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“That is, the magazine is starting to do away with the extra cover that is placed on the magazine before it is sealed in a plastic wrapper, concealing its identity during shipment.”
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“It is one of five shows beginning on the BET network this month, as it introduces 16 shows through 2008, the biggest lineup of debuts in its 27-year history.”
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“A popular restaurant in Lima has been temporarily closed down after several complaints that people with darker skin were refused entry.”
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Michael Savage recently remarked on his radio show about the students who are on a hunger strike over the immigration debate: “[L]et them fast until they starve to death. … Go make a bomb where you came from.”
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Oh snap. “With a little girl, her hair doesn’t say as much about her personality as it does her mother’s,” Mendes says of Zahara. “And this little girl’s hair says her mother doesn’t know what to do.”
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Somehow - this doesn’t shock me. “Among Ravenel’s various “slips” are: Referring to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as the “National Association for Retarded People” at a flag rally in 2000″
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Jesus Christ people it’s just hair! It will always be just hair!
Posted 10 Jul 2007 at 8:04 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
you really don’t get it.
It says a lot about “parents” who won’t take the time to properly groom their child. Apathy and laziness are signs of contempt. She’s got time to run around the world “saving” people, she’s got time to get some moisturizer and a damn comb.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 at 9:42 am ¶
Marshall wrote:
Of course, many Ethiopians don’t have typical African-American hair. So, Angelina’s ability, or lack thereof, to handle ‘black hair’ may not even be relevant.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 at 2:14 pm ¶
Angel H. wrote:
Marshall: “Typical” African-American hair is not as typical as you might think.
Some of our hair is wavy, curvy, tightly kinked, or naturaly straight. Our hair is as various is our skin tones.
The fact that Brangelina would seemingly give up on Z’s hair just because it’s “Black people’s” hair says more about their ignorance that they’d obiviously like to reveal.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 at 3:08 pm ¶
gatamala wrote:
Ethiopians have all kinds of hair textures (like Af Ams). It doesn’t matter if Zahara’s is like…mine, Condi, whatever. MAMA Angie needs to step her game up and not have that baby look so rough about the head. Common parenting skills.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 at 3:11 pm ¶
Kellie wrote:
I think the photo that caused all the fuss turn out to just be a pic of Z with her hair in an unseen pony behind her head, not cut off like people initially reported.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 at 5:56 pm ¶
Jeremy Pierce wrote:
It’s possible that Ravenel meant that the NAACP doesn’t really help black people, and thus who think it does are stupid. That would, of course, apply to many black people, but it might not be an across-the-board claim about black people as a whole. I know nothing about the guy, and I wouldn’t be surprised if my suggestion turns out wrong on this, but I can see how someone might say that without meaning to apply it to all black people.
I should say that, even though I’m not a big fan of the NAACP for a number of reasons, I do think this sort of statement is immoral. I just don’t think it’s necessarily a statement that black people are all stupid.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 at 6:34 pm ¶
Holly wrote:
How many two years do you know with perfectly styled hair. Most kids don’t have enough length to do anything with it regardless of race.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 at 6:36 pm ¶
Leigh-Anne wrote:
I came across a mommy (or i think it was a mommy) yesterday who also didn’t know how to look after her daughter’s hair. I was so upset I wanted to cry!
My hair is nothing like my biological mother’s, despite the fact that she is mixed, and it’s also nothing at all like my stepmother’s, despite the fact that she’s white.
It’s what my gran misguidedly calls “nice” hair, and yes, it is nice because all hair is nic… But there’s a lot of it!
I think even people who go on training to learn to deal with “black hair” will have issues because we are so diverse in hair types!
A former colleague of mine is Ethiopian, and she has naturally long hair flowing past her shoulders. She doesn’t have what people would stereotypically call “black hair”…
Perhaps Brangelina’s adoption coaches are teaching them to care for hair that isn’t quite Zahara’s hair type?
Just a question…
People need to wake up to the fact that there’s no such thing as “black hair”, unless they’re referring to the actual colour of the hair strands!
Posted 11 Jul 2007 at 6:04 am ¶
Angel H. wrote:
How many two years do you know with perfectly styled hair.
I can think of 5 right off the top of my head.
Posted 11 Jul 2007 at 12:24 pm ¶
Angel H. wrote:
They look so cute in pigtails and bows! ^_^
(Sorry! Hit “Post” too quickly.)
Posted 11 Jul 2007 at 12:26 pm ¶
Stef wrote:
What is Angelina not doing to her daughter’s hair? Why is the hair unacceptable as it is now? Wouldn’t Angie have had to comb it to pull it back into a little ponytail? And don’t they use Carol’s Daughter products? So if they are using good product and combing it, then what’s being done wrong? If black hair comes in all types, then why can’t it be worn in all types of styles? Including a ponytail? Is it Jolie’s fault that the kid doesn’t have a thick mane of hair?
I’m genuinely asking here, not trying to offend. Also, I’ve only seen a handful of the thousands of photos of this kid floating around, so I could be missing something obvious to others. But I remember when they put a little kerchief on Z’s head to shield her exposed scalp from the glaring sun, and many people expressed the sentiment that a black female child was never, NEVER to have her hair covered up. What’s better, for Z’s scalp to burn? She didn’t have a lot of hair in at that point.
I don’t look forward to this scrutiny if I have kids, that’s for sure.
Posted 11 Jul 2007 at 1:41 pm ¶
bgwqlc wrote:
I don’t understand the big stink about the hair of someone who can not tie their own shoes yet. When I was little, unless I was going to school or someone special, my hair was never really ever done up. In the summer I would have just one ponytail pulled to the back of my head. I live in Louisiana where it gets pretty hot and one you have played around for hours any hairstyle your mom put your hair in was pretty much gone. By the time I was ten, I am pretty sure I lost at least a hundred dollars worth of bows.
I think it is actually kind of great because when I was younger you could not play around sometimes because your hair would get messed up. Then your mom would be mad with you. I never understood why I got in so much trouble.
She is in preschool. She can worry about everyone’s politics and opinions when she is older.
Posted 11 Jul 2007 at 2:37 pm ¶