#hair in general is such an expansive topic i'd love to delve into at some point

[junkdyke]

I fucking hate watching a video of a black person doing their natural hair, showing some tips, how they achieve a style, etc and seeing that the top comment is "As a white, bald man, I don't know why i'm here but i watched the whole thing!😂" or "I'm white with bone straight hair, how did I end up here?" like my god, white people are so self-absorbed but in a much deeper way than I think they even fucking realize. Obviously, surface level it's already shitty, you see a video of a black person, and you feel the need to announce that your white ass is in the vicinity. "Let me make this about ME" cause we can't have shit even in our spaces, you gotta let us know so we can look at you too.

But beyond that, it's actually really fucking weird and gross that ya'll are incapable of just seeing us as people, doing our thing, and taking that in as a normal thing alongside you in the world we live in. You see a black person styling an afro, and it is so outside of your normal, that you feel the need to point us out as an Other. It's not just that you can't relate, we're a spectacle. "Aha, isn't it funny that i'm here watching this negro pick out their hair?" maybe if you saw black people as any other person that is of equal to you in your world, you wouldn't see it as something so weird and bizarre for you to see. It's dehumanizing that you think you're such a Default Setting that when a minority ends up on your feed, it's so noteworthy it fills you with awe. And it's literally just a nigga combing their hair! Meanwhile, I know for myself and hella other black kids who grew up alternative, we were watching countless hair dying videos from young white girls, and at no point was it some mystical, abnormal sight. It just was what it was, some person doing their hair that we'd get the tips from. Ya'll just make me ill fr, there is no reason that on a black hair video, all the top comments are white people letting us know they're watching. We know ya'll have a weird fascination with our hair that you feel a need to point out, why the fuck do you think "don't touch my hair" has become a worldwide phrase from us, can you start seeing us as human, actually maybe. Humans that share the same planet as you do, not just the poor side characters you pretend to care about when it's trendy and otherwise pretend we don't exist in the same way as you do.

#mine #blackposting #white people #hair in general is such an expansive topic i'd love to delve into at some point #i am just annOYED like shut up