Its funny how we can talk about her hair and waiting to cut it. But we will cut designs and words in the sides of our 2 year old boys head. I think the new style of shaving one side is worse than the whole head. Leave the girl alone!

She looks beautiful.  It’s good to let you child make decisions about things that are not going to cause them any harm. It boosts self-esteem.

There is nothing “cute” about Willow.

Thank God this beautiful young lady, Willow Smith, is liberated enough to love her own hair and be comfortable enough, and love herself enough, not to be slave to hair weaves and “perms” and the prescribed version of beauty.  She’s free.  As the Funkadelics said many, many years ago and I
adopted it as my motto for life:  “Free you mind, and your #$$ will follow.” 

This young lady is going to do some phenomenal things in life.  She’s one of the few of the African-American race who was born totallly free from day one.  Money will never be a problem in life for her [unless she, heaven forbid, strays along the way; and she obviously loves being her creative, natural self.  I am a babyboomer and started wearing my hair in a nearly bald Afro at 13 years old, when my Mother gave me $10 around the time I turned 13 and said that I could start doing my own hair now, and to launch the step to becoming a high school student that I could jumpstart this phase of my life by getting my hair done. 

Well, I had witnessed the astronishing beauty, poise and soft womanhood of the late, great Miriam Makeba on the Ed Sullivan Show and thought that she was the most beautiful, soft spoken and regal woman I had ever seen.  So I took that $10 and went to the barber shop and had all of my nearly shoulder length hair cut off and returned home only to cause my parents a near coronary.  This was before even the event of the perm, let alone hair weaves. 

I have been wearing my hair in this short Afro style ever since [with rare, very short term exception].  It is very liberating to wear your own hair, and to love it, and to be comfortable in it as it is the crowning glory that God gave you.  I pray that one day black women will start to love themselves enough to love their hair, and to stop spending millions on yak hair that you purchase from a group of people who have practically dessimated a multi-billion dollar industry – black health and beauty aid products — that we used to own.  It started with Madame C. J Walker, remember.

And to be spending those billions with a people who would not spend one red cent with you [the black community] if their lives depended on it, is truly said.  Yes, they think of us as the fools that we are by giving them billions for false hair and grease and paying them millions to design a memorial to our heros and yet they laugh at us for being the self-loathing of our hair and ourselves by being the modern day slaves that too many of us are. 

I pray that Willow’s celebrity will lead other young black women to love themselves and their hair more; and to be the confident, beautiful and liberated females that she obviously s.  You go girl!

i think its great….its just hair and it proves that her self esteem is through the roof im happy for her.