Share if you have ‘bad hair’
Giuliana Rancic said she felt that a beautiful young girl smelt like ‘weed’ because she wears her hair in dreadlocks.
More needs to said about the debacle involving Dancing With the Stars and Disney star Zendaya and the racial slur hurled at her by E! correspondent and Fashion Police co-host, Giuliana Rancic.
“I feel like she smells like patchouli oil and weed,” Rancic said about Zendaya’s dreadlocks on Monday night’s Oscar edition of Fashion Police.
But Zendaya hit back with something that resonates with me. She called Rancic’s comment ‘a large stereotype’ and ‘outrageously offensive’. She went on to say: “My wearing my hair in ‘locs’ on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of colour that our hair is good enough.”
Where I come from people talk about ‘nice hair’ and ‘bad hair’. Now I fall into the category of what the ignorant people from my community call ‘bad hair’. Problem is, I have fallen for their criticism of my perfect hair by succumbing to trying to make my ‘bad hair’, ‘nice hair’. And I know that no amount of hair straighteners are going to get me there, but I still straighten – not as religiously as others, but I do, and I hate myself for it. I’ve managed to raise a son who is embracing his ‘bad hair’: he is rocking an AFRO and boy am I proud! My daughter, on the other hand, vacillates between embracing her ‘bad hair’ and wanting to conform to what her community describes as ‘nice hair’.
