Roots Of America's Black Hair Problem

[@jeromethompson3825]

"Black queens... you look better without the weave"! ~ A black man. 🙏🏾❤

[@jackiebennett3649]

Still a choice

[@p7272]

@@jackiebennett3649 Only a choice if you're lazy!!! Get off that girlfriend!!!

[@kyngkyng908]

instaBlaster

[@JScott-md6dv]

Saying someone's NATURAL hair is distracting is dehumanizing. That's EXACTLY like saying skin colour is distracting because there is no control over that at all.

[@jesuschristislordofmeandmy5122]

Correct

[@afenismama]

More Jim Crow b.s.

[@avrilwhite1771]

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[@naturalcurls4life576]

Awesome video! 4 years after this video was posted, natural is alive and kicking. It is not a trend, I truly believe it is here to stay. I returned natural in 2004. It was not popular back then. Now 14 years later I see I am constantly seeing women rocking their natural hair. I see lots of kids at the schools natural aa well. I love it. I am now locking my hair and I see locs every day as well. Everyday someone is learning to love their natural beautiful hair. We are evolving and it's wonderful to see and be a part of it. I love my dark skin and my natural hair. Men love us too. I met my husband rocking a fro. We just celebrated 7 years married. We have to continue encouraging, supporting, and educating one another. It is working and we as a people are coming together and making a difference.

[@sheilaorangd1967]

We shouldn't be hungry for the information about natural hair we should be hungry for how to take care of it and how to walk proudly and let people know who ask us about our natural hair that is very easy to take care of I tell you again I don't buy any products on the Shelf I make my own just like all the other manufacturers they can make their I can make my own oil so that I know what is in it there's no whole lot of preservatives I do use natural preservatives but I also don't make big batches of it so that I can always have fresh products and I have never been so happy having natural hair going with natural hair and I walk proudly and I tell people she tells you how long it takes for her to do her hair but it's a lot of hair and such beautiful hair and she shows you from taking it out of the style that she has it in the protective Style to boiling it and conditioning is doing everything that she does do it and that takes dedication and she has but long hair

[@camishanimmons1766]

Representation Matters period. I will never cut my hair again, unless it's medically necessary. If nothing else to give the little black girls I work with a positive image of themselves.

[@Nicole0627]

Camisha Nimmons yes!

[@ArnaGSmith]

This was special. Made me wish I was in Brooklyn again, where I did a renovation in the early 70's. Also made a quilt for a community competition with the girls from off the front stoops in my neighborhood for display in the Billie Holiday theatre. Those were the days.

[@CM-jc8ql]

I loooove natural hair.. please leave the weave and wigs alone

[@CM-jc8ql]

lol.. nah. They want easier to manage hair (like white people) but based on my experiences, black women would never ask a genie to make them "look white".. lol. That's silly

[@MultiEightiesgirl]

+Joe Schmo Amen. I have natural hair myself. It makes me feel connected to the Universe and to my heritage. I always felt that men did not like natural hair because it was so far away from the Eurocentric form of beauty. But you have proved me wrong. :) Peace and blessings.

[@dahlia6446]

but they are the best way to grow out and preserve your natural hair so it does not break

[@goldyd144]

I don't wear weaves that often, but when I do, it's because I want to protect my hair, not out of self-hate. I much prefer my fro, thank you very much.

[@jackiebennett3649]

No. Why can't you accept people for what they choose whether natural hair, weave, wigs or perms. You sound just as ignorant as white folks and ignorant black folks

[@PamelaDFrank]

Excellent point when Micheala said that they are 'rule oriented'; from my perspective it's a way of controlling & exercising power over others. Interesting that the rules always cater to them...let's consider that.

[@OhPleaseMary]

I hope that school principal was fired! At a time when girls are naturally insecure about their looks, to make a huge and public deal over that little girl's (beautiful, natural) hair is indefensible. Now, no matter how much public support that child gets, she will always be scarred to some degree about her own beauty - damaging her little psyche in countless ways. If the school felt it was "distracting" - maybe because it could have potentially blocked a student from seeing the blackboard, (the only thing I can possibly imagine as their argument) then the girl could have been moved so as not to impede another student's view. It could have been done quickly and easily and even without the child knowing what was happening. The things that some adult women do to emotionally damage our children is beyond comprehension.

[@hrt123177]

Would love to see this panel again. I’m just not watching this! Love it!

