Hair, as few persons realise, is the most personal attire and attribute that an individual possess. With hair, the individual demonstrates his or her social significance, philosophical preferences and culture legacy. That is, the individual let the world know by the way the hair is fashioned, what he or she may be, what religious or political affiliation and what ethnic group he or she may spring from.
Hair, in other words, is the basic, natural symbol of things that people want to become. The social and cultural significance of hair-styled should not be underestimated.
When the African had been sufficiently dehumanised and was ready for the planting of the seed of inferiority, this inferior seed fostered a mindset among slaves that would take generations of struggle to sufficiently rooted out which some would say has not fully been accomplished.
The ebony skin that had been at one time a thing of beauty and pride has now held in contempt. The wooly hair that the Africans so skillfully decorated in the past has now been regarded with contempt. At some point the African pride was crushed and the rich heritage forgotten as they made themselves over into the owner’s image.
Years of brainwashing produced a deep contempt for his own skin and hair; as a result of all these salient facts, mankind are no longer shackled with a Eurocentric theory of social development that compounds the Crisis of African intellectual who is constantly searching for universal humanism.
The study of the core of Eurasian behaviour is directed toward understanding the totality of the Aryan “white” institutional behaviour that manifest in overt racism, chattel slavery, ruthless capitalism and despotic “communism”.
The aggressive and positive Afro-centric methology which is being advanced by Cheilck Anta Diop and others especially Chancellor Williams, John C. Jackson, John H. Clark and Yosef ben-Jochannan), will finally free us of the chains that have kept our minds stupefied by the brutality of cultural and physical slavery.