Booquisha?

It's late.

I have class in the morning.

But I had to hop out of bed as soon as I heard this. I'm flipping through channels and I land on Lifetime and see yet another stage mom show. This time it's Abbey Lee's Dance Company show and cool we'll see how this goes.

One of the dance moms, Holly, the only black one, s a little black girl in the dance crew, and she is offended that her daughter's costume is the only animal print one. Okay I can see the offensiveness there.
But then the Company director (Abbey Lee I guess). asked her to have an afro for the performance.

I can kind of see the offense in that. Maybe the mom thought her daughter would be the object of ridicule being the only brown girl with afro hair. But Holly's reaction was uncalled for none the less.

"I'm not Booquisha! We don't wear afros!"

Now that was offensive. Afro does NOT equal ghetto. And to have a black woman say so is even more so offensive. Honey we know what you and your daughter's hair looks like without a perm. An it ain't straight.

She goes on to complain to the white Dance moms about how black people have "worked so hard to get past all that, It's the 21st century"

Get past what exactly? Our own blackness? The soft, beautiful, versatile hair that God blessed us with?

You're right Dance Mom Holly. It is the 21st century. So time to get rid of your hangups and get with the natural movement. Maybe the Dance Lady wanted you daughter to have an afro to Celebrate the difference between her and the other girls.

And maybe you should learn to celebrate black hair too.