Will America ever be ready for a First Lady with natural hair?

You think so?  Do you think it's an accident that, when the cartoon satirist decided to portray Michelle Obama as an angry Black militant, he gave her an afro?  The 'fro still makes a statement to a large part of the American population.  What do you think that statement is?

Interesting article can be found here:

http://www.naturallycurly.com/super-kinky/michelle-obama-and-the-politics-of-hair

As someone who rocks the natural all day, every day, I am forced to think about the political statements of hair.

Comments

[mixieme]

Lovely site! Keep up the good work!

I have only just found this reference to the Michelle O/New Yorker cartoon which I found very disturbing on so many levels. And their cry of 'We're just mocking the point of View of the Republicans' doesn't wash with me. It's just a sneakier, more pervasive form of racism.

And as for the 'fro they depicted her with - it makes a statement. Are we natural haired gals still seen as radical and subversive, and not like 'well behaved', 'conformist' (their attitude, not mine), straightened sisters?

I guess so. How sad. How backward. :-(

[Toya]

Thanks for your comment! I agree with you - those of us who rock our natural curly/kinky locks are still looked at askance, as if we are up to no good because we dare to love ourselves as we were made! I have to say, with great disappointment, that I *don't* think America has gotten to a point where we are ready to have a First Lady with natural hair. Large strides have been made that we have a Black man on the ticket, however, there are parameters in which he (and by extension, his wife and children) will have to stay in order to be palatable to a large portion of the American public.

I'm glad that you found my site and I hope you continue to visit!