Fwiw, I've decided to abandon the "Natty Dread" thread I started and post my comments about "nappy hair"; "nappy head" and related subjects on this thread. Part my reason for posting to this thread instead of the "Natty Dread" thread [whose link is given in my first post to this thread] is that the title of this thread conveys the subject matter far better than the title I gave that thread. Btw, I did not add Bob Marley's name to that thread, and I'm sorry if it makes folks think that that thread is only about Bob Marley's song "Natty Dread".

Be that as it may, here's an excerpt from another one of my post on that thread:

Subject: RE: Natty Dread
From: Azizi - PM
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 11:42 PM

'Having a bad hair day' has a whole 'nuther meaning for Black females since we have been taught by that our hair is always bad unless we have good hair {meaning hair that is the same texture as White people}.

It is difficult to explain to other folks how important the issue of hair is to Black women. To bring this down to the current 'hot' topic, there's no question that I think that Don Imus radio remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team were offensive. But if I were to rate what were the worse things that Imus and his producer said about these women, I would say that it was calling them jigaboos, hos, and grizzlies {a comment that for some reason has gotten very little attention}. The descriptor 'nappy haired' is insulting because Imus meant it to be insulting. I've no idea how the Black women on that Rutgers basketball team wear their hair.
I don't even know if all of these Black women have naturally nappy hair [that they go to the beauty parlour or hair dresser to get permed/straigthened/done}.

But I keep wishing that one of these women would say "Yeah, my hair is nappy. And?