[@christinacardona6788]

First want to say love the video Black hair and the history of our hair. Listening to the debt regarding that whites don't understand or no regulating the hair products, I feel that as blacks we need to be honest that whites have always wanted and made sure that we have things that are harmful to us and just downright deadly to blacks. Whites want to continue to profit off of black genocide. Look how often as a black community we always have to fight the white concepts and ideas of white glamour, etiquette, and concept of what whites at the end of the day is what keeps them feeling powerful and in control. Love the video, thanks.

[@MJ-wg3ng]

Coldfire ...she spoke truth so that is racist? Most black hair care products are owned by white companies. Wigs and weave stores are usually owned by Asians. Meanwhile blacks are the targeted audience for criticism and hatred.

[@perredaobry3753]

Mmmdonuts but that is fact from a lot of white people not all but a lot,other wise if most of it was not true then there wouldn’t be a problem with black kids or people having natural hair in the offices or schools fact

[@tracygreen1754]

"I AM NOT MY HAIR". I LOVE MY NATURAL HAIR, WELL GROOMED AND LOOKING AND SMELLING FABULOUS. NO SELF-ESTEEM PROBLEMS OVER HERE. WE ARE ALL QUEENS!

[@bernicethomas9080]

Remember back in the 60,s the men as I remember wore processed hair , that was the beginning of a transition away from our roots

[@momonie4]

It started way before the 60's. I remember my great grandmother talking about putting conk or straight lye in their hair back in the 1930's

[@redsunshine663]

WESTERN IS NOT OUR WAY OF LIFE WE ARE AFRICAN AMERICAN WE CELEBRATE OUR BLACKNESS OUR HAIR IS WHO WE ARE PERIOD OUTSIDERS LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE

[@GuardianoftheGoldenStool]

I REALLY enjoyed this discussion,......am pro-natural 100 per cent. I can not helped but be wholly opposed to hair straightening or weaves for African-Americans due to the fact of what this expression is attached to in respect to our history,....and what it perpetuates. African-Americans as a people deal with numerous layers of self hate and our hair expression is entangled within it. For those African-Americans who don't understand the depths associated with what I expressed,...signify the intellectual poverty that exist in our community, and are exactly why we inherit racial distaste from other communities or don't ever merit respect as a first class people,....opposed to being seen as secondary conformists. For those shallow counterparts, who quickly cop out, saying relaxed hair is easier to manage,...NOT SO,....it's because we've neglected our true selves for so long there is not enough of a sophisticated science built up around kinky hair.

[@RescueRangersOPES]

I agreed with every thing you've expressed, except for the "kinky hair"statement. We DO NOT have "kinky hair". We have curly...albeit tight...but curly hair. It will puff up and draw up if it lacks moisturizing.

[@sheilaorangd1967]

But that doesn't mean that you can't support the natural hair community and give your ideas and how you keep your hair natural and what you do to keep it healthy so we all need to join in and give our ideas about how to keep out here flourishing and keep the length of that's what you want but having natural hair such a beautiful thing and I wish that black women would see it and stop talkin so negative about it it's a beautiful thing

[@coravallier3513]

Well said.

[@antaresscorpicus692]

Black women have beautiful hair,...everyone knows this;

[@ondreatorrence4322]

I enjoyed this talk !!✊✊

[@btac3072]

Now I am pissed I cut my hair today..I should have stood firm for it!

[@battlegroundone]

Grow it back and be proud, it's the natural beautiful of you!

[@ejakaegypt]

The thing is jealousy If it wasn't, there wouldn't be any rules against it

[@ejakaegypt]

apple rizi hmm well first thing you should do before addressing me is speak proper English.

[@ejakaegypt]

apple rizi and what are you? A cauctoid with that animal hair that has lice and bugs? My hair isn't capable of having bugs in it. I feel sorry for you

[@nanaaraj6493]

Lucifer Laveaux I'm jealous of others with Asian hair and Caucasian hair because they're hair is easy to maintain, similar texture, nice and long. Where my black hair is ugly because it's kinky and Afro.

[@cadmarbusinesssuite9155]

Not necessarily. The better answer is fear.

[@melanatedwoman3760]

Nana Araj ...bitch u are a troll.

[@hasanx4637]

When black people start loving and respecting our own hair then others will. That means no chemical straighteners, no weaves, wigs of others, etc... As long as whites see us wanting to be like them- they will require uniformity.

