Good Hair: Perceptions of Racism (Award winning short film)
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A Black teen in Texas was recently suspended from school for having dreadlocks. His parents sued and the judge sided with the school, even though there is a law in the state that bans discrimination based on hair. I can see this going to the Supreme Court.
Sure the justices are looking forward to the "Hair Case." Trial of the Century that will be.
I have never heard such a stupid thing as hair discrimination. It's gotta be made up, I've never encountered or heard of anything like that. Yes, certain schools and businesses have the right to have dress codes, which includes hair. NO MATTER WHAT the race of the person is. If a law firm bans dreadlocks or mohawks for lawyers who appear in court, then they're banned for EVERYONE, not just blacks. Seriously racism must be completely over in this country if hair discrimination is the only thing left to complain about, things must otherwise be utopian!
Was anyone paying attention to what Boss was saying to her. Another moral of the story is there. Why fight against who you are? There are times we need to embrace who we are and say I deserve this of who I am.
But in the real world, people have to follow dress codes, which includes hair style among other things, as appropriate to the career or role they are in. Your right to "be yourself" stops at the office door. The girl was sent home for having a hair style that was *inappropriate for the school.* End of! Why is that so hard to understand?
i pray that the makers of this short film read these comments. i want to say that this is by far one of the best short films i have ever seen and i hits home ( Caribbean) in so many ways. i am going to show this to my daughters and also my son who is growing his hair, even though i had to write a letter, meet with the principal and beg for permission for his hair to grow. Met with my daughter's teacher and argued why does she have to taim her curly hair nor cut it as short as she wants to. we were taught to hate our blackness, taught that our hair is bad, skin too dark is bad, lips to bog is bad, nose too wide is bad and the list goes on even how we speak. this film is a very empowering one and should be made as a mandatory viewing in the schools and work places. Not to victimize anyone but to educate and teach self love from head to toe. teach acceptance, and apreacheation .
We have read your comments and really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, we hoped the film would both resonate and help to educate. Thanks for your kind words.
This really does show the struggle of a black woman and how we get treated,I hope it shows non-black people a new point of view 😊
Could you elaborate?
The one group of people that hate black people's hair the most is black people.
This really does show the struggle of a black woman and how we get treated. I hope it shows non-black people a new point of view.
@garrynewman6211 you have to walk in our shoes to understand.
I'm non-black and I understand the way you all feel. I've seen a lot of discrimination against my black friends for years.
It starts in the schools and continues onto the work place. I have 3 sisters and have seen throughout the years how all the straighting and wigs have damaged their hair.
This deserves WAAAAY more views !!
I loved this.. I think everyone should be able to wear their hair however they like. Take care all. Daniel
That was fantastic! It really captured the experience of high-achieving Black women and girls and the microaggressions we face. Plus it shows that we can have allies who know racism and discrimination is wrong. Excellent film!
If we've gotten to the point where we're complaining about "micro" aggression and perceived, as opposed to actual offenses, we must have come pretty damn far as a society. We're so non-racist and tolerant that the professional victims and race-baiters are losing things to complain about. Since actual racism is apparently gone, we just start making up new forms of it, or else the "XYZ Studies" departments are out of business. Thus, videos like this.
@@tomservo75 Go away.
@@tomservo75 Interesting how ppl who loathe topics like these always seem to find them online *smirks*
Oh how this could easily be a full film and I would watch it all!! thank you for this thought-provoking piece.
Who cares why you were promoted what matters is you were promoted. ❤
This film is so beautifully made
I am cryinggg. Thank you for this
Me too! Sent this to my girls to watch.
What a great movie. I will definitely share, really appreciated ❤
"You're already brown enough", OMG, my jaw dropped 😯 Holy Christ!!! 😮
What's the problem? Is it a problem to be brown? Only if you live in a cold climate and don't consume enough vitamin d. So what's the problem?
If someone said “ You’re already white enough,” would that statement make any sense or sound stupid, ignorant, racist and/or highly offensive and inappropriate? Yeah, same thing. Some people are absolutely careless as well as clueless as to how their words affect others.
