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Nappy is not an insult.

We have to lovingly rescue nappy from
negative imagery. It is a term that should mean fuzzy or tightly
curled, like when you think of the nap of a soft fuzzy sweater. People
prefer to use kinky, which sounds more technically problematic rather
than physically descriptive. 

Nappy has negative imagery
because in the 1800's Europeans used the term to compare black hair to
that of sheep or animals. And thus, proof that blacks were less than
human because of their animal hair.

So I think that when
someone cringes when they here the word Nappy, they are thinking of the
negative fantasy created by a racist society, rather than the actual
definition that offers a physical description.

So what we are doing now is saving Nappy and defining our beauty through our own eyes, something much closer to reality.