*whispers* I think Black people try to police too many things.

So people have started saying all sorts so let me expansiate.

We all know so much has been taken from Black people and this is why we react in this way to things like JLo’s hair. However, I believe that our fight for equality should be engineered through economic gain...

Aided by propaganda. This starts with owning our own spaces not begging white people to let us into theirs. And sure as hell not fighting white people to acknowledge that we are the ones who created something.

One of my favorite black creatives, Kerby Jean-Raymond recently said, “one of the things we don’t talk enough about as black creatives often is how we seek white validation to bring back to the black community so the black community can accept us”.

We place too much value on white validation. If white people dont acknowledge that we created something does it change the fact that we created it? Why do we give them such power?

What we need to do publicize our creations to the point that it’s not even debatable.

Fighting people on social media because they did a hairstyle that was created and popularized by Black women is not only going to be a big contribution for equal rights for Black people. It also confirms to them that we seek their validation.