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you know, I have never understood why people want their hair to not look like their own. My hair is now gray, but it used to be brown. It has always been straight. So straight that in my youth, it resisted every efforts to install body or bounce by chemical means. When I was young, I wanted curly hair - actually, I wanted an afro - but my hair simply would not do what I wanted it to do no matter what kind of harsh chemicals I put on it. Eventually, I grew to accept my hair and my body as being how I am meant to be. Would I like to be tall and thin and blonde? Not any more. But for many years, I bought into the message that advertisers were selling - that unless I was six feet tall, weighed 110 pounds and had long masses of curly, wavy, beautiful hair, I was somehow less than I could or should be. What crap. I think African American hair is gorgeous and for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would want to change it. I don't know if I will get to see this movie, but I will look for conversations about the idea of "good hair" and see what I can learn from them. Thanks for posting and sharing this!
Hi Dawn!
What up! Thanks for the comment.
Ah, the mysteries of black hair!
I can honestly imagine how this docudrama will play in certain places in and outside the US.
The world causes so much self-loathing. I will totally believe we African-Americans are mentally free from the racial self-loathing shackles when we all walk around looking genetically the way we should.
I know some folks will say that relaxed hair is easier to handle but heck, Africans back in the day knew how to handle it. We just have to (re)learn how to deal with it.
And it is a lovely type of hair. The advertisers are great at causing self-hatred. They live on that. They get their money from our fears. Thanks.
-C
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