Comments on: The Curse of The Curly Perm

By: Oliver Jones

Oliver Jones — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:50:24 +0000

i really hate chicken pox coz it can mess your skin’.’

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:44:44 +0000

This was funny. Quite an analogy. I’m Hispanic with hair that has an identity crisis. It doesn’t want to be curly or wavy so it naturally stays as a poof like I got electrocuted. I didn’t know black people called relaxers perms till I was in high school. I explained to my black and white friends what happened when one day I showed up with a head full of curls instead of my usual straight coif that I go to my Dominican salons, have my hair put up in rollers, sit in a machine with my ears burning for an hour, then get it blow-dried to achieve sleek hair. After it’s all done, I can’t help but feel a little guilty at the lengths one goes to change the way one would normally look.

By: Ginneh

Ginneh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:34:04 +0000

I still find myself in the middle of these “explain yourself” conversations quite often…like the other day when I was saying how I got sunburned and I was met with blank stares and questioning heads tilted subtly to the side. YES I can get sunburned, I have SKIN don’t I??? Sheesh. Its all ridiculous and pathetic.

By: Phi Sister

Phi Sister — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:10:44 +0000

As long as I don’t look like that blonde girl, I’ma be okay.

By: ill Mami

ill Mami — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:05:57 +0000

The little white blond girl’s face said it best at the end of the video. Like, “you don’t look like a little Black boy so STFU.”

Very surreal and quasi racist video. Was this for an after-school special? LOL

By: KJH

KJH — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:52:39 +0000

I was just having the “Black perm is really a relaxer” conversation with a White coworker. Today I asked her if her mom ever put Vaseline on her face before she went to school. I think you know the answer.

By: Treina

Treina — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:16:59 +0000

How in the world to you find this stuff? Please tell me that YouTube clip was not for real.

By: ASmith

ASmith — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:51:50 +0000

Being black = having the chicken pox. Oh. I see. (<<<— Dead)

I typically just try to remember to use the word “relaxer” when I explain it.

I also typically try to avoid this and other “hip me to black culture” conversations because after 22 yrs of doing it, I need a year off.