{"id":196378,"date":"2024-03-04T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=196378"},"modified":"2024-03-04T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T11:37:15","slug":"letter-combing-natural-hair-the-ignorance-is-unfathomable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-combing-natural-hair-the-ignorance-is-unfathomable\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER- Combing Natural Hair: The Ignorance is Unfathomable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am still amazed at the stupidity that prevails in the Black community as regards the basic ways and means of managing natural hair. Worse than ignorance, there are misconceptions which are taken as gospel, to the detriment of many a person’s scalp, hair, and hairline.<\/p>

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I visited a professional recently who attempted to comb through my hair…. dry. No spray bottle of water. No leave in conditioner to get the process started. They legit attempted to comb through thick natural black hair, bone dry, and not with a pick. Yes. They were using a long comb with relatively short teeth, though at least there were large gaps between the teeth.<\/p>\n

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Common sense should allow anyone who has grown out their (natural) hair to know that a pick is always best to get things started. You do as much as you can with the pick and later, if you want to move on to other combs, fine. But you start with a bloody pick.<\/p>\n

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You’re supposed to place the pick near the roots and comb outwards to extend the hair. *This next part is extremely important*. As you meet resistance along the way (mild tangles and some knotting) you are supposed to apply moderate force to release the tangles, and take the pick out, then repeat the process by reinserting the pick further down the hair and farther away from the root. As you keep doing this combing motion in cycles, you are detangling from the root all the way to the end of the hair, by repeatedly going in and out, applying moderate pressure to keep releasing the tangles and knots along the way.<\/p>

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By the time you have near fully extended the section of hair you are working with, you will have brought the very last tangles and any knots to the very very end of the hair, and you can add a bit more force to undoing those bits.<\/p>\n

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There is a method to the madness. The process ensures that you are doing minimal damage to your hair and retaining as much length as possible without unnecessary breakage. And if breakage must occur, let it happen at a point nearer to the end of the hair, as opposed to happening nearer to the root and the scalp. And all of this should be happening in a very very moist environment, not on dry hair.<\/p>\n

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You would think that a “professional” would understand this basic concept. But no. It have (Trini speak) Black people out here that legit believe that it makes sense to dry comb afro hair, no water, no conditioner, no nothing. It have Black people who legit believe that they must take a section of hair, stick a comb (instead of a pick) in it, and forcefully drag the comb from root to the end of the hair, ignoring all resistance and ripping out any hairs that get caught in the motion. They do it in one painful thrust.<\/p>\n

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And they repeat it from root to the end of the hair, again and again, until they have torn out so much hair, caused so much breakage, and violently stretched the remaining hairs so much that what would normally be thick coilly afro hair, begins to look brittle, straight and wispy, like Albert Einstein’s hair. By this point, the dunces are satisfied that your natural hair is finally “combed” and ready to be styled. What total retardation.<\/p>\n

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The amount of breakage they cause with this awfully backward practice is terrifying. And they convince themselves that all the hair that they have ripped out that is now on the floor is “dead hair” or “shedded hair” or “stray hairs” that were naturally meant to come out. Bullshit. You manually ripped those hairs out you utter fool, and you likely made someone’s scalp sore while doing it.<\/p>\n

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At this point, I’m afraid to let anybody anywhere near my head. Especially the “professionals” who have been doing the wrong thing so long, that they cannot be convinced of its futility.<\/p>\n

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There is high level of self-contempt in us as a people – subconscious, racial self-contempt. We have the most ridiculous and unrealistic expectations of our (natural) hair and how it should exist.<\/p>\n

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We expect it to flow, when that is not it’s nature. We expect it to lie down, when that is not its nature. We expect it to be even and level, when that is not its nature. We expect to be able to comb it totally dry, when that is clearly not its nature. We expect it to remain elongated after we comb it, when that is not its nature. We complain about “shrinkage” and seek ways to reduce the natural tendency of the hair to tightly coil.<\/p>\n

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Unrealistic expectations – how it should look, how it should react to being combed, how it should react to the environment, how it should react to additives and styling. And we are forever dissatisfied with it for being what it is, and not what we imagine it is supposed to be.<\/p>\n

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We show our misunderstanding of, and contempt for our own hair when we dub it “too thick” and “too unruly” or say that it “can’t be combed”. We show our contempt when we brutishly rip and tear the natural thickness and coilyness out of our hair by harsh, ignorant combing habits that leave the hairs broken, stretched, snapped, and whispy, while we smile and say, “good, it’s finally combed”.<\/p>\n

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Subconscious, racialised, self-contempt centered on the aesthetics of black bodies, and experienced collectively as a socio-cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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Sincerely,<\/p>\n

A young woman with no patience left<\/p>\n

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