We don't live in an ideal world! We live in a world that promotes European values as the only valid one and women buy into that because they don't stop and think that they are perhaps trying to accept for themselves, an unnatural form of beauty. An example is that the only forms of beauty I see promoted in many magazines is the Alicia Keys or Halle Berry type. Or if a black woman reaches the headlings she is wearing a weave ( therefore she must be discontented with her looks and want to conform to European standards of beauty or has embraced the European concept, therefore she is 'acceptable' because she recognises we Europeans are better. Once she does that she is not seen as a threat. We tolerate her). I don't see African features such as those of Alex Wek plastered all over bill boards or people aspiring to look like her because in many people's minds her features are ugly in juxtaposition to that of a European or a European looking black woman. It is mental conditioning and a sign of a people who are lost so they assimulate and assimulation comes in many different forms. Some think that by looking like the European they become liked, more acceptable. Some think that by looking more European they will get ahead.
I think that to accept another's concept and to let others dictate who we are is giving them our power.
Isn't true that if and when people wear their hair natural they are seen as rebellious or not conforming in otherwords a threat?