[@curiouslyt2123]

Gee, I wonder why my hair is a distraction! Because we're constantly told to change it so when we wear it natural their distracted!!! Stop telling me to change it, get used to seeing me like this and it will no longer be such a distraction. The more we wear our hair natural the more used to it they should get and stop calling it a distraction. But seems like they wanna fight us in it and make it harder by telling us well u can b natural just forget about these specific styles. So basically go back to weaves n wigs or damaging perms and neglect and allow our natural hair to fall out using these things then they won't have to worry about us going natural if by the time we get tired of it we have no hair left and would be forced to wear these things. Oh, good 1.

[@brookgn8565]

Similar to a "black" co worker that asked if I ever put a blowout on my hair because and I said Hellllllll no, my hair is healthy and thick and curly. Btw, she didn't have edges and a had a jacked up weave 😂😂

[@obinnaomego1971]

We need to promote African based hair styles around Africa and black people around the world.

[@MATTIEDORA]

I was told I've got nice braids : / my hair is LOCD! I politely explained that they aren't braids but instead dreadlocks!

[@unbotheredbklyn2789]

Nothing dreadful about your locs.🥰🥰

[@locojazz5770]

Hair goal! I just started mines! I cannot wait for the journey ☺️

[@tangogrrl]

That's wonderful! So glad you are doing that. Most people I've met have been like, "oh, what's the difference?" It's a great teaching moment.

[@ljsc6837]

There is contempt for Black people. We are talking about our hair as if is from some unnatural source, or some contamination is associated with the hair that naturally grow from our scalps. I am 65 this is y second time around. My daughter is natural and if I have anything to say my grandchildren will never know what a perm , or weave are. Keep it up natural is just that, natural. Start black African shampooing commercials Yeah, we can look sensual and enjoy the experience of cleaning are coily . It's normal, no one can fix a problem that never should have been a problem. We must embrace self love. My grandfather was 8 years old when "emancipation" came. My mother always told us this saying he had. He would tell his girls the hair on your hair is good hair. The hair in the sink, brush, or on the floor bad hair.

[@andreasvanderwal5794]

I LOVE BLACK HAIR

[@afavoreddaughter6270]

We need to have more women to go natural-especially those in the public eye -They Got to be proud to look at your hair-because they are looking at God’s hair 👸🏿

[@melanatedwoman3760]

We are using our "hair power" to fight their euro standard of beauty.

[@Gary109]

You heard her say 'corny?' off camera at he end. She was not happy with that poster online

[@starr6465]

Ms. Davis please let us hear the experiences and opinions of the other woman on the panel. Every video your on you monopolize the segment and even cut people off.

[@farisasmith7109]

Her hair is distractingly beautiful!The little girl and the panelist with the locs.

[@dottiemathews6853]

yes, we have a choice in how we as black women do our hair. I've been going natural for almost two years now and after what I saw on how chemicals affect the scalp by constant relaxing hair, I will NEVER MESS WITH THAT AGAIN! YOU ARE VIRTUALLY COOKING YOUR HAIR OUT! IT'S AWFUL!!

[@ignatiuswayiti2862]

This is what awareness looks like

[@MzBreBeauty]

Enjoyed the video

[@GoogleUser-wy2vv]

some would outlaw our skin...

[@NYSCNYC]

Google User 😹. You know if they could, they would.

[@saranagh7097]

It is not the Hair that matters bit the HEART.

[@leetrader9576]

This comes from nothing more than shear insecurity and ignorance.... has nothing to do with color. I grew up in an affluent WHITE town where IF you were different you were immediatly made fun of. White people don't like change.... my hair is blonde, my eyes are blue, my skin is white.... if it weren't for the fact that my hair was thick, with very tight curls with some kink you could never tell my ancestry.... my hair as a child was platinum long and big and frizzy... was made fun of EVERY day of my life.... taught me to be strong, taught me how to fight maybe too much, but it's the society we live. Now in my late 40's, thank God for curly girl, if it wasn't for them and this natural hair movement I would have spent the rest of my life trying to fight my hair, instead of embracing what was naturally God given and beautiful. Now I'm giving it what it needs to do me, ..... this is a subject that needs MORE and MORE attention... maybe thru our hair we can undo stupidity..... back to my original point, white people don't get it....

