Patti Labelle dissing natural hair?

[jamaica68]

Sometimes I wish Patti would shut up and sing sometimes she sounds so ignorant. Lawd the child's mother isn't any better.


http://bglhonline.com/2011/08/nbcs-the-marriage-ref-tackles-natural-hair/

 

[Natty_Virgo]

I am not feeling Patti talking about that little girl like that. I mean yes keep the kids hair clean but Patti sitting up with white people talking about "nappy hair" is ridiculous to me.

 

[Gibsongal]

No, I don't care for the nappy comments, but she came around in the end and voted on the husbands side. Watch the whole segment.

She's doing what a lot of game show/reality tv does in using inflammatory comments to keep up the drama and then miraculously they change their minds going forward.

OT: The little girl was adorable.

 

[Iluvsmuhgrass]

You have to watch the entire thing to get down to what's really going on. It's wild. At the end Patti tells the woman that she wants her to change her attitude. Not what it seems.

 

[davisbr88]

I couldn't even get to the end.
I know what I and everyone in my family considered "nappy" when I was younger and that girl definitely does NOT have nappy hair.
And why is she making "nappy" synonymous with unclean? Just because it's not braided and it's out and free, it's dirty?
Bye Patti.

 

[MsLi@512]

I HATE the word nappy. Especially when used in mixed company all willey nilley. How about kinky, coarse, etc.

 

[manter26]

There was so much wrong with that clip I don't even know where to begin...the grease, the hygiene issues, show business...smh at both parents.

 

[JerriBlank]

Does Patti Labelle have any hair, to be talking about anyone else's?

 

[MzPrince]

It sounds like she was more so saying that the kid needs to have her hair cleaned and combed. It was looking a hot damn mess. At least comb the hair. It was all matted.

 

[CurlsBazillion]

caramel sauce? "black people need grease"??? "her hair needs to be tamed"?? WOW. This isn't as cute as this show is trying to make it seem.

 

[davisbr88]

It sounds like she was more so saying that the kid needs to have her hair cleaned and combed. It was looking a hot damn mess. At least comb the hair. It was all matted.

I totally get that and I agree, but even if her hair was "nappy" (and I completely disagree), it being nappy itself doesn't make her hair unclean. That's what made me mad about it. As soon as the video went off: "that girl has nappy hair... she needs clean hair."
They just needed to wash her damn hair. Don't got nothing to do with it being nappy.
It just makes me mad because a lot of people automatically see naps and assume it's dirty, and she didn't help that at all.

 

[Junebug D]

Patti is old school. Old school folks by and large do not hold our informed progressive opinions on this hair subject. This language is nothing new. Most of my relatives of Patti's age would probably be saying the same thing and not seeing anything wrong with it or thinking twice about it.

 

[greenandchic]

I couldn't finish the video with Patti there 'spouting off at the mouth' like that. I know she's from a different generation, "blah, blah, blah" but this is 2011 for Christ's sake.

 

[ladybettle]

The mother is clueless on how to take care of her daughter's hair. She needs to join the LHCF!!!

 

[ladybettle]

Patti is old school...just brain washed...sad...

 

[lovegymnasts]

Patti: She's a different generation and I always give them slack

Favorite line so far (have not watched it all):
Bill: Why can't we let the girl wear it natural like that?
Patti: You've never had black hair
Bill: I've had it on my pillow

 

[nappystorm]

Well, the little girl's hair was matted and needed detangling but Patti's and the mama's mindset is just disgusting

 

[yaya24]

Cute kid.. but I think she needs clean, moisturized TAMED hair..

Every time Patti said "nappy" I cringed.

 

[LadyRaider]

I grew up thinking "nappy" meant like that girl's hair... matted, not combed, dirty. I did not consider it the natural state of my hair.

Patti Labelle is using the word interchangeably. Nappy = unkempt AND Nappy = natural state of black hair.

That's the problem with Labelle's statements, I think. Pick one use of the word; don't use it both as a pejorative for dirty, matted hair AND as the natural way our hair is.

 

[greenandchic]

Mother's hair looked HAM too. If she's going to continue to attempt to straighten her own hair, its just a matter of time she will do that to the daughter.

 

[Harina]

That clip was kind of appalling.

 

[Luscious850]

It's just something about that word "nappy" that doesn't sit too well with me.

 

[doll-baby]

The mother seems like she has issues with her own hair and is passing them off onto her daughter's hair. I think in general young girls hair should be kept in braids or ponytails except for maybe special occasions. I say this because no matter how nice the hair may be styled in the morning throughout the day it will get tangled, matted, and not to mention small children are notorious for cutting long pretty hair !

 

[knt1229]

Patti Patti Patti..... I saw this last nite when it aired. I couldn't believe she was saying this mess. Calling that child's hair nappy and talking about black people need grease not only on their hair but the body too. Patti told folk she put some grease/vaseline on her knees (guess she don't use the butters; they work better) Both her and the wife were a HAM.

Although I cringed, Patti was just being Patti. She's always extra. I have never seen her NOT be extra.

 

[NaijaNaps]

Wow Patty. But you know what? I'm not surprised.

On the other hand, I love me some Bill Maher! LOL And he loves us black women too, lol.

 

[SmilingElephant]

Couldnt stand to watch the whole thing....i appreciate both sides tho....the girl looks cute whether in the ponytails or natural....im just tired of ppl being ignorant of how to talk about us as Black people....especially when its our own talking about US!...so regardless of how it ended i wasnt feelin Patti right there...love you Patti but ---->_/

 

[SmilingElephant]

It's just something about that word "nappy" that doesn't sit too well with me.

It turns my stomach...literally. That and the other N word...in fact all the N words make me uncomfortable.

 

[Sha76]

The girls hair needs to be combed, detangled and moisturized. It was totally matted up. and food in it, gross. The main question is how long has this food been in it.

 

[cheryl26]

Whole thing seemed staged to me. She was cute though, just needed her hair washed and brushed is all I think. Ms Labelle was annoying.

 

[LaughingOctopus]

I hope the mother doesn't give her child a complex.

Pops took the whole wash and go thing too literally and the Momma is too narrow minded. If they can meet in the middle and give them a flyer to LHCF then everything would work out.

Now, Patti...I don't have a problem with the word nappy, but when you make it seem like nappy=dirty. No ma'm