CNN Black In America – Black Hair Segment

CNN touches upon a stereotypes as well as what black women go by with their hair.

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25 Responses to “CNN Black In America – Black Hair Segment”

  • naturalsis says:

    :D Well I can understand your objections to the commercials but our hair is an important part of our history, culture and perceptions of ourselves and beauty.

  • LibertarianGal2009 says:

    National Cable Television and of all places CNN is not the place to talk about black issues, with commercials for Macaroni and Cheese and Fried Chicken and cheesy ads with African American lead actors playing between segments. Come on now. You don’t find this program just a little goofy and superficial?

  • naturalsis says:

    I’m sorry I thought African Americans lived in this country just like everyone else and have issues affecting them like everyone else.

  • LibertarianGal2009 says:

    This type of “black in america” shit has no place on CNN. This is embarrassing.

  • mamie4784 says:

    i was thinking the same thing they’re bragging about how their hair makes them stand out but their hair is relaxed to look pretty much the same as evryone elses so i can’t see what would have made her hair so intrigueing that the whites would want to touch it unless it was natural, braids,or dreads or something… but theirs nothing that stands out about a black woman with a perm unless her real hair is longer than shoulder length or something cause that standsout

  • prettysince1989 says:

    focusin2002, when we perm our hair, its still not nearly as silky and soft as theirs, so u r WRONG, its NOT the same! ugh ignorance!

  • Blasto2x says:

    She invented/patented the hot comb, which is a tool to what? STRAIGHTEN HAIR. It isn’t a myth, she helped get black women in the state we are today.

  • aqua2291 says:

    i love this video! thank you so much for putting it up. this is going straight to my favourites!

  • aqua2291 says:

    its so true!!!

  • loonylvr3 says:

    You’re right, nappy hair isn’t good hair, it’s GREAT hair. And I’m so grateful and thankful everyday for the way the lord made me.

    God made no mistakes when he gave me (and my people) nappy hair.

    I hope you love your god given hair as much as I do.

    Peace.

  • tmacbaum20 says:

    nappy hair is not good hair.. i know u dont have nappy hair cuz u dont like it … and black girls do get too into their hair like chill

  • focusin2002 says:

    Exactly! I’m not bashing black women with relaxed hair at all, but when the girl was saying all the white girls wanted to touch her hair, I was thinking your hair is now like theirs and they just want to see if it feels the same as their. Your hair is not different when you use chemicals to make it straight like theirs!

  • aleekatt21 says:

    This is the truth

  • ghazalhora says:

    what she says at the begining is sooooo true

    about black womens hair bieng like weight to white women haha

    that was funny

  • beautifulleo says:

    When I returned to my natural hair about 19 months ago, I felt a tremendous relief. I will never perm again. I love my natural hair and cannot imagine it ever being different again. My sister and cousin also have natural hair. Natural hair is indeed a beautiful thing.

  • lovie2000 says:

    I don’t believe it was a myth…….llahmen

  • llahmen says:

    Myth #1 Miss CJ Walker did not create products to straighten hair. She made products to reduce breakage, dryness, balding and to make African hair easier to manage. Corperate America made the first hair relaxer called kink-killa. People do your research.

  • loonylvr3 says:

    Nappy hair is so beautiful, this “good” hair mentality MUST END!

  • BrickhouseChronicles says:

    I didn’t watch the segment (working nights) but did CNN Black in America even address natural hair?

  • BrickhouseChronicles says:

    THANK YOU!!! Less is more and goes a long way in keeping hair healthy. I’ve been natural for 17 years and have worn locs, twa, extensions, and yes, everything you said is exactly right!! I am starting my locs again after the damage of hair color, petroleum, and product buildup that ruined my 4 year old locs, it’s 100% of all natural products and shampoo from now on. I tried Taliah Wahjid for the 1st time and L O V E it!

  • spanishliljon says:

    The key to healthy natural black hair is to use natural products. Stop blow drying (the dry heat breaks your hair), stop using crappy products full of petroleum and chemicals (use Oils, olive, almond, rosemary, cedarwood) and stop believing that Motions etc have different ingredients from Head and Shoulders etc because they don’t. Royal Roots and Taliah Wahjid have some great products that don’t strip your hair of its moisture and protein. GREASE is not the answer.

  • spanishliljon says:

    I feel what you’re both (theabomation and dnice5555…) saying. I cut off my relaxed hair three months ago and it felt like a huge weight was left on the floor. Never again would I put those chemicals that I wouldn’t dare put on my skin in my hair. I respect my hair and treat it so much better now and have learned to take care of it as I always should have. My sister and mother went back to natural hair before me and I’m proud of how we wear it.

  • jaysua says:

    i hate when blacks call str8 hair good hair and kinky hair bad hair lol.thats another example of the slave mentality that permeates us as a whole. we hate ourselves and afrocentric beauty

  • ayamejoy says:

    Interesting..

  • 633390 says:

    i agree i love a women who wears her natural hair

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