JO ANN ROBINSON AND THE BLACK WOMEN INITIATED THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT

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     ...Soon after arriving in Montgomery, Robinson was verbally attacked by a public bus driver for sitting in the "whites only" section of the bus. When she became the WPC's president the following year, she made desegregating the city's buses one of the organization's top priorities.
     The WPC repeatedly complained to the Montgomery city leaders about unfair seating practices and abusive driver conduct. But the group's concerns were dismissed, leading Robinson to begin laying plans for a bus boycott by the city's African American community. Following Rosa Park's arrest in December 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person, Robinson and a few associates jumped into action. They copied tens of thousands of leaflets and distributed them across the city, calling for a one-day boycott.
     Following the overwhelming success of the one-day boycott, Montgomery's black citizens decided to continue the campaign, establishing the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to organize the effort and electing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the MIA's president.

Walking by Charles Henry Alston. Walking recalls the bus boycotts in the 1950s and anticipated the civil rights marches of the 1960s. The work not only depicts the spirit and conviction of the civil rights protest, it also references the significant role of women and youth in the movement. 

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Sydney Smith Gordon, © Charles Alston Estate. Object number 2007.2

https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/jo-ann-robinson-heroine-montgomery-bus-boycott

Ava DuVernay Presents The 25 Women Directors Who Have Helmed QUEEN SUGAR

"Here are the 25 women directors who have helmed QUEEN SUGAR over our past three seasons. For 21 of them, it was their first episode of television. 

They’ve since gone on to direct for many other shows:

• American Crime. 

• Underground. 

• Scandal. 

• Grey’s Anatomy. 

• Power. 

• Ozark. 

• Transparent. 

• 13 Reasons Why. 

• Insecure. 

• Luke Cage. 

• Greenleaf. 

• Dear White People. 

• Black Lightening. 

• Love Is. 

• Agents of SHIELD. 

• Survivors Remorse. 

• Star. 

• Chicago Med. 

• The Fosters. 

• Claws. 

• The Chi. 

The list goes on.

These women just needed a first YES.

To my fellow Executive Producers, to the studio execs, to the network decision makers, as you staff up for fall, consider saying: YES"

~Ava DuVernay

(facebook post)

The black female images we're seeing on television and in the movies is the result of black women pulling other black women up.

The result has been that other groups see our stories as worth telling. HIDDEN FIGURES might not have gotten made if shows like Scandal hadn't proven a show with a black female lead couldn't capture and hold an audience for years -- maybe if Shonda Rhimes hadn't taken over an entire night of television on ABC for a few years.



Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes and Mara Brock Akil have all put black women in front of the camera and behind the camera. They are giving black female life to Hollywood. 

We as black women are the sheroes we've been waiting for. 

And we are putting positive black female images on television and in the movies that black girls will be able to value and emulate and dream about from now on.



QUEEN SUGAR is on Oprah Winfey's OWN on Wednesday Nights This Summer

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FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

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Frances E.W. Harper was a Black poet, writer, and lecturer, as well as an anti-slavery, women's rights, and temperance activist.

Harper was from Baltimore, MD., where she attended Baltimore's Academy for Negro Youth school. There she studied Greek, Latin, and the Bible. Writing poetry as a teenager, she started her career as a writer in 1845 by publishing the poetry collection, "Forest Leaves."

Her second career, as an activist, began almost a decade later. Harper taught school for several years at Union Seminary in Ohio, and later in Pennsylvania. But in 1853, when Maryland began prohibiting free Blacks from entering its borders, Frances Ellen Harper was moved to action. The next year, moving to Philadelphia, she became active in the anti-slavery movement. Soon, Harper became one of the few Black women to go on the anti-slavery lecture circuit. She proved to be such a popular speaker that over the next six years, the Maine and Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Societies sent her throughout New England, Ohio, and New York, and as far away as Detroit and Canada.

Harper often quoted original poetry in her lectures, and consequently her reputation as a poet spread as far as her speaking tours. Her second volume of poetry, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, sold 10,000 copies and was then enlarged and reprinted. Harper published several more volumes of poetry and reprinted new editions of her poems many times. In the process, she became the most famous Black poet of her time.

During the next few decades, she began to focus on racial uplift, moral reform, temperance, and women's rights. Many of Harper's lectures were to women's clubs and associations, and some of her most popular speeches were on the rights and roles of women in general, and Black women in particular. Harper was also active in the temperance movement. She lectured widely on the evils of alcohol, directed the Northern United States Temperance Union, and became the first Black woman to be recognized on the Red Letter Calendar of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which honored prominent temperance activists.

Here again, Harper tailored her activism to reach the Black community. She directed what were then called the colored branches of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and in 1883, became national superintendent of temperance work among Blacks.

Throughout all of her political activism, Frances Harper continued to write, and in the 20th century, she is best remembered as one of the earliest Black women writers.

Harper's best-known work, is the 1892 novel Iola Leroy. Many reviewers called Iola Leroy the crowning effort of Harper's life. She continued writing until a few years before her death in 1911.

Harper provided a model for the best of what any 19th-century woman could be as a Black woman. In making a point of

writing about and speaking to other Black women, she set a high standard for a generation of Black women's activism.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/gary.perkins.7/posts/10204697435033261?

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPELMAN COLLEGE

Reported As Spelman's First Graduating Class

1881

• Founded as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles
• School opens April 11 in basement of Friendship Baptist Church, the Rev. Frank Quarles, pastor

1882

• Two more teachers commissioned by the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society join Packard and Giles in "basement school"
• Packard and Giles introduced to John D. Rockefeller who pledges $250 to the school

1883

• Moved to present site occupying nine acres and five frame buildings
• "Model School" to train student-teachers opens

1884

• Name changes to Spelman Seminary in honor of Mrs. Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her parents Harvey Buel and Lucy Henry Spelman, longtime activists in the antislavery movement.

1885

• Spelman students print first issue of the Spelman Messenger
• Sophia Jones, M.D., first black female to join the faculty

1886

• Rockefeller Hall dedicated
• Nurse training department begins

1887

• First Spelman class graduates receiving high school diplomas

1888

• Packard Hall dedicated
• Spelman incorporated under Board of Trustees
• Charter granted by state of Georgia
• Henry L. Morehouse becomes first president of Board of Trustees..
  
  Read More: https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/history-in-brief

     Because Atlanta would not open a black public high school until 1924, the first generation of Spelman students enrolled in courses equivalent to high school instruction. In 1887, Spelman awarded its first diplomas at this level. Two women received the school’s first baccalaureate degrees in 1901.
     In Spelman’s first decades, a series of notoriously strict presidents, all friends of the Rockefeller family from the Northeast, required students to adhere to the standards of   Victorian-era feminine propriety. Women wore hats and gloves in public, and they needed special written permission to travel off campus.  Under the title “domestic training,” they learned domestic skills such as sewing, cooking, and laundry work. Two of the school’s founders, Harriet Giles and Sophia Packard,

believed that former slaves lacked correct work habits, so they demanded that Spelman students rise at four thirty each morning to wash and iron their clothes, a practice that continued into the 1920s.
      Spelman’s curriculum focused heavily on teacher training, although the school also initiated a nursing program in 1886 ...

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LOVING THE WORLD BY LOVING SELF: Check ALL Your Relationships

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DYING OF WHITENESS: A Book On The False Promises Of White Supremacy

     With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as DYING OF WHITENESS shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters’ very health at risk—and in the end, threaten everyone’s well-being.
     Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl travels across America’s heartland seeking to better understand the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health. Interviewing a range of Americans, he uncovers how racial anxieties led to the repeal of gun control laws in Missouri, stymied the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and fueled massive cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. Although such measures promised to restore greatness to white America, Metzl’s systematic analysis of health data dramatically reveals they did just the opposite: these policies made life sicker, harder, and shorter in the very populations they purported to aid.  Thus, white gun suicides soared, life expectancies fell, and school dropout rates rose.
     Powerful, searing, and sobering, Dying of Whiteness ultimately demonstrates just how much white America would benefit by emphasizing cooperation, rather than by chasing false promises of supremacy.

https://www.dyingofwhiteness.com/?

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Remembering The Central Park V Ahead Of Ava DuVernay's WHEN THEY SEE US

For me, the story of THE CENTRAL PARK V started with me seeing a newspaper with the headline "WOMAN RAPED IN CENTRAL PARK" lying on the lunchroom table as I arrived at work.

