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I think Black people from America are more obsessesd with hair texture (the good hair/versus kinky one is an american expression and is not applied in Europe or Africa) than any other Black people around the world.

All the American friends i have met in Europe agree with this fact. They want to fix it, straighten it, make it perfect even to a child this age whose hair, like in any other child from other ethnicity got messed up during the day. They especially does that more specifically when the child isn’t raised by a Black person as if the Black parent can get away with it, as if the Black kid didn’t really belong to his adoptive White parents but belongs more to its comunity first and foremost who think they have the right to direct how a child who are not their own should be raised, including how the hair should be done.

Zahara wears her hair like Seal kids, like another ethiopian american, Liya Kedebe daughter who never wears a pony tail, pigtails or plaits or braids, ever, like Thandie Newton’s both children who all have the fro (especially the younger one) and whose hair always looked like it is never combed and countless of Africans and African Americans. AND SHE WEARS IT LIKE ETHIOPIAN KIDS DO (they rarelly braid their soft afro unlike the western and central Africans)….YET Zahara is the only one kid whose hair is discussed like she is a weird specy to the point of releasing sections on a newspapers with African Americans women debating, sometimes at the limit of insults…Now if that kid is not single out and prejudiced i don’t know what it is.

Her hair texture is typpical from East African nilhotic people (Ethiopia and Erythrea mainly and a little bit Somalia, kenya and the Tutsis from Burundi and Rwanda) and it is combed but like all children her age, she messes them up, just like Shiloh does her own.

Also she has two siblings from her country : two ethiopian cousins as well as a congolese belgian nanny.

Just because she isn’t seen on the street with other Black folks (though i am sure that living at times in NEW ORLEANS wher you see pictures of jolie or Brad among Blac folks put her also in contact with them), just like those celebrity children i have mentioned who are never with other Black folks doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have a sense of black pride.

If anything by teaching her the ethiopian language, by going to Ethiopia at time to show her, her roots, Jolie probably gives her a better sense of black pride than any other kids in America including by letting her hair in its natural state. And if they are messed up because hair at that age always messes up while playing or passing your hand through them, then be it. Why make a difference between both sisters whose hair are messed up equally by pointing out only the African American kid as if her hair was less worth ? Now that it is racism and prejudice.

There is nothing wrong with Jolie’s handling of her daughter’s hair and with ZAHARA’s hair. However there is something very wrong with adults transfering their own conflictual relation and perception of their own hair and how it should be done to Zahara’s and her mother handling her hair especially when millions of black children of Zahara’s age, all over the world, including in the US streets, wear their hair au naturel, the same way, and often in a state even more messed up than Zahara’s while being raised by Black folks who i am sure have combed their children hair.

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That IS Shiloh as you can notice in here below :

http://thejjb.com/topic/600126/t/Angelina-Jolie-Knox-Venice.html?page=2

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BTW – has anybody ever seen Zahara with a black person. Ever? Maybe she thinks she’s the only black person in the world. She’s going to be surprised when she discovers there are other black people in the world!

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