@@angelabrown-bessau4127 But I am not white. I am not an alino. But even albinos aren't white. So telling this to anyone is stupid. If you tell this to someone I will think you're an idiot, not racist 🤣. So... Are you 😉
By the way. You ARE literally brown. Like in a famous song. I cannot judge if you are brown ENOUGH, that depends on you. Is it enough for you? Only you decide
Okay it's a bit rude, but it's not the biggest deal in the world, it's just a joke. And yes, I'm Jewish and have faced much good-natured humor about it. How thin-skinned we've gotten as a society, that we have to LOOK for new things to be offended by, because the number of ACTUAL offenses is so small.
@@96_13. it's not a problem to be brown. Clearly, I'm brown, and there's no problem about it. HOWEVER, there is a problem when someone is telling you that you're enough of something. That statement also implies that there is something beyond being "brown enough", it implies that person also believes there is something as too brown. Those four words were actually very telling. If she were browner, would that then be seen as too brown by the rude lady that made that comment?? I think so.
This film is so beautiful, I love seeing the way that black hair and black women get more representation and really digs into why these things happen and how they make us feel🫶🏽🫶🏽
What in this video had ANYTHING at all to do with race? The only people making it about race were the ones complaining about it. Dress codes are the same for EVERYONE. Nothing racial about it at all. And the tanning comment that was so contrived, NO ONE speaks like that.
@@tomservo75 I can tell you're not black or have black hair. It is about race, if your white or not, hair is a culture especially curls. Being told to repress that is in fact racist. YOU MISSED THE POINT!!!!!!
@@tomservo75are you blind???
Brilliant film! it really hits home! 👏🏾
Powerful short film, recommended watching!
We all need to unlearn the things society has been telling us about our hair... If I truly love my hair the way it is your perception is yours not mine
Well done!👍🏽❤️
Thank you for this
What a fair-ry tale! I hope the future continues this way, all women can be who they are without focusing on a body part but as a whole person and individual ❤
I was a bit lucky my dad had beautiful hair and skin it wasn't just me i always had soft pretty hair a touch of oil not a lot and i was ready to go my baby hair the edges
was beautiful as i got older its
turn silver and blk with waves
nature soft hair
The only thing that I hate about my afro textured hair is I hate how different people treat me when I wear braids,love and twists. When I wear braids,locs and twists people are very mean, rude ,unhelpful and unfriendly towards me.
There is nothing I hate about my afro hair. If I treat it right it treats me right.
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Great story
SHALOM YAHWEH CALLS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE HAIR, PURE WOOL. AND NOT ONLY OUR HAIR OUR MELANATED SKIN THAT THE SUN GIVES US OUR ENERGY,RAYS WITHOUT SUNSCREEN. THE HEATHEN NATIONS ARE JEALOUS AND ENVIOUS OF US,YAHWEH CHOSEN PEOPLE. PURE BEAUTY!!!
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@@philtoner2621The dog in your profile speaks volumes about who you are in real life😂😅
Wow❤
Older folks thinking is so mentally shackled...my mother told me this same thing when I was experiencing racism and harassment at work...pick your battles smh
True. But it's what they had to do to survive and get jobs. We're lucky in some ways, that the world is changing.
Behaving in the manner of the female teacher, imo, one Must be in a state of constant paranoia.
Upsetting one's spirit to the point of Needing to control the nature of another. 😬
Pleasantly surprised, great film, production and acting. But I did note this showcases a middle/upper class white demographic as being problematic, my experience has often been with left leaning woke white folks unwilling to address there own natural biases, which creates it’s own set of problems which can be much tougher to highlight and overcome because of there left aligning politics.
opening dialogue; carribean sister negative comments about the father to the child.
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Oohhh, black natural state. That got me. Thats for real. I cant imagine it happening now a days. Its too dramatised. Kids should be allowed though if thats just the way their hair is.
I have been straightening my hair since I was 8 years old I'm in my late 20th now. I have never worn my natural hair just to avoid questions about my hair I already stand out as it is. And it's easier to deal with when straighten. Due to the heat damage my hair is very short now and experience a lot of hair fall so I started wearing clip in extensions.... My natural hair is very coarse. I actually dont like my hair cuz it's a pain in the as* especially nowadays cuz it's very damaged from all the heat.
