India Hair Superstition / African Hair Discontent

Say what you like about Indian religions, there is much superstition about it. Superstition does not necessarily mean that a belief is invalid but it does indicate that there is no gross evidence to back the belief.

Recently a friend called me from Guyana and he described a Hindu religious rite for another friend whose sons had to shave their hair for the Death Ceremony of their deceased father. There is this belief that if they did this and did what the ritual required, the father would be redeemed hereafter.

Is that a fact or is that just superstitious belief.

When I joined a religious sect from India, years ago, one of the requirements was that except for a tuff of hair, all head hair had to be shaved off. This was symbolic of surrender to the guru of the sect and also a sign of increased holiness. Needless to say most of that is pure superstition.

The benefits of it if there are any, are purely social. For instance when Hindus see a person with the shaved head, they immediately conclude that this person is following religious vows and should be honored, if not supported financially.

The shaved disciple or devotee may feel purer than he was before but that feeling is like when a person take a bath and feels cleaner. Yes, there is some cleanliness but it has nothing to do with his character and social behavior. For that shaving does not change anything.

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The video below also mentions the need for straight hair among black African women. That is another issue in that black kinky hair is a pain-in-the-arse, except for people who do not have it and have no idea of what a hell is it to comb through it, especially in the case of women who have longer hair. Even for men it is a hassle, so much so that if you randomly take a photo at a busy market anywhere in black Africa, you will notice that most of the males are head shaven. For many, the razor is a blessing because it gets rid of the pain of pulling a comb through their hairs, and it saves them the chore of keeping the hair neat and orderly.

When Angela Davis made the Afro hair style fashionable in the 1960s, the blacks who ran after that had no idea that it was possible because of White Man chemicals which softened and took the yank out of combing black hair. Angela was all about every Not-White-Man, except perhaps what she was spraying in her hair. I remember growing up in a black community in South American, where I saw girls whose hair had to be combed every morning for appearance in school and where such girls would be crying all the way through the session.

So when the so called white people tell me how beautiful black hair is, I pity their ignorance. But hey, whatever dream breeze flies your little kite is okay. Beautiful yes, just do not try to comb through it on a daily basis except if you have White Man Obeah Spray.

People sometimes say that Krishna was black and therefore black is beautiful. I knew a Swami who is now deceased and who use to feel that because he was black like Krishna he was better than any of the white people in his Sect. In fact there is a name of Krishna that says just that. It is:

Shyamasundara

This is pronounced like this Sham-uh-sun-dar-uh

It means Black (shyama) and Beautiful (sundara)

But was Krishna a black man like the blacks of sub-Sahara Africa?

The answer is no. If you check the video below you will see how dark complexioned some of the Indians (India) are, especially if they are from South India and Sri Lanka, but they do not have the kinky hair of the black Africans.

So no Krishna was not a black African because the descriptions of his hair have no details about it being kinky. Krishna had straight curly hair.

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Why do the African women want the shorn hair from the Indian race?

Why are they not satisfied with what they were born with?

It begs the question as to if they could change bodies and take Indian ones if they got the choice.