, the more rewarding their lives would be” (Gatewood, 1988, 15).

While the majority of the girls do not seem overly concerned with their body image, particularly their weight, they do seem to display a moderate degree of appearance dissatisfaction regarding their hairstyle and skin color.

Perceptions and Preferences for Skin Color ~~PATRICIRAA SKIN

While African American women have been able to successfully ignore the weight ideals advocated by the larger culture, this does not mean that they are immune from eating disorders. In fact the opposite is true. Wilson and Russell (1996, p. 101) found that the rate of obesity among Black women was twice that of White women, especially among poor, working class single black mothers. They suggest that some Black women may use binge eating as a way to cope with poverty. Diabetes and hypertension also become prominent medical risks associated with obesity. Job loss is another related risk factor as well (Wilson & Russell, 1996, p. 101; Thompson, 1996).

As more and more African American communities are becoming exposed to White culture and White norms of beauty, eating disorders are going to grow more and more rapidly.

Skin Color and Body Image Dissatisfaction ~~Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber

Another body image issue that affected the girls in our study was that of skin color. Among African American women, skin color is connected to feelings of self-worth, self-esteem, and attractiveness (Thompson & Keith, 2001). Research has found that most African Americans are partial to skin color that lies somewhere in the middle of the light-dark color spectrum (Clark & Clark, 1980; Robinson & Ward, 1995). This becomes particularly relevant for Black women in that often those who have darker skin feel devalued for not living up to the American standard of light skinned beauty, while those who have a lighter skin tone feel ostracized for being too light, which is synonymous for too White.

Hair and Body Image Dissatisfaction ~~Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber

Perhaps hair, more than any other physical attribute serves to exemplify the beauty struggles faced by African American women. On one hand, hair represents one's assimilation into the popular culture, while on the other hand, it can serve to reject all cultural norms surrounding beauty.

What makes someone ‘Whitewashed?’

Priscilla: The hair

Alright so if you see her wearing her hair too White…

Priscilla: I'll tell her.

What will you say to her?

Priscilla: I'd say, 'Jackie, you're getting a little confused.

Right so when you say they're confused what does that mean? What do they do?

Jackie: Our hair is different than your hair. You need to do different things to it. And some [African American girls] just don't understand that. They think that their hair is White hair and so they can do whatever they want to it.

Like what do they do?

Jackie: Say for instance my hair is like the kind of texture that it is, washing it twice a day would kill it. But some people wash their hair everyday with Pantene.

What makes you have a high self-esteem and what makes it bad?

Teresa: I don't know what makes me have high self-esteem but I know what makes me have low self-esteem.

What's that?

Teresa: People make fun of you.

What do they make fun of?

Teresa: My hair

As the data indicates, hair becomes the symbol for the paradoxical worlds in which African Americans exist. It becomes a venue for displaying their place in both cultures. In this regard, hair that is straightened often becomes the compromise for African American women (Gregory, 1992; Leeds, 1994). African American women when styling their hair must attempt to do so as a means of verifying their roles in both Black and White cultures. Scholar Veronica Chambers (1999, 2001) illustrates this phenomenon by asserting that she has “two relationships with the outside world: One is with my hair, and the other is with the rest of me… Because I am a black woman, I have always had a complicated relationship with my hair (2001, p. 212).” The personal experience Chambers generalizes to the larger African-American female community also came through in our sample.

      

Jen: …these days if you don't have your hair done people are going to laugh at you…because it’s a part of life. You got to maintain your hair, your body, your clothing. You can't be going around looking like a bum.

Why is that? Is your hair more important than your weight?

Jen: For me it is yes. Because your weight is your weight. You were born with it, it's your metabolism. But your hair….God gave it to you but God gave it to you for it to be done. You shouldn't walk around with your hair all over the place because it doesn't look right.

How much time do you spend on your hair?

Jen: As long as it takes… to get my hair braided it takes six, seven hours.

Can you tell me what that's like?

Jen: Like they say you have to go through pain to have beauty, to get your hair braided you have to go through pain…She (HAIRDRESSER) takes some hair and she starts braiding it into your own and she has to make it thick to the edge so it won't come out. She has to braid it tight. It feels like someone hitting your head with a mallet…

Where do you think the idea for braiding comes from?

Jen: I don't know. They say it comes Africa but I really don't know.

Education in USA...the Great Failure.

U.S. Falls In World Education Rankings, Rated 'Average'

Ed. Clarification: HuffPost Education originally reported that the United States was ranked 14th by the OECD.

 That figure is the nation's ranking in reading skills, not the overall ranking of the country.

The United States has fallen to "average" in international education rankings released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, according to the AFP .

America has received scores around 500 on a scale that goes up to 1,000: 487 in math, 500 in reading and 502 in science.