[@FBAStacey]

Lisa Grillo Murray It took a Black women's movement to show a white woman how to love herself😂😂😂😂 What woulld white people do without us.🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@MultiEightiesgirl]

I have locs in my hair and I feel as though that the reason for these "policy rules" about our hair is just another way for the dominant group to dismiss what they don't understand. Since they have this false sense of superiority and false sense of knowing everything in society, it seems as though once they are confronted with something they don't understand it causes a cognitive dissonance. Therefore, instead of the dominant group having an intellectual conversation to understand the politics and history behind our hair, they would rather put in "rules" as a way of being dismissive.

[@SuperKwame1]

Great show! I’m a new subscriber!🤚

[@skrlreels2060]

When i was in military basic training in 2000. All of the black girls in my flight who had braids and or braid extensions in their hair had to take them out.... it was so crazy bc we could have easily pulled the braids back into a bun to meet regs but after that we had to walk around looking a hot mess not being able to adequately take care of our hair and style our hair the way we could in order to protect it during training. They called our hairstyles “fads”.

[@rodwilliams7457]

This guy look like Floyd mayweather

[@mstiffend6470]

The rules are only for us because the rules are are easily broken when it comes to them because they made and we can not walk outside of their law that was created for us . It is a part of the system that keeps us in place.

[@sheilaorangd1967]

Like I said before that we make too much out of our here I will hair grow naturally from my scalp and it should not be such a problem and black women telling they black children who have maybe the type of here that we have it should not be a problem and if it is a problem then you haven't take care of taking care of such as going to a salon to help you with your hair and maybe the children's head they have all types of products now I wouldn't use them myself because it's a lot of chemicals that is not explained so I would prefer to I told you before I make my own product Carol daughter doesn't so why can't I do it I don't have to buy other people's name I can do it myself I was born with the intelligence as I was rid up now I'm more knowledgeable about it so I do so

[@NYSCNYC]

P.S. I was told back in the day, my AFRO was distracting and I should cut it to get a corporate job.

[@sheilaorangd1967]

Because our hair was natural or we're having natural hair that's something that we can have but they're making it so that it's making us feel self-conscious and have second thoughts about having our hear the way we have it natural because it's not appropriate for them the others but we have to stop putting so much money into these products and hair from overseas and making other cultures rich on our downfall we don't need to buy weaves which is hair from another woman's body or head we don't need it it's not an a need Ed you can grow your own hair

[@pongtrometer]

‘ Let’s continue to Expand our celebration ‘...of our Hairstory

[@kimberlydill8059]

I love my hair. I do this " give them the middle finger" when someone doesn't like my hair.

[@momonie4]

YESSSSSSSS OMG so do I. I love it when they STARE in absolute confusion & amazement 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣

[@wtsx653]

there's nothing wrong with black women's hair, titles like that suggest that there is something wrong with hair that grows out of someones head...when you say there's a problem then there becomes a problem...it's like imposing your thoughts and ideas on an entire group of people. hair is just hair.

[@glcoola2349]

at 23.33 min Another example for the host trying to make a valid point and for the blonde woman not being able to follow his train of thought because she just answers any and all questions with some "black empowerment standardised bullish". And what with the blonde lady calling white girls "Chelsea or Buffy"?! That is freakin racist and I had the notion that she has issues with white people racially discriminiating against black hair. Blonde woman, get your language and your arguments straight or else shut your mouth cause your platitudes are doing black people a disservice!

[@margaretgalaviz646]

I can understand to a degree with the stigma of black people wearing they're hair natural and society not accepting it. I'm Hispanic and I have curly hair, as child I used relaxers. I was made fun of by some. I wanted to look like everyone else. I wish I was taught to love my hair. I'm 56 and I am no longer relaxing my hair. I'm saddened to see the story of the little girl going to school with her natural hair and told her she broke the rules. Stupid! Of course everyone should wear their hair they way they want but it's ridiculous to make rules for a particular group.

[@zahrasuleiman924]

black people we need to buy an independent pan african schools so it can be catered for the oldest human beings the Africans

[@NYSCNYC]

Met this wonderful Afro Latina who mentioned the curl event. So looking forward to it. I will be there in 2018.

[@sploggon]

ZELDA in the white dress could use ammonia free hair dye

[@ACB2K]

They know, they well know. White people know..

[@afavoreddaughter6270]

Wow they are banning natural hair-that must be unjust law-

[@sheilaorangd1967]

I like natural hair I can wash it whenever I want to I don't have to worry about going to beauty salon to have it chemically straighten under the blow dryer or the dryer I don't have to do all that because I know how to do it myself I don't have to buy products on the Shelf except for oils and other things that I need to enhance the beauty of my hair I make my own products that helps me to enhance the beauty of my hair how we can do better we don't need to have this conversation for the next 25-30 years we need to enhance each other and let each other have what they need to have when it comes to they natural hair or whatever way they decide to do they hair as long as it's kept clean and manageable

[@mialadyy7175]

This must be a daily talking point.