The first thing I thought was "And water is wet." 



I kept on tippin' down the hallway in my pencil skirt and not-very-sensible pumps. But I doubled back. It took me about 5 to 7 seconds to realize that I'd just seen a headline, not a tiny blurb in a back section where rapes are usually reported in the newspaper.

When black and brown women, mostly domestics on their way to white homes on the other side of  Central Park, were being gang raped their rapes were barely worth a sentence of two.

But somehow, on that particular day, the rape of a nobody --someone with no celebrity status at all-- had made it onto the front page.

I went back to the lunch table, put my briefcase down and snatched up the news paper. I just skimmed the article. I didn't even read what happened to her, not really. I read just enough to see the word "wilding" and understand that this was now the vogue term for a gang rape involving a vicious beating. But all I was looking for was the information that I already knew was there.

The rape of a white woman is the only rape that could make the first section of a major newspaper. But it took class and status, both, to put her on the front page. So not only was she white, but -- as I recall-- she had a degree from a primo school if not an ivy league school and a fancy financial job to match.

But ya know what? 

Just as we saw in O J Simpson case, a crime against a white woman doesn't matter a lick until the accused is black. 

I promise you, if this woman had been raped and beaten just after school on a basketball court setting just to one side of at a 99% white private school, there would have been gasps of shock that it could happen in such a place. But that's would have been a major news story for a month, max. And that's only if the rich Mommy and Daddies of the "misunderstood" white teenaged gang rapists let the story get anywhere near a major newspaper 

There certainly wouldn't have been a NYC cop manhunt put together to find the rapist of one woman. 

 So let us review. There are 4 criteria that must be met for a rape to make the front page in 1980s/1990s America

The woman must be
1) white
2) ivy league school (or a close equivalent)
3) making today's equivalent of 6 figures
4) and likely have black assailants


When The Central Park V were rapidly arrested, I'd be willing to guess that 96% of us black and brown folks, living in the area at the time, knew they didn't do it. We knew the cops had randomly picked up some black and brown kids.
At the same time, the white people reading the same newspapers, 95% of whom considered themselves non-racists while holding extremely racist views, looked on with glee as these boys were arrested. 

And the only initial evidence of their guilt was that they were in the park SOMEWHERE while being black or brown. 

Non-violent, non-N-word-using racists who don't believe they are racists don't look for chains of evidence that make sense. Before the coerced confessions came they absolutely could not conceive of young black boys, as barely more than children, browbeaten and lied to, who would say almost anything, confess to just about anything for so long as the accusations will stop and they can see their parents -- after hours and hours of interrogation. 

I believe they were interrogated without their parents upwards of 12 hours.

And white folks reading the news had no problem with this or the legitimacy of their confessions. Why? White racists see big black rapist men no matter the age or size of the black boy.

Marmalade Maggot was living in NY at the time too. That Racist-In-Chief, currently in the White House leading the country off a cliff, took out a full page ad in major newspapers calling for these boys to be executed. Some 25 to 30 years later, when he was running for president, he refused to take his accusation back despite another man, a rapist by profession, having confessed to the crime.

Please Note: 

Mr. Grab-Em-By-The-P*ssy hasn't taken out an ad endorsing Harvey Weinstein's execution. And we know why. Birds of a repulsive white feather flock together.

When you finally get to watch DuVernay's series, don't forget to keep an eye out for just how the white mainstream press helped put those boys in prison. At least one of those kids was inside for 13 years.  

JOAN MORGAN ON SPREADING THE F-WORD

I came out of the womb a feminist. It is my natural state. Racism made me fully aware that I'd have to demand partnership, parity, and respect from everyone, including males without having to be the same as a male. 

In other words, I expect to have to work for equality without sameness in regards to race and gender both. 

I raised myself up in a feminist mindset because of the failures I saw too close to home and inside my home.

And I became an even stronger feminist, at college, when I realized how women weren't telling their own stories, their own history -- not even within black history.  

But there was a time when I moved away from the word "feminist" because I simply stopped thinking about it in my day to day life. And the f-word was so despised in the black community that I deliberately let the f-word drift away even further when various things came up. I don't think I ever got as far as denying my feminism out loud, as Toni Morrison has. But I was very silent.  

