When Being Biracial Becomes the Representation of Black Hair : Texturism & Erasure. 

Being able to run your fingers through your hair (without a silk press or blow out) does NOT represent me lmaooo 😂🤣🤣

If Tia Mowry thinks her hair is the "standard" of black hair, then she's dismissing all black women who do not have hair like hers! Her white privilege is certainly alive and well!

Viola Davis requiring her natural hair be shown on her show How to Get Away with murder was groundbreaking and allowed me to see my hair texture on tv. I am grateful to her.

As someone who is from South Africa, instantly understood the concept of Texturism when you said it without even googling it. During Apartheid they had the "Pencil Hair Test" where they'd use a pencil to run through your hair, if it passed through one's hair easily, you were other considered white or colored which I know is a slur in the USA, but it is socially acceptable in South Africa and is categorized as a race. Just by one's texture of their hair, their whole life was determined, access to schools, higher education, location, healthcare and etc. So yes conversations around black hair are political and do matter.

Mainly in America have I seen that it is common for biracial people to identify as black. Where I’m from in the UK and many countries I have travelled to, biracial is biracial and black is black. This ridiculous notion of calling everyone with 1% black, black, needs to be addressed and shelved. You can’t refer to people like Obama, Halle Berry, Mariah Carey, and Tia etc as black one day and then the next be outraged by Tia’s video.

"Real black hair is hair that couldn't be any other texture." The audacity of me not realizing this until you said it. Only other black women have hair like me. Right, you're so right. 🥰

What you said was SO profound. You can see Tia's hair texture on many other races or ethnicities; white, Spanish, Latinas, hell even Arabics.. but you will NEVER see my texture (4c) on any other race BUT black ppl. THIS IS BLACK HAIR" I love it!!

I've noticed that mixed people with loose coil textured hair has become the standard of "Natural Hair". Tracee Ellis Ross, Tia & Tamera Mowry, etc. Real Black hair is ALOT DIFFERENT from those hair types. I've definitely noticed the visual representation of Black hair really is what we call "good hair".

When have you ever seen a women with afro hair or locs promoting a hair product? I haven't, We need more representation!!

Tia's ad is ridiculous! Her hair looks like Italian or Jewish people's hair. It doesn't represent black hair. It is an outlier. Thank you for keeping us tethered to reality.

No joke. When she referred to her hair as “black hair” I thought she want referring to the actual color of it. I didn’t think she would be wild to think it was actually black, kinky hair.

As someone who is biracial, I agree 100% with what you are saying. My hair does NOT represent black hair at all. I have 2 daughters with my African husband. Both girls have 4c hair and both are struggling to accept themselves and the way they look. It breaks my heart because both of my girls are so beautiful. I struggled with how to style their hair because mine is literally wash and go, whereas I have to plan and spend hours styling and braiding their hair. I stepped up to the challenge to learn how to properly do their hair and I want them to feel proud of who they really are. It’s a challenge when the world is so Eurocentric and it doesn’t help that they see how little time I have to spend on my hair. One daughter said, I wish I would have gotten your hair mom. I nearly cried. I’m still trying to help them love themselves as is.

Growing up as a black girl, being ultimately erased from the media has taken a toll on me.

This is part of the reason why so many black people hate their type 4 hair because biracial people with type 3 hair have been the standard of beauty in the black community. That’s why we see comments from black women with type 4 hair under biracial women with loose curls videos like “ my 4c hair could never “, “ you got that good hair “, “ I wish I had curls like you “, or “ I can’t 4c myself doing that “. This is also why I’m against the one drop rule. Black people need to stop claiming everyone as black for having one black parent or I even seen in some cases black people claiming mixed people for having a distant black relative. It’s time to let the one drop rule go.

I feel like BW let this happen (generally speaking) we are not protective of our image. Steady chasing after women that have proximity to whiteness to represent our image. It’s disturbing. And if I call it out (as an unambiguous BW) I’m, jealous, angry, divisive and mad. I feel like I live in the twilight zone sometimes.

I really appreciate Issa Rae , on Insecure she consistently found different unique ways to wear her natural hair it was stylish and fantastic . ❤️❤️ that was ground breaking to me .

