RF: The Improper Power of Nonessentials

In a clip, a young woman with more melanin and a dark brown hair color with coarse texture, was fawned over by her blond- haired acquaintances. The extremely brief video showed them actually licking the black girl’s hair and questioning whether it was real.

This whole affair points to the idea of non essentials being elevated to the status of importance. For centuries, the black diaspora has been maligned and celebrated for their complexion and unique hair texture and styles.

When the two white girls commented on the hair, they were fascinated, confused, and relieved. One girl asked if the black girl “washes” her hair. The other started to say that her “hair gets like this” then the footage runs out. Presumably, she was going to say when her hair gets wet. Such speculation pales in comparison to the everyday struggle black women face, partially because of their own hang- ups relating to their hair.

If all people from every shade and hair texture focused more on their minds and their goals to be happy, life-loving individuals, there would be ample room for those individuals to experience the fullness of the universe.

Once the ideas of reason, individualism, and capitalism take hold in the culture around the globe, such thoughts about whether the color of skin, eye and hair will be relegated to simple cosmetics. The aesthetics of what makes a person, place or thing beautiful ought to be grounded in objective principles rather than in emotion and collectivist harangues in a speech.

Something that ought to be said about the way the white girls marvelled at the black girl’s hair is that. They seemed to be utterly enthralled by the way the darker skinned girl’s hair lies.

The improper power of nonessentials gives way to division between individuals. To set physical attributes above the might of the mind is what continues to hold humans back in the world. With the notion that physique is more important than mentality is to banish the thought that the individual brain is lesser somehow.

This absurdity brings up a question: what is beauty in the human form? The real beauty is the integration of symmetry and harmony of the body but also the head when it comes to human beings, especially. After all, some people shave off all their hair and retain their aesthetic brilliance all the same.

For the two white girls to show genuine curiosity is something that should be studied. If the way humans greet each other and deal with one another is with sincerity, there should be a way for everyone to learn from differences.

Nonessentials will continue to inhibit the human race just as long as the mind is damned and outward appearances continue to be valued above all else.

Companies earn billions of dollars on products that make black girls’ hair straight, even blond. Bleaching products lighten the skin. The self-esteem issue should be checked as they seek to be like white girls. To consider the sensibility that is required for a young black girl to be “white” only displays the desperate need for a whole new class of aestheticians.

To engage in the economy to show how a dark-skinned girl can wear blue eye contacts and a blond wig to deny the beauty of what they naturally are. Yes, the trade is acceptable, but what goes on in a young girl’s mind when she wants to be like her friends of lighter complexion and flaxen hair?

Flatter noses, wider lips, larger posteriors, and black flesh have mostly been appropriated now by whites, ironically. With transracial proponents like Rachel Dolezal on the frontlines for attempting to make “black beautiful,” when the narrative should lie in the hands of actual black people.

Philosopher Dr. Leonard Peikoff says “values, including beauty, have to be judged as objective, not subjective or intrinsic.” He eloquently explains the relation of an objective appraisal of anything holding aesthetic value.

So, for the girls to all take part in a brief and micro study of human behavior showed how far we’ve come and how much ground we’ve yet to cover.