Then Joan Morgan published a little book called "When The Chickenheads Come Home To Roost" and it brought me all the way back to my sisters for good.

JOAN MORGAN SAID:

"When I wrote 'Chickenheads...' The vast majority of my black girlfriends did not identify as feminists. A few worried that anyone would read a book about hip-hop and feminism since, as I wrote back then most Sistas I knew weren't [screwing] with the F-word.

All of them were happy for me but truth be told, many of them didn't read the book until many years later. Some of them still haven't read it.

But I must say that it gives me great joy to watch their daughters identify proudly, unabashedly, unequivocally as Black and Brown Feminists across multiple platforms in social media.

It amazes me to no end that some of them have superstar pop icons that also identify as Black Feminist. This feminist journey was slow and often hard and sometimes lonely but I am humbled and heartened by the company I keep. Y'all might not have been feminists (I think you were, you just didn't know it) but y'all raised some mighty ones. "

#LetsHearItForTheWork

https://www.facebook.com/Joan-Morgan-Writer-72604480788/?fref=nf

MY...OH MY...
HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED OVER THE CENTURIES

ALICIA GARZA  (BLACK LIVES MATTER CREATOR)  

PATRISSE CULLORS, (BLACK LIVES MATTER CREATOR)

OPAL TOMETI (BLACK LIVES MATTER CREATOR)

Aisha Tyler
KIMBERLE CRENSHAW (INTERSECTIONALITY SOCIOLOGIST)

J K Rowling,  (HARRY POTTER)

Maria W Stewart,

Gabrielle Union,

PAULI MURRAY,

Ruth Bader Ginsberg,  (SUPREME COURT JUSTICE)

Diane Nash, (CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER)

ANNA ARNOLD HEDGEMAN,  (CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, N.O.W. FOUNDING MEMBER)

Zora Neale Hurston 
Septima Clarke (CIVIL RIGHTS TEACHER)
Aja Monet (POET, SAY HER NAME ACTIVIST)

Sonia Sotomayor, (SUPREME COURT JUSTICE)

TYRA BANKS

Salma Hayek,

Alicia Keys

Shonda Rhimes (WRITER/PRODUCER BROWNING HOLLYWOOD ONE ACTOR/ACTRESS/MUSIC ROYALTY AT A TIME 

Kerry Washington,

Viola Davis,

Margaret Cho

Tracee Ellis,

Gina Prince Bythewood (DIRECTOR)

Angela Bassett,

BARBARA SMITH,

ANNA JULIA COOPER,

Ferdinand Barnett

Jada Pinkett-Smith,

IDA B WELLS  (JOURNALIST, FIRST ANTI-LYNCHING RESEARCHING SOCIOLOGIST, NAACP FOUNDING MEMBER)

JOAN MORGAN (“WHEN THE CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST)

bell hooks

MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY

Malaya Yousafzai, 

Beyonce,

Don McPherson, 

DELORES HUERTA,

ANGELA DAVIS,

Daisy Bates (?)

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE (WRITER)

Coretta Scott-King  (?)

DELORES C TUCKER, 

Ava DuVernay (DIRECTOR - Selma, Queen Sugar)
India Arie (MUSICIAN)

BEVERLY BOND (BLACK GIRLS ROCK CREATOR)
Jessica R Williams (Daily Show Comedian) John Legend (Pop Music, Producer of “Underground”)

Eva Longoria,  (Television Actor)

Maya Angelou,

AUDRE LORDE,

ALICE WALKER,

SONIA SHAH

HILLARY CLINTON,

PATRICIA HILL-COLLINS,

GLORIA STEINHEM,

DOROTHY PITTMAN HUGHES,
GLORIA ANZALDUA

SOJOURNER TRUTH
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

HARRIET TUBMAN

Ava DuVernay To Direct DC Comic's NEW GODS

     Ava DuVernay has lined up her directorial follow-up to Disney's A Wrinkle in Time.

