Race Conversations for Comforting Whites and Employing Head Negroes – Represent Our Resistance

Compton-Rock restored order! Williams asked her to talk about motherhood, raising two children – while being Black. Compton-Rock talked about her young daughter who has an Arab and white friend. The daughter came home one day and asked why she didn’t have long hair. The daughter also spoke of her hair as being “puffy.” Now, Compton-Rock’s own hair is definitely done at a fine salon. It is processed with big circles. The hair can shake when she moves her head and a couple of times she had to push her hair back. The daughter spoke of “puffy” hair. Here’s a Black woman who is not proud to wear her hair natural, “puffy.” I suppose she would argue that in a “post-race era” she is “free” to choose. But she chooses whiteness and, on camera, in the national media, offers this story about her daughter feeling inferior, inadequate because her hair was not as long as that of her friends. What does a mother with a salon “beauty” hairstyle say to a little Black girl about the texture and length of her hair? What does this mother teacher her daughter? This is not academic. This is everyday. The mother is the teacher and she is the leader. Here’s the pathology of whiteness working in the everyday of our lives to destroy our families and communities.