applegrove
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Mon Jun-28-10 09:44 PM
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Anyone seen "Good Hair" the movie by Chris Rock? Is it any good? |
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Tue Jun-29-10 09:41 AM
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1. Saw Chris talk about it |
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Tue Jun-29-10 10:26 AM
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2. It's very good, but I wish he'd had more time to go into the |
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question of "why" as in "why do black women want straight hair?"
I just finished reading Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington and she describes how the medical establishment for years thought that any departure from Anglo-Saxon standards was a sign of inferiority.It's a more respectable racism; "I don't hate you, you just can't help being inferior."
I'm having a problem saying exactly what I mean, but it's something like somewhere along the lines the everyone at one time absorbed the message that the whiter you looked, the better. It's deeper than simple aesthetics.
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Tue Jun-29-10 08:14 PM
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4. I agree. I love very curly hair and many of the styles only African Americans can do. I have |
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curly hair but it isn't nearly curly enough.
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Tue Jun-29-10 10:43 AM
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3. I saw him on Oprah previewing it |
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looks like it'll be good . I just love his style though .
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