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Race and Beauty Standards · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for our American mama's. Dear mamas,
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  Speaker 1: why are you enforcing your beauty standards on black women
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  Speaker 1: and forcing them to straighten their hair?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my, let's ask our American mama's.
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  Speaker 3: Bamabama, she said, and joining us now our American mama
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  Speaker 3: Terry Netderville.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the first Lady, Michelle Obama, was at a
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  Speaker 1: public forum event and uh, there's an actress that was
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  Speaker 1: up on the stage. I forget her name, but she's
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  Speaker 1: from a couple of sitcoms and I've seen her in
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  Speaker 1: films and stuff. But she was asking the questions, kind
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  Speaker 1: of moderating it, and somehow the idea came up that
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama is forced to straighten her hair by white people.
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  Speaker 1: I believe we have a clip of that. Take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to the first lady.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry about it.
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  Speaker 2: Let me explain something to white people.
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  Speaker 3: Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a
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  Speaker 3: curly pattern.
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  Speaker 2: So when we're straightening it to follow your beauty standards,
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  Speaker 2: we are trapped by the straightness. That's why so many
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  Speaker 2: of us.
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  Speaker 3: Can't swim and we run away from the water.
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  Speaker 2: People won't go to the gym because.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to keep our hair.
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  Speaker 2: Straight for y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So.
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  Speaker 3: It is exhausting and it's so all right.
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  Speaker 1: So, first of all, the first Lady has straightened her hair.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently she straightened for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think so. I think she was trying
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  Speaker 2: to live up to my beauty standard.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you do have wonderful hair, thank you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: That's the point that when she was staying all this,
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  Speaker 2: I thought, this is not a black woman, black women thing.
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  Speaker 2: This is an all women thing. Ask both of your
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  Speaker 2: wives how much time and effort and energy we try
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  Speaker 2: to put into our hair, the products coloring, some add extensions,
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  Speaker 2: I probably need some, But it is not a black
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  Speaker 2: woman thing. And and I hate to say this to her,
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  Speaker 2: but I cannot imagine Milania standing up there a room
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  Speaker 2: full of people and saying, let me tell you black
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  Speaker 2: people something. You're not gonna tell me how I'm gonna wear.
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  Speaker 2: No one told Michelle Obama how to. She was the
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  Speaker 2: First Lady for eight years, the most revered first Lady.
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  Speaker 2: The liberal media absolutely adored her. She was on the
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  Speaker 2: cover of all the magazine. She has three books out
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  Speaker 2: about how great she is. She was adored and revered
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  Speaker 2: by everybody. She never had the scrutiny that all the
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  Speaker 2: other First Ladies had if she wanted to do her
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  Speaker 2: hair in any certain way. She's the first lady. She
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  Speaker 2: can say this is how I'm gonna do my hair.
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  Speaker 2: But what I thought was interesting is there's another clip
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  Speaker 2: where she's talking about I mean, listen, she's trying to
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  Speaker 2: sew division on every platform, racial divide. That's what she
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  Speaker 2: in Barrock do best. So she was on another podcast
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  Speaker 2: and she said, you know there's a there's video footage
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  Speaker 2: of her when they undressed the portrait of the First
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  Speaker 2: Lady portrait. Yeah, and she went up to speaking. She
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  Speaker 2: had on she had braids, a beautiful, beautiful hair, new
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  Speaker 2: braids in a in a low bun, and she's telling
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  Speaker 2: Robin Roberts that was that was important. That was that
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  Speaker 2: was on purpose. I may not have been able to
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  Speaker 2: wear my hair in its natural state for those eight years,
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  Speaker 2: but I was making a point to do that then,
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  Speaker 2: that we could wear a hair however we want.
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  Speaker 1: But who are the world stopping your shirit nobody?
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  Speaker 3: She's the first Lady.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is that victimhood mentality that we cannot stand
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  Speaker 2: and everyone's over it.
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  Speaker 1: So who's preaching she's getting this message. Either she's completely
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  Speaker 1: making it up because she's schizophrenic or something, or she
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  Speaker 1: feels like she's getting this message from somewhere. Are Democrat
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  Speaker 1: handlers telling her that she can't have uh an afro,
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  Speaker 1: that she can't have braids, and she can't have dreads?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a Democrat handle that's they are?
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  Speaker 2: She needs to fire them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And but here's my more important question to her. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: she's free from all of that. That's true, she's free
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  Speaker 2: from all of that. She's touring right now, she's telling
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  Speaker 2: her third book about hair, beauty fashion, she's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: promoting all of that. Why didn't she wearing her hair
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  Speaker 2: in her natural state? Why did she have to have
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  Speaker 2: it straightened? And for the record, those of us in
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  Speaker 2: the eighties, no, we tried to have our hair as
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  Speaker 2: curly as possible. We did perms and spiral perms and
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  Speaker 2: everything possible because we didn't want to trade. This is
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  Speaker 2: just the This is women across all generations. We just
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  Speaker 2: do stuff to our hair. So for her to make
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  Speaker 2: it a racial thing to me is racist. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: she is the most bigoted. First Lady I've ever heard
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  Speaker 2: of my life. She doesn't like white people. It's obvious
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  Speaker 2: she tries to keep a wedge between all of us
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  Speaker 2: with and the way she had let me explain something
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  Speaker 2: to white people, we straighten our hair to follow your
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  Speaker 2: beauty standards. That was it's exhausted. What are you talking about, Michelle?
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  Speaker 2: We listen, Okay, here's the truth. In the seventh grade,
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  Speaker 2: I remember seeing the most beautiful the first time. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: that's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen him a light.
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  Speaker 2: It was Whitney Houston. She was singing Greatest Love of
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  Speaker 2: All and I wanted so badly to look like her
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  Speaker 2: that there's another one I want to dance with somebody
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  Speaker 2: video that came on. She had a blue eye shadow.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to purr my hair like that. I tried
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  Speaker 2: to do my eyes shadow color had nothing. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember ever color being the subject like it is,
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  Speaker 2: like she brings it up, you know.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and nine, when she was first first Lady,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Rock made a movie called Good Hair about black
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  Speaker 1: girl's hair, and he made it so his girls would
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  Speaker 1: feel comfortable wearing their hair they want. They wanted to
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  Speaker 1: maybe Michelle should have seen that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she needs to.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much,