As a Darkskinned, 4C hair girl...I applaud you for being TRUTHFUL. Everyone's so freaking sensitive that they don't want to hear the Truth and are content in continuing to hurt and offend others who match the look of the discriminated... rather than utilize their platform to know and DO better. Thank you for being Honest, Shameless, and absolutely Stunning!!! Asé sis

I always refer to what Fab Socialism said “If Saweetie is black, I must be a super-negro” cuz the way blk women have been erased from media and real blk hair isn’t even regarded in our hair products is MAD. All these products are either aren’t for our hair, or selling an image for making it looser texture. Ms. Mowry really thought she ate lmao

This reminds me of seeing creators with literal 4A/B hair having tutorials titled "Styling my 4C hair". It's so infuriating because I rarely ever see true 4C hair.

I identify as a biracial black woman. I had to face my privilege of being light skinned and biracial. It’s something I’m still facing and innerstanding everyday. Thank you for sharing this. Everything you stated was absolutely valid! “Mulato” or mixed babies born into slavery were still slaves. Even then, there was a privilege of being a “house slave” or being palatable for yt folk. I hate being the token or “acceptable” version of black for people. I never realized the extent in media, however. Thank you for highlighting that!

I personally feel fetishizing hair can be just as dangerous as the facial features/phenotype of an individual.

It makes more sense to say wavy, curly, and coily rather than black hair. Black people have various types of hair and coily hair is typically left out of the representation. Texturism and colorism go hand in hand because both are tools of white supremacy. It's so frustrating that people are still trying to brush shit under the rug. Biracial people shouldn't be the main representation of black people. I'm biracial and I wholeheartedly agree.

As a biracial with 2c,3a hair Tia's ad made me cringe so bad. All my life, I've seen mixed women in media with hair like mine. I have NEVER once experienced negativity from anyone about my hair texture, even when I went to predominately white schools. Two weeks ago, I had an appointment with my white nurse practitioner, and she was lamenting that her hair used to be like mine before she had kids. Tia might've had some pressure to straighten her hair because that was the look in the late 90s/early 2000s, but society never hated hair like hers.

"Blackness is not only in relativity to how white people see us, Blackness is also how WE SEE EACH OTHER." Period, Dot, end of story, say it louder for the pews in the back!!!!!!!!!!!! .....So true and yet such a key point that WE often mis; Thank you for this!!! I just stumbled upon your channel and now officially subscribed.

Love Tia but she is NOT a black woman. Her whole daddy is a white man and they actually look just like him. She has the “acceptable” hair texture and it is not “black hair” because one you have to be black and two she has type 2 to 3 hair. I hate how people keep calling her the “black twin” and I hate how biracial people are being used to represent black people but we know damn well black people could never represent mixed people. Everybody wanna be black until it’s time to be black.

I’m biracial with an African black mum, I lived in Africa when I was younger & have 3c hair. My hair was never an issue. It was always praised & celebrated. And it was never seen as black hair so when I see other biracial people do 💩 like this it seriously gets on my last nerve because who are you kidding, really? It’s okay to be biracial. It’s okay to admit we don’t have the same struggles as monoracial black people. We have different struggles & they are hard, but they’re not the same. I specifically see mainly biracial people that are either American or have grown up outside of Africa to have this mentality. Bffr sis.

Thank you for this. I used to get so mad when a mixed girl would say “ this is all my real “natural” hair “ because nappy hair grows differently and a lot of us can’t just put water on our hair. When I went to white school the white kids would use the “mixed” kids as their “black” friend, while still not accepting the fully black ppl.

🎀Real 4c hair doesn’t get enough representation. Not even mixed race people with 4c hair are featured that much in the media. 🎀 🎀Being able to see yourself in others is so important for one’s self esteem and acknowledgment that you are a respected valued members of society.🎀🎈

It took me 5 years into my natural hair journey to realize I was "failing" because I couldn't successful achieve natural hair goals...because those goals, those standards, were to make my hair look like biracial hair. Twist outs, bantu know outs, braidouts, blow-outs followed by rod curling sets...were all to achieve the soft loose spiral curls of biracial hair. "Shrinkage" is just another word for reverting back to its actual texture. If I'm really truly trying to be natural...then why am I stretching, twisting, blow-drying, gel-ing my hair into the same dang loose fluffy curls of biracial women. When I do an actual wash and go, and my hair looks like its meant to look (tight thick non moving tiny spiral curls) nobody says a word. But let me spend half an afternoon giving myself a blowout, then bantu knots, then carefully taking the knots out and loosely separating the curls so they are loose and fluffy, let me go into work then...and have EVERYBODY tell me how beautiful my hair looks, how fabulous I look, you go queen. How is spending an entire freaking day (wash day) manipulating my hair any different then getting a perm? The goal is still not natural. Check it, if I blow out my hair into an afro, I feel amazing. But if I add some curls into that afro everybody is in my face complimenting me. Now, what's the diff between an afro and an afro with loose curls in it? One is a black woman's afro and one is a biracial woman's afro.

