“Good Hair”

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Chris Rock has a new movie out called “Good Hair” which I will not link. The film is in my opinion a disgrace and has received a lot of negative opinions from the Black community, and rightly so.

Here are a few comments from people (from a message board I visit) and how they feel about the film.

I hate that this movie even exist. To me it will start making whites having something to say even more about black women (they already think that a lot of blacks are from the hood, dumbasses). They will start to think that every black girl with straight her (hot comb or chemical) is wearing a weave. They will know the slang term (relaxer that blacks call it a perm, buckshots, kitchen, ect) that they would use against us. If white teacher see a 5 year old with nappy hair and four pigtails in her hair, she will think that her parents didn’t give birth to a baby with good (relaxed) hair. Their attitudes will become more slick and devilish. It will make whites see that natural hair really is unacceptable in this society just like how blacks see it. This movie will no longer want black women to show the natural beauty of their hair :c DAMMIT, I JUST DON’T WANT WHITE PEOPLE KNOW ANYMORE SECRETS!!!
[PebblesMean2U]

Another member said:

Black women don’t like anything that challenges them on the topic of wearing straight hair. Black people have the most unique hair in the world, yet the majority of black women have weaves, relaxers or straightened hair. I hate the “more manageable” excuse. Sure, your relaxed hair is more manageable if you’re trying to achieve styles suited to the natural texture of straight hair. If you went out tomorrow and the majority of white woman had chemically altered their hair so that it was super curly and were wearing afros, twists, locs, and braids and gave the excuse of “more manageable” what would you say?
[Passion4Muzik]

One more:

But not only on elementary/grammar school but middle school/junior high and highschool as well. You know I’ve seen girls with the little bitty ponytails and then they fan ti out to make it look like a lot when it’s not? And their hair is thin as all out doors from relaxers. I see girls with microbraids in and no edges whatsoever. It’s not so much the fact of wearing weave or extensions from time to time. It’s the “obsession” black women have garnered when wanting to take actions with this particular things. We’ve been conditioned so long telling us that our natural hair the way is grows genetically out of our scalps is “ugly”, we don’t know what else to go by anymore, but the euro hair look. It’s what been deemed as beautiful and we don’t have that look genetically and naturally so mimic it to “fit in”. That’s why black women find excuses and defenses to keep defending relaxers, perms, straightening devices because we can’t let it go, and I’m guilty of it also, not relaxing though. Like I said we can deny it all we want to but it’s true. I’m sure this film hit alot of nerves. [NW2009]

I never was going to see the film nor do I have any desire to do such. This discussion needs to be had at home with our daughters as well as our sons. As a Black woman who wears her hair natural (boy cut, short), I encourage natural hair and taking India.Arie’s lyrics to heart. We are NOT our hair.

Screw Chris Rock and his “attempt” to bring attention to a so called plight. Stupidity is rampant.

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~ by Latisha on October 13, 2009.