I don't feel comfortable washing my hair and going out . I would love for a day where I can do that I actually sleep with my clip in extensions beacuse I can't be bothered wearing it again it's time consuming. I heard that causes cancer but who cares... I wish one day I can wash my hair and just do nothing else to it and leave the house with it in its "natural state"
I wash my hair once I am done I use a heat protective spray that doesn't even work. Then I start straightening my hair which takes about 20 or something recently less cuz my hair is very very damaged from years and years of straightening. (It's so damage it doesn't stay straighten for longer than 5 mins.) Then I wear my clip in extensions to give me length. Which are so expensive I have been buying extention from one place for years I feel like I kept them open honestly. (And that's the reality for alot of African/African American women alot of our hard earn money is wasted on fake hair) Anyways I don't want to get stears tbh I get enough stears as an African the last thing I want is to also get questions about my hair. Also, I have never breaded my hair I sometimes envy some of these African women who bread their hair.
Our hair is very hard to maintain which is another reason why I straighten it. Not trying to play the victim but being African is really a huge struggle in itself.
I just feel like we are the most hated race I have no idea why? Maybe if we were not so weak and our governments were not tractors we would have lived in this world with more dignity and peace 🤷
I’m sorry you feel that way about your hair. However to strengthen it, try natural remedies like shea butter, mango butter, castor oil and Chebe. Those products can heal your hair, thicken your hair, returning moisture to your hair which is the main thing our hair needs.
I will watch it later.
Best ASMR ever 15:04
Dramatic!!!
I do not like racial discrimination against hair. Black people do not have the same type of hair as white people do. Their is more kinky.
A straight peppa grain dat
scenarios that happen: never 💀
What?
Are you serious?
This happens all the damn time.
@@Philosophicalblackman source: you made it up 💀
@@Arionid my source is personal experience, asshole.
Obviously you're not black yourself otherwise you wouldn't be arguing with me about this.
A boss would never speak syraight like that even it's true.
# GH
I wonder if the mom gets married would she lose her job, just a thought?
“ it’s her hair “, look lady go tell it to God as he is the one who had the AUDACITY to put it on her scalp that way. 🤭🙃.
I think this movie missed the mark the way it was presented in this movie. If a school is fancy enought to have a uniform, there's nothing wrong with having expectations about hair (seeking a more professional look). Problem with fros is that they can vary in size. I see nothing wrong with a black girl rocking a fro, so long it's not too big and is not obstructing view of students seated behind her. But when your fro radius is of half an arm's length why would anyone support that? It's no different from Dolly Parton walking into class with her massive behive.
Brits, as other commonwealth folk, are trying to mimick muri cans, so they bring black po li tics relevant to their climate that's irrelevant in the rest of the world. They're trying to mirror same conversations that are brought forth in us. Here's a thing tho, in East Asian countries where uniforms are the standard in public schools, they have strick guidelines and if you ask a Japanese high schooler or a Korean girl at an all girl's school they tell you: makeup is banned, and hair has to be natural - no unnatural colors (blonde being commonly depicted as a rully student type in manga for a reason) and some will go as far as saying black hair only as that's the natural hair color of asians. Sometimes they even control the length. It has nothing about singling out an individual as this movie points out. I mean look at the labour force - people with bright haircolors and hairstyles like punks are not hired for office jobs lest the office job and office attire is super casual. It's just basic expectations about formal attire and has nothing to do aboutyour identity....
If I was a black girl I wouldn't be hung up on it. After all they're not asking you and demanding you to straighten and relax your curls. There's so many black girl hairstyles that are formal appropriate...
But you aren’t a Black girl. So you’d never understand. Who decided what it means to be professional? Europeans. This isn’t dramatized. This kind of thing happens all the time.
This would never happen nowadays. Maybe in 1950-60s. Cant imagine it nowadays. Open to correction with specific examples.
speak to the teenagers at your local school
It does happen in my country girls had to protest to be allowed to have their natural hair. So yeah it does happen
It actually does happen just because you don't want to pay attention doesn't mean it doesn't happen
It happens all the time.
Google it 🤪
Very few cares about your curly hair these days. Let it be as it is.
Okay, I watched about 3 minutes, that's all I can stomach. This is so contrived and over-dramatized. Hairstyle is just like any other part of a dress code. At NO point was there ANY evidence that the girl was sent home because she was black. This video wants you to just ASSUME that the comments about hair were racial. Dress codes are dress codes, they apply to everyone.
All of this stuff about blacks being discriminated against for their hair is, as we say in America, ALL HAT AND NO CATTLE!
You are in NO PLACE to be commenting on other peoples hair 😂😂😂
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Ok my whitewash opinion is black women have best bodies best smiles!
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