Documentary: “Good Hair”

It’s nice to wake up in the morning singing, “Oh, what a beautiful morning’”. I did this morning until I saw clips -short ones- from a documentary made by comedian Chris Rock on CNN.
Straight away and no sooner than you could say “Jack Rabbit” my mind went into safe mode and I morphed into a screen writer pondering about my movie I was going to call “Good Hair”.

1. First and foremost, I know my over riding objective would be portraying the Black woman as a hero. That would be my mantra with no room for air.

2. I would pray, constantly reminding myself I am way over my head but if I wanted to and just had to make a movie about Black women and their hair, I would not be ego-trippin’ knowing full well the territory I would be going into. I ain’t crazy! At least my Mama never told me I was. (Smile)

3. I would begin to build by capturing her Black peers making fun of her natural hair and her feminine desires to look good and be pleasant and comfortable in her varied environments.

4. I would continue building showing how the hair of the Black female did not stop her from being raped by white men in this country i.e., Strum Thurmond, father of Essie Mae Washington; Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings and how the practice continues on a large scale in some parts of Africa without the so called “Good hair”.

5. I would expose the rumor a lot of Black churches in the South were burned to the ground due to the fact the white arsonist wanted to destroy his birth records.

6. I would self impose discipline there is a difference between a documentary and satire for the Black masses.

7. I would exploit conversations with Black women telling me different advantages THEY feel they have by doing different things to their hair and having different hair styles. I would exploit their answers as to satisfying their male friends, getting a job, peer-pressure and whatever.

8. I would not go into hair of the Black male. That to me is another can of worms. I would have all I could do dealing with Black female hair with tongue-in-cheek.

9. I would try to end my documentary with “Parade of the Black Hair” probably eliciting waves of thundering applauds from the audience with women and little girls rushing the stage falling all over me kissing me and adoring me and…..(Sigh)

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. An analogy of me making a documentary about Good Hair: “I don’t know nuffin 'bout birthing no baby, Miss Scarlet!”

“Good Hair” articles and comments
http://www.bvhairtalk.com/2009/10/13/good-hair-open-thread/

Chris Rock interview;
http://www.radioplanet.tv/chris-rock-interview-charlamagne/