The AFP reports,

The three-yearly OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world, ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics.

Of course, the report above doesn't reflect the American Stupidity, it's the best presentation Americans can give of their primate-based standards educational system overseas, it doesn't expose the ignorance and the stupidity submerging America, within the states...In America schools are based on the minimum of intelligence standards due to the demographic composition of the American society.

But at least Americans are good in other fields...

The Hair issue in America: From an evolutionary retrospective (Part 1)

Understanding the Evolution theory:

Evolution (or more specifically biological or organic evolution) is the change over time in one or more inherited traits found in populations of individuals. Inherited traits are distinguishing characteristics, for example anatomical, biochemical or behavioural, that are passed on from one generation to the next. Evolution occurs when there is variation of inherited traits within a population over time. The major sources of such inherited variants are mutation, genetic recombination and gene flow. Evolution has led to the diversification of all living organisms from a common ancestor.

Evolution of the great apes:

Species close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans may be represented by Nakalipithecus fossils found in Kenya and Ouranopithecus found in Greece. Molecular evidence suggests that between 8 and 4 million years ago, first the gorillas, and then the chimpanzees (genusPan) split off from the line leading to the humans; human DNA is approximately 98.4% identical to that of chimpanzees when comparing single nucleotide polymorphisms (see human evolutionary genetics).

The modern theory concerning the evolution of man proposes that humans and apes derive from an apelike ancestor that lived on earth a few million years ago. The theory states that man, through a combination of environmental and genetic factors, emerged as a species to produce the variety of ethnicities seen today, while modern apes evolved on a separate evolutionary pathway.

...Also--and somewhat confusingly--it seems that later archosaurs (like Desmatosuchus) coexisted with the earliest dinosaurs (like Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus). In evolutionary terms, this poses no contradiction: evolved animals often wind up living side-by-side with the (relatively unevolved) descendants of their "progenitor" species. But it does pose a problem to paleontologists trying to definitively classify Triassic-period fossils.

The Afro Hair From a Bio-Evolutionary Perspective

"Black People Are Less Intelligent than Everyone Else"   - Dr. James Watson

Black people

The term black person is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.

Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a role so that relatively dark skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of whiteness and relatively light skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for blackness. As a biological phenotype being "black" is often associated with the very dark skin colors of some people who are classified as 'black'. But, particularly in the United States, the racial classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry and exhibit cultural traits associated with being "African-American". Therefore, the term 'black people' is not an indicator of skin color but of racial classification.

Dark skinned people; Our distant evolutionary cousins. (bro!)

Dark-skinned people evolved in isolation from other groups, under different sets of selective pressures, physical variations that are different in combination from any other group. To give you an idea of how varied it is, when you look at the degree of genetic diversity in humans around the world, what you find is a disproportionate concentration in Africa, found in the various tribes and ethnic groupings there. Groups of people left Africa and colonized the rest of the world, but of four main branches in the human lineage (based on mitochondrial DNA), only one branch moved out of Africa to populate the rest of the continents.

Dark skin

The evolution of dark skin is linked intrinsically to the loss of body hair in humans. By 1.2 million years ago, all people having descendants today had the same receptor protein of today's Africans; their skin was dark, and the intense sun lowered the chance of survival of those with lighter skin that resulted from mutational variation in the receptor protein. This is significantly earlier than the speciation of Homo sapiens from Homo Erectus some 250,000 years ago.

Hair:

The texture of hair in people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry is noticeably different from that of Eurasian populations, as noted by Herodotus.

The specific characteristics of the natural afro-hair form are unique among all mammals.The texture likely predates the evolution of dark skin. It evolved when, as pre-human Australopithecines lost most of their fur to enable perspiration, the need to protect the newly exposed pale skin underneath this body hair was crucial, the trait ceased to be essential to survival at the equator upon the evolution of hairless dark skin. Yet it has continued to be expressed vestigially among most Melanesians, Andaman Islanders, and sub-Saharan Africans.

Consequence of this Evolutionary deficit:

Negros evolutionary deficit which simply is the fact that they didn’t advanced much from the stage of homo erectus as homo s. Sapien or modern human does, they stagnated at an quasi primate stage which is characterized by more strength, bigger arms and relative bigger upper body and small brain and limited mental abilities...As a result those characteristics will be at the root of the failure of the educational system in America, since the standards been lowered progressively to adapt to primates students, as a result this state of mind will expand and shape American Education as we know it today...=> based on primates intelligence standards.

It’s a harsh cold world:

Negros adapting their evolutionary deficit to modern humans’ society.

Negroes, as a reaction to a mixed milieu, they've got to improve their image and to lose the primates look characteristics, different methods been used to achieve a more presentable look:

A variation of the Afro hair is resulting by Cross-breeding with caucasians.

