“Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?”
This fall 2009, Chris Rock’s documentary Good Hair is being touted as an in-depth insider view concerning the hair culture in the Black community. I am always skeptical when hot-button social issues are picked up especially by people who make their entire living by entertaining people. There are obvious exceptions to this rule. I can think of Danny Glover whose diligent fight against the death penalty has always won admiration in my heart.
But Chris Rock is no Danny Glover.
—-This is a 3-part series by Naj Kamau not available anywhere else—
Some issues discussed will be what will make this documentary a success, how will the Kemetic factor alter the documentary’s dynamic and who are the players behind the scenes.
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on September 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I also am HIGHLY skepticle of anything black in the main stream causa the omission factors associated wit creating discussions around black anything,
but judgin by Chris’s comedy he’ll take it as mainstream black american as he can while exposing his inner deeper darker thoughts surrounding the subject, if he made the movie his self and is not a mere puppet like most
If the movie is successful it will at least start a mass trend amongst Black Sistas to wear their hair natural and in the process many sistas who can look themselves in the mirror without fakkemicles or weaves will stick wit it.
I don’t think many sincere sistas will leave the theatre on saturday night and return to the salon on tuesday.
They’ll say to themselves I love myself to much to do that. but, thats just me bein my evr-optimistic self
on September 4th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
i agree wit chu carol. they will howeva measure success by the box office tickets and not by its positive influence on the Sistahs.
on September 4th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
They will but we won’t.
on September 5th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
the little girl on the box’s edges are receeding from constant trauma.
on September 5th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
You know perms are a major trauma to the hair follicles evrytime, your hair is a living entity so keep permin if you want keep lyin to urself the movie already failed when he thought of the idea instead of makin the focus on the women who let othas take ova black hair after CJ walker prolly gave up on’em ya know she was the first female self made millionaire en-us
on September 28th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Yea it’s always enough money to go around for black people when we are hurting ourselves. Madam CJ Walker got that money by destroying us and now we are suppose to praise her as though she helped us. We measure her success based off how much money she earned. We need to measure ourselves based off the distructiveness of our behavior. Now we have a stamp of her with her hot combed hair on a black heritage stamp. What is wrong with us that we are celebrate hating ourselves.
on September 28th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
we refuse to look in the mirror is whats wrong, we don’t wanna be black women we want to be weaklings.
We refuse to become tru blu black feministic energy and are in love with the sicko factor like this deranged mindset yu talk about, Mentaz.