"Lighten your black skin", indicating perfection to be reached by bleaching white like the light woman. There were other advertisements such as: "Knock the kink out...Straighten hair in five days" ...influencing the poor, unthinking masses to be dissatisfied with their race and colour and to aspire to look white....I attacked this vicious propaganda and brought down upon my head the damnation of the "leaders" who sought to make a new race and a monkey out of the Negro. ~ Marcus Garvey We must carry on his work..until natural hair is the norm and relaxers and weaves are weird, ugly, undesirable!
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:30:00 +0000
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