I’m a 20 something black woman.
When I was a kid/teen my mom used to do my hair with perm, hot combs, etc, and when I didn’t hold my head still enough or complained about pain she would call me retarded and every other foul thing you could think of.
Never mind the fact that I once got a seeping chemical burn in the back of my head from a perm she put in my hair and had to go to the doctor, and while she had been putting the perm in I was damn near in tears from both the pain and her verbal abuse.
Any who, once I got older I stopped letting her do my hair, and then she could only verbally abuse me by telling me that I was (among other insults) retarded because I couldn’t flat iron and hot comb my hair perfectly straight.
I’ve now gone natural, and sometimes the b**** will ask me to let her try a style on my hair, and I always say no.
The overwhelming majority of black moms ain’t s*** when it comes to how they treat young black women/girls, whether the young black woman/girl is their own child or not doesn’t matter.
