“Blue Ivy’s hair is no stranger to Internet commentary; people have been commenting on her hair since she was a baby, though the response has usually never been positive.”
in a now-deleted tweet and negatively compared her to North West, the child of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, who has much looser curls. For years, there have been problematic critiques of Blue Ivy’s hair by grown Black folks, and while recent comments have been kinder, the critiques as a whole have deeper implications for the Black American community.
Having our hair critiqued and ridiculed has almost become a rite of passage for Black women and girls with kinkier hair types. In the elementary school classrooms and on the playground, little Black girls are often teased for having kinky hair. I remember sitting between my mother’s legs as she braided my hair and then having to go to school and have my classmates call it ugly or try putting pencils in it.
In a world that continuously shuns and rejects Black women, we as a community should be supporting Black women and girls and not perpetuating that same harm onto them. We should love our Black girls in every state, not just when they have “societally presentable” hair. While the Blue Ivys in our lives may not be on Twitter, those little Black girls should know that they are beautiful and their hair is beautiful.
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