They were typically the children of white planters, or their sons or overseers, who had relationships with or had raped and impregnated, enslaved women. By the 18th century in Virginia, travelers already noted the high rate of mixed-race people, and many shades of color found among slaves. There were traveler reports of "white slaves", meaning those who looked white and had only a small part of African ancestry.

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, fathered a second family with his slave girl, Sally Hemings.

Let's EVOLVE!

The main issues of evolution of Negroes is their hair, the hair represent the main visible evolutionary deficit of the Black race, along with the skin, which they may compensate by the (tanning excuse)

Wigs, hair straitening and all kinds of skin bleaching and Hair treatment is a flourishing industry because of Negros evolutionary deficit.

The use of Wigs by Black females CHALLENGES Darwin Theory of Evolution.

Wigs and skin bleaching products represent the “visible missed link” between modern Humans and Homo-Erectus.

A simple Wig can make a Black female cross hundreds of thousands of years of the Human evolutionary process.

"Wigs let black females beat the Evolution theory of the origin of species; a Negra can cross hundreds of thousands of years of the evolutionary process just by wearing a wig."   

                       

The Hair issue in America: a cultural and Historical dimension

The Hair issue among females of color is a characteristic of the American society. It is a cultural trait of the African American community; as a step ahead from the Afro-hair of the civil rights movement and the post segregation era into assimilation and a more presentable look, by all kinds of alternative to the Afro hair.

The Afro-hair, representing an era of social subordination.

African Americans today, consider themselves more melting into the texture of the American society  by all kinds of wigs and alternative to the afro hair, thinking of it as a step ahead into the "white wanna be" syndrome they are suffering from, While in reality they look like clowns, or Negro females walking around with an Indian woman's hair.

The Hair issue among females of colors in America, will reach another dimension by the exportation of the image of Michelle Obama as the first lady of color to the world.

As a natural reaction to save the reputation of the White House and of America in general; fortunes will be spent on the first Negra’s hair in an attempt to present the image of America as a multi-color nation in a decent way to the world.

 Repercussion of the Hair issue on the world's situation. 

This is the symbolic picture of the infusion of the soul into the Homo S. Sapien after it reached an certain degree of evolutionary process, it is a marking step in the history of humanity, since obviously there is no creation but intelligent design and "controlled" evolution, the infusion of the soul or the light will open the Homo S. Sapien into new , perspective, marking a decisive line between 2 sides. The Homo Erectus, stagnant in the evolutionary phase in Africa wont get that divine gift, explaining the evolutionary gap at the roots of biggest humanity issues nowadays, including, but not limited to the disparity if distribution of wealth, the gap in mental and economic development. The transatlantic slave trade will be a decisive point in defining humanity actual state, mixing seeds in America reached dramatic levels, the darkness took over, along with native Americans remains and Jews, whom, even though you can't place them in the same level as the evolutionary level of Africans, were historically subordinate, creating opportune condition to the corruption of their soul. The overall result is the American empire as we know incarnation of the Zionist regime or the doctrine of darkness in its path of revenge of Homo S. Sapiens infused by Gods soul.

The proportion Black/White a serious issue in America

The diverse structure of the American society, mainly its black and white components, will create a deep issue that everybody in the American society seem to look the other way, to ignore that it is serious, and affecting the family value and putting white men dignity on the ground as the ultimate price to pay for freedom and to keep the Union.

Bellow, a Video presenting another lost card used by stupid Americans to improve their image; Corrupted souls Mestizos used by SAS, and as Always, Sa Majesté Franco TaMere uncovered the corruption of souls of Mestizos interacting with Le glorieux Mister. Core.
The video tend to seem of ambiguous nature, yes it is, it is touching deep in the Core of the American Black and White structure, it's confusing for the stupid masses. 

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Skin Lightening and Skin Bleaching Creams For African Americans

Whether it is the perceived notion that a lighter complexion will improve one's social and economic status quo or the desire to have an even complexion, the use of skin lightening creams among African Americans is on the increase. With a large number of these creams having mercury derivatives, hydroquinone and tropical steroids, it is imperative that one is aware of the dangers of using products with these ingredients.Hydroquinone does not bleach the skin; it limits the output of melanin. By altering the skins structure and inhibiting the production of melanin, you are taking away its natural protection making it more susceptible to skin cancer.

Prolonged use of hydroquinone will cause a blue-black discoloration to the skin caused by ochre- colored pigment. Hydroquinone thickens collagen fibers damaging the connective tissue resulting in rough blotchy skin.

The use of mercury based skin whitening products is probably the most discussed. The immediate effects of mercury based products is rashes, skin irritation and changes to the skin. While this might seem like a little pain to achieve a desired effect, the long term effects are more damaging and harder if not impossible to reverse.