
Why do we as Black women spend so much time emphasizing on our hair? It
is as if there hair is there strength. I emphasize on the Black community
because other ethnicities do not seem to have as much of an obsession
with hair as we do. My Mother has been a little obsessive over her hair as well from time to time. This phenomena has been internalized in
us all in one way or another. The generalization is that if black women don’t
spend half there lives in the beauty salon then something is wrong with them. Women aren’t considered attractive any longer if they do not keep a well
tailored perm in their hair and they must, must keep it done. So when
someone like Solange, who the Black community at least considers mildly
attractive cuts her hair then there is time for an uproar. Imagine if
Beyonce cut all her hair low like that, it would be absolute
pandemonium.
Wow, if this really is Solange’s new haircut pic below and not some Photoshopped deal like Demi Moore’s recent mohawk fake pics, then I’m saying: Go for it, Solange!
I say this as I gladly sit here with tree braids cornrowed so
tightly in my head that I’ve taken Tylenol PM two nights in a row after
getting them put in. Don’t know if I’d have the cahonas to ever go a
low a Solange’s new haircut, all low and teeny weeny fro like, but you gotta applaud the girl for making such a drastic change in the land of weaves.
Which reminds me, Solange’s new haircut has me
thinking of the clip I saw of Chris Rock’s new “Good Hair” movie coming
out this October 2009, with all these black stars talking about their
weaves. Stay tuned, but peep the pic of Solange:
