Good Hair Page #2
are you most worried about?
Probably Jason.
Jason Griggers.
Me and Jason
know of each other.
Do you have
any enemies in hair?
No.
Jason's strength
is his incredible hairstyles.
l, actually, am
from the same hometown as Jason.
He's been doing my hair
since about 2000,
and my hair was her length
when I started coming,
and this is mine.
No tracks in this.
So he has what we used to call
''the growing hand.''
I never said that.
So, Jason, you seem to be able
to get women off the weaves.
You're kind of like
I refer to it
as the Rosa Parks of hair.
Jason...
where does a white man
learn how to do black hair?
In school,
they teach you everything.
This one teacher that I had,
a pair of these
to walk around school with,
and she'd say,
''l don't hear you
clicking and twisting.
''l don't hear you
clicking and twisting.''
Was she a black woman?
She was a black woman.
She was
the only black teacher at school.
And she was determined
to teach you--
She was determined to teach me
how to work those Marcel irons.
So she's like Branch Rickey
and you're the Jackie Robinson.
That's ''The Jackie Robinson Story''
starring Jackie Robinson as himself.
It's big league all the way.
There are some white people
that are good at doing black hair.
But there are very few
that I've met.
There are very few.
So what happens is,
you walk in
and the first thing you say is,
''Do you have a pressing comb?
''Do you have a flat iron?''
And it's like, ''Oh, yeah!
''You know, we have everything.
''l can do whatever you need.''
And then the process starts.
The process starts,
and it's a little tragic.
If you don't
understand black hair,
you're afraid of it
if you see it in its natural state.
And you can't really see around it.
They don't understand
that it can change.
''Give me two days, baby.
''What you want?
Long, short, black, blue, green?
''Little fan on the side?
What hair do you look--
''Give me a picture, give me
two days, I got you.''
ls this your hair?
Yes. All mine.
- All your hair?
- All mine.
Shake it for me.
I mean, how does this happen?
What did you put in it?
If you went under the counter
in a black woman's bathroom,
she's got about thirty
or forty bottles of different things.
She's always constantly
trying out something,
trying to perfect
the solution, if you will.
The antidote.
The antidote. Yeah.
Relaxer.
The closest thing we have
to a nap antidote.
For all you white people out there
that don't know what it is,
you name a black woman,
any black woman,
no matter how famous
or infamous,
they've either
had their hair relaxed,
or they're having
their hair relaxed right now.
And a lot of black men, too.
If your hair's relaxed,
white people are relaxed.
If your hair is nappy,
they're not happy.
So what's
your definition of good hair?
Something that looks
relaxed and nice.
Yeah, relaxed and straight.
Wow, what do you have there?
ls that a bucket of relaxer?
No doubt, baby.
Relaxer.
Also known by its government name,
sodium hydroxide.
Relaxer's the chemical that will
take a black woman's hair from this...
and change it into this.
Wow.
Look at it.
My ring is still there.
My fingers all there.
I think I'm going to marry you.
In fact,
as far as hair products go,
relaxer's the cash cow
for the Bronner Brothers Hair Show.
It's how black women have been
getting their hair straight for decades.
Vigorol Liquid Hair Relaxer.
You're going to love your hair
like you've never loved it,
come rain or come shine.
The first time I got a relaxer,
I remember thinking,
''Wow, now I'm pretty.
''Now, I'm beautiful...
''or closer to it, at least.''
Dark and Lovely
Permanent Creme Relaxer.
A beautiful way
to relax your kind of hair.
Mentally,
they're on this quest for
attaining the straightest hair possible,
trying to conform
to a more European look.
The straighter hair, the better.
And we've been coached
with that mentality since childhood.
With Vigorol Hair Relaxer
and a hot comb,
you'll have your hands full.
I remember seeing ads like this
when I was a little kid
watching ''Soul Train.''
What the hell
is relaxer anyway?
Where does it come from?
Well, some of it comes
from Greensboro, North Carolina.
This medium-size town
was once the capital
of the Confederacy.
White will fight desegregation!
But now it's the home
of Dudley Products,
a $35-million black-owned
hair empire
that employs thousands
of people worldwide.
Greensboro is the home
of the Dudley Mansion,
the Dudley Beauty School,
Mr. Dudley himself,
and, of course,
Dudley Manufacturing.
Dudley Products have been valued
at up to $100 million.
The plant itseIf is worth over ten.
and is situated
on over 47,000 acres
of prime North Carolina real estate.
In short,
Mr. Dudley is a nap impresario.
Bad hair has been very good
for Mr. Dudley.
What's he doin'?
Joe is making relaxer.
This is how they make relaxer?
This is a portion
of a 7,000-pound batch of relaxer.
7,000 pounds
is worth how much?
7,000 pounds,
you're talking about $18,000.
This would last Prince
about a month.
Exactly.
The slightest
little bit of these chemicals
to the body.
in your eye
can potentially lead to blindness.
It may not happen right away,
but it can lead to blindness
later on in life.
But you'll eventually
have a dog.
Yes, you will eventually have one.
And the more
of these chemicals you inhale
as you continue to work in it,
it can have
an adverse affect on your body.
Let me read some of these.
''The rate of change
is controlled by what factors?
Temperature, concentration,
time, and pH.''
Wow, what's that word?
What? Ammonium thioglycolate?
Wait. Say that again
to the camera.
Ammonium thioglycolate.
You're smart.
Enrollment at
the Dudley School of Beauty
means one thing:
long nights poring over scalp theory.
These budding hair scholars
master the chemistry
of Dudley products
and how to use them
on mannequins,
even white mannequins.
They are
also tested on the finer points
of how not to put relaxer
in the eyes,
how not to burn ears
with hot combs,
but most importantly,
they learn
that if you can make
enough black women happy,
you can live like a king.
When you go back home,
I want you to tell the world,
we manufacture
our own product,
we sell our own product
to our own, through our own.
That's the reason why we will
never sell our company.
Because if I asked you
to take off the clothes
that you didn't buy
from your race,
in here right now.
The nudity thing
was a little weird,
but if you sniff
enough chemicals,
you just might say anything.
But I've got to admit,
looking at these
proud black women
just made me think
about my daughters.
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