Did Chris Rock’s Movie Good Hair Make Black Woman Take A Hard Look At Themselves?

By IsisWisdom

Personally I don’t see what all the hype is about. As a black woman who feels completely comfortable in my own skin I never had an issue with Chris Rock putting out this movie. Perhaps the reason why so many black woman had an issue with this movie is because deep down inside they may know that what they are doing to themselves is not right?

I mean hell let’s keep it all the way real. Black woman, unless they are either mixed with white or Indian or any other race that possesses straight hair, their hair will come out naturally coily. There is nothing wrong with that. Beautiful coily hair is a gift that was given to us from the creator. The hair is used as a conductor to receive transmission from the most high. So why any person would want to be ashamed of that especially the people whose hair it naturally grows from is beyond my comprehension.

Now to give you a lil bit of a background about me I grew up in a majority white area right outside of Baltimore Md. The school that I went to was predominantly white and there were very few blacks that went to my school. To make matters even worse, the black people that lived in the area I lived had no sense of knowledge of self. Meaning they didn’t know who they were and didn’t want to know. They adopted their mannerisms after the people who cut their checks every week. But behind closed doors you could see the soul oozing from them with out their knowledge.

I was the one who grew up with my peers rocking the African medallion and listening to public enemy and wore an Angela Davis fro while everybody else wanted to look like Mary Jane and Becky from the local doughnut shop. It was something about wearing my hair natural that gave me that sense of freedom and rebelliousness that I was not going to go with the norm nor conform. I never did fit in with my peers and never tried to. I was the star basketball player and I felt the team could not win with out me. So in my mind fitting in was never an option I cared to entertain.

I went through my phases of hair styling, I wore the long weaves down to my ass so I could rock that Aaliyah look because I felt that the men were attracted to that style. Then I went through another phase of rocking Da Brats braids, then the TLC movement came. When I look back at it now I realize that most black woman do the things that they do to either feel accepted, go with the norm, or to attract or get attention of people in general. They do what society says is accepted. Never mind that deep down inside you know with out a shadow of a doubt that some little voice in your head asked you why were you doing this?

Why did you feel that you had to put harsh chemicals in your hair which leaks in to the blood stream and poisons your hair and your brain to feel accepted? Why did you feel that you had to get weave down to your ass. Don’t let me get started on the colored contact lenses sis-stars. We all know the history of what our grandmothers had to do to feel accepted in this make believe society but this is 2009. I worked in corporate america with Dread Locks and they loved my hair.

Black woman should feel comfortable expressing their looks in 2009. As long as you know who you are on the inside, then the movie “Good Hair” should have never had any effect on your mind. You claim that you feel that it’s nobody’s business but then the black hair care is a billion dollar a year business ladies. It’s the worlds business when you continuously spend hundreds of dollars replacing what is naturally yours. You complain about Chris Rock basically exploiting black womans hair but hasn’t Johnson and Johnson and Revlon and the Chinese hair stores on the corner been doing the same thing on a daily basis for years? It ain’t nobody’s fault but your own.

The opportunity to exploit would not be available if you did not support the opportunity of exploitation and to come down on Chris Rock or anybody else for that matter is an oxymoron. White woman wear weaves and extensions and wear perms. Hell they even put chemicals in their hair to curl it up or put tanning lotion on their bodies to darken their skin. You don’t see them having a hard time when they get exploited. They understand the business aspect of what’s going on.

If you didn’t see the movie “Good Hair” then I suggest you pay 10.00 and go see it and then write down in a journal the deep feelings you felt after you watched the movie. Take the time to investigate where those feelings come from, identify it and then heal or move on from it. You may be surprised what conclusion you come to.
IW