     The filmmaker will take on Warner Bros. and DC's The New Gods, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The property is a creation of the late and legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, X-Men and other iconic heroes... 
     In the comics, The New Gods is part of the so-called “Fourth World Saga,” a series of four interconnected comic book series written and drawn by Kirby when he arrived at DC from rival Marvel in the early 1970s. Mixing social commentary, mythology and science fiction, it sees a war between two alien planets — New Genesis and Apokolips — arrive on Earth when the ruler of the dystopian Apokolips, Darkseid, discovers that humanity holds the key to the Anti-Life Equation, which allows its user to control all living beings in existence...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ava-duvernay-direct-dcs-new-gods-1094878

THE ROLE OF WHITE WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SLAVE ECONOMY

How many times 

have I read a slave narrative 

where a white man,

one foot teetering on the edge of his grave 

with the other foot already feeling the searing heat of hell, 

made a promise 

to give a slave her freedom upon his death 

only to have his white wife 

laugh that promise off 

and sell her on to someone else?

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Yeah. I want to read this book, and so should you.

FROM YALE BOOKS 

     Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. 

     Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. 

     White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300218664/they-were-her-property

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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN

This post is here because feminism wasn't supposed to free women only.  It was supposed to free men too 

Everyone has their own definition of masculinity and what it entails. I have created my personal criteria for determining what exactly makes a man masculine and the book SEASON OF LIFE only complements my ideas. 

I read this book about five years ago when I was still playing football and I just finished it again recently. It's one of those few books I just can't put down. It changed me...

...SEASON OF LIFE is astoundingly deep and touches on heavier subjects than your typical flat football story or coming-of-age novel. This book brings up several prominent notions such as empathy playing a vital role towards resolving conflict, how to love others, and the significance and relevance of being a man built for others. 

These life lessons, if you will, are practiced by the coaches and players of the Gilman football team, both on and off the field. 

That's right, loving the other men you suit up with is an important part of playing football. These lessons work both ways though; what you do in football can be applied to other areas of your life.

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/season-of-life-redefining-masculinity
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Claudia Jones Is More Relevant Than Ever In The Age Of Trump

“The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.”

     Claudia Jones wrote these words, more relevant now than ever, while incarcerated at Ellis Island in the late 1940s. As an immigrant journalist and political activist with distinctly anti-fascist, anti-imperialist views, she wouldn’t bat an eye at the current political turmoil in the U.S. Turns out Donald Trump is not the founder of political repression and xenophobia, as evidenced by how Harry Truman’s administration targeted Jones for being a leader in the Communist Party USA and an immigrant from Trinidad. In December 1955, Jones was deported from the U.S. to the United Kingdom (her native country denied her entrance) after being incarcerated four times due to her political activities and non-citizen status. She died of a heart attack nine years later, her resting place left of Karl Marx’s grave in a London cemetery...
     Claudia Jones’ story is not told nearly enough, especially during Black History Month and Women’s History Month. Bernie Sanders’ flock would have us believe socialism has always been for and by white men, but Jones’ life proves that Black women have been calling for an end to capitalism in the U.S. for a long time...
     As a blue-collar worker who never attended college, Jones believed feminism belonged to more than just white, upper class, and/or educated women. She wrote about Black women making only half the pay of white women despite being more likely to be in the workplace. She furtherv complicated this by noting that unlike white women, Black women contributed to their household as much or more than their men. Jones was one of the first to theorize that a class analysis excluding race and gender is not a liberatory one...

~BLACK GIRL DANGEROUS

Read More: https://www.bgdblog.org/2017/03/claudia-jones/ 

Learn More: Claudia Jones And The FBI Harassment Of Black Radicals  

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R. Kelly Believes He Can Cry. Twitter Believes He Can Lie

FROM THE ROOT

Expressing surprise that Kelly agreed to do this interview, King asked the R&B singer which of the several accusations lobbed against him hurt the most.
“Oh my God. Umm—all of them, got little girls trapped in the basement… helicopters over my house trying to rescue someone that doesn’t need rescuing because they’re not in my house,” Kelly responded. “Handcuffing people, starving people. I have a harem, what you call it—a cult. I don’t even really know what a cult is. But I know I don’t have one.”

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/r-kelly-believes-he-can-cry-twitter-believes-he-can-l-1833091126

The first 10 minutes of the R. Kelly Inteview. Oh the hysteria...

