The terms. Interesting. The course hair has a specific design... the hair strands are flat... so as they grow, they curl. It part of the African descent of your race. What we are looking at is straight hair and tightly curled hair. Just like that cute little girl who appears part white and black on the commercials and her hair is tightly curled but long. The reason why I say this is the girl is cute... in my father feeling sort of way...which governs every girl old enough to be my daughter... the nurturing area goes in and it sticks. So to me... kinky has negative... but, if it did and she was my daughter... I would fight for her and her hair is a part of her...
But as far as beauty is concerned... terms can destroy. Kinky is not a kink... it's a curl caused by how the strands, being fla,t grow in a pattern in a spiral. It curled. In a spiral.
But really, the problem is not a name. It's a view point. I think kinky stems to blacks, who are African Americans, meaning they have African heritage, but are Americans. The thing is that "kinky" does not = African Americans. African Americans are Americans of African descent just as I coulod be called a Europian American... which I am.
I don't think that words, specific words will accurately describe hair that has that destinctive type curl that Americans with African desent have. I don't think that changing the discriptive word for the unique hair type will do justice, at the moment.
I think we need to understand how closer we are as people... that we have Europian Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans, Indian Americans, Native Americans, Middle Eastern Americans... and so on...
Once we discover us as a people, then maybe someone will say..."You have interesting hair, how is it curled like that?" The African American girl will say, "That is the way my hair is... is has that type of curl..." WOW! It's so interesting... can I see? Wow, your hair is so cool!"
That is the right meaning and word. "I like it!"
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