hello, this being the black awareness month, and with the recent premiere of the movie Black Panther (must watch), i choose to embrace the original black woman with her God given crown.. the Afro is my favorite hair style.

see, for many years. black women have been made to believe that our natural hair is not beautiful, we have been made to believe that straight long hair is what beauty is . many generations before us and probably many to come, from a young age, we are told our natural hair is unruly and "too much", we have been forced to perm it and make it straight (not natural), use all sorts of straighteners and chemicals just to achieve straight hair and "beauty" as per society standards.

it was a proud moment to see the 2nd runner up of miss universe rock her natural afro on the pageant stage.. this is unusual as black women are always clad in "fake" long hair to be soncidered beautiful, even in pageants.

the world is changing and we are learning to embrace our God given afro crown, we are changing beauty standards and teaching society and the ones to come that a balck womans hair, that unruly afro is a thing of beauty. we are embracing our ethnicity and everything that comes with it.

i would have posted my own afro but i just had a hair cut (to remove the permed straigh hair) and transitioning to natural.
this lady is a perfect example.