Somebody’s got to speak up!
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:37 pm
So I just got finished watching some show about a white couple who flew to Ethiopia to adopt a little girl. It was a heart warming story because the couple already has a couple of boys and really wanted girl. They didn’t even mind adopting an older child.
So they get to the part when the parents meet their new 3 year old daughter for the first time. The little girl was absolutely adorable with her full cheeks and head full of neat corn rows. And then it happened.
They show a two month update on how the child is doing and swear she looked worse off than when she left Ethiopia!! The child’s head looked so bad and her skin was so ashy she looked like some body took Buck Wheat and washed and bathed his body in Acid wash.
Look. I know these children need a home and what’s most important is that their basic survival needs come first but there needs to be some kind of class that teaches white parents how to care for the hair and skin of a African/black child before they can adopt it.
Rule 1. Lotion is essential Africans/blacks as sunscreen is to white people on a hot summer’s day. You can’t just dunk a black child in a tub of water and rub it down with a soap bar followed by a bit of baby lotion on its cheeks. You got to scrub that child down with soapy wash cloth and then rub some Jergens or Vaseline Intensive Care all over his body.
Rule 2. You can’t be washing that kid’s hair every day with baby shampoo. Even if she has a softer grade of hair like the little Ethiopian girl. You wash It no more than twice a week, use a wide tooth comb, and bush it out using some oil moisturizer, especially after its been washed.
Now I no some one is going to leave a comment about me not focusing on what’s important but I say save it for that little girl when she’s nine years old with dry bald spots, rough skin, and getting picked on at school for looking trifling.
So they get to the part when the parents meet their new 3 year old daughter for the first time. The little girl was absolutely adorable with her full cheeks and head full of neat corn rows. And then it happened.
They show a two month update on how the child is doing and swear she looked worse off than when she left Ethiopia!! The child’s head looked so bad and her skin was so ashy she looked like some body took Buck Wheat and washed and bathed his body in Acid wash.
Look. I know these children need a home and what’s most important is that their basic survival needs come first but there needs to be some kind of class that teaches white parents how to care for the hair and skin of a African/black child before they can adopt it.
Rule 1. Lotion is essential Africans/blacks as sunscreen is to white people on a hot summer’s day. You can’t just dunk a black child in a tub of water and rub it down with a soap bar followed by a bit of baby lotion on its cheeks. You got to scrub that child down with soapy wash cloth and then rub some Jergens or Vaseline Intensive Care all over his body.
Rule 2. You can’t be washing that kid’s hair every day with baby shampoo. Even if she has a softer grade of hair like the little Ethiopian girl. You wash It no more than twice a week, use a wide tooth comb, and bush it out using some oil moisturizer, especially after its been washed.
Now I no some one is going to leave a comment about me not focusing on what’s important but I say save it for that little girl when she’s nine years old with dry bald spots, rough skin, and getting picked on at school for looking trifling.
