The Daily Grand and Sundry

When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head!

There seems to be a lawsuit against Mr. Rock about the originality of his film, GOOD HAIR;that stated, GOOD HAIR is the best film of 2009.

It has drama, social insight, comedy,pathos, music,marching bands, more economics than Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM, A LOVE STORY, sadness,defeat,exotic locations.

The documentary is about the billion, Billion, BILLION, MULTI BILLION hair business for black women(and black guys like Rev. Al Sharpton). The industry is MULTI BILLION, and its sociatal impact is enormous, up to and including inter racial relationships. Yes, one of the keys to understanding interracial relationships in modern America is the desire for GOOD HAIR by American black women.

The theme of the documentary is the contest, in Atlanta, for who is the best American hair stylist for black women. The four finalists were a female black hair dresser who looks like Wanda Sykes, a white Southern boy who looks like he could have been a member of SIEGFRIED and ROY, a devout Christian who thinks God sent her to cut Black women’s hair, and the winner, a gay, pudgy version of a pudgy RERUN.

There are two types of good hair in GOOD HAIR. The first is chemical good hair, the application of the following chemicals to the scalp, to “relax” the original hair, Sodium Hydroxide, Guanidine Hydroxide & Ammonium Thioglycolate.

“Sodium hydroxide is the strongest of the three relaxers and will provide the most dramatic results. Sodium hydroxide is a caustic type of chemical that actually softens hair fibers.”

This chemical will also eat through a soda can, as demonstrated in the film, ; and is applied to young black kids as young as two years old.

This business is controlled by large white cosmetic companies.

 But the real good hair in GOOD HAIR is human hair, real human hair, from Indian women who shave their long, black tresses as a religious devotion in the Hindu temples of India. Real Hair from real people.  This Real Hair is collected by harvesters, who then delouse it, clean it and ship it to the United States by the ton. In value, it is the black follicle equivalent of white cocaine.

Now for the first seminal economic fact; this billion dollar business, which is mainly a product sold to black Americans, is DOMINATED by South Koreans and Chinese middlemen.  The most powerful LEGAL economic engine in black neighborhoods, human hair, is controlled by South Koreans.

This Indian human hair, controlled by South Koreans, is used for human hair weaves for Afro American women.  These weaves are MUY expensive, as in VERY EXPENSIVE, the lowest quote for a human hair weave was $1,000.00.

They were being sold on lay a way plans.

So there is a multi billion industry, specifically targeting Afro Americans which is not controlled by Afro Americans; hair weaves are being sold in black neighborhoods for a thousand dollar(minimum), while schools are collapsing for lack of funding.

The chemical GOOD HAIR is mostly owned by white corporations; the real good hair is dominated by South Koreans.

Both sources of good hair, the chemical products and the hair weaves,  should be a new sources of tax revenue. They should be taxed not at  a general sales tax rate, but at a SIN TAX rate, with all the proceeds going to disadvantaged schools. We are constantly looking for new tax sources to sustain our civilization; hair weaves are sitting there waiting to be taxed.

The key is the scrupulous  dedication  of those tax revenues to the collapsing schools in black neighborhoods.

Finally, Mr. Rock offers an economic deterministic reason  for interracial dating. You go into the film thinking that the attraction of black men for white women was based on either lust, or get that trophy blonde or physical attraction, or just mutual attraction.

 Not true. The attraction of black men for white women is economic based. Black men CANNOT afford black women and their expensive hair weaves.

Black men are forced to pay thousands of dollars for their black women’s weaves,(one forlorned middle aged black working man was paying for both his wife and daughter’s hair weaves) on an ongoing basis, and then are not allowed to even touch  paid for weave, even in sex.

One poor black  guy in the film, had  not touched a black woman’s hair since 1986. They would not let him, so now he was dating white women.

For a poor black male, the alternative to this economic stress is obvious; date a white women whose hair you can touch.

So for all those white racists who support a ban on miscegenation by lynchings, beatings, or cross burnings, don’t waste your time

If you are a white racist and really want to discourage interracial dating, invent an artificial weave, with the luster of real Indian hair, which is affordable for black men, and can be touched by black men during sex, in fact can be touched by black men, period. A weave in which the black woman can wear in the swimming pool.

Miscegenation is all about the expense of the weave.

This is a great, socially thought provoking film, and won a SPECIAL JURY AWARD at SUNDANCE, 2009.  

GOOD HAIR is the Best Documentary since Werner Herzog’s film, THE GRIZZLY MAN and  the best movie period in 2009.

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TRAILER FOR THE FILM GOOD HAIR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A68UVn0nMvo