As a mixed person, I think it’s very strange to only claim one of your races.

I agree. There is a distinction between being black and biracial which shouldn’t give the latter advantage to conflate the two. There’s beauty in both, but not in destroying the identity of the other to promote white features.

I used to have mixed Co-worker and I have 4 C hair. The things that I’ve heard people say to me vs her is interesting. They literally praise her hair and then someone literally asked me “what the heck happened to your hair”??😬

The "let me be your representation" in the caption got me. Girl, you've BEEN the representation - and that is the problem.

I am east african and strongly agree with the sentiment that typically tightly coiled hair is all too often left out of the chat when it comes to "black hair". However black hair comes in all different shapes and sizes. I am dark skinned with hair like typical mixed race girls. so where do we draw the line? My hair is looser curled however i am most defiantly black. I think we should refer to the TEXTURE rather than saying BLACK. We should be in control of the language we use so that when they reach the masses the message is not misunderstood.

your makeup is STUNNING as usual and i absolutely love the butterfly clips

I’m South African and I grew up watching a lot of American tv and movies (Sister Sister included), as a kid I honestly thought that all African Americans had 4A/4B and even 3 type hair because of what I saw represented on the screen. It wasn’t until I moved to the US about 5 years ago where I learnt that what I had come to believe my entire life was actually far from the reality, so when we talk about representation and how important it is this is one of the examples that stands out for me.

12:16-12:28 That's why I love Lupita. She came out with her kinky hair, and she rocked it for years and years. ✊🏾💪🏾✊🏾💐

Even though I am a black woman with looser curls similar to hers, I was a bit thrown by her post when I first saw it because her hair does not represent black hair.....not at all. She cannot be the representation for black women's hair. Even as a black woman with both black parents, but loose curls, I would never claim to represent black hair because I know that my hair is the result of mixing further back in my ancestral line and doesn't accurately represent the majority of black women who have always been made to feel ashamed of their hair. 4c hair is real black hair period.

Oh my, her art portrayed on her face and hair is fire. Thank you for existing and expressing yourself in all your beauty 🙏

I somewhat agree with your statement. I do agree that her hair type today is considered the beauty standard. Instead of saying “black hair”, it would be appropriate to state “ethnic hair”. I’m Nigerian American with 4c hair, but there are many full black/African sisters out there that has the same curly texture like Tia. Hence, Eritrean/Ethiopian women. So, 🤷🏽‍♀️

Getting on social media and complaining about this isn't enough. BW collectively are going to have to stop supporting people like her. Let biracials and other non black people support her. I understand the anger and frustration but until black people do a better job of gatekeeping blackness and black culture, biracial women like her will continue to take up space in the black community that they are not entitled to. If you don't like it then don't support it!!

You are 100% correct. Biracial and Black people are not the same. Black is having two black parents. Biracial is having two parents of separate races (examples: black/white American mom and dad, Chinese/Arabic mom and dad, Native Indigenous Lakota /Peruvian mom and dad). I placed examples for those who are truly ignorant of the differences..

I stopped wearing twist outs after my son was born... it was too much work. A month ago, I was trying some new products, and twisted my hair up. After a few days, I was wearing a twist out. I was so uncomfortable because I received SO. MANY. COMPLIMENTS. One of my (white) coworkers said, "Your hair looks amazing! What did it look like before?" She sees me everyday, but she couldn't remember what my hair looks like. It's exactly why I stopped doing it. I want to wear MY hair, not my hair manipulated into a socially acceptable style. It was an exhausting day. Then I went home and washed my hair.

As a biracial women, I’ve come to know/understand/appreciate black culture more as an adult after being raised by white women and not having access to blackness. I’m glad I watched this video and THANK YOU for sharing your insight into why black and biracial are not the same. This is so elegantly said and I AGREE. I know now to be careful in my comparisons, particularly with black women

Whoever in their right mind thinks that if someone has 2 races/ethnicities especially when it's people of African & European ancestries, is just "black" needs intervention. You see people claiming biracials in the media that are as little as 25% like their life depends on it.

What kills me is the ones with two black parents with similar texture as Tia's who gaslight and say " I'm black and my hair is just like hers". All the while you probably heard the "good hair" comment your whole life...which should make you more aware that you're hair is NOT the standard for black people. Genetics are unpredictable...you can be black and have traits that are altered by your 4th great grandfather 👴.

