Former “The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air” star, Tatyana Ali, talks about growing up with a different textured hair than others. In the African American community the texture of her hair was labeled as ‘good hair’. Ali says that it was difficult for her because she felt isolated from everyone even people from her family just because of her hair.
“When Chris Rock did Good Hair, I was like ‘Oh my God, he should’ve interviewed me!’ because I feel like there’s one side of the story, which he told very, very well, but then there’s another side of the story, which is…you have a group of cousins playing together and you separate the children that way, you’re doing as much damage to that child that you’re calling out for having good hair…You’re creating this separation that isn’t true.”
“[Just that term “good hair”] is crazy,” she added. “Caribbean people do it even worse. They’ll say crazy things like, ‘Oh yeah, she’s so dark but she has good hair,’” Said Ali.
SOURCE: http://www.essence.com/2014/10/20/tatyana-ali-felt-good-hair
