Never Cutting Your Hair in an Emotional Time is a Colonized Mindset.
I just learned this and I realize again just how colonized I have been over the years.
Never cut your hair in an emotional time.
This was a staple in our home. It was right up there, under the Ten Commandments. Not the murder ones and stuff, but you know. The other important nuggets to get you through life without major psycho social issues or White Jesus striking you down with his wrath for sinning against his Holy commandments. You know. Thou shall not lie. Thou shall not covet thy neighbors’ wife. Thou shall obey thy mother and father. And, right under that stuff, White people cement this mentality into their kids:
Never cut your hair in an emotional time.
This was also related to piercings. It was related to tattoos.
White people are very interesting and controlled people. Well, controlling people generally.
And me being adopted into a White home I see, has kept me captive to a mentality that has been counter intuitive and unnatural to me the entirety of my life. As my colonization continuously unravels and unwinds in the 18 years since I have committed to become divorced from their ways, I find myself experiencing an array of liberating…