She should have just said she was the representation for MIXED race hair

Your makeup is ethereal, that vibrancy is mind shattering!! Combined w the white butterflies that look like they were plucked off a marble statue and the necklace, fragments of the moon strung around your neck? The lunar nymph vibes are off the charts

We gotta stop letting biracial mean Black

I agree with you totally! It's an insult to our hair! If you see her head from the back, you wouldn't know she has black in her. Her hair is literally represented EVERYWHERE.

I love that you're drawing attention to this. Great video, Mayowa!

Love this butterfly era the makeup looks so good this whole look is insane 🦋

The thing is that "black hair" has a context to it. "Let black hair be black hair" holds a meaning to it-and that meaning is attached to afro/kinky coiled hair. Tia's hair *wouldn't be considered "black hair" not because she's not black, but because it's really loose. It's the least discriminated against for the curly/kinky hair types. She faces advantages for having her hair be a loose texture like that while being black. She's considered "better" than the next person who had a tighter pattern. Meanwhile people with a texture/style like Mayowa or Lupita N'yongo get told off ten thousand ways just because of the texture. Afros are ugly, "too much," dirty, unmanageable, unprofessional, need to constantly be done, dry, etc etc etc. Everybody and their great grandmas come out the woodwork to say something about black hair. Tia knew what she was doing by using that specific loaded phrase of "let black hair be black hair" as a lightskin biracial woman with loose curls and referring to herself. Like that wasn't an accident. This isn't about not being able to claim your blackness. It's about using terms and phrases incorrectly that ends up blurring what it's supposed to actually be, especially as the person that benefits from the other side of the oppression being talked about.

She shoulda put her mom, grandmother and great grandmother's pictures in that add if she wanted to be taken seriously. That Tia Mowry ad was offensive.

Love the butterfly era🦋 the white butterflies really pop and look so cute. ur style and vibes are *chefs kiss*

You look gorgeous lady. 🤗 As a person with mixed ancestry, therefore lightskined, I'm still learning of my great great grandparents. Recently, finding out I've native/indigenous blood lines, but due to cultural genocide my grandfather does not know which tribe & my other grand parents were gone before I was born. American history is too full of ppl like myself. My hair is kinky, but soft. It's been loc'd for over 6 years. My locs will not be as lusciously beautiful as yours, but we're here.🤓

Funny, I had insomnia last night and I was thinking of random crap as I tried to fall asleep. I was thinking about how in movies and TV shows, black male characters are almost always played by black men and boys, but “black” female characters are usually played by biracial/mixed women and girls. We’re just supposed to pretend like Cliff and Clair Huxtable could produce children who looked like Denise and Sandra! Imagine a show with a white family and one of the kids was played by someone half black and everyone was just supposed to pretend like they didn’t notice! On a side note, I remember looking at teen magazines in the 90s and one of my favorite magazines had a “black beauty” section one month, but all the girls in it were mixed race. 🙄

Mayowa keeping her foot firmly planted on they necks. lolls

If the hair isn’t 4c or close to that, it’s not black hair. Stay mad if you disagree.

so true, I love how direct you are, not over explaining and just telling the truth

I'm so tired of people pretending to NOT understand when people with 4c hair go through, it's akin to colorism and all the other -ISM, I'm so tired.

I’m so glad this video was made I’m light skin with 4c hair. My dark skin mother instead of instilling confidence in me about my hair had always chosen to let me know she thinks it looks a hot mess. She permed my hair and never let me wear it natural as a kid. It HAD to be straightened. Even this morning I had my hair in a fro and she asked if I was going to work like that. I told her I was and her jaw dropped 😮 as if it’s some atrocity to walk around with type 4 hair without styling and straightening it.

I get constantly, CONSTANTLY came for in black spaces for black women when i say mixed people are NOT BLACK. Stop this one drop rule.

Everything said in this video is absolutely facts. I’m lighter skinned but have undeniable kinky short 4c hair. Trying to find videos, tutorials, representation on how to properly take care of hair (since i was never actually taught how to do so) that looks like mine has been a struggle for yearsssss even when there was the so called natural hair movement. If it isn’t long, flowing, or big it doesn’t exist and it irks me so bad. Like it’s all to sell us something that isn’t a reality for so many black women. Literally at one point in history it was illegal to wear our hair out in public at all. I hate that we have to move in hush hush tones about this stuff. Our plight is NOT the same as a biracial 2 or 3 textured girl and that’s okay… I’m not gonna buy your product just because of “solidarity”, you don’t represent me.

i'm crying, not her saying there wasn't enough representation when she is young when she literally WAS the representation... if she can recognize the current problems, how does she not realize that her representing "real" black hair is not going to change anything?

