Curly Hair Syndrome [unfinished]

Curly Hair Syndrome-No it's not a disease as the name might imply to some. Actually, this is a name I gave to the media's love of blacks with a certain "look" to them.

I noticed about a year or two ago that alot of the black women in the media looked like [and still look like] Kimora lee Simmons at the age of 15. It didn't anger me at first but I realized that not all blacks looked like her. If the media was doing the black females a favor and presenting a "positive" image of how we look [or should look for that matter] then I can give them some BOTD. But we all want as representative that...represents us and who we are right? I sometimes wonder if the media was going for a bacl candidate that looked as close to white as she could get without actually being white. I might be being a little immature on the matter but the phenomenon of these special women has gone on so long that it has made the self image of blacks who do not have those characteristics fall and even cause some to make what I call the 'MJD' or the "Michael Jackson Desicision". Think about how his looks have changed since his rise in fame.

So what exactly are these traits?

-One is the earlier mentioned Curly Hair. Not just the hot curled style kind but the curly style that happens if Jerry-Curl were suddenly 'the IN thing' to do. If this picture doens't do you any justice, look up Corbin Bleu.

-Second is the range of skin tone that USUALLY follows this. We all know that for some odd reason, blacks seem to be the race where you can be milk white to plum blue and still be labeled as black. But not all blacks are the former mentioned-the trait found to accompany the curly hair.

-Third is her Position in America. If she isn't a video vixen or a model you are bound to find this stereotype of a black woman in a position of wealth, but often at the cost of trading in "street smarts". I saw this happening in school alot of times, where you are either smart OR beautiful but never/rarely both.

-Body type...please. let's not go here. I have seen too many skinny girls with the curly hair syndrome in the media. Do you think the host of a television would be a fit plus sized woman? Maybe on the View or another show, but not in today's media.

I make this "complaint" or "rant" per say because I am a black girl who has caramel colored skin. [often I will refer to blacks in terms of flavors] I have short/medium length straight hair and am "big" for my size. What happened to the caramel colored Nia Longs and Fantasias? What happened to the chocolate skinned women like Whoopi Goldberg? There was a time in television when black women had a range of 'models' to 'model' after.

Well, this just gives me the excuse to break the stereotypes that I dont have to look like the above mentioned to be someone in this complex world.