I've seen this make it's way around the internets and thought it was funny, partly because it's pretty true. My friends (women and men alike) have this conversation all the time...what I just found out was that this was created by someone in Los Angeles by the name of John Lott. Check it out. There are other related videos but this is the one that started it all.
Showing posts with label Social Commentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Commentary. Show all posts
Thursday, October 28, 2010
PILL - THE TESTIFY PROJECT (VIDEO)
Because I enjoy when "street rappers" talk about urban issues besides, "...it's hard out here and I have no other choice but to rap and feed my family". It might be true but those issues are more complex than I'm from the ghetto and I need to get out. Peep this, shouts to Pill for this:
Pill, offers his take on public housing in America. Shot in front of a downtown lot that once hosted his childhood housing project, Pill discusses gentrification and its repercussions.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
CHRIS ROCK - GOOD HAIR (TRAILER)
Read the reason behind this below:
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’s camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture. An exposĂ© 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, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven SymonĂ©, 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.
Looks interesting.
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