Wow🤦🏾‍♀️Really,Tia?? She wants to be the one to represent black women's hair🤔 but, we've seen women like Tia in tv and film for years in what white America and Hollywood considers to be the preference for white audiences. It's always been: This is what they meant when they used the term "POC" and inclusivity in their hiring practices, particularly in the entertainment industry. It, for years, excluded the black woman phenotype. This has been going on for decades upon decades. So can we please stop gaslighting those who don't fit the preferred mould into thinking otherwise. Then there's the issue with black magazines that went the same route. Black movies of the 80-90's showcased, quote unquote "light skin biracial beauty" with hair that black men fawned over and wanted to run their fingers through, all while castigating black women whose hair texture didn't meet their standards. Music videos of black male entertainers slowly sprinkled in white women, and as time went on we started seeing more and more light to bright to what is now just the racially ambiguous; or to be frank; Kim Kardashian type. Black men have been at the forefront of helping to push all of this. White people started this, but black men have not only led the charge, but have influenced young black boys who now grow up with the attitude that light skin/racially ambiguous women are the definition of beauty. And as much as black men run their mouths in admonishing black women for wearing weaves, and wigs and not their natural hair(their so-called reason for not dating black women) At the end of the day, they don't want the all natural black woman. We are persecuted for not being their true desire; which is whiteness💯

Such a great video! Love all the points made. The hair, the look, everything about you is gorgeous! 😇🤩

I have been saying this for while, "It's really important that we stop conflating being Biracial with being Black" I agree, it is extremely problematic. I literally just had this discussion as the Super Bowl is approaching. I saw an excerpt from the Los Angeles Times:::: 'A monumental moment': Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes set to make Super Bowl history. The 2023 Super Bowl has two Black starting quarterbacks for the first time - Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes and Philadelphia Eagles' Jalen Hurts:::::: Considering this is such a monumental moment, how about we tell the truth. He is a Biracial quarterback and that's okay! As you said, I don't understand why its so controversial when things like that are said, its the TRUTH! Tia's Biracial, he's Biracial, just call it what it is. I am so excited to have found your channel and I subscribed immediately. I am passionate about this subject and it is so refreshing to hear someone with the same beliefs. I really appreciate the way you explain the dangers of conflating being Biracial with being Black and how it effects Black people in media. "Black people, particularly women are being erased from media. Biracial is becoming the main representation of Blackness." Sooo True and Girrrrl I will be quoting you from now on!

So my father is hairstylist and has been for 30+ years. (He also teaches) and he was trained in white hair. Anywho, when people with curly hair talk about their struggles, their discussing how their curly hair took away their proximity to whiteness and how they had to assimilate to the beauty standard. Which is what we as black people have to go through but it’s COUPLED with featurism, texturism, etc. And for some reason it’s really hard for people who are lighter or have proximity to whiteness to understand what WE go thru as unambiguously black women.

I love that you brought this is up ! People are so intellectually dishonest when having this conversation especially with regards to biracial people it’s like they want them to be considered fully black sooo bad 🤦🏾‍♀️ when it’s very simple they are half of one and thing and half of another so they are different and that’s okay !!! The other race or add mixture never seems to have an issue doing this distinguishing. Black people swear they want break down all these systems but yet seem to feel like we still have to follow the 1 drop rule….

I LOVE your eye make up. Done well ,it's clearly a butterfly.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 everything yes! So refreshing to to hear what I’ve been thinking. And she also leaned into the texturism with the wet hair look. I also believe this is why mielle was so popular bc she the ideal hair texture. I’m so happy you came across my feed ❤❤❤❤

I knew I couldn’t trust her after I seen that “Family Reunion” episode where she and the show runners spent the entire episode shoving the mixed character down our throats as a “beautiful black women”. Y’all need to STOP. That crap hurt my heart.

The colors and the butterflies are so cute

I wore my hair not defined and my mother told me it “would have been cute” but it was frizzy 😂, I’m laughing because I was so disappointed for like 5 minutes but then I realized my mother is a victim of not being around ppl who praise our hair. After that, I developed the confidence to just wear my hair non manipulated. Thanks for this video! This discourse is needed.

Thank you for making this video. Much needed. I will definitely be sharing.

