Can you guys see this link?
http://www.seeingblack.com/article_705.shtmlSnip:
In his new film, "Good Hair," Chris Rock approaches the subject of Black women's hair--all at once--like a man, like a novice, like a voyeur, and like a comedian in his investigation of hair weaves and hair straightening relaxers. And the results are mixed. In his exploration, he all but ignores the existence of so many Black women who don't choose to alter or cover the hair texture that grows naturally from their scalp.
When I asked Rock about these omissions/deletions during a recent interview in Washington, D.C., Rock joked with a good-natured assurance that those of us who are au naturale belong to a small set of the Black population that goes to concerts featuring Common or Erykah Badu, as opposed to the masses following the likes of Lil Wayne. He reasoned further that a film, for example, about people with locs doing their hair "with shampoo and beeswax" couldn't compete with the footage, much of it a spectacle, that he and director Jeff Stilson have gathered for "Good Hair."
...So, even though Rock includes very briefly two women who have turned their back on chemicals (the "creamy crack" one woman calls it), and exposes the ridiculous expense of most weaves, as well as the toxicity of the sodium hydroxide found in most relaxers (including so-called "kiddie perms"), Rock glosses over the important history of our difficult and wonderful journey to reject straightened hair and embrace our natural selves."
In "Good Hair," we are only left with ridicule and a joke. I screened this movie with a predominantly White group of critics and every time they laughed, I knew they were laughing at Black people and not with Black people. Again, I guess it depends on what world you are living in and what you are trying to say. It's obvious that Rock is choosing to make his case with a mixture of (literal) acid and humor."
Although it's not all that surprising that Chris would omit natural sistas since the whole point of the movie is black women's obsession with straightened hair so I'm not sure why she's so offended that women with natural hair weren't a focal point of this movie. Since I still have no idea why this movie was even made, I think sistas with naturals should be be glad that they weren't discussed.
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