Stepiphanie
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Ok ladies, so in last few weeks we've been bombarded with all of this black hair talk in the mainstream media, from daytime to nightime TV, and back on here it's been discussed ad nauseam. I've seen people discuss the light hearted silly side of it, as well as some of the deeper psychological issues that black women have with their hair and overall appearance. However, not once have I seen anyone acknowledge that black women, both relaxed and natural can have long hair!!
I know, I know most people IRL think that it's somehow how impossible for us to have long hair but I was hoping, that somehow there would be people representing for long haired ladies, but nope!! The person with the longest hair in all the discussions was Oprah and Chris Rock made the comment "now that's rich" implicating some how that the only way that the only possible way that a black woman can obtain beautiful, lush hair is to be "rich" or be under the care of a daily stylist (even Oprah implicated that on her show yesterday). I was watching Our World with Ed Gordon earlier this morning, and I thought surely I would be more satisfied with the discussion they had since he usually features scholars and well read people. Ehh…wrong! They had some good points, but in the end I still felt dissatisfied. One of the women, who was a prominent black psychiatrist spoke about weaves and mentioned that the reason black women (even children) wore weave is the desire to have long flowy hair. While that's true to a certain degree, what about the fact that black women have done so much damage to their hair, and have just bought into this crazy notion that it can't grow; that many of them think a weave is the only option.
I'm a need these panels to be a little more diverse! Everyone that was wearing their real hair was either a short cropped relaxed head or rocking a twa. While that's cute and all, there has got to be a wider variety of black women wearing there real hair. Another thing, these damn celebrity guests... Oh lord!! They just need to stop! Ex: Melinda Williams (Soul Food) spoke about how she some how is making a difference by choosing not to wear a weave. Good for her! But do you know that this chick said " I choose to wear my hair in it's natural state, not that I'm not relaxing it or coloring it or whatever, but I'm wearing what grows out of my head" all in the same breath chile! I wanted to reach through the TV and smack her upside her not so "natural" head!!
So what do you ladies think? Have you noticed the same? Have these discussions helped or are they further perpetuating the miseducation of of the black woman in regards to hair? Are we gonna have to come out with our own movie to show that black hair can grow long? Lol
I know, I know most people IRL think that it's somehow how impossible for us to have long hair but I was hoping, that somehow there would be people representing for long haired ladies, but nope!! The person with the longest hair in all the discussions was Oprah and Chris Rock made the comment "now that's rich" implicating some how that the only way that the only possible way that a black woman can obtain beautiful, lush hair is to be "rich" or be under the care of a daily stylist (even Oprah implicated that on her show yesterday). I was watching Our World with Ed Gordon earlier this morning, and I thought surely I would be more satisfied with the discussion they had since he usually features scholars and well read people. Ehh…wrong! They had some good points, but in the end I still felt dissatisfied. One of the women, who was a prominent black psychiatrist spoke about weaves and mentioned that the reason black women (even children) wore weave is the desire to have long flowy hair. While that's true to a certain degree, what about the fact that black women have done so much damage to their hair, and have just bought into this crazy notion that it can't grow; that many of them think a weave is the only option.
I'm a need these panels to be a little more diverse! Everyone that was wearing their real hair was either a short cropped relaxed head or rocking a twa. While that's cute and all, there has got to be a wider variety of black women wearing there real hair. Another thing, these damn celebrity guests... Oh lord!! They just need to stop! Ex: Melinda Williams (Soul Food) spoke about how she some how is making a difference by choosing not to wear a weave. Good for her! But do you know that this chick said " I choose to wear my hair in it's natural state, not that I'm not relaxing it or coloring it or whatever, but I'm wearing what grows out of my head" all in the same breath chile! I wanted to reach through the TV and smack her upside her not so "natural" head!!
So what do you ladies think? Have you noticed the same? Have these discussions helped or are they further perpetuating the miseducation of of the black woman in regards to hair? Are we gonna have to come out with our own movie to show that black hair can grow long? Lol