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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (100810)	9/5/2011 7:36:33 PM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

We've seen what happens to any family where drugs and alcohol predominate......But its not even that......imagine what its like to grow up in a society where the way you look is not what's considered the idolized form of beauty. Only recently did I learn what black women have to go thru to have straight hair. I don't know the details but apparently the process is fairly painful. Now go to 2:30 on this video and note the hair of the young black cheerleaders. Enough said. Link didn't make it in the post. I get what you're saying and I agree.....yes, straightening is painful, I've been told. Takes hours...We need to look no further than the hair styles of the black female pundits on the news programs and Oprah re: the pressure to make themselves acceptable for "our society"....PS: did you know they call getting their hair straightened a "permanent" instead of straightening? I threw the crack and prison sentence issue in there because I witnessed it first hand in Boston when it was peaking in the early 90s----coupled with the easy acquisition of guns?....so painful to witness. It made me hate(don't use this word lightly)Reagan. His CIA imported the cocaine/crack from south of the border to arm their side and dumped it into inner cities like LA, NY, etc...This issue made impelled me to go full bore activist re: our children and families. imagine what its like to grow up in a society where the way you look is not what's considered the idolized form of beauty Only an inkling...parents came from the hills of Albania and my real name is so bizarrely spelled. We were dressed differently and spoke a different language of a country most around us had never heard of....wasn't until college that I felt I was becoming integrated....But my last name still immediately draws attention to "she's not from here."