Photo from hereI missed this from a month ago but the Miami Herald published a letter written by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr which was written in response to Chris Rock's Good Hair.
Here's an excerpt:
The very notion of ``good hair'' springs from that same wellspring of self-denigration that offers the N-word as a fraternal greeting and once filled our newspapers with ads for skin-lightening creams. It suggests the difficulty of loving oneself when one uses as a yardstick of worth another culture's physical standards. As in an old episode of MASH where a Korean boy wanted the doctors to fix his eyes and make them look ``American.''
Click here to read the entire letter.
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I enjoyed the article but I feel that it is once again making it look like Black women sustain this good hair obsession on their own when most of us wanted good hair to attract the attention of the little black boys that ignored us whenever our lighter skin straighter hair cousins were around.
ReplyDeleteNice article. I really enjoyed it, especially since I had heard so much negativity about the movie itself.
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