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I found this article difficult and confusing to read. It says stuff like: "beauty standards that placed a high value on lighter skin and hairstyles that imitate
by linuxkerneldev 11y ago
I found this article difficult and confusing to read. It says stuff like:
"beauty standards that placed a high value on lighter skin and hairstyles that imitated white looks,"
then says:
"began offering skin-lightening and hair-straightening products to compete with white companies that marketed these items to black consumers"
"Walker rebuffed a reporter in response to an article that derisively referred to her as the “de-kink queen.” "
I couldn't figure out if the article was saying Walker was a black woman who supported natural hair for black women (which I imagine would be a good thing for black women, and good for the planet as well given the toxic chemicals in hair straighteners, and general waste of resources on hair) or if the article is saying she just built a hair company and provided whatever the masses wanted even if it was damaging to their own self-image and communities?
- masterminding 11y agoIt was saying the latter because she did the latter. It's the same way people in poverty choose to sell drugs to their own community to escape those conditions themselves. Maybe not the right thing but impoverished conditions make people make questionable decisions.
- Maken 11y agoThe article states that the company started selling these kind of "looking more whiteish" products after she has already passed away, not during her leadership. Her marketing was focused in making women look more healthy, not more white.