Since starting this blog 3 months ago and increasing my presence on Instagram and Twitter alongside this, I had noticed the dominant presence & popularity of mixed race women in the #naturalhair movement.

My personal thoughts are that it is not the "fault" of mixed raced women or black women and that all hair should be celebrated. I do believe, however, that the underlying reason why mixed raced women tend to be hugely popular in the movement is down to the general populations colourist ideals. Darker skin and hair are tolerable and even desirable with the correct amount of "white".

"I have a dream that one day, among black Women, Hair will be hair and everyone single one of us who has some on top of our heads will be free enough not to see someone else’s mane as more desirable than our own, or the personal celebration of one’s texture as an infringement upon the love of our own. But alas, Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t stop segregation with one march and today will certainly not be the day that I end the texturism war with one article, though I shall try my best."

Full Article:

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2016/09/have-we-allowed-biracial-women-to-hijack-the-natural-hair-movement/