El Natural...

Over the weekend I decided that I was going to "go natural". I decided to do this while I was in the strenuous process of straightening my hair. Excited and proud as I wanted to be, I inform my girlfriend. This idea seemed to tickle her. She says... what are you talking about, you don't have a perm, your hair IS natural, and y'own even have "black hair". Hmpf. In my eyes, if you can get a fro (which I can), you got black hair. Hence, Afro-American, duhhh...

I sat and questioned myself. I'm like self, why ARE you straightening your hair. And the answers weren't pretty. They all revolved around not wanting to be judged by people; people who can't even relate to my hair. Fear that I'll look less professional. I didn't even realize that my thoughts were based primarily off of the judgements of others. But I'm no total conformist, I realized that wearing my hair curly (it's natural state) entails alot more work than wearing it straight. It's alot of work, work I'own like to do.

None-the-less, I'm going to figure out how to make it easy. Cause in a few weeks I'll be marching into work wit my BR suit and my kinky twist.

Power to the people!