Whats wrong with appy hair?
I take exception with [the hair stylist’s] observation that our hair isn’t “nappy.” Of course it is, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Why would we want to “get the curls out” as she suggests? That’s just another way of advocating straightening our hair. It’s bad enough that Don Imus used the word nappy as a pejorative, but what’s even worse is that black people take the use of the word nappy as an insult — no matter who says it. I think that most people are madder about that than the word “ho” … It reminds me of how it was growing up when being called “dark” or “black” was an insult. And if you wanted to really insult someone, you called them dark with nappy hair. Having “good hair” was something to be envied. Thank God that phrase is falling out of favor. It’s very sick, and I pray for the day when we can learn to accept and love ourselves as we are. I personally am proud to be nappy. I realized several years ago that there was something hugely wrong with wearing weaves, wigs an
