I'm a happily nappy African American mom of two biracial children. Glad to see you here. Come on in, have a seat, and I’ll fix you a tall glass of iced tea. Let’s talk about this thing called a nappy kitchen.What you must understand, especially for your daughter’s sake, is that naps are nothing to be ashamed of. My children are Biracial. My daughter is 1 year old. She has big Caucasian-like curls. Do you know there are people close to us who are holding their breath, praying that her hair does not ‘turn nappy‘?
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My non-Black mommy friends think of nappy as any type of hair that is not immediately identifable as Caucasian. If pregnant with a boy, many of them breath a sigh of relief saying, “Thank goodness it’s a boy, I can just cut his hair short and run a brush over it. I don’t know what I would do with a girl’s hair.”
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No, not THAT N-word. The other N-word — nappy. I’ve been often asked why I chose to call this site ‘Nappy‘ Kitchen. Why not ‘natural kitchen’ or ‘napptural kitchen’ or something of a similar favor.
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