Photo from hereI missed this from a month ago but the Miami Herald published a letter written by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr which was written in response to Chris Rock's Good Hair.
Here's an excerpt:
The very notion of ``good hair'' springs from that same wellspring of self-denigration that offers the N-word as a fraternal greeting and once filled our newspapers with ads for skin-lightening creams. It suggests the difficulty of loving oneself when one uses as a yardstick of worth another culture's physical standards. As in an old episode of MASH where a Korean boy wanted the doctors to fix his eyes and make them look ``American.''
Click here to read the entire letter.
Like what you read and want to let Mr. Pitts know? Send him an email to LPITTS@MIAMIHERALD.COM.
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