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The day I see "Godfather the Musical" I shoot myself, I swear to Christ…
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Hold the phone here. Originals ideas?? Okay now you're blowing my mind.
09/22/09
@MegiEr: Wait until I get to the part where actresses can be a size other than zero, a color other than white, and an age over 30!
09/22/09
Head exploded, brains all over keyboard.
09/22/09
@hydrogen_jukebox & LaComtesse: I think it was just made for this dude.
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@Lymed: The Coliseum was live theater, but I don't think elevated anyone. "Live theater" isn't synonymous with "culture." What most people who are going to see shows like this are interested in is "spectacle" which is fine, but let's call it what it is and not think that it's accomplishing the same thing as, say, "Into the Woods."
09/22/09
It's a cute idea, but I can already see some problems.
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08/05/09
I will DEFINITELY be seeing this.
08/04/09
I still haven't come up with a reasonable answer.....
08/04/09
in my mind, my whispy blonde hair had nothing on the fascinating texture of theirs
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08/04/09
I think most women relax their hair because it's so normalized, not because they like it so much. On many women they only look good for the one week after they've been to the salon and then it's just 3 weeks of "meh" until the next salon visit. Most women just don't want to look different, like an other, too black.
If black women were to embrace curly/kinky/wavy hair like we embrace round bottoms the good hair/bad hair thing would disappear and afro wigs would be all the rage again.
08/04/09
I'm white and when I used to babysit I sat for an african-american family. One day I got the idea to do one of the girls hair and their mom was like 'oh no, you don't understand our hair, don't even try' I was so sad. I loved playing with hair and really didn't understand what the difference was. I had no idea about this issue of 'good hair' and when I really learned about it I just get so sad. There was a Tyra that covered this and she had Chris Rock on talking about the movie. I admit, I cried, that whole thing with those gorgeous little girls who thought their hair was ugly and some of the moms gave them relaxers and such was heartbreaking. I think it is so awful that as a culture we make people feel ugly for their natural selves.
This topic really gets me emotional. I hope this movie does really well and people realize that beauty isn't just one thing. I equally love and hate what I do for a living for the reason that you have some cosmetic companies that embrace all types of looks and most don't. The hair thing is an extension of that deluded thinking that one type is beautiful over all others.
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I'm with you on the mixed heritage bit. The way the cards fell, genetically, I got my mother's shiny straight-flowing hair. My younger sister, who otherwise is a physical copy of myself, got my father's "black hair."
There is nothing one can say to a young girl who asks, "Why can't I have that?"
It was harder, and probably seemed crueler to her that her mother didn't know how to care for black hair, and that she was the only one in her class and in our family who really had to deal with it.
I always thought that if we had lived in a more integrated community, there would have been other women she could have looked to for help with grooming techniques.
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I go to an Asian lady in a "white" salon and she takes care of my natural hair better than anyone else.
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This kind of thing goes way back to slavery b/c if you were light-skinned and had "mixed hair", that means your daddy was the white slave owner (b/c he raped your mother and had you) and thus you'd be a house slave (not what they called it) and you'd have it easier b/c you wouldn't be in the fields. The lighter you were and the more white features you had, the easier life you would have b/c dark skin/wide nose/nappy hair = black, undesirable, and threatening. Fast forward and this also translates to wanting to keep "white blood" in the family so that the kids came out light (passing the paper bag test) with silkier hair.
It took a VERY long time to get to the "black is beautiful" notion and even then, there are still struggles with it.
08/04/09
Naomi Campbell had a weave on, duh.
Relaxed hair NEVER comes out looking like a weave made of hair from India. Real relaxed hair has that "yaki" coarse texture and can rarely can grow that long due to the delicacy of black hair and the damage from processing.
Relaxed hair rarely looks good, IMO. Usually looks like "white imposter" hair, but looks stiff and dull. It looks like someone's trying too hard to be what they are not; but in this case, sadly, it's the majority of an entire CULTURE that's trying too hard. But it's not our fault; it's history's fault.
Flat ironing works better, anyway.
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1. Why I get mad when they throw water in the pool
2. Why I have to devote one day out of a week to wash/style my crown
3. Why I can't have the luxury to wash my hair every day
I'm one of many women of color who has struggled with my hair. While I'm one sista of the high-yella persuasion with a Spanish background, I get the usual: "Oh you have such great hair!" But I really loathe that saying. I think ALL women of color (and all women as a matter of fact) have good hair, its all in a matter of how you take care of it and how you wish to style it. I'm tired of sisters bickering over natural vs. weave vs. relaxed. You DO your crown, and wear it proudly, if you wanna wear weave...lace it in, if you want to slap on the "creamy crack" (which I do) then do it! Stop ridiculing others for doing what they like. As long your happy with the outcome and if it works with your style regiment, then do what you want with your hair.
Now what I would like for them to showcase in this docu are the salons that aren't too "Black hair" focused and how they are planning to change that. Living in the Southern part of Texas and up in the Meteroplex, it is hellish hell trying to find someone who can do "Black hair". Unless you live in Houston where there is a larger Black population, you ARE limited here in the Lone Star State. I could write a book about how many hands have handled my hair to disastrous results because they were overwhelmed or didn't have a clue what to do with Black hair.