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Guest Editorial: 'Natural', Perms, Braids, and the African in African American by Monica Vieira Tuck:
Of all my African-American friends, none ever went to an African club or restaurant. Honestly, there is no interest whatsoever in knowing anything relevant to Africa. That is where you came from! I observe their faces when my Ipod stars jamming African music. I just have never seen a group of people so eager to call themselves Africans and yet care absolutely nothing about it. They make very little effort to change and know better. People laugh when I look at my African-American husband and tell him: I am much more African than you, with my permed straight long extensions and almost white skin. Read in Full >>