* * * * *

"I don't look at younger. I look at legal..." And Kelly practically accuses the girls parents of selling the girls to him.

Kelly denies sleeping with underage girls

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BLOND HAIR DYE, WEAVES, AND POST-APOCOLYPTIC HAIR CARE

For the record?

The white woman's equivalent of a weave is blond hair dye.

a repost

So, somebody please inform the hoteps and their minions that white women aren't wearing their natural hair either.

I realized this one day when I walked into white church late. I snuck in the back and found myself looking at the back dozens of heads, as planned. But I needed to find a white female friend of mine. The white men's hair varied. The white women's hair did not. The back of my friend's dyed blond head looked exactly the same as 100 other white women sitting in the crowd. I tried to figure out which one she was by hair length, but then this usher person started walking toward me to help me, so I had to run, duck, cover, and find a seat quick. 

Needless to say, I didn't find my friend until after the service. I meant to ask her what shade they're all using. But I forgot (chickened out).

A friend of mine, also white, told me a long time ago that most white men are raised wanting a little blond girl friend. That's why there are so many white women with blond hair running around worried about their next hair appointment when all their hair really does is hang there. They have to get those dark roots covered up regularly.

If white women could get their legs shortened so that they could all be petite too, they'd be getting the leg shortening surgery for high school graduation and waiting to ask Mommy-And-Daddy bank for the nose or boob job somewhere near the end of sophomore year in college

So make no mistake. If someone announces The Electromagnetic Pulse will be set off by another country to wipe out all our computers and our economy along with it, and that the pending post-apocalyptic United States is going to make "The Walking Dead" look like child's play for at least a decade AND THEN ALSO ANNOUNCES IT IS ALL STARTING TOMORROW...

white women will make run on water, food, and blond hair dye 

AND

black women will make a run on water, food, spices, and hair extensions.

Don't get it twisted. Even our naturalistas will be running for synthetic hair. And you know why, too. Don't pretend you don't know.

Naturalistas will need synthetic hair for protective styles, braids, buns and such. There's no way we'll be able to get enough oils and conditioners to keep our hair sealed in a post-apocalyptic world, not even enough (gasp) mineral oil.

Of course, we could all go the Michonne route to hair care. But then we'd have to do the big chop once the United States got everything back online. We would not be able to free our hair from 10 years worth locking.

In the final analysis, this all means a sizable portion of the naturalista crowd will be running neck and neck with the relaxer/weave crowd to the same abandoned beauty stores. And if blond hair dye can be found in some of the same stores with black beauty products? Watch out!  White women's foot prints will be left on our backs after they run us down trying to get in there first.

I don't know about you? But I don't have Dania Gurira's face or Lupita N'yongo's face. More than that, my marble shaped head needs vertical lines given to it by hair. So no big chop for me. That means I going to be sprinting to the beauty supply store too.

When The Pulse happens, my high heeled shoes will be clicking on the pavement faster than anybody else's, running so fast that women running ahead of me will hear my clicks coming and think 
the ghost of Flo Jo gaining on them, about to snatch them bald or snatch their soul. I fully expect hysteria, screaming, tears, and a rainbow of hair extensions and boxed hair dyes flying 10 feet into the air as women start trying to snatch one another's ill gotten gains when they're all back out on the street again.

I think I'll plan on wearing a hockey mask to protect my face from long nails.

If Beyonce's Bey Hive is trying to get into the abandoned beauty supply store for their leader? We will all need to think about preserving our own lives and just let them take it all. The Bey Hivers are going to be there for the weave hair, the synthetic hair, and the blond boxed dye too(saving it for after the designer versions run out) The big chop in 10 years won't be that bad. So I'll be a marble head for year. No biggie. At least, I'll be alive.

Product junkies? They're going to have the last laugh. They'll be re-identified as "pre-planners." As pre-planners they'll be further re-identified as "responsible." As responsible people they'll be put in charge of nomadic groups sent out to get food and supplies. The responsible pre-planners that succeed at keeping large camps from starving will eventually be elected to high political positions once the world come back to being normal.
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In the hear and now this means I'm being responsible with my money if I buy yet another potentially magic hair conditioner. So what if I don't have any more room in my hair cabinet. This next purchase could lead to me being president one day 10 or so years from now, right?  

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