[@harambeegardens8705]

Mia Ladyy For us, it's certainly 'a daily LIVING point'.

[@user-nl4by5gp6r]

The light skin lady needs to quite she takes over the show not letting the other people speak smt .

[@Eveningbreeze721]

Many black women straighten their hair because they like it or feel it is easier for them. Not because of fear of what others think.

[@londonjohnson8562]

The blonde woman reminds me of Rachel dolezal lol

[@Onlytherawtruth]

I find it so ridiculous that you have to get permission to wear your hair naturally the way it grows from your scalp. I dont like the way some white women wear their hair, however, who am I to tell someone to change their hair.

[@hasanx4637]

I miss that part.

[@kevinmoore5065]

, 2 minutes 15 seconds into the video there is a mixed woman claiming to be black but she is not she has more white looking like Skeletor talking about how blacks are wearing their hair natural now excuse me anyone have any pictures of any naturally long blonde haired black ladies please share them

[@paulettemartin584]

www.livescience.com/20078-gene-mutation-blond-hair.html

[@VerdeLane]

Kevin Moore She's been a public figure for decades! Both of her parents are black! Yes she colors get hair but so what??? There wasn't a single biracial person on that panel. Where are you from? Stfu!

[@realbeautyness25]

Kevin Moore my aunt is 100% black but her grandparents were slave masters children with field slave women her hair is naturally blonde and I have an aunt who has naturally red hair

[@harambeegardens8705]

Paulette Martin Excellent.

[@harambeegardens8705]

Vageta Wolf LOL! True. Another one bites the dust! If someone doesn't know their facts, they need to keep quiet.

[@BuildingYourInheritance]

Respect the guidelines period and to encourage this student to disobey is counterproductive and wrong! She can put it in a ponytail with a nice model slick back style [which is very beautiful] during school and take it down when school is over! Pick your own battles people 👍🏾

[@harambeegardens8705]

Living Righteousness God’s Way in Christ So should we have accepted the guidelines of being born to be slaves?

[@hornshalonte]

You sound amazingly foolish living Righteous. Jam a saved and sanitizer woman and your statement wasn't even righteous. Just a mere opinion with a lack of understanding.

[@zanod2514]

As far as rules are concerned, there are rules of hair every where. bla c k or white

[@stevereed8786]

WTF?

[@makeithappenent11]

this is stupid BULL !

[@jamiaellis3941]

I feel like the young girl with the big hair could have avoided all of that by getting her hair styled in a different way. Ex: Two big cornrows would have been less of a "distraction" and she has a black mom. There is no excuse for her to let her daughter walk around with her hair Undone all the time.

[@aliliv9384]

I notice your a black women are you for real why should she it's her hair why everybody gets to dictates to us how we should wear it, are you fucking kidding !!!!!!!!!!

[@jamiaellis3941]

I have natural hair and if I just wear it out like that all the time it will knot and tangle. geez back off

[@GoogleUser-wy2vv]

+Jamia Ellis wow, you really believe that! So when a white girl throws hair her back on another child's desk should she be asked to cut her hair?

[@mercykariukiaa6881]

yea.definitely

[@jamiaellis3941]

I do my own hair. Its called youtube natural styles

[@curiouscreature99]

Nappy hair looks a bit crappy. We can be honest, no? If that weren't true, black women wouldn't bye weave at the rates they do. It's not cause white people shame them to; it's just that it looks better than their natural hair. It sucks, but it's true. Shouldn't make it a race issue. As a non black male, I wish I had the natural physical ability (naturally as in not altered or diminished by activity/lack of activity) that black males do as well as the tone of voice they do, generally speaking. But the hair? Nah, I'm straight.

[@VerdeLane]

curiouscreature99 You're so stupid that it's entertaining.

[@rodwilliams7457]

Black people They want your body but they hate u. Envious and jealousy is real! Black natural hair rocks!

[@eliza9011]

Black hair is the strongest and repelles bugs unlike other hair types

[@sabinegolding2950]

That’s crazy to make those statements without acknowledging racism towards black hair. In the United States black men and women are criminalized because of their hair.

[@sabinegolding2950]

Nappy black hair is beautiful .