Clothes That Don’t Fit and 7 Other Black Girl Problems

June 19th, 2012 - By Veronica Wells


The fact that your hair can speak for you before you ever open your mouth

No other race has the “privilege” of having their hair, as it naturally grows out of their heads, represent some type of political statement. But black women, who decide to wear their hair naturally are viewed as angry (there’s that word again), revolutionary, or even lazy, not caring if their hair looks unkempt.

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  • LC

    Being asked to hand over your “black card”.

  • LD

    I can’t seem to find a decent slightly above the knee dress or skirt that doesn’t seriously hike up in the back to save my life. Somebody please help me!

  • Allyce

    Once I reached 24 years old, men were surprised that I had no children. And corporate America was surprised that I had a college degree and did my job well.

  • autumn shaar

    We should not look at these matters as problems we have as black women. We should see them as (A.) opportunities, (B.) simple differences, or (C.) problems that other people have, not us.

    (A.) It’s not a problem to sleep with a scarf on my head. It keeps me warm actually.

    (B.) Afro-textured hair is different from straight hair or other types of hair. I refuse to accept the notion that we have to explain it or that it makes a statement in it of itself. That’s the texture it is naturally.

    (C.) Black women are many things. If a black woman is not “stereotypically black,” she’s “being white.” That’s nonsense. When people think that way about me, it’s not my problem. It’s their problem.

    Life is so short. I just want us to be set free from the strongholds of what people think we should be. My comments and feelings are not a denial of some of the negative attributes of our society, I just refuse to entertain them anymore. I’m done. I’m done with struggling with that. I’m loving myself as a woman of color and I actively affirm the women of color in my life too.

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