Good Hair Page #9

if somebody came into my office

with an Afro way out here

and a suit,

that just seems really out of place.

It's like a contradiction.

So I would

kind of second-guess.

And I agree with you.

If I was going to,

say, some new law firm,

and you wanted to,

you know, join,

and I'm like,

''Okay, you look really nice,

''and I'm understanding

what you're saying,

''but I can't get past the fact

''that you're going to be sitting

with big executives and all that,

''and it's, like, they're not going

to really take you seriously

''for the fact that you just don't look

too put together.''

You have to kind of really

have conviction with it.

'Cause there's

so many pressures

to straighten your hair

all the time.

But the resuIt is

a beautiful thing, you know.

And it's funny,

because I always think it's interesting

that to keep my hair

the same texture

as it grows out of my head

is looked at as revolutionary.

Why is that?

I seek them out

with the natural hair.

Now, do you seek out women

with natural hair

'cause it's more affordable?

Absolutely.

How old are you?

Nineteen.

Nineteen. God.

Have you ever seen a woman,

seen her hair, and thought,

''l can't afford her''?

Sometimes.

Okay.

I know how you feel.

Does this have an effect

on the relationships

between black men

and black women?

ls there a pressure

on a black man...

Right.

that's dating a black woman

that a white man doesn't

have dating a white woman?

A black man

automatically knows,

out the gate,

especially if his mama's black,

so he's already grown up

in a household with a black woman.

So he kind of understands

the importance

of getting the hair done

and of the woman looking good,

and he wants his woman

to look good.

Yeah, he probably has to make

a bit of an investment in that area

and just know

that's part of being a black woman,

and I'm going to embrace that.

I'm just sayin',

your woman has a head of hair,

it's like a condo, and you

got to pay the maintenance.

When your woman's hair

is jacked,

it's a reflection on you.

And when you date a chick,

as a single guy,

when I go out with a girl

and I look at her,

and I'm looking at her hair,

first thing I know,

whether we could go

to the bathhouse,

steaming, swimming,

or a beach trip,

and is it going to be

a big to-do?

When you have natural hair,

you can do stuff. More stuff.

If I get caught in the rain,

it's not the end of the day.

She will be, like,

''l don't want a massage,''

or, ''l don't want

to go to the steam room.''

And you say, ''Why not?''

''I'm not tense.''

You know she's tense.

She's tense at the idea

of the weave she just paid for

just fallin' to pieces.

Do you swim?

I have a pool.

That doesn't answer the question.

I do have a pool.

I can definitely get in the water.

I definitely get in the water,

from about here down.

You don't swim?

No. We don't play those games.

He's got to be really special

for me to get my hair wet.

Taking a shower together

could be more intimate

than having sex.

Wow.

That's damn near like,

''You're my nigga for real.''

All my white classmates,

whenever l'd get out of the pool

and my hair went

from straight to curly,

they were like, ''Wow!''

And they'd pull on it.

And I'm like...

But they're curious.

They're curious white people.

It's okay.

It's okay. You can touch it.

But just be gentle,

and if it's me.

Don't just go walking up to a random

black chick on the street

and reach out to touch her hair,

'cause you might get hurt,

your fingers broken,

sawed off, something.

Of course,

a random white stranger

shouldn't walk up

and touch a black woman's hair,

but what about her husband,

her boyfriend?

You'd be surprised.

You guys, anybody

ever been with a woman

that you couldn't touch her hair?

You know, when you can't

put your hands

through a woman's hair,

there's a lack of intimacy.

Have you ever put your hand

through a black woman's hair?

Not that I can remember.

You can't touch

a black woman's hair.

You just don't touch it.

Just leave it alone.

Don't tell me

I can't touch your head.

It's decoration. Leave it alone.

It's like plastic fruit?

Kind of.

Just leave it alone.

I don't care

if you got fake titties,

I want to at least

be able to squeeze 'em.

There just can't be no off-limits

to no parts of your body.

If it's fake, cool,

but I want to touch anyway.

Like, really. Don't do that.

'Cause l'll have to fight you.

So you can't touch

your woman's hair?

Hell, no! Not a black woman,

right after she get it done.

''Nigga, I just got this done.

''Now let me wrap this up

before we do anything.''

The weave,

yeah, it does matter.

It definitely matters

if a girl got natural or weave.

I like real hair.

I mean, if you baldheaded,

I'm cool with that, too.

You can't run

your fingers through,

'cause your fingers get stuck.

Like a deejay!

I don't want to run

into the tracks

and get caught up

and got to reset the fingers,

like, you know what I'm saying?

It's like gettin' your fingernail

stuck in a sweater or something,

and you don't want that happening.

That's just nasty.

So weave-touching is off-limits?

Do not touch my weave, no.

I don't even touch

the inside of my weave, barely.

But how close

can you get with somebody

if you can't touch their hair?

I mean, at the right time,

the right place,

I might be in another zone,

but if I'm in my right mind,

get out my weave.

So what, you got to be high

for somebody to touch your weave?

Maybe.

Weave sex

is a little awkward.

What do you do?

I guess stay on top.

So if you're makin' love

to one of these women

and you want to roll

your hands through their hair,

you just got

to really put all the...

Put all your effort in the bangs.

My advice for men

when they're making love

to a woman who has a weave

is keep your hands

on the titties.

That's probably the safest bet.

On the titties.

You can only touch

up to here,

but if you get here,

that's the forbidden zone?

Exactly.

You grab it during sex,

it's going to tear

the relationship's ass up.

It's going to hurt

the relationship, definitely,

if you grab it during sex,

'cause it's going to go

here, there.

They don't want you

pulling that tail!

Maybe we stayed together

back in the old days

'cause Kunta Kinte could

put his hands through Kizzy's hair,

thus bringing them

closer together.

Kizzy was his daughter.

Oh, Kizzy was his daughter.

I messed up.

Does your wife

let you touch her hair?

The question is,

do I let her touch mine?

So I hung out with her

a couple of times.

You know,

we went from partying

to, like, maybe

we should do something.

You know, been over

to my house a couple times,

laid up

in the bed a couple times.

I ain't get at it yet,

but I'm close.

But I haven't ran

my fingers through her hair

because I'm not sure,

is she really...

ls that all her hair?

And I don't want to ask her

is that all her hair.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes