sooo let's talk about dream for a second.

so basically homeboy called his hair an afro which is pretty racist if you ask me considering where it originated from. and incase you didn't know i am a black person.

it's not even the fact he called it a afro it's the fact that he said it like afros are a bad thing.

so until he apologizes like an actual good apology i won't be writing any dsmp or dream related stories.

he's already done some racist stuff but he's apologized.

you might ask why i won't do any of the other dsmp members and that's bc they are friends with him.

and he has straight hair like 2a💀💀

damn this you?🙁

if you wanna know why i'm so mad abt the afros then keep reading.

We as Black people see our afros as a symbol of pride, beauty, and heritage. We also see it as a way to push back against Eurocentric beauty standards. Within the last decade, there has been a surge of Black women all over the world who began rejecting the idea of processing their hair to meet these so-called beauty standards and instead opted to wear their natural hair. This was (and is) known as 'The Natural Hair Movement' and the world hadn't seen anything like it since the '60s and '70s.

The history of the afro can be traced back to the Motherland. In Africa, afros, braids, and other tribal hairstyles were the norm. Hair was used to define roles, hierarchy, status, and within the tribes' community. It was also used as a way for the women to gather together and socialize, like a modern-day hair salon. They would pass these styles and their symbolism down from generation to generation. Then in 1619, the colonizers arrived, and tragically everything changed.

As Africans were captured, stolen from their land, and forced into slavery those traditional hairstyles, including the afro, came to America. By the 1700s, white people made it known that Black hair was "nappy", "wooly", and "ugly". And for the next almost 350 years, Black people would be subjected to hearing how anything other than straight European hair was unacceptable, among other abhorrent dehumanizing conditions.

It wouldn't be until the mid-1960s when the first natural hair movement on record started. It was known as the 'Black is Beautiful' movement. Like today, the movement was about embracing the beauty of our skin tones, facial features, and our crowns. Marcus Garvey infamously stated, "Don't remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain." when speaking how Black people needed to deprogram how they saw themselves and their hair. It was a call to end the need to culturally assimilate into white society.
This movement in tandem with the Civil Rights Movement gave Black people the motivation to reconnect with their hair roots. The afro would be the first step in saying aloud, "I'm Black and I'm proud". While various natural hairstyles were worn like the high puff pony or afro puffs it was the afro that was the go-to style for many Black women. It quickly went on to become a symbol of Black people loving and embracing their natural selves.

bro he needs to be so supercalifragilisticexpialidociously fr rn man