I was reading a post on an Essence.com message board containing some reactions to Chris Rock's Good Hair movie and let me say it left me scratching my head. Before reading the post I was watching a Youtube clip of high school students commenting on the movie and there was a 16 year old girl in the clip. She was saying that if a girl had nappy hair guys at the high school she attended will not consider her as s*xy. It was one of the few Youtube clips I found to be both sad and funny at the same time.
But we all know children are innocent and the words that this girl speaks are only from her feelings and what her mother had shared with her. We know that feelings change. Chris Rock commented and wondered why its okay to display black men in the worst light but why we get offended when we're discussing black women's hair.
Black women and men are as beautiful equally to me and in the eyes of God. I have lots of love for my people and in time their eyes will be open as well. I'm more than sure that Chris Rock is not in harmony with hurting anyone's feelings in the movie. He said the reason for doing the movie was because one of his daughters asked him the question "How come I don't have good hair?" All he's interested in was in getting his daughters and other Black women and children to embrace their culture and be proud of the person that they are INSIDE. And what better way to do it than putting it out there in a movie!
I had always had hair past my shoulders and I never wore a relaxer in my hair. My grandmother had hair long enough for her to sit on and everywhere I go people tell me, "You look just like your grandmother." But looking back, I have wore my hair in a variety of styles. I have wore some straight hairstyles, some curly hairstyles, some braided hairstyles, and some Siebra-What-In-The World-Was-That hairstyles (LOL).
I have no problem telling a sister how good she looks with her natural hair. I believe Black women and children are still beautiful regardless of how they wear their hair. THAT will never change. Perhaps the folks on the websites who are attacking Chris Rock about this movie need to be evaluated before printing such foolishness.
Excellent blog and points are well taken Sister Siebra. I plan to see the movie over the weekend hopefully.
Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 3:43PM
Jen Fad
I seen the movie Saturday with my niece. It's been quite a while since I've been to a theater I mostly wait for the DVD to come out but everyone reading this post should go out and see it it's excellent.
Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 4:41PM
Siebra Muhammad
Good post Ms Siebra. I had a relaxer before but kept forgetting to get 'the touch up' so it grew out. It wasn't until then that I realized i had 'good hair'. To me we all have good hair, its just that some people's hair takes more effort to maintain. What is bad is when you take better care of OPH - other people's hair (weave) better than you take care of your own and if you took care of your own, you wouldn't need a weave. Not sayiing anything against weaves the weave epidemic has really getting out of hand. But I enjoyed your post, just wanted to let you know.
Yes, Ma'am!!!
Sunday, November 1st 2009 at 4:38PM
Siebra Muhammad
Good post my sister...in my humble opinion, "GOOD" hair is good knowledge of self.
When Samson in the Bible got his hair cut, he lost his power. When we were separated for the knowledge of our story, cut-off, our power was lost.
As we continue to reclaim the knowledge our inner-self as well as our outer identity ,we will be back on the path of empowerment and success as complete people individually and as a society. Peace!!!
Friday, May 4th 2012 at 1:23PM
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