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@Delano Since I spent several years in broadcast news - I don't trust anything I hear on the radio/television. I understand how broadcast news works. If it's of interest to me or if I need the information for survival - I verify with the proper agencies. I know not everyone does that but when you work in news you have to get your information from primary sources - second at best. So if I hear on the radio there's a case of salmonella contamination with the current crop of romaine lettuce chances are I'm not going to purchase romaine lettuce. I haven't tested it - nor do I have the tools to confirm or deny there's contamination but since I got a notice from Georgia's department of agriculture stating there is ... I'm going to trust it.. So yes, outside of opening up my own lab in the basement, I'm going I trust the departments we've set up to check our food. Is it an objective fact? Who knows maybe another type of test will turn up no contamination - but I'm simply going to avoid all romaine lettuce for awhile. By the way, isn't saying there are no objective facts, is in fact an objective fact?

@Pioneer1 Ok, then you understand that this is EXACTLY what you are doing when you represent YOUR experiences and observations as truth. At least the studies that contain the statistics include an abstract, raw data and , methodology of how they've come to the conclusion. Further they don't rely on others having experienced or observed the same to come to their conclusion. Even after the presentation the author will state this is our conclusion. Conclusion does not equal truth. So like I wrote earlier that's your opinion, experience and observation -I don't agree with it but I do appreciate you sharing it - because it does at least advance the conversation and provokes some metaphysical thought.

Pioneer again pointing your to web based sources are asking you to visit the library is pointless. Time and time again you've demonstrated that nothing I present will dissuade you from your beliefs. Rather than having me "prove" the validity of the data others have already collected, why don't YOU prove anything you've said. I've already asked you twice to provide proof that white women were the first to dye their hair blue or that Black women dye they hair blue to be like white women. You've ignored the questions and you'll ignore them now because you can't produce anything, besides your imagination. to substantiate your statements.

@Pioneer1 You've raised another perspective that I didn't think of when talking about Beyonce' performances and music documenting the black woman's experience in America - but since her mother was a hair stylist and owned a beauty salon , you're correct she even displays the aesthetic experience of black woman in America - one that she undoubtedly saw when visited her mother's hair shop. I know I did when I visited my aunt's beauty salon. Black -women have been donning blonde wigs (now weaves) for as long as I've been alive and definitely before I was born - because I've seen them in my familyphotos.. Still I can see from your perspective as a black man thinking that black women such as Beyonce are emulating the white woman look - but as a black woman I can share with you this is par for the course of black womanhood. We've adorn ourselves with crowns of all colors since times immemorial ... our crowns are our glory - and you're correct many of us do suffer psychologically when our hair ain't did. I think any woman who is trying to look like Beyonce is simply a fan... I wore a baseball cap and ponytail pulled through when Janet did Rhythmnation - in fact, a lot of us did. It's just fun. Now as for her light complexion - you already know we come in all colors sometimes right in our immediate family. My maternal grandmother was fair-skin with hazel-green eyes. I have cousins who are whiter than paper - and they had two black parents. I think the fact that she goes hard to represent black womanhood through all our stages - means a lot to young women. There's one young Black woman on twitter who went viral because she learned Beyonce's recent choreography from coachella - and executed it flawlessly. This young woman looks pretty much how you described those who might be harmed by Beyonce's aesthetics and all I saw from her was high self-esteem. Still you may see different cross section of young women in the black community so I can't speak to that with any conviction, Links: Twitter imbriyounce