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Oct 27, 2009

This passage in the article “Michelle Obama’s Body Woman” caught my attention: During the grueling campaign year Jarvis spent with Mrs. Obama, she created a spreadsheet that had most likely never been created during a campaign before—a list of black hair salons from Las Vegas to Chicago. “Hairdressers in every state!” she laughs now. “It was a struggle.” In the trailer for Chris Rock’s documentary “Good Hair,” a man with the largest afro I’ve ever seen says, “If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy.” Moments later, Michelle Obama and Oprah’s chemically-treated, silky, and smooth coiffures are cited as examples of the African-American ideal. Hairdressers in every state, huh? (Link to story via apsies & newsweek.)

This passage in the article “Michelle Obama’s Body Woman” caught my attention:

During the grueling campaign year Jarvis spent with Mrs. Obama, she created a spreadsheet that had most likely never been created during a campaign before—a list of black hair salons from Las Vegas to Chicago. “Hairdressers in every state!” she laughs now. “It was a struggle.”

In the trailer for Chris Rock’s documentary “Good Hair,” a man with the largest afro I’ve ever seen says, “If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy.”

Moments later, Michelle Obama and Oprah’s chemically-treated, silky, and smooth coiffures are cited as examples of the African-American ideal.

Hairdressers in every state, huh?

(Link to story via apsies & newsweek.)

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