True. I can remember when Michael Jackson was a sweet looking little black boy, before his handlers and his own personal demons convinced him that his perfectly beautiful African features and hair needed to carved and subdued into some weird approximation of something else.

Her hair is perfect. She's a toddler for fucks sake (her hair is perfect for any age IMO however). I have a white boy toddler with crazy curls and I do not brush or wash his hair every day and he's beautiful too. I hate people who attack KIDS on the internet, even if their parents put them in the public eye.

It's so frustrating to feel like you accomplished something by detangling all of your tightly coiled hair, and then a light breeze blows for a couple seconds or your hair grows a millimeter, rotating while it does so, and back to a head full of tangles.

Perhaps she was being tongue-in-cheek but Black children are often deemed "unkempt" by the powers that be. In majority White schools you'll often seen Black children pressed, ironed, braided, and scrubbed within an inch of their lives because of the pressure Black parents (especially mothers) feel to make sure their…

Yeah, I recently started to really get into a real moisturizing regime that extends beyond water, ya know? My hair looks a ton better, so I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing.

People hate that baby's hair? Seriously? What the hell. It's not even unkempt looking. It's perfectly adorable hair that I would expect on an adorable, black little girl. That someone would "hate" it is so far from my realm of understanding I just don't know how to process that.

It's been my mantra for a while and I think it can be of use for anyone, really. I mean, I wear a lot of afros and just put a flower clip or a bow* in there and not give a shit about people's opinions. It's served me well.

Her hair isn't even unkempt! It's just tightly coiled hair on a BABY. Babies couldn't give a shit about how freshly laid their hair is.

Exactly! Every time I've seen Blue, I have said to myself, "that kid has gorgeous hair." It is by no means unkempt. To my eyes, it looks well hydrated and cared for. The double standard is horrible, isn't it - I have white-girl curly hair which I almost never brush (because that makes it frizzy instead of smooth), and…

I wonder who has more invested in the care of Blue Ivy? Beyoncé and Jay or hang wringing folks on the internet? Everyone really needs to sit the fuck down.

"while I hate to see an unkempt baby"

"Put a bow in that shit and keep it moving" might be my new approach to my normally fraught relationship with my hair (I am white but that phrase is awesome and mantra-worthy.)

If my sister was Solange, I would want to rock natural hair too. Sister totally owns it.

I will say that Blue Ivy's curls don't anywhere near "untamed." She's a pretty little girl and her hair looks super soft.

As long as she's moisturizing and detangling the shit out of her hair, it's cool beans. That's the biggest thing about natural black hair: that shit is dry as hell (Lord knows I have a whole lotta experience with this. I have to do the LOC method just to keep my hair from feeling like straw. It's the struggle).…

I think the author of this article needs to check herself. Blue Ivy is in no way "unkempt." That is her natural hair texture. She could have her hair combed or brushed out to temporarily loosen the curl pattern, or have her hair braided in any number of styles, or (heaven forbid) have her hair chemically relaxed or…

There's a lot of institutionalized racism that self perpetuates among people. Majority of the time, they don't even realize that the images of long, straight hair being socially accepted as beautiful is branded into their minds by not-so-subtle advertising and media.

I only have white toddlers in my life ATM and they are all about 2 goldfish crackers and a cow lick away from needing their heads shaved.

I hate the correlation of not-straightened and unkempt. I've told this story here before, but I represented a Puerto Rican kid in Brooklyn Family Court who had longish hair, and he pulled it back for his court date (complete with suit, tie, Yes Your Honor/No Your Honor), and the judge actually had the gall to tell…

Fuck Apatow. Having the Jessa character appear exactly as written with just a skosh of melanin would make it somehow less the story they're trying to tell?