Chris Rock premiered his documentary “Good Hair” at 2009’s Sundance Film festival.  Here’s a synopsis of what to expect:

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! Director Jeff Stilson’sexposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, NiaSymoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter’s question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesn’t always benefit the black community and little Lola’s question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside. camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.

This is really interesting. The official trailer just recently came out and I’m more than siked to go see it.  I’m intrigued how this discussion came about. This is an issue that many young girls struggle with. Whether you are the black girl with the thick textured hair versus the black girl with the silky smooth hair, or the white girl with long straight hair or the one with curly locks.

Does any one really have “good hair”?

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