With more white parents adopting black children, hair care for them is a needed lesson

Chicago Tribune ^ | April 10, 2011 | Bonnie Miller Rubin

[ConservativeStatement]

In the African-American community, the significance of hair cannot be underestimated, a source of either self-esteem or self-doubt. So for white parents of black children, making sure their youngsters are well-coiffed is as much a priority as good nutrition and potty training.

This reality came into focus recently at a sold-out workshop, "Caring for Afro-textured Hair and Skin," at the Cradle, an Evanston-based adoption agency.

"People are judged by the way they look," said Julien Drouet, a white father of Lily, 3, and 10-month-old Victor, whom he adopted with his partner, Brandon Walt. "I don't agree, but if we want to help our kids, we need to know how to do this."

[oh8eleven]

we don’t do ... chemical straighteners.
From the Autobiography of Malcolm X ... My First Conk:

"I took the little list of ingredients he had printed out for me, and went to a grocery store, where I got a can of Red Devil lye, two eggs, and two medium-sized white potatoes.
Then at a drugstore near the poolroom, I asked for a large jar of vaseline, a large bar of soap, a large-toothed comb, and a fine-toothed comb,
one of those rubber hoses with a metal spray-head, a rubber apron, and a pair of gloves.
"Going to lay on that first conk?" the drugstore man asked me. I proudly told him, grinning, "Right!"

Even after almost 50 years, this book is still a great read.

[Red Badger]

He grabbed his ponytail and jerked as hard as he possibly could and ripped it out of the machine’s grasp. He wore a hairnet from then on...............

[antiRepublicrat]

This is from someone named Mariska Hargitay:

Actress, Law & Order SVU, daughter of Jayne Mansfield.

[MamaB]

Nah, she wasn’t beheaded. That was just a rumor.

[murron]

The couple is homosexual. I’m on a campaign to return the word “gay” to its proper usage. My husband and I (man and woman)are a happy couple so I guess that makes us gay.

[Kenny Bunk]

HB 3584 FIRST PUBLIC HEARING: Directs Department of Human Services, in consultation with Oregon Health Authority, to provide training to foster parents regarding appropriate ethnic aesthetic care for children of African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian-American or multiracial descent.

Put me down for one child from each of the aforementioned groups, and make sure that each child is accompanied by a package containing appropriate aesthetic products and $4.5Million in cash.

[Hacklehead]

“My husband and I (man and woman)are a happy couple so I guess that makes us gay.”

It makes you very rare. ;-)

[rlmorel]

Yeah...amazing. You must have seen that video where he times the snap just right, gets a running start, leaps over the line and sacks the quarterback all in one move without being offside?

Unbelievable. I am a Pats fan, and I would love see him in a Pats uniform...well, okay. Maybe if he cut the hair just a little bit...

[Venturer]

Let them all get Eleonor Holmes Norton haircuts.

[rlmorel]

I had a girlfriend who got her hair caught in a lathe. It scalped her and nearly killed her, but they were able to put everything back with minimal visible scarring. She said, even years after the event, she could still barely even comprehend the speed and violence with which it grabbed her hair and smashed her head into the lathe.

[Red Badger]

Somebody’s gonna get seriously injured or disabled if the NFL doesn’t do something about all those players with long hair outside their helmets. Yeah, it’s cool, but if you are dead or paralyzed what good is it?................

[Yardstick]

I saw it — quite funny.

[WackySam]

[Red Badger]

Thank the Lord she survived!
Safety first.
There’s a reason for it..............

[dragonblustar]

Does this explain Cornel West?

More like a bottle of Wild Turkey....

[Oldpuppymax]

I thought, sure to GOD this had to be a “semi-satire” piece!!!! How VAPID can people who are actually concerned about this nonsense really BE??!!!

[Arrowhead1952]

Heck, I’m a white chic and I need advice on caring for my kinky hair.

I thought this would be a totally different thread, until I saw it was a gag a maggot faggot adopting thread. I decided to look at a few replies anyway.

We have a good family friend who also has kinky hair. If you've ever seen a picture of Donna Howard (my DUmmie state rep), she has the same hair. Our friend tried hair straightener, and it looked bad. My advice, is leave it alone. BTW, I am a guy.

[Mila]

“Mariska is the daughter of Jayne Mansfield, who was beheaded in a car accident.”

Fortunately, she wasn’t beheaded. BTW, three of her children including Mariska were sleeping in the backseat of the car at the time of the accident.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/jayne.asp

[colorcountry]

My advice, is leave it alone. BTW, I am a guy.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have learned that the less I touch my hair, the less frizzy and kinky it is.

[Chickensoup]

It ended for the most part in the 80’s except in some big cities

Mother of four black adopted kids