I just spent two months in Perú. I met a girl that works in marketing. Her firm helped launch a hair care line aimed for Peruvian hair. Well, fast forward to now and in the attempts to be more “inclusive,” the marketing firm decided to represent other ethnicities and you can guess who they thought would be a great representation…a biracial with big voluminous curly hair. No matter where I go, this seems to be the standard all around. Also, I am surprised at Tia’s advertisement. She really tried it.

It’s interesting. When I see biracial women talking about hair representation, I think they are comparing themselves to not being able to fit in with white people….because like you said, they definitely been on tv for years. I agree with you 100%. I saw a tiktok where a biracial woman mentioned how she used to seek her belonging with her white mom and family and couldn’t find it by comparing her skin color.

Beautifully said! I love your hair and today's look.

“Sell your products and go” 😂😂😂 I died!!!! Yesssss sis!

Thank you so much for this video. Because at the end of the day. Biracial isn't black just because you are mixed with black doesn't mean you are black. In the same way just because you're mixed with white doesn't mean you are white. Biracial is biracial and it's okay to be biracial.

Thank you for sharing, learning random new things thanks to youtube. And your hair is beautiful!

Mayowa please keep doing what you are doing. You are amazing and I love you and I pray you go far. Beautiful. Just Beautiful

Thank you so much for saying this. I'm a 64 year old Blackity-Black female who is now in menopause. My beautifully nappy hair is thinning. So I went online to get a nappy wig that looks like my natural kinky nappy hair. And all you can find under that classification is hair that resembles Tia Mowry's hair. I feel erased. And I thank you SO MUCH for bringing this out.

Are we mad at Tia Mowry or are we disappointed by society and the blk community as a whole that allow the erasure of 4c hair.

More people needs to talk about this. There’s not enough representation about real black hair in the media it’s women like Tia who gets the brand deal to represent black hair. Because their hair is deemed as more representable.

I have been watching your show and enjoy what you say immensely. Keep up the good work. You make me proud to be black. You are a very beautiful black woman.

I absolutely love when you're done talking about your subject and describe your vibe and how pretty you look! 'I'm in my butterfly area!"

Type 4 hair is black hair. Period.

You are goddess 💛✨I love your look! And further more love your message about discussing and tackling colorism \texturism! I am a biracial woman that enjoys hearing your honest perspective ,and can hope I can learn more about utilizing my privilege and furthering these type of discussions ❤️💕💕💕💕

I’m so glad there are people like you with platforms. I, as someone with 4a hair, find it really hard and feel out of my place when it comes to trying to help my younger brother who has 4c hair and wants to grow it. He’s been told that he doesn’t have the hair to grow it out and that he should “just loc his hair.” Because of this, I scheduled an appointment to loc my hair next Saturday, and hopefully this helps him at least a little. Having more textured and coily, kinkier hair shouldn’t feel like a burden.

biracial is biracial is biracial is biracial. I can't do this with them. black is blk. I need pl to get this already.

Thank you. I thought I was losin it when I saw Tia’s TikTok about Black hair.

Mayowaaaaa I LOVE YEW GIRLLL!!! IKDR my hair is bouncing around and living it’s best 4C life RN!!!! BRAVO 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Black hair is more than just 4C. I really hate this reverse texturism because a lot of us black folks do have a looser curl pattern and even fine wavy hair. My mom is black and has hair like Tia Mowry. Tia is wrong for making it seem like her hair pattern is all black hair but Tia is black even though she's biracial. I just don't understand why black folks love to do videos like these because we're literally becoming the hate that is projected on us. Black hair isn't just kinks and naps. Hell, I got locs and struggling for it to loc because of my curl pattern. I do agree that people discriminate against our features, and kinks, and skin color, but don't separate within our community.

Preach! I am a middle aged darker skinned black woman with “good (4b)hair” as I’ve been told since childhood. I have always been aware that my kinkier and coarser haired sisters have vastly different experiences than I and are perceived differently . Texturism is very real.

Ooooh girl, you’re spitting facts!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Your eyeshadow is euphoric ❣️🪂🌈✨💫 and the white butterfly clips on your elegant dreadlocks are sending me, oh my goodness 😫😭❣️💋💋💋

Tia’s hair is multiracial she literally has parents from TWO different races. Most blk people have type 4 hair, yes there are outliers but the exception is not the rule. And before anyone mentions East Africans with looser hair textures, once again outliers, and some East Africans have racial admixtures.

I don't know how to describe it, but Tia is representation for black women in non-black women spaces. Like non-black people see her as a black woman representative of ordinary black women. But for black black women, she's not our fighter